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044 - Night 975 - 976 · Arabian Nights Tales from Volume 09

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  Speaker 1: Section forty four of the Book of the Thousand Knights
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  Speaker 1: and a Night Volume nine. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Mark Ernest The Book of the Thousand Knights and
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  Speaker 1: a Night Volume nine by Anonymous, translated by Richard Francis
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  Speaker 1: Burton Knight nine hundred and seventy five. When it was
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  Speaker 1: the nine hundred and seventy fifth night, she said it
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  Speaker 1: hath reached me o auspicious king, that the young lady
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  Speaker 1: forewent her spouse by the pseudorain as he fared through
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  Speaker 1: the door and sat down in her upper chamber. So
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  Speaker 1: as soon as he entered, she asked him what hast
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  Speaker 1: thou seen? And he answered, I found her with her master,
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  Speaker 1: and she resembleth THEE. Then said she off to thy shop,
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  Speaker 1: and let this suffice thee of ignoble suspicion, and never again.
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  Speaker 1: Deem ill of me, said he, so be it, accord
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  Speaker 1: me pardon for what is past, and she allah grant
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  Speaker 1: THEE grace. Whereupon he kissed her right and left and
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  Speaker 1: went back to his shop. Then She again betook herself
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  Speaker 1: to Kamar al Zaman through the underground passage with four
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  Speaker 1: bags of money, and said to him, equip thyself at
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  Speaker 1: once for the road, and be ready to carry off
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  Speaker 1: the money without delay against thy devise for THEE the
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  Speaker 1: device I have in mind. So he went out and
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  Speaker 1: purchased mules and loaded them, and made ready a traveling litter.
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  Speaker 1: He also bought manelukes and eunuchs, and, sending without let
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  Speaker 1: or hindrance the whole without the city, returned to Hahlamah
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  Speaker 1: and said to her, I have made an end of
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  Speaker 1: my affairs, quoth she, and I on my side am ready,
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  Speaker 1: for I have transported to thy house all the rest
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  Speaker 1: of his moneys and treasures, and have left him nor
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  Speaker 1: little nor much whereof he may avail himself. All this
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  Speaker 1: is of my life for THEE, O, dearling of my heart.
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  Speaker 1: For I would sacrifice my husband to THEE a thousand times.
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  Speaker 1: But now it behoveth thou go to him and farewell him,
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  Speaker 1: saying I purpose to depart after three days, and am
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  Speaker 1: come to bid THEE adio. So do thou reckon what
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  Speaker 1: I owe THEE for the hire of the house, that
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  Speaker 1: I may send it to THEE and acquit my conscience.
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  Speaker 1: Note his reply, and return to me and tell me,
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  Speaker 1: for I can no more. I have done my best
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  Speaker 1: by pozening him to anger him with me and cause
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  Speaker 1: him to put me away. But I find him none
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  Speaker 1: the less infatuated with me. So nothing will serve us
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  Speaker 1: but to depart to thine own country. And quoth he
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  Speaker 1: O rare, and but sweavens prove true. Then he went
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  Speaker 1: to the jeweler's shop, and, sitting down by him, said
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  Speaker 1: to him, O, Master, I set out for my home
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  Speaker 1: in three days, and am come to farewell THEE. So
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  Speaker 1: I would have THEE reckon what I owe THEE for
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  Speaker 1: the hire of the house, that I may pay it
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  Speaker 1: to THEE and acquit my conscience answered, obeyed, what talk
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  Speaker 1: is this? Verily tis I who am indebted to THEE.
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  Speaker 1: By allah, I will take nothing from THEE for the
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  Speaker 1: rent of the house, For thou hast brought down blessings
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  Speaker 1: upon us. However, thou desolatest me by thy departure, and
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  Speaker 1: but that it is forbidden to me, I would certainly
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  Speaker 1: oppose THEE and hinder THEE from returning to thy country
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  Speaker 1: and kinsfolk. Then he took leave of me, whilst they
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  Speaker 1: both wept with sore weeping, and the jeweler went with him.
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  Speaker 1: And when they entered Kamar al Zaman's house, there they
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  Speaker 1: found Halamah, who stood before them and served them. But
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  Speaker 1: when obeyed returned home, he found her sitting there, nor
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  Speaker 1: did he cease to see her. Thus in each house
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  Speaker 1: in turn for the space of three days, when she
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  Speaker 1: said to Kamar al Zaman, now have I transported to
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  Speaker 1: thee all that he hath of moneies and hoards, and
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  Speaker 1: carpets and things of price. And there remaineth with him
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  Speaker 1: nought save the slave girl who used to come in
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  Speaker 1: to you with the night drink. But I cannot part
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  Speaker 1: with her, for that she is my kinswoman, and she
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  Speaker 1: is dear to me as a confidant. So I will
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  Speaker 1: beat her and be wroth with her. And when my
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  Speaker 1: spouse cometh home, I will say to him, I can
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  Speaker 1: no longer put up with this slave girl, nor stay
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  Speaker 1: in the house with her, So take her and sell her. Accordingly,
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  Speaker 1: he will sell her, and do thou by her, that
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  Speaker 1: we may carry her with us. Answered he no harm
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  Speaker 1: in that. So she beat the girl, and when the
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  Speaker 1: jeweler came in, He found her weeping and asked her
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  Speaker 1: why she wept? Quoth she my mistress hath beaten me.
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  Speaker 1: He then went in to his wife and said to her,
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  Speaker 1: what hath that a cursed girl done? That thou hast
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  Speaker 1: beaten her? She replied, O, Man, I have but one
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  Speaker 1: word to say to thee, and tis that I can
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  Speaker 1: no longer bear the sight of this girl. So take
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  Speaker 1: her and sell her, or else divorce me. Quoth he,
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  Speaker 1: I will sell her that I may not cross thee
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  Speaker 1: in aught. And when he went out to go to
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  Speaker 1: the shop, he took her and passed with her by
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  Speaker 1: Kamar al Zaman. No sooner had he gone out than
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  Speaker 1: his wife slip up through the underground passage to Kamar
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  Speaker 1: al Zaman, who placed her in the litter before the
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  Speaker 1: shaikh her husband reached him. When the jeweler came up
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  Speaker 1: and the lover saw the slave girl with him, he
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  Speaker 1: asked him what girl is this, and the other answered,
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  Speaker 1: 'tis my slave girl who used to serve us with
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  Speaker 1: the night drink. She hath disobeyed her mistress, who is
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  Speaker 1: wroth with her, and hath bidden me sell her. Quoth
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  Speaker 1: the youth and her mistress have taken an aversion to her.
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  Speaker 1: There is for her no abiding with her. But sell
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  Speaker 1: her to me, that I may smell your scent in her,
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  Speaker 1: and I will make her handmade to my slave. Halimah
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  Speaker 1: good answered Obayed, take her, asked Kamar al Zaman, what
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  Speaker 1: is her price? But the jeweler said, I will take
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  Speaker 1: nothing from thee, for thou hast been bountiful to us.
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  Speaker 1: So he accepted her from him and said, to Halimah,
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  Speaker 1: kiss thy lord's hand. Accordingly, she came out from the litter, and,
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  Speaker 1: kissing Obed's hand, remounted whilst he looked hard at her.
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  Speaker 1: Then said Kamar al Zaman, I commend thee to Allah.
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  Speaker 1: O master obeyed. I quit my conscience of responsibility, answered
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  Speaker 1: the jeweler, Allah acquit thee and carry thee safe to
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  Speaker 1: thy family. Then he bade him farewell and went to
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  Speaker 1: his shop weeping. And indeed it was grievous to him
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  Speaker 1: to part from Kamar al Zaman, for that he had
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  Speaker 1: been friend and friendship hath its debtorship. Yet he rejoiced
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  Speaker 1: in the dispelling of the doubts which had befallen him
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  Speaker 1: anitt his wife. Since the young man was now gone,
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  Speaker 1: and his suspicions had not been established. Such was his case.
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  Speaker 1: But as regards Kamar al Zaman, the young lady said
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  Speaker 1: to him, and thou wish for safety, travel with me
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  Speaker 1: by other than the wonted way. And Shahrazad perceived the
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  Speaker 1: dawn of day and ceased, saying her permitted say end
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  Speaker 1: of night nine hundred and seventy five night nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy six. When it was the nine hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy sixth night, she continued it hath reached me o
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  Speaker 1: auspicious king that when Hahlamah said to Kamar al Zaman,
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  Speaker 1: and thou wish for safety, travel with me by other
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  Speaker 1: than the wonted way, he replied, hearing and obeying, and
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  Speaker 1: taking a road other than that used by folk, fared
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  Speaker 1: on without ceasing from region to region till he reached
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  Speaker 1: the confines of egypt Land and sent his sire a
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  Speaker 1: letter by a runner. Now, his father, the merchant Abd
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  Speaker 1: al Raman, was sitting in the market among the merchants
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  Speaker 1: with his heart on fire for separation from his son,
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  Speaker 1: because no news of the youth had reached him since
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  Speaker 1: the day of his departure, and while he was in
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  Speaker 1: such case, the runner came up and cried, O, my lords,
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  Speaker 1: which of you is called the merchant Abd al Raman?
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  Speaker 1: They said, what wouldst thou of him? And he said,
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  Speaker 1: I have a letter for him from his son Kamar
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  Speaker 1: al Zaman, whom I left at al aar Ash. At
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  Speaker 1: this Abd al Raman rejoiced, and his breast was broadened,
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  Speaker 1: and the merchants rejoiced for him and gave him joy
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  Speaker 1: of his son's safety. Then he opened the letter and
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  Speaker 1: read as follows from Kamar al Zaman to the Merchant
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  Speaker 1: Abd al Raman. And after peace be upon thee and
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  Speaker 1: upon all the merchants, and ye asked concerning us, to
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  Speaker 1: Allah be the praise and the thanks. Indeed we have
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  Speaker 1: sold and bought and gained under come back in health
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  Speaker 1: and wealth and weal. Whereupon Abd al Raman opened the
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  Speaker 1: door of rejoicing and made banquets and gave feasts and
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  Speaker 1: entertainments galore, sending for instruments of music and addressing himself
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  Speaker 1: to festivities. After rarest fashion, When Kamar al Zaman came
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  Speaker 1: to Al Shalhayah, his father and all the merchants went
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  Speaker 1: forth to meet him, and Abd al Raman embraced him
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  Speaker 1: and strained him to his bosom, and sobbed till he
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  Speaker 1: swooned away. When he came to himself, he said, oh
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  Speaker 1: tis a boon day o, my son, whereon the omnipotent
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  Speaker 1: protector hath reunited us with thee. And he repeated the
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  Speaker 1: word of the bard, the return of the Friend is
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  Speaker 1: the best of all boons. And the joy cup circles,
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  Speaker 1: oh mourns and noons. So well, come, welcome, fair, welcome
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  Speaker 1: to thee the light of the time, and the moon
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  Speaker 1: o full moons. Then, for excess of joy, he poured
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  Speaker 1: forth a flood of tears from his eyes, and he
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  Speaker 1: recited also these two couplets. The moon all the times
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  Speaker 1: show unveiled light, and his journey done at our door
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  Speaker 1: doth alight his locks, as the knights of his absence
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  Speaker 1: are black, and the sun upstands from his collars white.
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  Speaker 1: Then the merchants came up to him, and saluting him,
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  Speaker 1: saw with him many loads and servants and a traveling
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  Speaker 1: litter enclosed in a spacious circle. So they took him
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  Speaker 1: and carried him home. And when Halimah came forth from
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  Speaker 1: the litter, his father held her a seduction to all
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  Speaker 1: who beheld her. So they opened her an upper chamber,
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  Speaker 1: as it were a treasure from which the talismans had
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  Speaker 1: been loosed. And when his mother saw her, she was
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  Speaker 1: ravished with her and deemed her a queen of the
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  Speaker 1: wives of the kings. So she rejoiced in her and
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  Speaker 1: questioned her, and she answered, I am wife to thy son.
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  Speaker 1: And mother rejoined, since he is wedded to THEE, we
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  Speaker 1: must make THEE a splendid marriage feast, that we may
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  Speaker 1: rejoice in THEE and in my son. All this wise
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  Speaker 1: it befell her. But as regards the merchant of al Raman,
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  Speaker 1: when the folk had dispersed and each had wended his way,
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  Speaker 1: he forgathered with his son and said to him, O,
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  Speaker 1: my son, what is this slave girl thou hast brought
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  Speaker 1: with thee? And for how much didst thou buy her?
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  Speaker 1: Kamar al Zaman said, O, my father, she is no
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  Speaker 1: slave girl. But tis she who was the cause of
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  Speaker 1: my going abroad? Asked Kessar how so? And he answered,
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  Speaker 1: tis she whom the dervish described to us the knight
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  Speaker 1: he lay with us. For indeed, my hopes clave to
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  Speaker 1: her from that moment, and I sought not to travel
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  Speaker 1: save on account of her. The Arabs came out upon
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  Speaker 1: me by the way and stripped me and took my
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  Speaker 1: money in goods, so that I entered Bassara alone, and
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  Speaker 1: there befell me there such and such things. And he
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  Speaker 1: went on to relate to his parent all that had
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  Speaker 1: befallen him from commencement to conclusion. Now, when he had
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  Speaker 1: made an end of his story, his father said to him, O,
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  Speaker 1: my son, and after all this, didst thou marry her? No?
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  Speaker 1: But I have promised her marriage. Is it thine intent
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  Speaker 1: to marry her? And thou bid me marry her, I
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  Speaker 1: will do so, otherwise I will not marry her. Thereupon
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  Speaker 1: quoth his father, an thou marry her? I am quit
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  Speaker 1: of THEE in this world and in the next, and
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  Speaker 1: I shall be incensed against THEE with sore indignation. How
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  Speaker 1: canst thou wed her? Seeing that she hath dealt thus
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  Speaker 1: with her husband, For even as she did with her
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  Speaker 1: spouse for thy sake, so will she do the like
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  Speaker 1: with THEE for another's sake? Because she is a traitress,
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  Speaker 1: and in a traitor there is no trusting. Wherefore, an
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  Speaker 1: thou disobey me, I shall be wroth with THEE. But
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  Speaker 1: an thou give ear to my word, I will seek
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  Speaker 1: THEE out a girl handsomer than she, who shall be
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  Speaker 1: pure and pious, and marry THEE to her, though I
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  Speaker 1: spend all my substance upon her, And I will make
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  Speaker 1: THEE a wedding without equal, and will glory in THEE
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  Speaker 1: and in her. For tis better that folk should say
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  Speaker 1: such in one hath married such in one's daughter, than
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  Speaker 1: that they say he hath wedded a slave girl sands
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  Speaker 1: birth or worth. And he went on to persuade his
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  Speaker 1: son to give up marrying her by citing in support
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  Speaker 1: of his say proofs, stories, examples, verses, and moral instances,
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  Speaker 1: till Kamar al Zaman exclaimed, O, my father, since the
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  Speaker 1: case is thus, tis not right and proper that I
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  Speaker 1: marry her. And when his father heard him speak on
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  Speaker 1: such wise, he kissed him between the eyes, saying, thou
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  Speaker 1: art my very son, And as I live, O, my son,
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  Speaker 1: I will assuredly marry THEE to a girl who hath
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  Speaker 1: not her equal. Then the merchant said Obayed's wife and
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  Speaker 1: her handmaid in a chamber high up in the house,
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  Speaker 1: and before locking the door upon the twain. He appointed
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  Speaker 1: a black slave girl to carry them their meat and drink.
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  Speaker 1: And he said to Hahleimah, ye shall abide imprisoned in
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  Speaker 1: this chamber, thou and thy maid till I find one
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  Speaker 1: who will buy you. When I will sell you to him,
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  Speaker 1: and ye resist, I will slay ye both, for thou
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  Speaker 1: art a traitress, and there is no good in thee,
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  Speaker 1: answered she do thy will, I deserve all thou canst
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  Speaker 1: do with me. Then he locked the door upon them
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  Speaker 1: and gave his harem a charge respecting them, saying, let
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  Speaker 1: no one go up to them nor speak with them,
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  Speaker 1: save the black slave girl, who shall give them their
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  Speaker 1: meat and drink through the casement of the upper chamber.
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  Speaker 1: So she abode with her maid, weeping and repenting her
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  Speaker 1: of that which she had done with her spouse. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: Abd al Rahman sent out the marriage brokers to look
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  Speaker 1: out a maid of birth and worth for his son.
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  Speaker 1: And the women ceased not to make search, And as
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  Speaker 1: often as they saw one girl, they heard of a
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  Speaker 1: fairer than she, till they came to the house of
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  Speaker 1: the Sheikh al Islam and saw his daughter. In her
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  Speaker 1: they found a virgin whose equal was not in Cairo,
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  Speaker 1: for beauty and loveliness, symmetry and perfect grace, and she
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  Speaker 1: was a thousandfold handsomer than the wife of obeyed. So
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  Speaker 1: they told ab al Raman of her, and he and
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  Speaker 1: the notables repaired to her father and sought her in
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  Speaker 1: wedlock of him. Then they wrote out the marriage contract
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  Speaker 1: and made her a splendid wedding, after which ab al
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  Speaker 1: Raman gave bride feasts and held open house forty days.
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  Speaker 1: On the first day he invited the doctors of the law,
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  Speaker 1: and they held a splendid nativity, and on the morrow
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  Speaker 1: he invited all the merchants and so on during the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the forty days, making a banquet every day
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  Speaker 1: to one or other class of folk, till he had
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  Speaker 1: bidden all the olema and emirs and antients and magistrates.
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  Speaker 1: Whilst the kettle drums were drummed and the pipes were piped,
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  Speaker 1: and the merchants set to greet the guests, with his
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  Speaker 1: son by his side, that he might solace himself by
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  Speaker 1: gazing on the folk as they ate from the trays.
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  Speaker 1: Each night, ab al Raman illuminated the street and the
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  Speaker 1: quarter with lamps, and there came every one of the
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  Speaker 1: mimes and jugglers and mountebanks, and played. All men are play,
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  Speaker 1: And indeed it was a peerless wedding. On the last
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  Speaker 1: day he invited the fakirs, the poor and the needy
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  Speaker 1: far and near, and they flocked in troops and ate,
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  Speaker 1: whilst the merchant sat with his son by his side,
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  Speaker 1: and among the paupers behold entered Shaikh obeyed the jeweler,
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  Speaker 1: and he was naked and weary, and bare on his
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  Speaker 1: face the marks of wayfair. When Kamar al Zaman saw him,
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  Speaker 1: he knew him and said to his sire, look o,
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  Speaker 1: my father at yonder, poor man who is but now
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  Speaker 1: come in by the door. So he looked and saw
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  Speaker 1: him clad in worn clothes, and on him a patched
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  Speaker 1: gown worth two dirhams. His face was yellow, and he
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  Speaker 1: was covered with dust, and was, as he were, an
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  Speaker 1: off cast of the pilgrims. He was groaning as growneth,
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  Speaker 1: a sick man in need, walking with a tottering gait,
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  Speaker 1: and swaying now to the right and then to the left.
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  Speaker 1: And in him was realized his saying, who said, lack
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  Speaker 1: gold abaseth man, and doth his worth away, even as
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  Speaker 1: the setting sun that pales with ended day. He passeth
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  Speaker 1: mongst the folk and fain would hide his head, And
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  Speaker 1: when alone he weeps with tears that never stay absent.
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  Speaker 1: None taketh heed to him or his concern present. He
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  Speaker 1: hath no part in life or pleasant's eye. By allah,
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  Speaker 1: When as men with poverty are cursed, but strangers midst
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  Speaker 1: their ken and countrymen are they, and the saying of another,
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  Speaker 1: the poor man fares by everything opposed on him. To
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  Speaker 1: shut the door earth ne'er shall fail thou seest men
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  Speaker 1: abhore him. Sands a sin, and foes he finds, though
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  Speaker 1: none the calls can tell. The very dogs, when sighting
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  Speaker 1: wealthy man, fawn at his feet and wag the flattering tail.
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  Speaker 1: Yet and some day a pauper loon they sight all
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  Speaker 1: at him, bark and gnashing's fangs assail. And how well
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  Speaker 1: quoth a third, if generous youth be blessed with luck
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  Speaker 1: and wealth. Displeasures fly his path and peril's fleet. His
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  Speaker 1: enviers pimp for him and parcite wise in without tryst.
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  Speaker 1: His mistress hates to meet. When loud he farts, they say,
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  Speaker 1: how well he sings? And when he fizzles cry they
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  Speaker 1: owe how sweet and Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day
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  Speaker 1: and ceased saying her permitted say end of Night, nine
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  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy six. Recording by Mark Ernest