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The Arabian Nights #2 of 12
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night; Volume 2 of 12
Excerpt from The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 2 of 12
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the Nazarene damsel said to Sharrkan (and he listening impatiently enow), "Verily if Sharrkan fell into my hands, I would go forth to him in the habit of a man and drag him from his saddle-seat and make him my captive and lay him in bilboes," pride and passion and knightly jealousy took possession of him, and he desired to discover and declare himself and to lay on load; but her loveliness restrained him, and he began repeating: -
An faulty of one fault the Beauty prove, Her charms a thousand advocates shall move.
So she went up and Sharrkan after her; and, when he saw the maiden's back and hinder cheeks that clashed against each other, like rollers in the rolling sea, he extemporised these couplets: -
For her sins is a pleader that brow, And all hearts its fair pleading must trow:
When I saw it I cried, "To-night The moon at its fullest doth show;
Tho' Balkis' own Ifrit try a bout, Spite his force she would deal him a throw.
The two fared on till they reached a gate over which rose a marble archway. This she opened and ushered Sharrkan into a long vestibule, vaulted with ten connected arches, from each of which hung a crystal lamp glistening like a spark of fire.
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the Nazarene damsel said to Sharrkan (and he listening impatiently enow), "Verily if Sharrkan fell into my hands, I would go forth to him in the habit of a man and drag him from his saddle-seat and make him my captive and lay him in bilboes," pride and passion and knightly jealousy took possession of him, and he desired to discover and declare himself and to lay on load; but her loveliness restrained him, and he began repeating: -
An faulty of one fault the Beauty prove, Her charms a thousand advocates shall move.
So she went up and Sharrkan after her; and, when he saw the maiden's back and hinder cheeks that clashed against each other, like rollers in the rolling sea, he extemporised these couplets: -
For her sins is a pleader that brow, And all hearts its fair pleading must trow:
When I saw it I cried, "To-night The moon at its fullest doth show;
Tho' Balkis' own Ifrit try a bout, Spite his force she would deal him a throw.
The two fared on till they reached a gate over which rose a marble archway. This she opened and ushered Sharrkan into a long vestibule, vaulted with ten connected arches, from each of which hung a crystal lamp glistening like a spark of fire.
450 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2024
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