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THE
TOOTI NAMEH, OR
TALES OF A PARROT IN
THE
PERSIAN JLANGUAGE, WITH
AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION.
Calcutta, printtU
LONDON,
HFriMXTF.D FOR
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i)EBRETT, PICTADILT-V
July, i801.
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CONTENTS.
Tale
I.
Of
the Birth of falling in love
II.
....
Mieraun; and of Khojisteh Page
The
ofTeberistan III.
.
The Goldsmith and
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.
.
.
lO
King
Fidelity of a Sentinel towards the
the Carpenter; and the
Theft and Concealment of the Golden
Images
.
.
.
IV. The Nobleman, and the
•
Soldier's Wife,
Virtue he put to the proof
V. The Goldsmith,
.
.35
•
whose
.41
.
the Carpenter, the Taylor,
and the Hermit, who quarrelled about a
Wooden Woman VI. The
.
.
.49
.
King of Kinoge and his Daughter, with
whom
a Dirveish
became enamoured
54
.
53
VII. The Fowler, the Parrot, and her young ones, VIII. The Merchant, and his Wife, who outwitted
62
him
IX. The Shopkeeper's Wife, who, having an
Amour
with a Person, confounded her
Father-in-law
.
.
.
X. The Merchant's Daughter and XI, The Lion, and
the Brahmin,
of his Avarice,
lost his
.65
.
th& Jackal
.
Q^
who, on account
Life
.
.
73
CONTENTS.
•tr
Tale
oM
XII. The
Lion, and the Cat, who, having killed
Page
76
......
80
the Mice, was turned out of
XIII.
Of
Shapoor, the
XIV.
A
Commander
Snake
Lion
whom
XV.
.
.
.
not befriend
XVI. XVII.
How
.
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.
who became Poor
Ricii Persons
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Fortune would
.
.
his
.
.
whom
Zerccr the Weaver,
Four
of the Frogs, and
Syagosh dispossessed of
a
Dwelling
office,
.
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.
made King, and then
the Jackal was
95
killed
XVI II. Of
the Intimacy of Besheer with a
named Chundar
XIX. The
.
.
Merchant, and iiow
a
Woman .
.
Person
s
QS
.
Mare was 102
killed
XX. The Woman who
by
a
Stratagem escaped
out of the Lion's clutches
XXI. Of
a
King and
his
.
.105
.
Sons, and of a Frog and a
109
Snake
XXII. The Merchant XXIII. Of
whJ)<;c
Daughter was
lost
.
1
13
a Brahmin falling in love with the King
of Babylon's Daughter
XXIV. How
the
Son of
love with a
XXV. Of a Woman, had an
XXVI. The
the
young
Woman
Potter,
.
.
with a Grocer
.
who is
.
.
whom
Merchant's Daughter,
XXVII. The
fell
in .
122
who, having gone to buy Sugar,
Amour
rejected
.117
.
.
King of Babylon
.
.
.
126
King
the •
-129
taken into the Service of a
134 King, and made General of his Army he how and Whelps, his The Lion and .
XXVIII.
fostered a
XXIX. The
young Jackal
Nobleman who concealed
Sleeve
.
a
Snake
•
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CONTENTS. Tale
XXX. The
Soldier and the Goldsmith, the latter of
whom
....
his
lost
Money
XXXL
Of
Brahmins
The Frog,
tl:e
Emperor of China,
Queen
Elk and the Ass,
prisoners
XXXV. A
.
King
falls
.
.
love with the
XXXIV. The
of
Page 144
.
in
.
in a
of
.
.
killed .
.
Dream,
falls .
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.155
are both taken .
love.â&#x20AC;&#x201D; -Khojisteh
death by the hands of
who
Room
who
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.
,
Bee, and the Bird,
the Elephant
XXXin. The
from the Love
Merchant and the Barber's beating
the the
XXXIL
Life
Miemun
.
is
put .
.
lOl
to
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ADVERTISEMENT.
A pressly
Collection of Persian
for
Tales,
written ex-
the improvement of young. StudentSy
accompanied with an English translation^
is
now
suhjnitted to the candour of the Public.
The learned Orientalist will allowy into
English such subjeBs
success i
is
that, to render
with any degree of
no pleasant or easy task, on account of
the difficulty of accommodating the sense to a dif-
ferent
idio7?ij
original,
so as to preserve
the spirit
and at the same time avoid the ridicu-
lous extremes of insipidity or bombast; and, fore, to
of the
such a
critic will readily
there
grant indulgence
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we proceed
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and true intent of these pages, narrations,
and fables of
tales,
Hazerut Nekhsheby, (the mercy of the Almighty rest
upon him
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the Tootinameh, or Tales of a Parrot,
being composed
in
a difficult and
Mahommed Kadery (may God amend for the sake
of distinctness and
his condition!)
illustration,
order to render them intelligible to
men, has written them
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in familiar
all
and in
descriptions of
and easy language,
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TALE THE Of
the Birth of
FIRST.
Miemun
;
and of Khojisteh
falling in love.
One of the
princes of former times,
was Ahmed Sultaun, possessed much with a numerous army,
fects,
thousand horses,
fifteen
and nine hundred ready
at his gate.
son nor daughter.
whose name and
riches
so that one
ef-
hundred
hundred chains of elephants,
strings of
camels of burthen, stood
But he had no children, neither
He
therefore continually visited
the worshippers of God, to engage their intercession in
his
favour; and day and
night,
morning and
evening, was himself offering up prayers for After
some time had passed in
this
a son.
maimer, the Creator
of heaven and earth bestowed on the aforesaid king a son, of beautiful form, his countenance resplendent as
the sun, and his forehead resembling the moon.
the delight occasioned by this
med
eve?it,
the heart of
Sultaun expanded like a new-blown rose;
stowed
many thousand
on dervieshes and
From Ah-
he be-
rupees and huns, or pagodas,
fakeers:
for three
months continuance.
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tinuance, the omrah, viziers, sages, learned
men, and
teachers in the city, were feasted ; and he gave
When
costly dresses.
the above-mentioned son ar-
rived at the age of seven years,
of a master,
the direction
away
he was placed under
perfectly versed in every
kind of knowledge. In a short time he read the alphabet, with the
Amudnameh,
or conjugations of verbs, and by degrees
the Insha Herkeren, the Gulistan,
Jammia
ul
Kewa-
neen, Insha Abulsezul, Insha Yousefy, with the Rukaat
Jami
;
and acquired complete
He
Persian sciences.
be observed
;
also learnt the
and deportment
and met with approbation
king, and
the Arabic and
ceremonies
to
in the royal council, as well as the rules
for conversation
quet
skill in
all
at
an imperial ban-
in the sight
of the
the nobles of the courts
His father called
him Miemun, or
auspicious, and
married him to a wife, whose body was fair as the
sil-
ver moon, and her countenance enlivening as the sun.
The name of
this lady
was Khojisteh, or prosperous.
Between Miemun and Khojisteh there was such excessive intimacy, friendship,
from evening
till
and
affection, that every day,
morning, they were inseparable
they slept in one place, and always sat together.
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Miemun
day
rode in a palkee to take a view of the
market-place, where he beheld a person standing with
Miemun
a parrot-cage in his hand.
The
what
is
answered,
parrot-seller
sum of
the
me
Tell
rot-seller.
the price of this bird?
" The price
for a handful of feathers,
and a
was unable
rich
man
and
ciating with great
;
for
the parrot-
At
itself,
"
that
If this
thus rejoined
"
:
Oh
mbids,
intelligent
beauteous
only by asso-
is
it
Then
understanding can be improved."
youth
!
the
that
the parrot
endowed
with riches, and master of every accomplishment,
ful
I
of
does not purchase me, his refusal will oc-
casion evil and misfortune
though
is
morsel,
cat's
this,
the parrot thought thus to
interval,
sum
an answer.
give
to
it
replied,
a
large
so
must be an ignorant blockhead." To seller
of
Miemun
a thousand huns."
" The person who could give
money
said to the par-
al-
appear in your sight nothing but a hand-
of feathers,
yet,
and knowledge,
I
through
the
can soar
power of wisdom
above
the
sky;
and
the eloquent are struck with wonder, and are asto-
nished on listening to
meanest
my
art that I possess
time, or to come,
I
know
C
sweet discourses. is,
that
The
any action of past
at present
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and buy
city,
purchase
all
and
it
sell
all
the spikenard that
you
traffic
having bought all
it,
carried
huns."
In the
sum from
his
own
heard, understood
city,
and
He
and asked the
ten
thousand
same hour he paid the
aforesaid
of the whole
is
spiketreasury, and purchased the in
one of
third day, according as the parrot
the
people of the caravan of
Cabul
his
palaces.
had predicted, arrived,
and
merchants and tragreat search amongst the
ders, but could
cause
gare the
spikenard dealers
The
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made
up,
mer-
to his o^vn house.
which he stored up
nard,
it
price of the bird;
the spikenard in the
" The price
said,
it
the price thereof.
sellers
hoard
of the parrot,
owner a thousand huns, the
Do you
it.
will derive consider-
Miemun, having
and approved the words
to this
travelling
after the arrival of these
able advantage."
sent for
in
is
the spikenard in the place;
from which
chants,
Now,
acquainted with to-day.
nowhere
find out
Miemun had bought
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spikenard for the
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out for their
much
people of the caravan
of
fifty
thousand huns,
Miemun was
At length
city.
set
pleased and delighted with the conversation of
the parrot, and bought another bird called a sharuk,
or mina, with
pany with the
the view that, by placing
mind of
the
parrot,
it
in
com-
the latter might
be freed from the irksomeness of solitude; according to the saying of the sages.
" Kind
fly
with kind, pigeon with pigeon,
hawk
" with hawk."
The
intention of
Miemun
in placing the
sharuk
along with the parrot, was, that these birds might be
mutually pleased with the company of each other.
One day Miemun
said
to Khojisteh,
*
going
*
and shall also make a voyage
*
several
'
to
I
am now
perform a journey to a certain country,
ports.
transact,
"
in
order
Whenever you have
to
visit
business to
or any weighty affair occurs, carry your
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intentions into execution, without the advice
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consent of the parrot and the sharuk." After speak-
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to
this
purport,
and
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Khojisteh
of
Miemun
the
departure
and being separated from the possesser
;
of her heart, she neither slept during the night, nor
To be
ate in the day.
the parrot dispelled
brief,
the sorrows of her heart, by relating pleasant
At the expiration of
ries.
Khojisteh,
six
having bathed herself, and adorned
after
house
one day
months,
her person, was looking out of a window of the
sto-
the
into
another country,
when
street;
who had
travelled
at the top
a prince of
into this city,
having beheld the glowing cheeks of Khojisteh, was distracted with love
nated
at
;
and Khojisteh
the sight of the prince.
the prince sent a procuress
with a message, the
trouble
hours, he,
to in
to
that provided visit his
also
was
fasci-
The same hour
Khojisteh,
privately,
she would only take
house any night, for four
return for this
co?idesce?mo?i,
would
present her with a ring estimated at alack ofhuns.
At
first,
however, she did not agree
to his proposal:
but at length the instigations of the procuress prevailed
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day she
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and she returned him
reveals,
and night
for answer,
over our actions,
casts a veil
would wait upon the
that as
prince
midnight.
after
Early at night, after having arrayed herself in her finest
and best apparel, she repaired sitting
down
" Because
I
am woman,
the case. ''
sharuk
With all
this persuasion,
the
The sharuk
also
a
words on the
leave
to visit
the
she represented to
her,
advised
must not commit such an
disgraceful."
is
particular circumstances of her
" sidered amongst your
"
me
and give
my
and
her mind:
and the sharuk
will certainly listen to
present occasion,
" prince."
sharuk,
in a chair, thus reflected in
" female, she ''
to the
But
say'uigy
action,
tribe as
as love
which
" You con-
is
most heinous and
had now gained the
ascendancy over Khojisteh, the sharuk's refusal threw
ber into a rage.
Seizing the bird fast by both legs,
she pulled her out
of
her
cage, and
struck
her
against the ground with such violence that the soul
took flight from the body, and she expired. full
of wrath
and
indignation,
D
she
came
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the
parrot,
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parrot, to
desires,
sharuk.
The
was endowed with understanding, and thought
"
to himself:
"
own
her
all
particulars concerning the
with the parrot
she represented
jections
If
" dered."
sharuk,
the
like
my
refuse
I
making
After
consent, and raise ob-
addressed himself to Khojisteh, in the
imaginable:
"
whom
who
"
my
as
my
any
endeavours in
gratify
for
of the in
which reason,
this business
!
hut
if
body,
1 will
this
forbid
it
secret
as
for,
exert
of yours, and
God
your inclinations.
Be not
sex.
your mind;
my
soul continues in
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to
uneasy or unsetded
" long "
wisdom;
to reare wise themselves, ought not
" veal their secrets
"now
tone
softest
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are deficient in
" those
he thus
reflection,
this
mur-
also be
shall
I
wdl
should
of yours
husband hear of should be divulged, and your
" I
will
" him, asked,
make peace and
tranquillity bet^.vecn
like the parrot of
" Mliat
" Beg?
Tell
it
is
Ferukh Beg,"
it,
you and
Khojisteh
Ferukh the story of the parrot of
at full length,
and you
will oblige
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to
his goods
all
to trade
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in
charge
in
and
chattels,
to the
also his
parwife.
out on his journey, in order
set
different
some
" concerns.
gave
and
whose house
This merchant, having
paiTot.
travel,
" After which he "
" In a certain country was
parrot replied,
time,
Shortly
and continued
countries;
transacting after
his
commercial
departure,
his
his
" wife became acquainted and enamoured with a '*
young Moghul.
" young
Moghul
Every night she introduced into her house;
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however he was as
till
The
morning.
and overheard
" seen nor heard.
they slept in one
in the
secret as
same
apart-
saw these pro-
parrot all
this
their conversation if
he had neither
At the expiration of a year and
" a half the merchant returned home, and inquired
" of the
parrot
" household.
" of
all
all
The
the particulars concerning his parrot informed
the affairs of his house;
" any circumstances concerning "
it
the
the merchant
but did
not
tell
woman, because
would have occasioned a separation between man
" and wife.
At the expiration of a fortnight,
the
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to
stranger
the circumstances regard-
all
Moghul
young
his wife and the
what the sages have
said,
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from the
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musk and
love
In short the merchant was
and punished her.
reproved
at his wife,
that
;
" The wife naturally suspected the parrot of having
"
discovered to her husband
all
her pranks;
and thus
" believing the parrot her enemy, she took an op" portunity
at
" feathers;
midnight of plucking off the
" ed out to the male
"
" The woman concluded " parrot was dead
;
" injured by the
fall,
"
at the expiration
" covered
a
little
out of doors, call-
and female
had
that a cat
family,
him
and, flinging
carried
of the
slaves
away the
own mind
her
in
bird's
parrot.
that the
but although he had been greatly still
some
life
remained
;
and
of an hour the parrot's body restrength
and power of motion,
" Near the pl^ce was a burying-ground, whither the " parrot
" hollow
repaired,
and remained some days in the
part of a tomb.
" came out of the hole " were used
at
to alight in
He
fasted
night this
;
all
day,
and
and, as travellers
burying-ground, and '*
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there eat their victuals, during the night the parrot
" picked up '*
"
of v/ater, returned into his hole in the morning. After
some
" begun " ."*
"
and then, taking a drink
their leavings,
time,
grow
to
distance, just
the parrot's
all
he was able
again,
from one tomb
to fly a short
to another,
and then
perching himself: and he ate such seeds as he could Early in the morning after that night
discover.
" on which the parrot departed,
" out of bed, and came '*
feathers having
that the parrot
" and threw " troubled
in
in
he cried out aloud,
it,
on the ground, being greatly
He was
mind.
when, seeing
to the cage,
was not
his turband
the merchant got
so enraged at his wife,
**
that
*'
giving no credit to her protestations, drove her out
" of
"
am
he separated her from
his house.
will speak
adviseable for
me
wife thought to herself,
my
repudiated by
" the town
"
The
bed and board ; and,
his
ill
husband, of
me
;
all
E
the people of
therefore,
to repair to the
as I
it is
most
burying-ground
" adjoining
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" adjoining " and
to the house,
and expire for want of food
Summarily she went
sleep.
" ground, and fasted one day.
At night the parrot
woman!
"'
called out from his hole,
*'
hair off your head and body with
" remain
forty
" food, when
I
to the burying-
shave a
the
all
and
razor,
days in the burying-ground without will
pardon
all
the
sins
you
have
" committed during the whole course of your ''
and
*'
band.
'*
voice,
'*
make peace between you and your hus-
will
The woman was and thought
sins,
" and
astonished at hearing this
to herself, certainly there
the burying-ground the
" and upright man,
"
life,
tomb of some
is
in
pious, just
me
from
my
and restore peace and concord bet\veen
me
my
husband.
" she shaved
all
who
will
absolve
Then, under
this persuasion,
the hair off her head and bodv, and
continued some time longer
in the
bur)ing-ground.
" One day the parrot came out of the hole or tomb
woman
before described, and said,
" out my having committed any
"
my
feathers,
" well thou
and
afflicted
fault,
me
hast executed what
mv
!
thou, with-
pluckcdst out
grievously. stars
It
is
had ordained.
However,
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22
However^
have eaten your
I
salt,
and from that con-
sideration will act well and friendly by you, because I
am
art
the purchased parrot of your lord, and thou
my
lady.
you from the hole you
will
unite
my
fidelity,
came
spoke the words which
I
to
in the
tomb
namely,
;
I
am
that I
Be assured of
your husband.
and that
to
not a back-biter, that
I
should have told your faults to your husband; but, on the contrary,
i
your bread and
have preserved Behold,
salt.
going to your husband,
The
you.
parrot,
obeisance,
ing of long
life,
even
you come?
Then
Mm
him
to
bless-
riches.
The
recollecting the bird, for
some time
every item of your story. parrot,
him,
the
what man's house have you dwelt
whom
The
he
past, ?
said,
and
Tell
in
me
bird answered, I
a cat took out of the
cage, and imprisoned in her belly.
How
am
and from whence do
art thou,
Where have vou been
asked.
I
and, standing before
and increase of
Who
your old
now
will reconcile
imploring for
master asked.
am
allegiance io
having spoken these words, went
to his master's house,
made
and
my
was you restored
to
life
The master again?
The
" parrot
..
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23 "
You drove from your house your
parrot replied,
" nocent wife, who thereupon retired
in-
to the cemetery,
" and,
after
"
lamentation, the Almighty, in commiseration
and*
she had fasted forty days with great
" of her condition, restored *'
O
parrot
!
go
" peace between them
" of the *'
bird's
this:
is
having mounted
and
said,
my
Alas,
have persecuted you, without your having
" committed any " gression.
fault
;
but
now pardon my
Then he brought
his wife
''from that time they lived together *'
said,
the force
felt
the story
his house, and,
" a horse, came to his wife, I
master
The sum of
relation.
and
be thou even an evidence
;
The
he departed from
" love!
to life,
woman's husband, and make
to this
" in this cause.
me
gi'ief
mony and good
trans-
home, and har-
in perfect
understanding, in the
full
enjoy-
" ment of love and delight."
Miemun's
parrot
thus
merchant's parrot, and said ly,
and go
finished the tale of to Khojisteh, Arise
to the prince, that
be broken and
husband gets
violated.
intelligence
If,
your promise
ivhich
hereof,
God I
quick-
may
forbid
am
the
!
not
your
ready
to
establish
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24 establish parrot.
peace and friendship, like the merchant's Khqjisteh, delighted
ready to go to the prince
dawn beginning ture.
;
but,
to appear, she
at that
now
retired,
on her bed.
V
was
instant the
postponed her depar-
As Khojisteh had kept awake
hear the story, she
words,
at these
all
night to
and reposed herself
ro
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TALE THE SECOND.
The
Sentinel towards the
Fidelity of a
King of
When rived,
2'eberistan,
the day was entirely spent, and night ar-
Khojisteh arose from the costly couch
;
and
having called for different kinds of food, and various fruits, ate thereof.
zvith
She composed her countenance
a henignity resembling the moon
adjusted her
brocade,
head
came
to
;
and, having
and put on apparel of rich
attire,
the parrot for permission to visit
the prince.
The " '*
parrot said to
her,
thiiiking or contriving,
active
in
for
to
the
will
be zealous and
prince's presence
" Khojisteh, must preserve " such
I
your cause, and be the means of intro-
" ducing you
.
" Be cheerful, without
for
him,
in
friendship, benevolence, ardour,
;
but you,
your mind,
and
affection, ''
as
n
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26 "
as shall equal the
"
sentinel in the service of
" maintained " and,
in
attachment and
in his
heart
" what manner Relate
The "
the king
towards
which a
of Teberistan that
monarch,
reward thereof, acquired prosperity."
Khojisteh asked, "
*'
fidelity
it
is
Of what
and
nature,
after
the story of the king of Teberistan
?
at full length."
parrot
said,
"
Men
of former
sages of antiquity, have thus related:
times,
the
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Once upon " a time the king of Teberistan prepared such a " banquet and convivial meeting as equalled paradise.
" At
"
this feast
were displayed the most exquisite and
delicious viands, the choicest liquors, and
" of roasted meats; there were present "ÂŤnobility, sages,
the princes,
and learned doctors, belonging
" the
city,
who
" the
rest,
of the roasts, and
*'
all
all sorts
to
did eat of the victuals, and, amongst
they drank of the
li-
quors.
" Suddenly a man, who was a " the
place.
stranger, entered
The nobles of the court
inquired
" he was, and from whence he came " swered, I am a gladiator, and a "
profess the art of archery, in
"
adept, that I can drive
my
who
He
an-
lion-catcher.
I
which
I
?
am
such an
arrow through a hard
" stone;
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27 ''
stone
" able
and besides
;
" the value of his
first
I
Ameer Khojend,
of
" quitted
know many
and mysteries.
arts
" service
this, I
my
skill
employ,
;
I
for
am now come
" heard
commanded
tertain the
"
tinel
''
;
king's
" vice
when,
immediately,
" standing on one *'
leg,
knew
not
king
to the
his courtiers to
en-
guard or sen-
conformity to the
in
him
received
this sentinel
the
of Teberistan, having
in the capacity of a
command, they and
:
man
in
which reason, having
The king
"
engaged
but he
" of Teberistan. his speech,
other valu-
into the ser-
kept watch every night,
with his eyes fixed on the
royal palace.
"
One
night the king was walking,
" night, on the roof of the palace " about on " saw a
all sides,
man
why he was
:
mid-
after
and, after looking
cast his eyes below,
standing on one leg
" his name, and
;
till
when he
the king inquired
man-
standing in this
" ner
at
"
watch, or guard, in charge of the king's palace,
nel,
" and "
midnight
for
?
He answered,
I
am
some days have stood on one
the senti-
leg,
in
ear-
nest expectation of his majesty's august presence.
" To-night, through the aid and assistance of fortune,
" and
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—
.
28"
*'
"
and the
stars,
it
my
has been
good luck
his majesty's graces in perfection,
and
I
to
behold
am
greatly
" delighted on the occasion. *'
*'
*'
''
"
During
going,
who
man
the
The
it.
me all
" court,
''
''
law
sentinel
my
my duty
it
;
but now,
will ascertain
I
possible expedition,
rejoined.
to the scat
of holiness
have heard requires
if
!
having covered
have
your majesty
and report
Go
my
what the noise
the
it
is
to the
most holy
and having learnt intelligence
f
sentinel instantly departed
This hyperbolical **
but
I
meaning of the cause, convey the
after
return
post, and, for that reason, 1
The king
" The '
orders,
replied,
peopled by the slaves of
*.
the
me to
am
and asked the sentinel whether he had re-
" not inquired about
" with
said, I
astonished at hearing this
this noise several nights,
" gives
which
that will cause
The king was
back? noise,
is
" attendance on
'
king heard a voice
issuing from the wilds and deserts,
" marked ''
this conversation, the
all
plirase
his
;
and the king,
body and
signihes
face with a
nothing more
than
the king's presence."
t This also
signifies
'*
the king's presence."
G
" black
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29 black blanket, followed at a short distance
when
;
he saw, standing on the road, a beautiful woman, crying out,
cause
me
am
I
going
back
to turn
Who
her, saying.
art
!
who
The
?
thou,
man
the
is
that will
sentinel addressed
O woman
possessing
such exquisite beauty and delicacy of form
why
dost thou utter those words
set forth,
am
I
being
come The
part. '
to a
king's
'
vailed
'
thou,
life
on
O
!
period,
I
am now
by what means
to return
sentinel
!
back
?
thou
art
The
about to de-
emblem
thou
sentinel said,
emblem of
term of which
the
life,
and
The woman
?
the representation and
the king of Teberistan's
!
to
of the
be pre-
figure replied. If
wilt give the life of
your
own
'
son in exchange for that of the king,
'
return, in order that the king
*
longer in the world, and not die immediately.
'
king and the sentinel experienced satisfaction and
'
delight
'
*
The
my
may
I
will certainly
live
some time
on hearing these words from the
sentinel
replied.
My own
life,
The
figure.
with that of
son, I will devote, offer and bestow, to prolong ''
his
r'
^lUi"
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!
30
his majesty's days
hour,
and
till
him
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Briefly
and told being
my
can go to
I
sacrifice
"
do you tarry and delay one
;
in
your presence.
^The sentinel
went
to his
own house, The
his son all the circumstances.
loyal,
made
my son,
house and bring
this declaration.
His majesty
just and equitable, affectionate to his subjects,
kind to strangers
the existence of such a
;
son, is
and
monarch
causes, and will secure, the prosperity of the king-
dom, and the happiness of
whom to
all
my
lesson from
the following
learnt
be the mercy of God
I
have
tutor,
(on
his people.
!)
and which he taught
the children of the school
That
:
if,
in order
to avert the destruction of a just king, the ministers
of
state
amongst
were
put
to
his subjects,
sin or transgression
;
it
to is
death a
man from
not to be accounted a
because,
if
a
good monarch
is
rescued from death, and continued in safety, he preserves in tranquillity thousands ''
'
dominion die, lest
:
God
perish,
are under his
forbid that this just king
he may be succeeded by a
V\'hose cruelty
might
who
tyrant,
should
through
and oppression thousands of mankind and the whole kingdom become a
" desert
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31
"
desert
" take
It is therefore
!
me
quickly, and put
" After
and expedient that you
fit
me
to death.
the sentinel carried
this resolution,
" son to the phantom, and having bound
" and
feet,
" down
" the phantom
Do
"
satisfied
hands
his
took in his hand a sharp knife, and stooped
to cut his son's
"
his
throat.
this
juncture
arrested the sentinel's hand, saying,
The Almighty, being
not sacrifice your son!
with your intention,
" commanded
At
me
to
remain
is
gracious, and hath
sixty years longer.
" The sentinel, on hearing these glad tidings, was
"
filled
with joy and delight.
" seen from a distance " father and
" the
start
his son,
all
The
king,
who had
the acts and deeds of the
was highly pleased
of the sentinel,
;
and getting
repaired quickly to the
" roof of the palace, and then walked about
" same manner
as before.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
in
the
Half an hour afterwards
the sentinel appeared in the king's presence,
the
" treasury of munificence, and then performing the
" usual
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32
" usual ceremonies of homage and obeisance, " the following
salutation:
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Long
life,
uttered
wealth, peace,
" and splendour attend the monarch of the world " The king commanded him
to relate
" meaning of the
The
" arms on **
bosom
in
sentinel folded his
token of respect, and thus
addressed himself to the presence abounding with
" mercies: '
his
noise.
and explain the
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
*^A
her husband's
beautiful ill
and elegant
woman
treatment insupportable,
and was
finding
forsook
ground making
sitting on the
'
his house,
*
lamentation.
*
in soft
*
have restored peace and good understanding between
*
her and the husband; and
*
mised, bargained, and agreed, never again to quit
*
his
I
approached her, and, by speaking
and conciliating terms, tempered with
house
this
for the space
of
now
the
woman
truth,
has pro-
sixty years.'
" The king, having seen, comprehended, and ap*'
proved of his loyalty and good conduct, discovered
" himself, "
I
saying, At the time
you went from hence,
followed you, and have seen and heard
all
" passed between you, the woman, and your son, "
tifying the attachment, affection,
W
that tes-
and loyalty of both. " This
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33
" This
is
my
determination
" poor and needy, ''
ture,
"
assistance, I will
"
to high dignity,
make you
you have been
mind has been
but trust in
:
and be easy and happy
" Then *'
hitherto
so that your
bled and perplexed
"
:
for,
;
rich,
God
trou-
for the fu-
with the divine
and promote you
the king retired, and reposed himself
a couch.
When
" king, being seated on " ministers of
" the omrah,
dawn shone
the true
his throne,
state to require viziers,
sages,
on
forth, the
commanded
the
the attendance of
all
and governors of pro-
"
vinces throughout the empire
"
sons present at the council of state, appointed the
''
"
sentinel his vicegerent, all
;
and, before
all
per-
and committed to his care
the locks and keys of his treasury, &c."
By
the time the parrot had
made an end
story of the king of Teberistan, the true
of the
dawn had
appeared, and the sun was risen and shone forth
on
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34 on which account Khojisteh's departure was deferred; and having been kept
all
night without sleep, hear-
ing the story, she retired, and reposed herself on a velvet couch.
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35
TALE THE THIRD.
The Goldsmith and the Carpenter; and
the
Theft and Concealment of the "Golden Images.
^VhEN jisteh,
went
"
the sun was
to
my
answered, "
I
" why do you *'
and the
moon
Kho-
risen,
having covered herself with gold and jewels,
" Give
me leave
to re-
sweet-heart to-night."
The
parrot
gave you permission
first
night,
to the parrot,
pair
set,
and
loiter
till
said,
now?
but
the it
is
not advise-
able that you should go and appear before the
" bedecked
" them, and
in these
ornaments,
lest
quit his affection for
" goldsmith, who coveted
you
man
he may covet ;
just as the
the carpenter's gold, and
" abandoned a friendship of many years standing." Khojisteh having desired to hear the detail of the story, the parrot repeated
it
as follows:
"In
n
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f'-^f^
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36 " In a certain ^'
*'
city there
between a goldsmith and a carpenter, that
sbip
tvery person
" brothers.
who saw them imagined them
Once on
" were much
their expences.
"
is
in the city
They
said to
means of defraying each other. As there
an idol temple, wherein are
" golden images,
it
adviseable that
is
" the temple, perform our devotions, " a convenient opportunity " images.
"'
day one or two Brahmins
men
*'
them
and
if
they had done
left
;
their
that
mode
of
that every
the temple, and did
any person questioned ihem
so,
they would say. Because
we
the ceremonies
in
are not able to perform
" the manner
can find
some of the
were so much ashamed
v/orshipping,
;
we
to worship.
'^
*'
feign our-
entered the temple,
" The other Brahmins, beholding
" not return
till
for stealing
Then both having
" they began
why
we
many
Brahmins, and, entering into the service of
selves
**
be
their arrival at a certain city
distressed for the
"
to
a time they undertook a jour-
" ney together, and on
"
had subsisted suchfriend-
these
two persons go through
on which account we
" some days the temple was
feel
shame.
entirely deserted
After
by the
" Brahmins, no person remaining but the goldsmith I
" and
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!
37 " and the carpenter. *'
"
the carpenter seized
*'
*'
own
their
" "
One all
night the goldsmith and
the images, and set out for
city.
When
they arrived in the neighbourhood of
their
own
tree,
and then went
his
to
" he exclaimed
own
share
" days. "
:
At
against the carpenter, saying. Thief
this
!
I
money you
What
is
fix
"
that
no purpose
to
and stolen
devour in a few
was astonished, and he ;
saith
fellow,
gold-
?
but, however, for
any accusation on
" carpenter was a shrewd to
will
suspect your doings
" God's sake, don't
" was
friendship,
first the carpenter
said to himselfy
" smiih
all
In the morning
house.
" thou hast forgotten our long
my
homes.
night the goldsmith went alone, and carried
One
" the images
"
respective
their
to
images under a
the
they buried
city,
me
and seeing
The
!
that
it
wrangle or dispute, remained
silent.
" Some time
after,
the carpenter
made
a figure of
" wood resembling the goldsmith, and having dressed "
it
in his clothes, got
from some place or other, t\vo
"
bears' cubs, whose victuals
"
sleeves of the clothes on the figure.
he put
" the cubs were hungn% they
into the skirts
and
W^henever
ate their food out of
" the
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had conceived a great attachment
as the cubs
carpenter
to the figure, the
made
" goldsmith and the females of his
" house.
The
" brought *'
to the carpenter's
carpenter having concealed the boys,
in the
two whelps, and then began
into bears' cubs.
came
the disturbance,
" carpenter. You
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and
assert a falsity, for never
transformed into a bear.
*'
was referred
to the
The Cazy
replied. The goldsmith's sons
" changed I
falling
credit your assertion
;
inquired of
The
carpenter
were playing together,
>
The Cazy The
whole
their forms having
" whilst their reason continued
said.
How can
carpenter replied,
in ancient books, that a
" metamorphosed
man
on the ground they were
into bears' cubs.
" have seen,
was a
Governor and Cazy of the place,
" the carpenter how the case stood.
" when suddenly
said to the
At length the dispute
" and brought before them.
"
bawl
to
^The goldsmith hearing
to the spot,
*'
"
goldsmith's
and cry out, that the goldsmith's sons were trans-
" formed ''
The
two sons, came
wife, with her
a feast for the
family, with other
" women of the neighbourhood. ''
As
garment.
effigy*s
:
tribe
I
was
been changed,
therefore, if these
" cubs know persons, and can distinguish
their friends,
"
my
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39 " my
assertion will
be established.
Now
"
loose these cubs in the middle of the court
"
all
the people, when,
" smith, they are
*'
The Cazy having heard
carpenter's proposal, the cubs
when
let loose,
seeing the goldsmith,
the exact counter-part of the
" ran
to
amongst
they recognize the gold-
his children.
" and approved of the
" were then
if
will let
I
wooden
figure, they
him, rubbed their heads against his
" and began
to play
*'
Cazy considered
*'
the goldsmith.
all
and
about.
When
the
these circumstances, he said to
Now
" are your children
frisk
feet,
do believe
I
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Why
"
gle with the carpenter
cubs
them home with you
take
"
that these
do you thus unjustly and
thro' malice
:
wran-
The goldsmith being con-
?
^'
founded, laid his head at the carpenter's feet, and
^*
asked pardon for his misdemeanors. Saying, If this
"
is
your contrivance in order to recover your share
''
of the gold, take the gold immediately, and return
"
me
"
unfairly,
*'
you
m.y children.
The carpenter
and dishonesty
repent,
it
You acted
a grievous sin
:
would not be astonishing
" children were restored
should if
your
to their original form.
The
" goldsmith surrendered " of the gold
is
said,
in question
to the carpenter his share ;
when
the carpenter, in
"
return.
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return,
" them
The
brought out
the children
and presented
to the goldsmith."
parrot having finished the story of the gold-
smith and the carpenter, said to Khojisteh, Carry not these jewels with you, lest your lover covet them,
and cease to entertain friendship and regard Khojisteh
wanted
to
for you.
take off the ornaments from
her person, and lay them aside, and to go to her sweet-heart,
when Aurora
was deferred.
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TALE THE FOURTH.
The Nohleman and
the Soldief'*s
whose Virtue he put
W^HEN
the sun was
Khojisteh
came
" no regard "
am
to
set,
and the moon had and
my
know you
anguish
" night to go to
my
pHed, "
breast
My own
me
is
risen,
" You pay not that I
leave this very parrot re-
inflamed and torn on ac-
**
tales every night, instead of
you
For, as
your husband
said,
The
sweet-heart.'*
count of your sorrow.
afraid lest
:
Give
?
*'
"
to the proofs
to the parrot,
distracted with love
TFife,
going
arrive,
to
my
will hear
your lover,
1
am
and you get shame
" with your sweet-heart,
in the
"
confusion the nobleman/*
soldiefs
wife put
to
same manner
as the
Khojisteh desired to hear the story.
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The tary
" In a
parrot said,
certain city dwelt a mili-
man, who had a veiy
beautiful wife,
on whose
account he was always under apprehension.
man
being indigent, the wife asked him
had quitted answered,
his
fore
do not go any-where
The
wife said. This
is
vicious,
is
'
who
of employment.
woman
no husband
is
;
and
;
for
wo-
a
if
story of
the Jowgee,
and wandered
notwithstanding which, she
was guilty of infidelity with an hundred men ? soldier asked.
What
kind of stoiy
" The wife began with time, a litter
man saw
on
his
climbed up into a
came under litter
from
saying,
in the desart
back. tree.
that very tree,
that,
once on a
an elephant with a
By chance and having
went himself
man, on a sudden, discovering a in the litter,
descended from the
ingratiating himself with her
:
The
that }
is
The man, alarmed
his back,
no
able to guard her.
kept his wife upon his back,
about in the desart
He
you, and there-
a perverse conceit,
Have you never heard the '
in
in quest
one can seduce a virtuous
man
why he
occupation and profession?
have not confidence
I
The
thereat,
the elephant slipt off
The
to graze.
beautiflil
tree,
and
the
woman
set
about
she also being v^\i
"
inclined
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" such words '*
began
inclined towards him,
to
speak to him
as suited her purpose.
gratified their
mutual
In short, they
evil inclinations
" the wonian took out of her pocket a " knots, and added
*'
many
have so
which
string full of
The
to the
to
what was the reason of
number
My husband, who is
replied.
after
how it happened
string,
knots, and
" her adding another
"
;
thereto one more/knot.
" man inquired about the
in
?
The woman
a magician, has trans-
" formed himself into an elephant, and wanders about " the desart with me on his back yet, notwith;
" standing he watches me ''
this carnal
knots on
this
string
have
I
to
" *'
"
"
is
increased
!
the soldier's
wife
had con-
eluded the story, the husband asked what she had
The
further to say to
him
?
most
you
to travel,
eligible for
vice.
" gay;
"
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;When
the
and to-day, through your
;
an hundred and one Briefly
had before
preserved by making
" condescension, the number of knots "
I
knowledge of one hundred men,
" memory of whom
"
so narrowly,
I will give
as
in this
long state,
as
wife replied.
you a fresh the
nosegay
It is
and get into ser-
and
lively
shall
nose-
continue
you may be assured that
I
have
"
not
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should wither,
'
been guihy of some
'
you
will then
;
know
The
fault.
the nosegay
if
that
1
his
soldier listened
departure,
him with a
the wife presented
nosegay.
V/hen he
arrived at a certain city, he
engaged
in the service
of a nobleman of that place.
The
soldier always
took the
nosegay along with
him.
When
bleman
said to his attendants, At this
the winter season arrived, the no-
year a fresh flower neither
rank
;
is
time of the
not to be seen in any garden,
such a thing procurable by persons of
is
it is
wonderful from whence
this stranger,
the soldier, brings a fresh nosegay every day. said that they also
stance.
What <(
have
words, and resolved on taking a journey.
to these
On
any bad action
My
Then
were astonished
circum-
the nobleman asked the soldier.
kind of a nosegay
wife gave
at this
Thej
me
this
is
this?
He
answered.
nosegay as an emblem of
her chastity, saying. As long as this nosegay continues alive and fresh,
know you of
a truth
that
"my
r-e
;
45 " my "
virtue
The nobleman
unsullied.
is
laughing,
wife must be a conjuror or a sorceress.
said, that his
" In a few words, the nobleman had two cooks,
" remarkable
" one of these he
"
try,
cunning and
for their
Repair to the soldier's coun-
said,
where, through
and
deceit, contrive to
his wife,
and return quickly
artifice
" form an intimacy with
" with
a particular account of her
" be seen whether " and gay, or
this
when
;
it
city,
"
deceit, waited
The
in
order that
" agreeable to
" the cook " Go away "
will
me
;
but
may
or not.
said.
see
The
to the soldier's wife, for the present,
have nothing
" then come
secret.
and
to say to
alone to
" the procuress, " serve a
I
her,
and delivered
wife did not give any direct
" assent to the procuress
" me,
on
soldier's
who, through
sent a procuress to the wife,
the message.
be
In conformity to the nobleman's
not.
" treachery and
will
nosegay will continue fresh
" commands, the cook, having gone to the
"
To
adroitness.
my
Send the man
whether he
will
to
be
procuress introduced
who tell
such a
said in his ear,
the procuress
woman
I
as this
house without apprizing
for these sort of gentry
cannot pre-
The cook approved of her
plan,
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" house a dry *'
The woman had
acted accordingly. well,
" the cook returned, she that
"
fell
bed
"
told
him
said.
Tell
me
whence you came
truly ?
sit
down on
The
who
The
thou
art,
soldier's
and from
cook confessed
forlorn
the circumstances about the soldier and the no-
all
" The short of the " able
"
to
when
and he, having placed himself thereon,
" bleman.
*'
a sheet:
it
through, and began to bawl out.
" wife *'
;
her
on which she placed a bedstead
very slightly laced, and spread over
"
in
to get
out of the
distressful situation.
in this
story
is
this
scrape,
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^The cook, un-
continued in this
When some
manner, and the
first
time had passed
cook did not return,
" the nobleman gave the other cook a large sum of " money, with abundance of goods, and sent him *'
*'
the soldier's wife, in the character of a merchant.
He
pursued the like course with
" was caught " astonished
"
to
again,
in the
same whirlpool.
that neither of the
to
to
The nobleman,
two cooks came back
and perceiving that some
" must have happened
the other, and
them,
at
evil
or mischief
length resolved
go himself.
" One day the nobleman, under pretence of hunt"
ing.
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47 "
ing, set out, attended
"
arrived at the
soldier's
" house and presented "
The
gay.
by the
soldier.
his wife
" noblernan
to his dwelling,
to his
own
with the fresh nose-
wife told her husband
The
they
he went
city,
" pened.
When
all
that
had hap-
next day the soldier conducted the
and prepared an hospit-
" able entertainment. He took both the cooks out of " the
well, and said to them. Guests are
" house " the
;
do you both put on women's
victuals before
" which
I will set
them, and wait
you
come
the nobleman.
at table
" and bad
their
" The nobleman " have these
girls
had
fallen
*'
them.
from both their
said to the soldier.
been guilty
of, that
The
" They have committed a great
When
victuals to
complexion was very much changed.
" heads has been shaved?
'*
after
their sufferings in the well,
diet, the hair
" heads, and
;
The two cooks put
at liberty.
From
my
clothes, place
" on female apparel, and served up the
"
to
What
crimes
the hair of their
soldier answered,
fault; ask themselves.
he examined them more
attentively,
he knew
They, in their turn, having discovered the *'
nobleman.
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nobleman, began to weep grievously,
fell at
his feet,
and bore testimony of the woman's chastity and in-
The
nocence. tain.
my
Ay,
wife called out from behind a cur-
lord,
1
am
woman whom you
that
suspected to be a sorceress, and sent
me
to the proof,
you have
learnt
and laughed
at
my
men
to
husband.
put
Now
my character. The nobleman
was
abashed, and asked forgiveness for his offences."
The
parrot having concluded this story of the sol-
dier's wife, said
to
your lover,
toKhojisteh," lest
My princess, go quickly
your husband should
" you incur shame with your " manner ''
as the
soldier's wife,"
effort to
go
;
arrive,
friend, in
the
and
same
nobleman was confounded by the Khojisteh wanted, and
made an
but at the very time the cock crowed,
and day appearing, her departure was deferred.
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49
TALE THE
The Goldsmith, and
FIFTH.
the Carpenter, the Taylor,
who
the Hermit,
quarrelled about a
ff^ooden IV^oman,
VV HEN moon
the sun descended into the west, and the
arose from the east, Khojisteh
" Give
rot to ask leave,
and
said,
" night
my
lover."
"
My
to
go
princess,
" why do you ''
to I
went
me
The
to the par-
permission this
parrot answered,
have given you leave every night
tarry
I
?
arrive unexpectedly,
am
afraid
;
your husband may
and matters
fall, out
like
what
" happened to four persons." Khojisteh desiring to hear the story, the parrot said,
" Once on a time, a goldsmith, a carpenter, a
"
a hermit, travelling together, halted
"
desert
"
shall
place,
and
said
taylor,
and
one night
in a
amongst themselves.
We
continue in this desert to-night, and keep " guard, us four persons taking a watch a-piece to " which words they unanimously ;
agreed.
The
first
" watch
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50 " watch the carpenter stood guard '^
prevent sleep, took an axe and
" wood.
made a
The second watch, when
" turn came, seeing the wooden " void of gold and jewels, he " carpenter has exhibited " wooden figure
;
I
must
" make ornaments for the ''
"
and, in order to
;
and put them on the thereof.
figure out ot
the goldsmith's it
was
said in his heart.
The
by carving
this
his
figure, that
art
my
shew
also
ears, neck,
add
figure, to
arms, and feet, to the
" watch, when the
*'
a
woman
naked
:
on the
" clothes becoming a
" belonged
to
The
third
He
with an exceeding beautiful face and
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
" thereby added
the
came, he awoke.
taylor's turn
handsome person, decked with
" but
elegance
such manner having prepared
In
" jewels, he put them on the puppet.
" saw
and
skill,
to
instant,
exquisite jewels
he made up neat
bride, and, putting
her elegance.
the hermit, who,
The
them on
her,
watch
fourth
when he came
to
" take the guard, beheld that captivating form. The
" hermit perfonned
his ablutions
" which he made supplication,
'
and prayers
O
God
!
;
after
give ''
life
'
to
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" "
'
to this figure
Hfe, so that
Immediately the figure received
!'
spoke hke an
it
human
" night was ended, and the sun
When
being.
arose, all these four
" persons were desperately
in love
" The carpenter
said, I
the master of this
" man, because
I
" ''
I
my
be
The goldsmith
bride,
" with jewels.
"
carved her with
will take her.
to
my
am
seeing that
The
figure of
"
prayers, I
at
my
hands:
She ought
said.
naked
The hermit
will
take
her.
"
this
" This " from
"
this
man saw is
do
the
my lawful
my
justice
This
said.
spouse,
face,
life
In short, this
a person
he
whom you
acci-
whom When
between them.
woman's
is
made
I
wood, which having obtained
spot
to
her
woman
" dispute had continued a long time, when " dentally there came to the " they desired
wo-
have decked
she was
" clothes and dressed her.
" was a
my own
taylor asserted. This
when
property, for
I
with the figure.
exclaimed,
have seduced
house and separated from me.
After
manner, he seized and carried them before
" the Cutwal.
When
" man's countenance, " brother's
wife,
whom
the Cutwal beheld the
he he
cried
out.
took with
This
is
wo-
my
him on **
a
journey:
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5* " journey: you have
" the woman by
killed
"
When
" time past is
deal of
"
effects
saying.
bondmaid,
my money
;
and taken
them before the Ca^y.
woman, he
Who
are you
who absconded
now, where
is
interro-
For a long
?
have been inquiring after
I
my
"
"
carried
the Cazy looked at the
" gated them,
" she
brother,
Hereupon the Cutwal ap-
force.
" prehended them, and
my
this
woman
with a great
my money
give an answer.
?
When
this quarrel
and altercation had run to
" great length, and many people were collected
" gether "
to see the sight, an old
sent, said.
" man
:
man, who was pre-
but in such a city there
"
men
are unable to determine,
"
tree,
from which a voice
"
side there
" shorten the tree,
to-
This dispute will not be decided by any
" called the Tree of Decision
"
and
is
justice,
is
a large old tree,
every dispute that
;
is
carried before this
issues, declaring
is false.
To
men went under
the
and whose claim
story, these seven
and also carried the
woman
N
on whose
along with them
" and
53 " and each of them
set forth the circumstances
"
particular case.
On
"
tree divided asunder,
"
cleft,
upon which the
" peared.
A
" every thing " the seven
of his
the instant, the trunk of the
and the
woman
tree reunited,
ran into the
and she disap-
voice proceeded from the tree, that returns
to its
first
principles
;
and
woman were overwhelmed
suitors for the
" with shame."
The
parrot having concluded this tale,
Khojisteh," Mistress,! ''
'"
at
ver
to himself, :
arise
friend."
which
to
apprehensive your husband
may come unexpectedly
" you *'
am
said
;
and, like the tree, unite
and you get shame with your lo-
and go towards your sweet-heart and
Khqjisteh intended to have gone to him, instant the
cock crowed, and the signs of
morning appeared, when her
visit
was put
off.
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54
TALE THE SIXTH. The King ofKinoje and
whom a Vt HEN moon
Dirveish became enamoured,
the sun sunk beneath the
arose from
the east,
leave, saying,
that
" sake "
I
:
"
I
am ashamed
completely
to the parrot
you neither sleep nor take
" perform and
" am your
utter
slave,
it
?"
The
?
how
;
however,
I
manner becoming
will speedily
send you to
and exert myself in your cause,
" royroyan, whose *^
shall
although by no means able to exe-
" a
jisteh asked,
;
my
parrot answered, " I
business of yours in a
lover,
rest
for
how can my tongue
" cute any servant
to ask
to appear before you,
you should have so much trouble
thank you for your favours
" your
west, and the
Khojisteh,
decked and ornamented, went
" and
Daughter, with
his
story
What
is
like the
you may have heard." Khothe nature of the story
?
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The
parrot said,
" The king of Kinoje had a
daughter, whose face was as fair as the moon, and
**
" her ''
features exceedingly beautiful.
and from
that a dirveish fell in love with her,
" passion became mad and " had lucid " a
folly is this
how can
!
" monarch
?
" message
to the king.
" cause "
my
I
After
some days the
me
Give
and your own
" enraged, and gave The
vizier said.
" never
is
your daughter, beconsider not
;
The was
dirveish,
him
to
:
"
will deliver to
him,
If
some
city.
Af-
and said
you will bring an elephant load of gold,
you the
king's daughter.
the dirveish was considering *'
violently
contrive
I will
vizier sent for the dirveish,
to
on
be punished.
" other means of sending him out of the
"
king,
a dirveish, and your Majesty
distresses dirveishes
" terwards the
What
dirveish sent a
royalty.
orders for
He
this
a beggar be related to a
" hearing these words of the
*'
to himself.
have a great regard for her
poverty,
money, a person
" much gold
^
Whenever he
senseless.
he would say
intervals,
happened
It
said to
how
to
When
procure the
him. If you require as
as an elephant can carry,
" royan, represent your
i
situation,
go
to the roy-
and ask;
when
"he
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,.
56
" he
bestow on you this quantity of
will certainly
"
gold.
"
set
The
dirveish
the royroyan, and
to
The royroyan immediately
case.
his
forth
went
" bestowed on the dirveish an elephant-load of gold, " which he carried ''
"
The
has brought
vizier said.
the
elephant-load of gold.
The royroyan must have given
no other person
in these days
is
" plan must be pursued.
" dirveish. You in
exchange
The
now, some other
:
daughter
an elephant-load of gold
" you bring the royroyan
to the
vizier said
will not obtain the rajah's for
it;
capable of perform-
" ing such an act of munificence
"
rajah said to
the vizier, Your scheme has not succeeded, for the
" dirveish *'
The
to the rajah.
;
but
if
head, certainly you shall
s
" have her. The dirveish went again to the royroyan,
" and
" royan
my
head
my
in
my
"
I
head;
my
" soever should "
mind
Set your
said,
" easy about "
The
told the circumstances of his case.
for
at rest,
many
roy-
and be not un-
years
I
have kept
hand, ready to be given to who-
require
neck, and carry
it
:
me
do you
tie
a rope round
before the rajah, and say,
have brought the head which you required, to-
" gether with " head from
its
body
;
my
body
;
if
he consents, separate
my
and should he demand any
O
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57 " thing further,
"
I will
manage
it
also.
The
dirveish
did so, and having tied a rope round the neck of
" the royroyan, carried him before the
When
rajah.
" the rajah saw the generosity of the royroyan, he "
fell at his feet,
" ceeds you "
and
No man
said.
in greatness
of mind and manliness, nor
for the satisfaction
" The
rajah sent for his
" her
to the royroyan, said.
" dispose of her
When
to
own
the parrot
daughter, and presenting
This
give
it
please."
he
said to Khojisteh, to you,
my
"
If
my
mistress, It is
you should go speedily
your
that
"
When
it
your handmaid,
without hesitation or regret.
" adviseable friend."
is
had brought to a conclusion the
" head can be of any service I will
own
of a beggar, a dirveish,
whomever you
story of the royroyan,
to
world ex-
there ever be one willing to devote his
will
" head
"
in this
to
Khojisteh stood up, and wanted
have gone to her beloved, the cock crowed, and being morning, her departure was deferred.
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58
TALE THE SEVENTH.
The Fowler,
the Parrot,
and her Youn <r
Ones,
VV HEN
moon
the sun sunk into the west, and the
came out of
the east, Khojisteh, with a heart full of
anguish, and eyes replete with tears, arose, and went to the parrot for leave.
Beholding the parrot
thought, she said, "
Why are
parrot replied, "
your account
On
you pensive
" not what kind of lover yours " be
faithful to
you or
" of King Kamrew." " the nature of the
The
not,
is
;
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
?"
because
of
The I
know
^whether he will
and act like the parrot
Khojisteh asked, "
story of
full
What
is
King Kamrew's parrot ?"
parrot began relating the
story
:
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
" Once
" on a time a fowler threw a net over the nest of a "
parrot^
and imprisoned therein the parrot together
" with her young. The parrot
said to her nestlings,
"The
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59 " The best way
will
"
selves dead,
"
state, will fling
"
ries
away
" because, " means
when
me
for
only,
will
it
my
all
The young ones
"
" ther during
them
;
they instantly
on the branch of a
on the ground. The parrot at rest;
price for myself, that
did as
fowler, supposing
out of the nest
and setded
" Set your mind
he car-
can contrive some
" The fowler, enraged, was going rot
if
in that
be of no consequence, life, I
The
directed.
" dead, flung them
"
you
you out of the net; and
to get to you.
flight,
you to feign your-
the fowler, seeing
preserve
if I
" they were
" took
be
I
to
said to the fowler,
shall
you such a
need nothing
the remainder of your
" a physician, and perfectly
dash the par-
will obtain
you
tree.
life
;
far-
am
for I
skilled in the profession.
" The fowler was delighted
at
" and
Roy Kamrew, who
said
" king of
the
to
my
parrot,
is
country, has long laboured under a
" grievous disease
;
" from
parrot said
it ?
hearing these words,
The
" mighty business
will
is
you be able
this
?
I
to
am
to relieve
the fowler.
him
What
such a physician
"that
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that I
"
before the king, acquaint
" then *'
can cure ten thousand patients
sell
me
in a cage,
"
said, I
"
in the art
"
in great
''
''
"
of
skill,
me and
fowler put her
and having carried her to Roy Kamrew, this parrot,
of physic.
The king
want of a
this bird.
rot,
The
have brought
doctor
skilful
The
;
fowler replied.
Roy Kamrew
nars.
my
him with
high price.
at a
carry
;
who
is
said, I
proficient
am
myself
mention the price
Ten thousand
di-
instantly purchased the par-
by paying the fowler ten thousand dinars. The
" next day the
parrot
"
to
"
the parrot said
began administering medicine
when
His disorder was half cured,
the king.
to him.
As
my
medicine has re-
" moved the moiety of your complaint, shew ''
attention and kindness, by taking
â&#x20AC;˘'
cage, in order that
"
will liberate
"
lieving these
" cage.
The
may explore
you from words
to
all
be
care. tnie,
out of the
a medicine which
The
king,
be-
took her out of the
parrot immediately flew away,
" never returned
When
1
me
me
and
to the king."
the parrot had finished this
dressed himself to Khojisteh, saying, "
P
tale, I
am
he adafraid,
"ray
V
6i
"
my
" by you, " ""
is
your lover should act treacherously
lady, lest
like the parrot of
the cause of
my
Roy Kamrew
pensiveness.
;
and
Hasten
this
now
your sweet-heart, but place no reliance on him
" you have to have
tried
gone
him."
to
After that, Khojisteh
her gallant
;
to till
wanted
the morning cock
crowed, and the dawn appearing, her departure was deferred.
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62
TALE THE EIGHTH.
The Merchant, and
Wife,
his
who
out-
witted him.
W^HEN
the sun sunk into the west, and,
night, the
moon ascended from
it
being
the east, Khojisteh^
with a sad and aching heart, got up and went to the parrot, in quest of leave.
jisteh pensive, asked jisteh answered,
" and
you
my
that I shall
"
me
"
exercise patience, and
leave this night,
answered, "
You
" continue here *'
quickly this night.
sorrow
meet
I shall
listen to till
come
I
sit
at
my
it
to ;
you every night
when
my lover? go
then will
If you give
othenvise,
;
Khq-
?
home."
The
I
wilt
parrot
stories every night,
morning. If
Kho-
parrot, observing
she was thoughtful
" Because
disclose to
" be the time
why
The
I
want you
to
and
go
should happen that your
" husband arrives and meets you any where, follow
" the
ir
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63 " the example of the merchant's wife, and scold him." Khojisteh asked, " What, and
" merchant's wife
The
the story of the
is
me."
tell
?
how
parrot began, saying,
"'
In a certain city was
" a rich merchant, who had a handsome *'
'â&#x20AC;˘
on a time try,
this
merchant
wife.
Once
travelled to another
coun-
During
in order to. trade.
his
absence the
" wife frequented, strange companies, and sang and " danced.
After having been absent
" merchant arrived in
he could not enter 'â&#x20AC;˘'
lodging in
his
his
some other
" procuress, desired her '*'
man
to pass the night
" the procuress went "
A
rich
man, who
" a woman
is
arise,
;
own
city,
to
he took up
:
to trade
:
to bring a fine elegant
with him.
It
a
wo-
chanced that
to the merchant's wife,
and
said,
arrived from such a city, wants
and go
to
him.
The woman
fine clothes,
went
it
was
immediately she began crying out,
since this husband of I
his
place, and, having sent for
O neighbours, listen to my complaint! six years
" ing elapsed **
;
him, and, as soon as she saw him, knew
" her husband ''
time, the
when, being night,
own house
" adorned herself with jewels and
"
some
hav-
mine went abroad
have looked for his return every day
"and
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64 " and night " some
:
he has been returned from
days, and taken up his lodging in this place,
" without thinking of me.
Having been informed
" of
this to-night, I
" do
justice in this business,
*'
will
his journey
go
to the
" husband.
am come it
myself: is
well
if
;
you
otherwise
Cazy and separate myself from
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The
short, the
"
to
her
I
my
neighbours flocked together, and
" made peace between her and the merchant. "
will
woman, by
own terms with
the force of scolding,
In
came
her husband, without sulFer-
" ing any disgrace."
The
parrot,
having finished this
chant, said to Khojisteh, "
" way
to
your
lover,
arise,
of the mer-
and go your
and make no delay."
stood up to have done so ing appeared, her
Now
tale
visit
;
was
Khojisteh
the cock crowed, deferred.
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65
TALE THE NINTH.
The Shop-keepers
Amour
who, having an
IVife,
with a Person, confounded her
Father-in-law.
When
fixed stars,
"
my
and the planets appeared, Khojisteh, un-
came weeping
dressed,
to the parrot,
tress
"
lover,
"
it
"
visit
!
I
" Alas
have the most anxious desire to see
my
and depressed.
If
being extremely
although
I
who
sympathise in
afflicted
to you, quickly give
the possessor of it,
said,
dis-
seems adviseable
" with
and
my
confidential friend,
"
moon, the
the sun was gone down, and the
my heart, know
that
or else
me I
whoever
leave to
will is
bear
in love
" has not patience." The parrot answered, " To you, "
my
*'
and advice, thus acting with deliberation, no harm
mistress,
who come
to
me
every night for leave
"can
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66
" can happen.
Like the shop-keeper's wife, who,
" having acted
considerately, did not suffer
"
jury."
"
story of the shop-keeper's wife ?"
Khojisteh asked,
parrot began, saying, "
The
" keeper's wife was
sitting
" a young man saw " woman perceived " with her "
*
me
"
'
that
in
father,
my
her house
to
It
a strange
I
said.
man
said,
'
Come
After midnight ;
the
woman
io
tree.
the
also got
him, and slept with him
;
go out of the house:
he took the rings from off
legs, saying to himself. In the
The woman
to her
The house
" under the
fallen in love
his son's wife sleeping along
punish her.
will
and
The
very time having risen on account
" youth, and going
" and
to
business, wanted to
" the woman's " ing
terrace of the house,
happened that the shop-keeper's
" unexpectedly he saw
" with
day, as a shop-
youth had
court-yard.'
tree.
at the
" of some
One
the
is
and was enamoured.
that the
" out of bed and went " under the
and what
midnight, and seat yourself under a tree
after is
her,
on the
she called him,
;
" youth repaired
"
How
any in-
is
sent
morn-
away the
own husband, waked him,
very hot; come,
In short, the
woman
let
us sleep
slept
with
"her
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67 her husband, on that very spot where she and the
**
" young man had
^
band was
^
said.
Your
"
rings
from
**
*'*
old man,
father
came here
**
whom
I
me
them away
was angry with
" cumstance, how " a strange man.
"
consider as at the
**
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tree,
now, took the
!
my
my father, how
time
I
could
was sleeping with
rings
from
my ancles,
his father,
who
disclosed the cir-
he had seen her with
in the night
The son spoke
wife and
I
harshly to the
when, on account of
were sleeping under the
you came, and taking the rings from
legs, carried
That
In the morning the husband
father, saying, In the night,
" the heat,
just
my ancles, and carried them away.
he approach
carry
the hus-
she waked him again, and
fast asleep,
^ my husband, and, taking the **
When
slept together.
them away :
" waked me, and informed
at
my wife's
the very time
me
my wife
of the circumstance.
" Accordingly the father was greatly ashamed, and " the wife, by contriving such a
trick,
escaped un-
" punished.'*
The
68
The
parrot having finished this story of the shop-
keeper's wife, said to Khojisteh,
"
to
"
Now
him who has robbed you of your
then wanted to have gone,
her departure was put
off.
when
arise,
heart."
and go
She
the cock crowing,
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TALE THE TENTH.
The Merchant' s Daughter and
When the sun was
set,
and night
whose heart was inflamed
" your wisdom, and *'
" and
will not
grant
me
assistance,
"
parrot said,
my
"
shall
be unhappy
"
I tell
you
"
listen to
is
to
my
" be divulged,
" "
will avoid all
counsel,
you ?"
will
and
for
this
The
your lover If
but you delay, and
perchance your secret should
will teach
trouble
;
reason I
Every night
as long as I live.
to
tales. I
wait on you every
when
thus afflicted,
go
I
on your account, Khojisteh, that
It is
"
heart
to the par-
now give me good
you
;
went
have great confidence in
I
therefore
if
night
arrived, Khojisteh,
ivith lofue^
"
rot to ask leave, saying,
the Jackal.
you a
whereby you
trick
and disgrace
;
just as the
jackal taught the merchant's daughter a trick,
and
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Khojisteh asked,
the story of the merchant's daughter
jackal
The
tell it at full
?
parrot began,
and
rived zi
" In a
city
and the
was an ameer,
When
sufficiently stupid.
manhood
What
length."
had a son, an ugly person, and of a bad tion,
*'
who
disposi-
the son ar-
married him to a mer-
his father
chant's daughter, a handsome:
woman, and who was
a proficient in the art of music.
One
night, whilst
she was sitting on the roof of her house, a young
man was the
singing a song by the side of the wall
woman
hearing his voice,
fell in
love with
him;
she descended from the balcony, and approaching the
young man,
can you take sented, slept
the
said, I
have a stupid ugly husband,
me away with
you
and immediately they
under a
woman
tree,
fell
and ran away.
by the
asleep,
When
of a pond.
man
the
The youth con-
set off together,
side
the
?
stole
woman
and
When
her jewels
awoke, she
neither saw the jewels on her person, nor the youth beside her
;
she had no doubt but he had played
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" her a " of "
trick,
" bone
At
in his
" banks of
the sun
came out
was standing pensive by the side of
the east, she
the pond.
When
and was gone.
this
juncture arrived a jackal with a
mouth
;
when, seeing a
the pond, he let the bone
" mouth, and ran
after the fish
on the
fish
from his
fall
the fish got into
:
" the water, when the jackal looked again
" bone, *'
find
in order to have
it,
a dog having carried
" woman beheld "
said.
resumed
this sight,
What woman art
thou, and
?
" her
jackal said.
case.
The
" Feign yourself
but could not
away.
she laughed.
" ing here alone
She
it
it,
why
art
When
distracted,
the
The jackal thou stand-
whole of
told the jackal the
You had
for his
better
do
this
:
and go home, acting the
" the part of a mad-woman, laughing and singing,
" v/hen whoever sees you "
wom?n
"
artifice
acted accordingly,
nobody could
When
forgive you.
The
and by means of
this
will
find fault with her."
the parrot had finished this talc, he said to
Khojisteh
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Now
is
a good time:
" your sweet-heart: don't be in the "
if
any
difficulty
should present
" teach you a stratagem." gone
;
at
arise,
least
and go
to
anxious; for
itself to
you,
I will
Khojisteh wished to have
which time the cock crowed, and morning
appearing, her departure was deferred.
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TALE THE ELEVENTH.
The Lion and
Brahmin, who, on ac-
the
count of his Avarice, lost his Life,
AVHEN the went
jisteh
"
sensible
"
easiness,
sun was
to
" no
"
tales."
The
"
parrot said,
I
wish
!
You mine.
yourself
Go
make
the delay
quickly, to-night
;
it is
;
but you
return soon, and do not covet any thing that
there
as the is
am
and on that account do not dispatch me,
lover
" soever
"
I
my un-
you do not trouble yourself about
fault of
" must is
''
Rho-
God, Khojisteh, that you would go speedily to
to
" your
"
risen,
the parrot for leave, and said,
" but introduce "
and the moon
set,
;
is
for inordinate desire
avaricious, will
brahmin."
is
sinful,
and who-
meet with the same
Khojisteh said, " Tell
me
fate
what
that stoiy ?"
The
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" In a certain
parrot began,
" brahmin, who, happening
"
titute,
"
desert,
*'
lion
was a
rich
become poor and des-
to
One day he
went a journey. and saw a
city
arrived in
a
wallowing by the side of a
pond, with a fox and a deer standing before him.
" The brahmin was confounded, and stood dreading
" the consequence. " the brahmin
"
sees,
"
viseable that
"
lion
he
Suddenly the fox and deer espied they said to one another. If the lion
:
may
we
lion,
" brahmin ''
The
fall
The deer and
Your munificence is
life,
come
to-day,
lion looked at
is
and
slain
some time
so
is
in
renowned
;
him
arrived at
his
" days afterwards, the brahmin, " again
to this lion.
to
He
gift.
apsaw,
men who had
these he bestowed
" on the brahmin, and then gave him leave " The brahmin
that a
hopes of a
great kindness.
before
him
fox began blessing
" lying about, the gold and jewels of
" been
that the
but grant
the brahmin, told
" proach, and shewed him
ad-
it is
;
on some contrivance
not only spare his
" some donation. " the
poor helpless fellow
will kill this
own
to depart.
house.
Some
thirsting for gold,
went
That day a wolf and some dogs
" were attending on the
lion
;
when
these
saw the
" brahmin
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" brahmin, they
" sumptuous "
lion
"
in pieces."
said.
man
to appear before
is
exceedingly pre-
you uninvited.
was enraged, sprung up, and
The
If the
brahmin had not been
" he would not have falls
"
is still
"
return."
lost his life
into calamities.
;
The
brahmin
tore the
parrot having concluded the story,
Khojisteh, "
" ous,
This
said
to
avaricious>
whosoever
One watch of
is
covet-
the night
remaining, go quickly, meet your lover, and Khojisteh stood up with intention to go
at that instant the
cock crowed, and the dawn ap-
pearing, her departure was delayed.
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TALE THE TWELFTH.
The old Lion and
the Cat,
who having
kill-
ed the Mice, was turned out of office.
vv HEN jisteh
the sun was
went
to
Why
art
have no care of
I
" ncss has thrown
" you
and the moon arose, Kho-
the parrot for leave
thoughtful, asked, "
swered, "
set,
listen to
" band should
me
my
thou pensive ?"
my
:
I
am
after the death
jisteh asked,
"
Why
was
it
ful
"
killing mice, seeing that a
The
so
?
an-
j^our sad-
afraid lest
your hus-
and
that
like the cat,
of the mice, repented."
"
how
;
He
The whole night
arrive unexpectedly,
" should repent of not going "
own, but
into sorrow.
tales
and seeing him
;
It is
you who,
Rho-
very wonder-
the cat should have cause to repent of
mouse
is
a cat's morsel.'*
parrot began, saying, " In a desert dwelt a
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lion,
"
his
who was
very old and decrepit, so that from
age his teeth were decayed
" shreds of meat stuck " many mice
in
them
in that desert,
;
:
when
whenever he
ate,
and there being
went
the lion
to
"
sleep, the
mice picked the shreds of meat out of
"
his teeth,
whereby
"
lion consulted other animals,
"
tiers, in
" fox
" her
said.
to
what manner There
is
a cat,
who were
to drive
who
keep watch here
" proved of the
was disturbed.
his rest
all
fox's advice,
is
fice
"
tinel.
" The *'
When
The
cat
A
your subject; order
night.
The
lion
ap-
and sent for the cat to the
of-
performed the duty of cen-
the mice saw the cat, they decamped.
lion slept at his ease,
disturb his repose.
" ness
"
of cutwal.
his cour-
away the mice.
" and when she came, he appointed her
"
The
to the cat,
The
nothing happening
lion
to
shewed great kind-
and increased her rank.
The
cat
frightened the mice, but never killed any of them, **
thinking
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to herself, If
should destroy the mice,
I
" the Hon, having no further occasion
for
" deprive
she brought
me
of
my
" her
kitten to the lion,
" day
to a place
"
I
will
One day
office.
and
on business
go and bring
my
if
;
turn to-morrow to wait on you.
"
his assent.
" went herself "
all
to
cat,
having
all
The
destroyed.
''
her kitten, killed the
you speak
" forbid
me
" repented. cat,
toit,
and re-
lion granted
the kitten there, ^The kitten killed
next day the cat arrived
and saw the mice lying dead.
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permit
stead,
The
left
another place.
''
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my
will
to
will
the mice she saw, and in one day and night they
" were
''
you
kitten in
"
The
want
said, I
me,
What have you done mice
to
me
}
The
at the
to kill the
After
why have you
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kitten said.
Why
did not
time of your departure, and
mice
some days
and deprived her of the
The
She reprimanded
In
?
short they both
the lion dismissed the office
parrot, having concluded
of cutwal."
the
story of
the
mice.
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79 mice, the cat, and the lion, said to Khojisteh,
" appear *'
delay
" may
to
;
arrive,
instant the
very backward, for every night you
wherefore
jisteh arose,
ears,
me
"You
I
am
afraid lest
and you repent,
and wanted
to
your husband
like the cat."
go to her lover
;
Khoat that
sound of the morning cock reached her
and morning appearing, her departure was de-
ferred.
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TALE THE THIRTEENTH.
Of Shapoor, Commander of the
Frogs,
and
the Snake.
When the sun was
set,
and the moon had got up,
Khojisteh put on different kinds of jewels
ing to the parrot to ask leave, said, "
"
no advantage accrues
advice, but
" your counsel, and
The
"
"
parrot
great delay in this I will
cannot accomplish
answered, " Although affair,
O Khojisteh
;
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his folly
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it,
as
my
to
desire.'*
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who
been
lover.
attend to reflect
Who
the nature of his story
U
from
on
Shapoor was sorry
Khojisteh asked, "
is
me
to
and whosoever doth not
the event, will repent of
hearing
nevertheless be assured
they are called wise
!
am
there has
be the means of bringing you
" every business
"
I
com-
conceive you
are very negligent, for every night I
" your
*'
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and,
;
is
Sha-
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The " deep
parrot said, well, in
" In the land of Arabia was
which were
number of
a great
" one of whom, named Shapoor, was
a
frogs,
their chief.
" Shapoor exercised great tyranny and oppression,
" whereby the "
distress,
frogs being reduced
consulted together, saying,
" escaped with *'
poor
;
we ought
" ourselves ''
"
life
other from amongst
som
to rule over us.
We have barely
government of Sha-
under the to elect
utmost
the
to
Then they appointed
another frog chief, and banished Shapoor from that place.
Shapoor being without resource, went
" the hole of a snake, and spoke " snake put
" the
frog,
" a morsel
laughed heartily, and
The
tone.
said.
You,
me, why come you here
" away your
life ?
"
and
for advice,
low
head out of the hole, and on seeing
his
for
in a
to
He for
answered,
my own
" Speak what you have
I
to
am come
are
throw to
you
Says the snake,
good.
to say.
who
The
frog repre-
" sented to the snake the circumstances of his case,
" and
said, I
want your
" much pleased "
frog, said.
;
assistance.
The snake was
and shewing great
Shew me
the well, that
civility to I
the
may avenge " you
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In short, the snake and the
frogs.
and arrived
out together,
" which were the
at the well in
and got into the well.
frogs,
In
" the course of a few days the snake devoured " the frogs, and made an end of them. *'
he
''
maining
said to Shapoor, Is there not in the well
?
I
am
me
keep
from
One day
one frog more re-
at present
" speedily contrive some means for " and
all
very hungry
my
subsistence,
Shapoor replied
starving.
;
to
" the snake, Having shewn your kindness for me, by " revenging
"
own
me on
the
frogs,
The snake
habitation.
" you in solitude.
return
now
said, I will
to
your
not leave
Shapoor was sadly alarmed, and
" repented of having asked assistance from the snake. " In short, he said to the snake, Very near
"
is
"
if
"
tifice
**
this place
another well, where there are plenty of frogs
you command
it,
and stratagem.
to go.
By
" out of the
bring
own
ar-
leave
Shapoor, having escaped
ran and concealed himself in a
The snake remained some days
" expectation, after which he
sued his
them here by
The snake gave him
this device,
well,
" large pond.
I will
left
in
the well, and pur-
way."
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The
parrot having finished this tale, said to
" Go now,
jisteh,
have gone
made
;
at that
a noise,
parture
tarry not."
moment
Khojisteh wanted to the animals of
and day beginning
was deferred.
Kho-
to break,
morning her de-
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TALE THE FOURTEENTH.
A
Lion vjhom a Syagoash dispossessed of his Dwelling.
W^HEN
moon shone parrot,
and
said,
leave,
"
relate tales."
"
come
I
The
to
to
you from
my
" come
lover
there,
I
" the syagoash."
;
and
" No
injury
admonition, but you
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to-night to
any enemy of yours should
if
will set
for
of hearing you
parrot answered,
will speedily derive advantage:
" meet your
and the
you every night
for the purpose
and not
" can happen
into the west,
Khojisteh went weeping to the
bright,
"
"
was sunk
the sun
on foot a stratagem, as did
Khojisteh asked, "
What
is
the
story of the syagoash ?"
The **
parrot said, " In a desert dwelt a lion,
had a monkey
for his favourite.
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who
happened that
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went a journey
lion
some place
to
" the charge of the monkey. " of the
lion, a
it
" syagoash, This " presume
is
to take
" permission
" covered
it
was a good
the lion's residence,
that this place
" What news have you
" The female syagoash " viseable
"
to
" Aye,
mistress,
said to the
how can you
replied, I
paternal inheritance
said to the male. It ;
oppose a
for, to
the lion comes,
I will
told
The monkey went out him
" goash, and "
I
all
said, I remonstrated,
The
not ad-
lion,
is
to
replied,
him
drive
to
lion
was
meet the
lion,
the circumstances about the sya-
have discovered that
" trimouy.
silent.
In short, after
" some days, intelligence arrived that the
" and
is
The male
blood.
" away from hence by stratagem.
" coming.
his
have dis-
The monkey was
?
own
when
my
is
continue here
sport with one's
and chose
up your abode here without
The syagoash
?
spot,
The moHkey
habitation.
for his
During the absence
syagoash took possession of his dwell-
" ing-place, because
"
his dwelling to
he delivered over
to his departure,
previous
;
this
when he
place
lion said to the
is
answered,
part of
monkey.
It
my
pa-
cannot
" be
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be a syagoash,
"
my
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who
place is
It
?
said,
could such an animal usurp
should seem that
How
some beast
it is
The monkey an-
stronger than myself.
" swered, He "
how
The
not stronger than you.
is
you
talk
many
there are
!
lion
who
animals
" exceed
me
"
for his
own home, and
"
fore the lion's arrival, the syagoash thus instructed
"
his female
"
ing,
" ask,
in strength.
Why
lion, terrified, set
the lion
comes near the dwellcry
and
;
if I
do the cubs cry ?
you must
lion's tlesli to-day,
and
last night.
should
say.
They
will not eat that
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In short, the lion approached the
" dwelling, and the young ones began to cry.
" syagoash asked. ''
Why
do the cubs cry
is
!
" not
yesterday
eat stale
" The syagoash
meat
;
?
The dam
?
there nothing remaining of
that quantity of lion's and
" given them
The
The syagoash
answered, Because they are hungry.
" proceeded, What "
out
Be-
arrived near the spot.
make your young ones
" want fresh
" of
when
:
The
human
flesh
The female
they want
said.
some
said to the whelps.
which was
They
that
is
will
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easy,
and have a
patience, I have heard that
little
our lion will be here to-day; and is
true, then, please
fresh
meat
God, you
The
to devour.
intelligence
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lion
have plenty of
was alarmed
at
hearing those words of the syagoash, not knowing
He
him
to
spot,
and asked the monkey. Did
be a syagoash.
some mighty animal
monkey
said.
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in
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then fled from the I
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you
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afraid, for this
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The
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animal
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The
deceive.
lion
once more approached his
home, and the female syagoash
The syagoash
cubs cry.
Do you
quiet the
again
made her
called out to the female.
young ones
;
because the monkey,
to-day
who
I
shall find
my
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lion's flesh,
"
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make
he
will
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he immediately seized the monkey, and having torn
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took to
flight,
and never returned
to
that place again."
The
parrot, having
concluded the
tale
of the sya-
goash, said to Khojisteh, "Arise and go to your lover."
Khojisteh wanted to have gone; at die very time the
morning
birds
made
a noise, and the day appearing,
her departure was put
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TALE THE FIFTEENTH. Zereer the WeaveVf
whom
Fortune would
not befriend.
When the first
sun was
set,
and night came,
atter the
watch, Khojisteh, having put on fine clothes,
came
to the parrot,
and
said,
"
my
Alas,
friend
" have been a Inng time giving your consent
" have heard many of your speeches but your ;
"
ship has not benefited
"
rot
answered. Ay,
" with "
me
desires
" but
like that
you
and
I
friend-
any degree. The par-
my mistress why
art
!
constantly endeavour is
to
thou angry raise
your
not propitious,
of Zereer, which would not befriend
Khojisteh asked, "
What
is
the story of
Zereer ?"
The
parrot
" named
began
Zereer,
"
stuffs,
"
laxation
**
in
however, your fortune
:
" him."
"
I
r
me
;
!
:
" In a certain
who was
city
was a
continually weaving silken
without allowing himself a moment's ;
nevertheless,
man
he gained nothing.
had a friend who wove coarse
cloths.
re-
Zereer
One day
"he
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" of gold and
" of the
rich.
"
I,
"
it
that
who weave
his wife. In this city,
"
my
"
sion.
"
skill will
abilities,
" His wife
" pen
" a "
must go
some other
to
be valued,
Whatever
is
livelihood
beyond what
Zereer did not
" and having
you fate
listen
;
has allotted you.
;
When
some
he had
in his purse,
he
set
and, alighting at a place,
kept awake
"
thief pulled out his purse of gold, it.
In
but went a journey,
his occupation.
own house till
my
will never acquire
"
" with
where
your destiny will hap-
" hoarded a large sum of money for his
profes-
arrived at another city, dwelt there
" time, and followed
" out
city,
my
and myself more regarded.
in this place:
short,
acquired so much
nor makes any account of
said.
and from
?
nobody knows the value of
you
to
bread
Zereer returned home, he said to
"
I
my
salt to
How comes
the rich, and dresses
this inferior workman
When
?
stuffs for
have not
" whence has
full
such as are in the dwellings
effects,
Zereer said to himself,
for princes,
" wealth
whose house he saw
to his friend,
midnight, when,
Zereer awoke, ran after the
falling asleep, a
and ran away thief,
but could
" not
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and there
Helpless,
he returned
to that city,
followed his business again for some
" years longer
;
and when he had acquired
" sum of money, once more took the road " house.
At night he lodged
" withstanding
"
his
"
self. It is
" the
all his
not
my
own
to his
when, not-
at a place,
precautions, a thief carried off
Reduced
money.
a farther
to poverty,
he
said to
him-
fortune to be rich, and therefore
thief has taken
away
my
Then he
property.
" returned home empty-handed, and acquainted his " wife with what had befallen him. "
I
not
tell
you, at
first,
" acquire beyond what
" of "
my
that is
Did
said.
you could not any-where
your destiny
words, you went a journey
benefit have
She
you experienced
}
;
?
Regardless
say
now what
Zereer was ashamed
" of himself."
The
parrot, having concluded the story of Zereer,
said to Khojisteh,
" not delay to
to
have gone
" Arise and go
be lawful."
thidier, the
When
to
your
lover,
hold
Khojisteh intended
cock flapped his wings, and
morning appearing, her departure was
deferred.
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TALE THE SIXTEENTH.
Four rich Persons who became poor.
When
the sun descended into the caverns of the
west, and the
moon came
out of the east, Khojisteh,
with aching breast and weeping eyes, went to the par-
and
rot,
said,
"
Alas,
" love overwhelm *'
"
lose
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I
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me
in love, of
every night you
what use
"
to
;
make me
My
is
admonition
mistress
.'
to
what a speech
son did."
to
will repent
it,
:
?"
me
and they who refuse to hearken
" the voice of friends,
The
the sorrows of
However, the words of friends ought
" attended
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!
time by your admonitions and discourse
parrot replied,
this
you green coat
is
be to
as a certain per-
Khojisteh desired to hear the story.
parrot said, "
Once on a
time, in the city of
" Balkh, there were four persons,
Z
men
of property,
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" who united together *'
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they
in friendship.
became poor
all
philosopher, and told
The
distress.
and
:
him
on
dig,
" come out of
the ground, take
" from one of *'
their
"
fer this
"
desire
"
his offer, but
is
it.
from your
your destiny will
The
four friends,
heads
He
;
he dug on the
said to his three friends, I pre-
continue here.
it,
his
" discovered
satisfied.
"
ball fell
farther, the
if you
did not accept of
When
they
second man's ball
fell
head, on which spot a silver-mine was :
he
here, this silver
"
They
proceeded on their way.
little
fell
and
spot,
copper in hand to gold in expectancy:
" had gone a
"
and v/hatever
to set
they had gone five cose, the ball
found copper.
" from
balls fall
and
to the philosopher's directions, set out to-
when
:
which he ordered
their respective heads,
" heads, there
" gether
four repaired to a
ball,
Wherever the
said,
" according
that
philosopher had compassion on them,
to place
" out; and
happened
the circumstances of their
" and gave each a miraculous
" them
all
It
When
from
" a gold-mine
said. is
you are
your property
:
willing,
remain
they were not
they had gone on, another man's
his head, :
If
he
and he digging there, found
said
to the fourth person,
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preferable to gold,
fix
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be a nnine of precious stones
will
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He
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He went on
a cose,
why
:
when
should I
his ball fell
from his head, and on digging the ground, he saw
" an iron-mine. Repentant, he " the gold-mine, and
Why
said.
reject the advice of
did
my
I
quit
friend
?
" In short he returned from thence, but neither found
" "'
his friend self.
" He
No
person can find beyond what
all
" was not
parrot,
Khojisteh,
" of "
in quest
to be found.
he bewailed
The
search,
his
" Helpless, he went
ty,
said to is
him-
his destiny.
set out again towards the iron-mine, but, not-
" withstanding
"'
He
nor the gold-mine.
of the philosopher,
Reduced
to
it.
who
extreme pover-
his folly."
having finished
" Whosoever
and go to your
this discourse, said to
will not listen to the advice
friends, will suffer like this
arise,
could not regain
unhappy man.
lover, for this
is
Now
a lucky hour."
Khojisteh wanted to have gone immediately; but the
morning cock crowed, and day appearing, her departure
was delayed.
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TALE THE SEVENTEENTH.
How
the Jackal
was made King, and then killed.
AVHEN moon
the sun descended into the west, and the
"
plied,
is
lover
is
family,
in
desirable
parrot re-
know not whether
also of noble descent.
If his family
forming a friendship with him, nay ;
but
otherwise
Khojisteh answered, " Alas!
" you
say true
;
how can
The, parrot answered, "
" discovered by
" heard the to
I
The
found to be great, like yours, there can be no
" harm "
are you thoughtful ?"
" You are of a great
" your "
Why
to the parrot
Seeing the parrot sitting pensive, she
to ask leave. said,
went
rose in the east, Rhojisteh
hear
it
is
should be avoided."
guardian of I
it
my
secret,
learn his character ?"
A man's
virtues
his conversation
story of the jackal ?"
;
and vices are
but have you not Khojisteh desired
it.
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The " going
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parrot said,
"
A jackal
where he
to a city,
to
jar of indigo,
difficulty in
"
his
"
to the desert, all the beasts,
"
ful figure,
whole body was dyed
fell
" and obeyed
When
again
he went
seeing such a wonder-
corps of jackals his
made him
commands.
The
nobody might discover him by
levee, the
jackals formed the
their leader,
jackal, in order his voice,
" other weak animals stand near him.
" the
in bodily,
getting out
blue.
a
conceived him to be some mighty ani-
The
that
night,
thrust his head into
happened that he
it
" and found great
" mal
One
into
custom, he went to the house of an
" indigo-maker, and having
"
muzzle
thrust his
vessels belonging to different people.
" according
"
had made a practice of
made
Thus, during first
rank,
the
" foxes the second, the deer and the monkeys the " third wolves made up the fourth rank, lions the
;
"
fifth,
and elephants the sixth rank.
" jackals barked, the leader
also
made
" with them, and no one found him '*
some
days, this leader
2
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the
a noise along
out.
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after
becoming ashamed of the
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jackals,
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removed them
lions
and
to a distance,
and elephants near himself:
at
" night the jackals began to howl, when the leader
" joined
in their noise.
The
beasts
" him, discovered who he was " of themselves, and
falling
:
who
stood near
they were ashamed
on the
leader, ripped
up
" his belly."
The jisteh,
parrot, having finished the story, said to
"
My
mistress, the vices
and virtues of every
" individual may be discovered by "
Go now
to
Kho-
his conversation.
your lover, and talk with him, in order
" to learn his character."
Khojisteh wanted to go;
immediately the cock crowed, and morning appearing,
her
visit
was deferred.
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TALE THE EIGHTEENTH.
Of the Intimacy of Besheer with a Woman named Chunder.
W^HEN
the sun sunk into the west, and the
appeared in the
came
to the parrot,
" night
The
east, Khojisteh,
and
and not
to ask leave,
*'
parrot answered,
"
jisteh, for
"
friend
" and asked,
;
at
now
Arab
is
who
parrot began
:
" In a
who had formed
became
to
you every
hear admonition."
yourself easy,
first
Kho-
you with your
suffered distress,
Khojisteh
the nature of this story ?"
" man named Chunder. cret
to
come
length obtained satisfaction."
" Besheer,
"
Make
I
will quickly unite
just as the
" What
The
I
with an aching heart,
"
said,
moon
public.
city
was a youth
called
an intimacy with a wo-
After
some
days, their se-
Chunder's husband removed *'
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her to another place;
"
their separation
"
to
" "
I
day and night.
whom
an Arab, with
want
to visit
and Besheer was bewailing
Chunder, but come you along with
:
"
set
out together.
"
der's dwelling, they alighted
When
" sent the Arab, who went his friend's
" night
I
" went
to the spot,
" the
In short, they both
the Arab consented.
will
waist,
" asked
said
he had been long intimate,
me
" sented
One day he
they arrived near Chun-
under a
and pre-
to her house,
Chunder
compliments.
be under that
tree.
when Besheer
Besheer
tree;
said,
At
At night Chunder clasped her round
Besheer
and the lovers were united.
she would continue there the whole night?
if
" She answered,
No, unless the Arab undertook a
" commission,
which case she would be able
"
The Arab asked what he was
stay.
" der
in
said.
" down
" with
Put on
my
gown, enter
in the court-yard
:
my
house, and
you
" away
;
the milk
afterwards drink
" and got into her house.
sit
to drink, don't
" take the bowl, neither uncover your will place
Chun-
:
when my husband comes
a bowl of milk, and gives
" which he
do
to
io
it.
face
;
upon
near you and go
The Arab
When
" baiid came with the bowl of milk,
consented,
Chunder's husall
he said could
"not
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" not
prevail
"
mouth, or even
his
on the Arab either
" The husband " him,
to take the
saying, Notwithstanding
" indulgence, you
" answer
to
will not
my words.
bowl from his hand.
and began scourging
into a rage,
fell
or to open
to drink,
I
shew you so much
open your
lips,
nor give any
In short, he flogged the x\rab
" so unmercifully that his skin was black and blue. *'
When
Chunder's husband
" wept and laughed. ''
der's
mother, and
" ing you
why
;
" husband ?
"
If
At that juncture came Chun-
am
said, I
will
" who,
?
continually admonish-
you not make a
you pine
said to
Chunder's
Chunder's
at the sight
your husband
The mother went
of her
Go and
sister.
will not
sister
your
friend of
after Besheer,
" her, and ask her why she " husband
the Arab, he both
your face again.
will not see
" away, and
left
sit
with
agree with her
approached the Arab,
face, forgot
what he had
" suffered from the flogging, and putting his head out " of the sheet,
" to-night
to
said,
Ah madam your
Besheer, and sent
" see what a flogging " come ^'
now and
to preserve
" and myself
!
my
I
me
to
sister is fill
gone
her place;
have undergone for her sake :
pass the night with secret, or
in order
otherwise both your sister
will suffer disgrace.
2
me,
B
Chunder's
sister
" laughed
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" laughed; and then
" "
it
slept
with the Arab.
was near morning, the Arab repaired
der,
" He
who told
asked him
her
all
how he had
to
When Chun-
passed the night ?
the circumstances about the hus-
" band, and shewed her his back. Chunderwas greatly
" ashamed of herself; but knew not how pleasantly
" he had passed
The jisteh,
wanted
parrot,
"
the night with her sister."
having finished the story, said to Kho-
Now arise
to
and go
have gone
;
to
your sweet-heart." She
but the cock crowed, and the
morning appearing, her departure was deferred.
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TALE THE NINETEENTH.
The Merchant, and how a Persons Mare was
\t HEN the
''
" **
and
on
fine
and, going to the parrot, said, "
my
lover,
AUhough
still I
on your judgment
me
be expeditious to-night
permission."
" mistress, they " deliberation;
" and
:
who
that
are wise do nothing
if
never act rashly.
is
I
any one should choose
no misfortune
will
rely
in giv-
"My
without
am
well
to act ini-
be your manage-
will befall
the merchant wisely contrived
What
I
parrot answered,
" mically towards you, such " ment
am
you possess a good understanding,
therefore will
" assured, that
The
I
do not think
adviseable without your consent, because
" ing
''
in the west,
risen in the east, Khojisteh put
able of myself to go to it
down
the sun had gone
moon was
attire,
killed.
."
you: just as
Khojisteh asked,
the nature of his story ?"
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The *'
parrot
began
:
" In time of yore, there was a
who had a
wise merchant
One
vicious horse.
day,
" during the time the merchant was eating a meal, " a person arrived on
" wanted
" horse *'
"
him, Don't
said to
The man
!
self
down
sit
What
down
"
at
my
deaf,
table uninvited
*'
'*'
"
?
;
The man
man was
I
will
The
deaf or dumb,
to dispute
Your horse has
make you
he went and lodged
who
feigned
pay
me
" mons, but pretended all
the
mare
so
killed
with the mer-
my mare,
her value.
cer-
In short,
his complaint before the Cazy,
cited the merchant, and
" any answer to
A moment
was ripped open, and she
The owner began
tainly
him-
and did not give any answer.
violently that her belly
chant, saying,
mare
art thou, thus to
the merchant's horse kicked
after,
sat
my
who, there-
and being helpless said nothing further.
" died. *'
merchant
kind of person
" merchant imagined the
*'
her near
tie
did not mind, but tied his
to eat with the
said,
" himself
*'
the merchant's horse.
close to the merchant's horse, and then
" upon
"
mare near
to tie his
" The merchant
a mare, and, having alighted,
to
he obeyed the sum-
be dumb, and did not give
the Cazy's interrogatories.
The
" Cazy
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Cazy observed, the merchant
'
in the
least
to
'
Judge,
How
do you know he
*
time
wanted
'
said to
'
The Cazy remarked,
'
accident,
what then
*
you are a
bastard,
'
your
The " go
to
I
my mare
to tie
me. Don't
Now he
tie!
own tongue
parrot,
The
blame.
plaintiff
dumb
is
asked the ?
the
at
near his horse
he
feigns himself dumb.
his fault ?
Go from hence
and a blockhead ; you have made convict you."
having finished the story, said, "
your lover."
She wanted
to
was put
off.
2
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Now
have gone
the very time the cock crowed, and the ing, her visit
not
is
he warned you against the
if
is
dumb, and
is
dawn
;
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appear-
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TALE THE TWJINTIETH.
The PToman who hy a Stratagem escaped out of the Lions Clutches,
When the sun sunk moon
down
in the west,
and the
got up in the east, Khojisteh went to the par-
rot to ask leave,
and
said,
" Ah, thou preserver of
my
"
secret! take pity
"
sion
"
hastily."
"
repeatedly put you to the proof, but have always
and whatever you may have to
;
The
parrot replied,
" found you wise
"
ever,
" you, "
if,
;
"
you need not
my
peradventure, any accident
who, by
suffer
" kind of
is
permjs-
say, deliver
advice
:
I
it
have
how-
should befall
woman
in the
practising artifice with a lion, did
any injury."
story
me
My mistress,
play off a stratagem, like the
desert,
" not
on me, quickly give
Khojisteh asked,
" What
that?"
Tlie parrot began, saying, " In a certain city lived
"a
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" a man who had a very "
One
scold.
day, having chastised her for
" she, with two "
"
It
ill-natured wife, a great
happened
infants,
that the
fault,
took the road to the desert.
woman saw
said to herself,
terrified,
some
a lion
;
and, being
have acted very
I
ill
" coming abroad without having the consent of " husband "
:
if
return
I will
no calamity
this lion,
home and be obedient to him.
In short,
" Come near and
befalls
plan,
my
listen to
astonished, and said, Speak
" The woman
" the
terror of every
my children
" from
The
words.
lion
what have you
man and
is
beast
was
to say ?
a mighty lion, the king sends
;
for his daily subsistence
to-day
:
this desert;
"
^\ ell,
"
stances
I
also,
now you have :
it
being alone and unencum-
told
me
all
The
lion replied,
your
own circum-
would answer no purpose
either
" no place of
:
and devour them, and then escape
" bered, may then run away.
" vour
said to the lion,
has fallen on myself and these two infants
lot
" take
!
and
said. In this desert
" three or four men " the
my
from
" the woman formed her
"
me
in
you or your children retreat.
;
for
me
because
In short, the lion
went
to deI
have
to
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107 " ther part of the desert
;
" road
and, during the remainder
to
" of her
The jisteh,
"
life,
own
city,
was obedient
to
woman
took the
her husband.'*
parrot, having finished the story, said to Ktio-
"
lover."
go.
her
and the
Arise,
my
mistress,
delay not,
Khojisteh got up, and
go
made an
to
your
effort to
At the instant the cock crowed, and morning
appearing, her departure was deferred.
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TALE THE TWENTY-FIRST.
Of a King and
and of a Frog
his Sons,
and a Snake.
VV HEN
the sun sunk into the west, and the
appeared in the
east,
ask leave, and said, *'
Khojisteh went to the parrot, to
"O
parrot!
my
arrive that I shall join
" but have not resolution " of fortune mine " mistress!
" *'
I will
The
is."
my heart at
:
when
beloved I
know
?
will that time I
not what kind
parrot said,
this instant
wisn to go,
"
to
your
" which friendship
lover,
perform
Alas,
my
bears witness, that
quickly unite you with your friend
you get
moon
all
;
but
if
the conditions
requires, neglecting not an item
"
just as Khaliss and Mukhle>>s served the king's son,
"
in exact
conformity to the duties of friendship."
Khojisteh asked, "
What
is
the nature of this story?"
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The
parrot began, saying,
" Once on a time, there
" was a mighty monarch, who had two sons " when he departed from " assumed "
his
younger brother
"
;
frog,
who was
One
" snake remained.
The
where a snake
The
crying out.
prince
who, thereupon quitted
jumped
the frog
:
who, having no resource,
to the side of a pond,
called out to the snake,
" hold
to kill
and kingdom, unattended.
city
" day he came " had seized a
the eldest son
crown and throne, and wanted
his
" quitted the
this world,
and
;
his
and the
into the water,
prince was ashamed, in that
" he had taken the food out of the snake's mouth. " In short, he cut a piece of flesh from his
" and flung
" with the tasting
" bring
it
to the snake,
flesh
it,
this
his
in
who went
said to the male.
savoury meat
?
The snake
The female
" shew your gratitude
to the
The
said.
person
who
body,
female
female, on
From whence
" the circumstances.
" kindness.
to his
The
mouth.
own
did
told
you
her
You ought
all
to
you such
did
snake, having transformed himself
" into the shape of a man, waited on the prince, and
"
said.
My name
is
Khaliss (or sincere):
I
want
to
" engage
11
:
no " engage
in
your
service.
The
When
prince assented.
" the frog leaped from the jaws of the snake, stained " with blood, he went
to his
" the circumstances.
The female
" now, and be ready
" The
frog, also,
" came "
less
(or candid); I
''
and
to a city,
" alone
am
I
if
"
will enter into
" you
will
shall
My name
to serve
men
.said,
me
you, like the rest
The
him
also in
departed from thence,
I
am
whom
to
so valiant, that
men
daily,
I
your service; and whatever business
The king
to
perform,
I
prince
will always
took him. into his service,
and ordered him one thousand rupees
" ance.
Mukh-
is
one thousand rupees
command me
" accomplish. '*
pay
Go
form,
able to fight against an hundred
"
you
said.
human
wherein was a king;
" the prince went, and
him.
all
service to that person.
prince entertained
These three
his service.
and came
wish
The
slaves.
do a
said to
having assumed the
to the prince,
" of your
"
to
female and told her
received
daily allow-
one thousand
" every day, one hundred of which
sufficed
iiipees
for his
" own expences, two hundred he divided between his ''
"
companions, and the remainder he bestowed in charity.
One day
" fishing:
it
the king
happened
went
to
enjoy the sport of
that the king's ring fell into
" the
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and, notwithstanding
was made
after
it,
my
has
commanded you
this
is
perform
to
easy,
companions,
his
kind of business
Make your mind
He
ring out of the river.
The prince conversed with
What
the search that
could not be recovered.
said to the prince, Fetch
asked,
all
which the king Mukhless
?
who
said.
will execute this business.
I
Mukhless, accordingly, having assumed the form of a frog,
plunged into the
brought out the ring. ring to his majesty,
ter
being
bit
The
who
Some
towards him.
river,
days
by a snake,
prince presented the
increased his
the remedies applied
all
effect.
The king
the prince to cure his daughter.
prince was pensive,
not
my
me
to the lady,
I
kindness
the king's daugh-
after,
by the physicians produced no
commanded
and instantly
business.
and said
to
himself,
Khaliss (or candid) said.
and place her
He
will cure her.
The
This
is
Convey
in a retired situation
did so.
Khaliss applied his
own mouth to the wound which the snake had made, and sucked out
all
the poison
instantly obtained relief. lighted,
and bestowed
his
;
when
the princess
The king was
highly de-
daughter in marriage on *'
the
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whom
the prince,
he made
and Mukhless both depart.
The
I i(
am
!
now want What
Khaliss said,
you gave your own the very frog
mouth of
We
prince observed.
for taking leave
whom
said.
his lieutenant.
whom
the snake
:
our own habitations.
flesh
;
leave to
a time
am
I
Khaliss
is
this
that snake to
Mukhless
said,
you delivered from the
we now wish The
to return to
prince took leave of
them both."
The jisteh,
parrot,
having finished the
" Go now, delay
der to have gone
;
not."
tale, said to
Kho-
Khojlsteh arose in or-
immediately the cock crowed, and
her departure was deferred.
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113
TALE THE TWENTY- SECOND.
Merchant whose Daughter was
TJie
VY HEN
the sun went into the west, and the
appeared in the
east,
my
mistress
!
why
art
The parrot asked, " Alas,
thou thoughtful to-night
Khojisteh said, " Last night these reflections
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
moon
Khojisteh repaired to the parrot,
and sat down, contemplative.
"
lost.
"
into
my mind
"
pie,
learned or ignorant.
whether
" will resemble death."
my If
The
lover
he
is
is
?'*
came
wise or sim-
silly,
his society
parrot said, "
My mis-
"
tress,
go
this
time to the house of your lover, and
"
relate to
him
the story of the merchant's daughter,
in
order to try his understanding.
If
he gives you
" a proper answer, you may esteem him wise." Khojisteh asked,
" What
is
the nature of the story ?"
The
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The
parrot
began
" merchant, who had " Zerah (or Venus).
" who
is
;
a beautiful daughter,
girl did
but said to her father,
city
"
ter requires a
"
assert that character.
and
said to the
man
of
" whenever any thing
merchant. If your daugheither of us three can
skill,
One
is lost, I
said.
My
said, I
can
make such
third person said,
and
The
the throne
am
an archer,
at
I
which
" arrow. The merchant communicated ter the several pretensions
tell
I
point
to his
my
daugh-
of ^hese three youths.
said, I will deliberate
mind, and
;
floats in the air, like
" and can pierce any object
" The daughter
this
a horse of wood, chat
" of Solomon. The
my own
is
foreknowledge of future events.
it,
"
art is
know where it
" whosoever mounts
"
countries.
These three young men went
art.
to Cabul,
also a
all
This
dwelt three youths, each of whom pos-
"
" second
marry one
I will
either completely wise, or very skilful.
" sessed a valuable
" have
city,
not approve of anyone
" declaration was rumoured throughout
" In one
named
Wealthy persons, of every
" courted her: but the
" of them
" In Cabul was an opulent
:
the matter in
you to-morrow which of '*'
them
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" them
I shall
At night the daughter disap-
prefer.
" peared from the house. In the morning " was
ineffectual
it
;
could not be discovered whither
" she was gone.
The merchant went
" man who knew
all
" thing "
is ?
" A
and
lost,
said.
Inform
to
"
that
" and,
horse, and give
he may mount after
man
it
it
girl.
summit
saying.
to the
Make you
young archer,
and ascend the mountain,
having killed the
" bring back the
replied,
men. The merchant
" then addressed the second youth,
wooden
young
me where my daughter
carried your daughter to the
" of a mountain, inaccessible
a
to the
circumstances relative to any
After an hour's consideration, the
fairy has
search
all
with his arrow,
fairy
He made
a
wooden
" young archer mounted, ascended " and having transfixed the " brought away the young
fairy
virgin.
horse, the
the mountain,
with his
shaft,
Each of the three
" claimed her as his right, and disputation com-
" menced."
When
the parrot had brought Khojisteh to this
part of the story,
"
lover,
he
and ask him
said,
to
" Carry
this
tale to
your
which of the three youths the
" young
jil
^^
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wy- wi^
ii6
*
young woman ought
*
returns
'
gard to his understanding."
'
must beg you
'
justly
have been given.
you a proper answer, be
will first tell
belonged ?"
who
The
*
person
'
merchant's daughter
*
to
exhibited their
skill
;
me
to
whom
and brought back the
because the others merely whilst this repaired
to
'
culties, regardless
jisteh,
I
" To the
place of danger, and exposed himself to great
parrot,
"
the girl
'
The
he re-
in
Khojisteh said,
parrot answered,
killed the fairy, :
satisfied
If
of his
own
the
difl[i-
life."
having finished the story, said to Kho-
" Be expeditious, and go
to your lover."
She
got up, and wanted to have gone: the cock crowed,
morning appeared, and her
visit
2F
was deferred.
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.
117
TALE THE TWENTY-THIRD.
Of a Brahmin falling
in
of Babylon
When the
east,
and
Daughter.
''
"
friend
if
;
in giving to the
"
said,
you think
me
thou wise bird
end that
I
give
it
I
The
It is
parrot
you leave; but
I
it
incumbent on you
" such
a
to
my
manner
counsel, that
of a
or else speak plainly,
answered,
choice
" Every
know
not what kind
will
never befriend
to
go quickly to-day,
" and have an interview with your lover " give ear
whose
acts the part
may be patient, and make
" of luck attends you, that
" you.
!
adviseable, delay not to-day
permission:
" of retirement." " night
moon
Khojisteh went to the parrot
" counsels are prudent, and who
"
King
the
sun sunk into the west, and the
appeared in the to ask leave,
s
Love with
:
however,
you may
that
act
no misfortune may
in
befall
" you, but advantage or prosperity
;
" min, who having
with the daughter
fallen in love
like as the
brah-
"of
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of the king of Babylon, got possession not only
money and
*
of his beloved, but also of
*
without suffering any misfortune." Khojisteh asked,
What The
is
the nature of his story ?"
parrot began
" Once on a time, a brahmin,
:
'
who was
'
thought proper
'
went
'
brahmin was walldng
handsome and
both
to
to the city
spot, to take
a garden,
came
and
airing,
to
The brahmin and
flowers.
When
an
and native
One day
of Babylon. in
having
discreet,
quit his city
of the king of Babylon
tually
property,
soil,
as
this
the daughter
also to
same
the
view the display of
the virgin were
enamoured of each other
mu-
at the first glance.
she returned home, she became distracted;
and the brahmin, on returning to his habitation, fell sick.
gician,
In short, the brahmin went to
and entered into
his sen^ice.
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After
time the magician was quite confounded requite his great attention
One day he that
you
declare
desire,
what
discovered
said
it
his
is
to him.
and
Ask
faithful
me
and
I
that
you want.
situation
will
to
give
the
a
masome
how
to
services.
for
any thing
it;
shew and
The brahmin magician,
"
who said.
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"
said,
"
gold mine
you would
thought
I
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what mighty business
" man and woman
together
" mediately formed " the brahmin,
"
and
;
If a
sees
him
man
bring
to
it
a
and giving
to
it
puts this ball in his
will
a female uses
if
she appears a
ner,
man
is
for
The magician im-
?
a magic ball,
said,
" mouth, whoever " man
asked
have
it
suppose him a wo-
same man^
in the
Next
to all beholders.
" day the magician himself personated the brahmin *^
and the brahmin, putting the
" being transformed
" went
to the
a
into
ball
" brahmin, and have a
son,
the
and
king of Babylon,
who
:
" a few
if
you
having
I
will
go
in search
" king granted the brahmin's " **
"
over, gave
sent the artifice,
" the " *'
in
him something
woman
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to his
the magician
to the
The
woman,
a
suddenly this
is
his
for
own
his
and,
more-
expences,
and
By
this
daughter.
introduced the brahmin to
princess alias
The
of him.
request,
king's daughter, and himself got
hand.
am
I
admit her into your palace for
will
days, then
magician
said,
" become insane has wandered abroad " wife
mouth,
in his
woman,
;
good money
shewed great tenderness
the brahmin.
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Why
day the brahmin said to the princess.
your complexion fade every day
manner, becoming
in this
more and more
pale, 'Whilst
conceal her secret from the brahmin
in love to
with somebody
make me your
tainly apply a
He
her case.
it
;
but he press-
will
be much better
when
to the disease.
brahmin
said. If
all
to
perceive you are
I
confidante,
remedy
cess related to the
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your strength
woman wanted
seems exhausted ? The young
ing her on the subject, said,
does
I
will
cer-
The
prin-
the particulars of
now you were
to see that
brahmin, do you think you could recollect him
She
replied.
Yes,
I
?
him
should certainly 'know
Immediately the brahmin took the ball
again.
out of his mouth, and she
knew him, and they
embraced each
some days the young
lady advised
thus with the brahmin,
adviseable that
abode
in
low the
After
other.
we
It
is
most
depart hence, and take up our
some other country, where we may dictates of
our inclinations.
fol-
Then, hav-
ing agreed together on this point, the king of Babylon's daughter stole out of her father's treasury
a great quantity of gold and jewels, sufficient to 2
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" support them
"
;
accompanied by the brahmin, she
night,
" house. *'
as long as they should live
"
their
"
restraints
abode
" ment of
in another territory,
beyond
and fixed
where, free of
all
from others, they entered on the enjoy-
their
" pleasure and " nished
the
left
In one day and night they got
the limits of her father's dominions,
and, at
at this
amorous
inclinations with boundless
The king was
delight.
event
;
greatly asto-
but, notwithstanding his
most
"
diligent enquiries, could not find out his
"
ter,
because she had escaped beyond the bounda-
"
ries
of his territories."
The jisteh,
wanted
daugh-
parrot, having finished the tale, said to
" to
Now
and go to your lover."
arise,
have done
crowed, and, dawn
so,
when
instantly
Rho-
She
the cock
appearing, her departure was
deferred.
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TALE THE TWENTY-FOURTH.
How
the in
W^HEN moon
Son of the King of Babylon fell love with a young woman.
the iun descended in the west,
arose in the east, Khojisteh went to the par-
rot to ask leave,
"
my
lover, I
and
wish
" Whenever
said,
first to
" standing.
If I discover
**
my
strengthen
will exercise patience
"
in friendship three things
friendship
first,
;
with
" intimacy or associating
" the company of plied,
"
My
make him
mistress,
him
ought not
women
;
have to
I
will I
said, that
be trusted
:
secondly, having ;
and
The
thirdly,
parrot
whatever you say tell
to
otherwise
f
v/ith children
re-
proper:
is
a tale to your lover, aiid
" require of him an answer properly,
be wise,
for the sages
'blockheads."
" to-night you must
"
to
may go
I
of his under-
trial
friendship with
"
"
and the
;
which
you may account him wise
if
;
he gives but
"
if
he
returns
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returns an improper answer, rest assured
"
ficient in
"
tale is
it
parrot began
The
Rhojisteh asked,
understanding."
on which
I
:
am
to question
'"
is
de-
What
him ?"
" Once on a time, the son of
" the king of Babylon, happening *'
he
temple, there beheld a young
to enter an
woman,
idol
the bright-
" ness of whose countenance resembled the moon,
"
as did her jetty locks the darkest night.;
"
ture
was
" graceful
as erect as the as the pheasant
:
her sta-
cypress,
and her walk
he was
instantly smit-
"
ten with her
"
feet of the principal idol in the temple, in a plain-
"
tive
and feeble tone thus expressed himself,
"
that
young woman should marry me,
"
my
" In
"
charms
head from
my
and, laying his head at the
father,
and asked her
his consent,
" agreeably
to the
"
respective tribes.
"
After
some
in
message
marriage.
If
will sever
I
body, and sacrifice
short, the king's son sent a
" gave
it
to you.
to the girl's
Her
father
and the marriage was performed rites
and ceremonies of their
In short, the lovers were united.
days, the father invited his daughter
" and son-in-law
"
;
to his
own
house.
The
king's
son, with his wife, set out for the father-in-law's
" house
;
and a brahmin who had been the intimate
" companion
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companion of the
'
them.
When
where he had '
the
first
seen his wife, he recoJJected
into the temple, in order to perform his
'
the feet of the image.
'
brahmin
also
own
entered
head, dropped
the
remain alone, people
for '
me
to cut
at the feet
off his
own
of the
A
me
my own idol.
minute
the
to
be best
head, and leave
Then
after,
have
reflections
said. It will
head, and dropped
of the image. into the
off^
at
he thought,
:
suppose
will
mind, he
it
temple, he saw the
When many such
been his murderer. in his
when
Afterwards,
prince lying dead, and was terrified
had passed
He
to the idol of the place.
vow, and, cutting off his
if I
accompanied
son, also
the prince approached the temple
vow he had made
went alone *
king's
it
also
the brahmin cui
down
at
the feet
the wife also
came
temple, and seeing both persons slain,
was astonished, not being able had happened.
to
She resolved
account for what to sever
her
own
head from her body, and to burn with her husband. At that interval a voice issued from the temple,
O woman
!
replace the severed heads
spective trunks,
woman was
when
on
their re-
they will be alive again.
The
so overjoyed on hearing these words, 2
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her hurry, she placed her husband*s head
that, in
" on the brahmin's body, and put the brahmin's " head upon her husband's shoulders, and
" they were both *'
the
"
woman.
restored to
Then began
life
instantly
and stood before
a dispute between the
body and the brahmin's head, each claim-
prince's
" ing her for his wife."
When he
the parrot had related thus far of the story,
said to Khojisteh,
" If you want
to try his
" standing, ask him, which had a right *'
the
point
The
?
" owner of *'
to the wife,
husband's head, or the husband's body ?"
Khojisteh requested the parrot this
under-
that
woman
cause the head
is
" over the body." end of the to her lover
story, :
parrot is
to
replied,
instruct
her on
" The
rightful
the husband's head,
be-
the seat of wisdom, and presides
When
Khojisteh had heard the
she stood up, with intention to go
instantly the
cock crowed, and dawn
appearing, her departure was delayed.
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TALE THE TWENTY-FIFTH.
Of a Womariy who, having gone to buy Sugar, had an Amour with a Grocer,
VV HEN
the sun was
moon
and the
set,
Khojisteh went to the parrot, and said, "
"
fill,
and
my own mind
in
my
*'
when
*'
because of the delay.
''
to practise
*'
My
mistress,
*'
tion
;
I
join
for
on
lover,
"
*'
m^
I
know
not what artifice
The
parrot
said,
requires no thought or considera^
women
are able to devise
many wom.en's
will wait a
will tell
little,
I
trick
which a
many
at repartee.
seen and approved
" an excellent
fear-
he may be angry with
" and are exceedingly prompt **
am
greatly confounded, lest
that occasion." it
I
got up,
I
have If
tricks.
you a short
woman
artifices,
you
story
of
played her hus-
band, and carried her point with her gallant."
Khojisteh asked, "
What
kind of story
is
that
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The
parrot said
:
" Once on a time a man gave
feloose * to his wife,
some
shop in the market
The woman bought
her.
the
it
into his
shop.
of her
own
The
veil, it
her
left
shopman took
grocer's
and
sugar,
grocer plied
the
in
veil
the sugar out
and, substituting an equal quantity of
up
woman came
out again, she took up her veil
band, he untied the said to her,
When
in the corner of the veil.
When
and returned home.
he
f of
In short the grocer conducted her
house, and she
The
sand, tied
inclination for
with pleasant discourse, and she yielded
to his desires.
the
a seer
in a corner of her veil.
woman
to a grocer's
As soon as the
buy sugar.
to
woman, he had an
grocer saw the
tied
who went
wife,
me
you are using with you have brought
and seeing
veil,
Why,
me
she came to her hus-
?
I
sand.
it
contain sand,
what pleasantry sent
you
The
is
this
for sugar,
and
without
wife,
'
any hesitation,
'
house an ox ran
'
flight,
and tumbled down on the ground
*
money
fell
'
to look for
said.
out of it
at
As soon as
I
got out of the
me, upon which
my
hand, and as
before the
I
I
took to ;
the
was ashamed
men who were
present, I
"took Pieces of copper coin.
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" took up the sand from the " **
"
it
here
The husband said.
" but
kissed her
The money, being
why
did
this
?
" not angry, but even
parrot,
Khojisteh,
"
lost, is
and
to foot,
of no consequence
hesitation,
to
bring
;
a
go
the husband was
pitied her."
having finished
Arise,
this sand.
In short, the wife answering in
manner without
The
from head
you trouble yourself
" quantity of sand "
and have brought
money must be amongst
the
:
spot,
this
story,
your lover
to
;
and
said if
to
per-
" chance he should be angry with you, certainly
" you
will at the
time think of some good excuse."
Khojisteh was comforted by the \^ords of the parrot.
When
she put her shoes on her
feet,
and wanted
to
have got up, the cock crowed, dawn appeared, and her departure was deferred.
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TALE THE TWENTY-SIXTH.
The Merchant's Daughter, whom
King
the
rejected.
When
sun was
the
Khojisteh, with
the *'
parrot,
secret
" out
a
and
and the moon
set,
downcast countenance, went to "
said,
O
thou possessor of
the sages have said, that a
!
shame
is
women
worst ot
the
woman
" wish to avoid going to a strange man, "
at
home
The
patiently."
that
"
will decHne,
if
you
" What kind of
The
parrot
merchant,
is
restrain
yourself,
like the
king's."
story
is
began
who had
:
right
;
my
with-
l^ow
:
and
but
I
to sit
parrot answered, "
" mistress, whatever you say
"
risen,
I
My fear
your constitution Khojisteh
asked,
his ?"
" In
a certain city was
plenty of
money and
a
effects,
" and
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" and kept horses and ''
handsome daughter,
" reached " and
the
fame of whose
beauty
cities.
Merchants
country wanted
of that
" the merchant's daughter
" not accept of
a very
and
distant countries
traders
He had
elephants.
marry
to
but the father would
;
When
their proposals.
young
the
" woman became marriageable, one day the mer" chant wrote and sent a "
in the following
letter to the king,
terms:
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couched
*I have a daughter, the
" beauty of whose countenance resembles the moon,
her walk
is
graceful
the
as
mountain pheasant,
and her voice may compare with the nightingale " with a thousand notes
;
from the desire of hearing
*'
her discourse, the birds are arrested in their
flight,
''
and become intoxicated and senseless.
flatter
"'
^'
myself,
that
of this
" and " '*
your
Majesty sees good, she
is
worthy of your choice, and may be the means of
" increasing ''
if
I
is
of
said.
my own
letter,
king
On
the receipt
was greatly
delighted,
in
life.'
Every thing comes of
fortunate.
whqm
the
rank
he
The king had said.
Go you
to the
itself, to
him who
four viziers,
to
all
merchant's house,
" take
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" take a view of " of
my
his daughter, and if she
worthy
is
The
choice, bring her immediately.
viziers
" entered the merchant's house, and, on beholding " the daughter's
were deprived of
face,
" They consulted together, and
" should
see a
woman
said.
their senses.
king
the
If
counte-
with so beautiful a
" nance, he would lose his reason, and, remaining
" with her night and day,
will
pay no attention to
" the duties of
royalty, so that all public affairs will
" go
Then
to ruin.
the four viziers returned
" the king, and thus reported " remarkably handsome
" many
" king
that
''
it
as
is
you
" cutwal of that said to herself.
It
I
will
is
am
are
I
The will
king did not ask
The mer-
daughter
his
One day
city.
" rejected me, who
" other
married
despair,
palace
represent, then
In short, the
her.
not
to beauty.
the merchant's daughter in marriage.
" chant, in
"
in the royal
have equal pretensions
said. If
" not marry
:
is
This virgin
:
to
the
to the
young woman
extraordinary that the king so beautiful
shew myself
to
him.
;
some time or In short, one
" day, as the king was passing by the cutwal's ha''
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woman was
bitation, the
standing on the roof of
" the house, and shewed herself
to the
"
love
as
soon as he saw her,
" sent "
tell
for the viziers,
me
such
false
words
this
" excuse, and health.
''
the king should
The
and
;
if
you
They answered.
We
neglect the affairs of
The king approved of
his love for
*'
Why
your Majesty were to
that, if
woman, you would
" your kingdom.
" wal
?
and, having
;
did
them.
said to
" unanimously agreed, " see
fell in
who,
king,
the
ministers of state
woman
tlie viziers'
affected his
recommended,
demand the woman of
he did not resign her
that
the cutthat
willingly,
" she should be taken from him by force.
" king
said
:
I
am
the prince of this
" careful how you advise ''
:
I
will
The
kingdom
;
be
not be guilty of
an action so very repugnant to justice
;
does
it
" not become monarchs to behave with such ty*'
ranny towards their
"'
short, after a
**
melancholy on account of
jisteh,
"
and
servants.
at length,
this
woman
;
he became
died of grief."
parrot having finished this story, said to It is
In
few days, the king was seized with
" emaciated, and,
The
subjects
Kho-
not adviseable for you to restrain your
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" passion;
"
lover,
arise,
or else
" your healih." instantly the
and have an interview with your you, like
the king, will suffer in
Khojisteh wanted to have
gone
cock crowed, and dawn appearing, her
departure was deferred.
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TALE THE TWENTY- SEVENTH.
who is taken into the service of a King, and made General of his Army.
The
Potter,
When jisteh,
went
with her eyes
to the parrot
full
and
"
to a rich
man, and
"
rich
man
answered,
" means.' " money,
The it
is
rich
of tears, and an aching heart, said, '
said, *
"
go
I will
Go/ He
man
When
said, '
replied,
in
to Mecca.'
The Arab
to I
'
If
Mecca
;'
the
have not the
you have not
who
returned,
'
are poor to I
come
to
you
hopes of obtaining some money, and not to
" consult you on a point of " count to
"
an Arab went
not proper for you to go thither; for
" God has not commanded those
" go
Kho-
the sun went to the western quarter,
law.'
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^Thus do you re-
me maxims and fables, when I come merely my
lover,
not to hear
to stories."
The
parrot said,
to ask permission to visit
" advice and
listen
" Be
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" Be not uneasy
my
at
words and exhortations, since
" the advice of a friendly monitor
"
this
world as well
joined, "
" give
" ''
parrot!
me
The
" vant, not
"
listen to every advice that
fit
" the potter " story
The
is
A
am
I
own
afraid to
reliance ought to be placed
Have not you heard the
?"
"
Khojisteh asked,
go
a menial ser-
is
for the sages
;
you
slave along with
slave
accompany you
to
no
said, that
"
parrot said,
" of low degree.
''
I
alone, and want to take m^y
me."
Khojisteh re-
as for the next."
to-night, being dark,
;
serviceable for
is
What
have
on those story of
kind of
this ?"
parrot said
:
" One day a
was
a quantity of liquor,
potter,
having drank
intoxicated,
and, falling
" over the pots and pans, cut his face and body.
" The
cuts
on
" but the wounds
in his,
" they resembled the '"
A
to
go
" The king of " on the " ''^
valiant
ceiving such
left
in a short
time,
such marks that
sword or an arrow,
in the potter's
town, he was
to another place in quest of service.
that country seeing
potter's body,
man
body
scars of a
famine happening
" obliged
were cured
his face
to
he thought
such kind of this
scars,
must be some
have put himself in the way of re-
wounds
:
thereupon the king engaged *'
him.
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" him, and exalted him "
after,
"
the potter
"
to
commander of
his forces,
made
and designed
The
send him to oppose the enemy.
am
few days
the king was engaged in a war, and
" being "
A
high rank.
to
terrified,
a potter,
" military duty.
and said to the king,
sick,
fell
and
shall
potter, I
never be able to perform
The king laughed
very heartily, but
" within himself was ashamed, and he sent another
" person
The jisteh,
to
conduct the war."
:
parrot, having finished the tale, said to
Kho-
" Don't take a slave along with you, but go
" alone,
for
" persons." tended;
no good
actions can proceed
from mean
Khojisteh wanted to have gone unat-
instantly
the cock crowed, and
pearing, her departure
was
2
deferred.
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TALE THE TWENTY-EIGHTH.
The Lion and
foster^i a
\t HEN
fF helps, and how he
his
young JackaL
the sun went to the western quarter,
jisteh, arrayed in
man's apparel, repaired
The
to ask leave.
Kho-
to the parrot,
parrot laughed heartily at seeing
Khojisteh dressed in man's clothes, and said to her,
" As "
dark night, you have done well in put-
this is a
ting
on man's
clothes,
" of bringing the
and coming alone, instead
slave along with you.
" a parrot, an old friend of mine, was "
mc
"
I
"
night."
in the cage,
heard a
"of
flying, seeing
he approached me, and from him
tale similar to that I related to
Khojisteh asked, "
What
is
you
last
the nature
it?"
The "
To-day, as
parrot began
in a desert
:
" Once on a time, a
lion
dwelt
along with his female and two whelps.
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One day he roamed about
'*
" quest of game
woods and
the
but, notwithstanding
;
thiclcets in
all
his search
" and labour, not being able to find any thing, was
" returning towards
his
own
den,
when he
saw, lying
" on the ground, a jackal cub only a few days old
" he took "
to her.
" day "
up, and brought
This
the
all
is
cannot find
in
it
game
my
to the lioness, saying
heart to eat
The
therefore eat this.
;
" You are a male, whose heart
" compassion, yet
will not eat
" who am
a female with
" a tender
heart,
" me, " of
I
it
:
its
mother.
" young jackal, lion's
devour
it
The
to
do
;
hard and void of
how
then can
I,
two young ones, and have it ?
Nay,
if
you command
and supply the place
lion replied, It
after this, the lion's all
can
I
lioness answered,
is
will nourish this orphan,
" month or two
"
have picked up to-
I
one or two days, but you are not able
fast
" so
I
;
it
is
well.
A
whelps and the
three were increased in
size.
The
whelps imagined the young jackal was their
" brother, and they played together
" day these three young ones went
to
as such.
One
hunt together,
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139
" and saw an " the
place,
elephant.
The young jackal
and hid himself under a
their elder brother
"
after, all
An hour
" home together, and "
lioness
;
who
told
the
their
then observed,
from
The
tree.
" whelps, on seeing fled also.
fled
lion
run away,
young ones came adventure to the
He
is
the cub of a
" jackal! how should he be valiant? and what does '"
he know of war?"
The
parrot having finished
Khojisteh,
this
" Stand up now, and go
story, to
said
to
your lover."
Khojisteh wanted to have gone: immediately the cock
crowed, and dawn appearing, her departure was deferred.
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TALE THE TWENTY-NINTH. The Nobleman who concealeda Snake
in
his Sleeve.
When
the sun went to the western quarter, and
moon
appeared above the eastern horizon, Kho-
the
whose eyes were
jisteh,
and
parrot,
" "
"
said,
fire
of love
my
sweetheart."
jisteh lover,
was
My
of tears, repaired to the
heart
to-night,
;
full
by
When
is
all
consumed with the means,
he was alarmed, and,
My
mistress,
go
to
after considering I
wish
to
God
to
Kho-
the parrot saw that
particularly anxious this night to
himself, said, "
go
I wiJl
to
her with send
" you quickly
to
" you leave
but you yourself create delay, and are
*'
:
not able to go
your
;
I
lover,
know
"
Now
"
iidence in an enemy,
arise
and go
to
and every night
I
give
not what has befallen you.
your lover; but place no conotherwise you must meet
2
M
" witb
Iff
V
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141
" with the same return
" from the snake." " nature of the
" One
day, as a
hunting, a frightened snake
"
O my
" He "
!
to kill
" from *'
An
" the snake, went
and this
said,
way
"
bite
and
" you not
that
am
" egregious blockhead
sleeve.
is
where he
A
lay
black snake escaped
has any body seen
it ?
The man with
The nobleman is
departed
said to
do you also
;
The snake answered, I
your enemy to
" and out of compassion " your
?
and
you, after which I
some
are you afraid
sleeve,
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
his way.
own way. kill
in
hand looked about, but, not seeing
" the snake, Your enemy " go your
myself
said,
instant after, a person 'with a stick
and ran
stick in his
him, and
pitied the snake,
The nobleman answered. No.
" the
nobleman was
me
own
into his
to the spot,
me
the
pursuing
a stick
The nobleman
me.
to
Why
asked,
An enemy with
" concealed.
came
to conceal
The nobleman
" admitted him
" came
me
lord, allow
said.
is
story ?"
'*
" place
What
''
Khojisteh asked,
parrot began:
The
nobleman experienced
as the
will ?
go
You
:
I
will
know are
an
have had reliance on me, to
have admitted
The nobleman
me
into
said to the snake, I
" have
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.
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142
" have done good " me "
evil
It is
to
you
The snake
?
why want you
;
The
replied,
to render
sages have said,
The
not right to do good to every person.
" nobleman
in his
own mind was
frightened, and re-
" pented of what he had done, and thought
to
"
from his
self.
By what means can
I
" designs, and get him out of " prompt *'
in the business,
treat
me
" turned
if
as
his
sleeve
He was
?
said to th& snake,
you head
please.
Hereupon the snake
in order to look at
the
other,
seizing the opportunity, struck
and have listened
" word of mine
The
it."
Khojisteh had heard the stoiy to the end,
she said to the parrot, " tion,
Here
lay our matter before
a stone against the snake's head, and killed
When
"
life
he approves of your sentiments, then
" when the nobleman *'
my
comes another of your species;
" him, and "
and
my
deliver
him-
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Be
I
to
approve of your exhorta-
your
tale
;
pleased to give
parrot said, " Arise, and delay
now
me
not,
hear one
leave."
and go to ''
your
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143 " your
lover, for that
up, and set out.
the cock, and
"
Now
''
me
ture
that
my
wish."
The cock crowed
coming again
to
day has appeared,
to go."
was
is
:
Khojisteh stood Khojisteh abused
the parrot, it
is
said-r-
not a time for
In short, this night also her depar-
deferred.
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TALE THE THIRTIETH.
The Soldier and of whom Money.
HEN
Vv it
Life from the Love of
lo$t his
the sun sunk into the western quarter, and
was evening, the
fruit;
the Goldsmith, the latter
stars
some
appeared, Khojisteh ate
she combed her hair, and having applied col-
lyrium to her eyes, put on fine apparel, and bedecked
her ears and neck with gold and jewels, and then
went *'
to
my
possessor of
The
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Not
" otherwise
" smith's
What The
is
it
to
will
secret
make
secret,
" Keep
parrot said,
" of mine
"
"
O
thou
me
to
go
the parrot to ask leave, saying,
in
a sign for
remembrance
maxim
a
one's secret to any
tell
be discovered; just
was found out."
!"
one,
as the gold-
Khojisteh asked,
his story ?"
parrot
began: " In a certain
" wealthy goldsmith.
A 2
N
soldier
city
thought
was a
him "
his
friend.
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"
friend,
"
interest.
*'
and believed him sincerely attached to
One
a purse
day the soldier found on the road
of money, and having opened
full
" counted two hundred and "
soldier carried the
"
rejoicing, said,
" labour,
" highway. "
to
He
his
" ney
to me.? I
" ing you
to
" money by "
tive,
went
to the
less set
"
all
Cazy
;
who ?
my ;
all his
The Cazy
said.
You
friend, not
know-
you want
to
get
asked him. Have you
He
answered. No.
The
Goldsmiths are a faith-
for the
is
it
stolen the
not at
money.
goldsmith and his
interrogations they said to
charge
in
having no alterna-
may have
Cazy sent
the
you entrust your mo-
of people, and th'eves, so that
but to
confess.
did
soldier,
;
money
The goldsmith
to himself.
improbable but he
" wife '^
The
as a witness
short, the
and
days after, the soldier
be such an enemy
" .Cazy thought
" In
Some
when
the
all
imagined you
fraud.
" any person
"
;
sum of money on
this
own money.
a falsehood
tell
to the goldsmith,
very fortunate that, without
then gave
the goldsmith.
" wanted "
am
I
it,
The
gold mohurs.
fifty
mohurs
have found
I
his
them,
I
would not
know
very well
"
that
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you have taken the money
that
restore
'
I will
it,
send you to
you do not
if
;
Then
hell.
the Cazy
'
entered the house, and concealed two persons in
'
a chest placed in one of the chambers.
came
After so
out, and again said to the gold-
*
doing, he
'
smith. If you do not consent to restore his money,
to-morrow
'
I
you
will put
He
to death.
then gave
orders that the goldsmith and his wife should be
'
*
up together
shut
''
woman
the
'*
this
money,
in that
" the sun
you did take
said to the goldsmith, If tell
me where
you have put
" goldsmith said. In such a place,
" ground. In
At midnight
chamber.
short,
rose, the
when
I
put
it ?
it
The
into the
the night was ended, and
Cazy sent
for the
goldsmith and
" his wife, and, confronting them with the two per" sons
who had been
in the chest, asked the latter
" what conversation the goldsmith had with " the preceding night *'
They
whatever they had heard.
" men "
?
spot
related to the
The Cazy
to the goldsmith's house,
it
"
dier,
sent his
where the purse of money had been
to the Cazy.
He
Cazy
own
and described the
" on digging up the ground they found "
his wife
it
put,
and
and brought
restored the purse to the sol-
and hanged the goldsmith on a gibbet."
The
fr
*
H7 The jisteh,
"
"
his
"
Now
up
;
parrot having finished this story, said to If the goldsmith
own
wife,
arise
it
had not
told the secret to
would not have been discovered.
and go to your lover."
instantly the cock crowed,
ing, her departure
Kho-
Khojisteh stood
and the dawn appear-
was deferred.
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148
TALE THE THIRTY-FIRST.
Barhers heating the Brahmins,
Of the Merchant, and
the
M^HEN
the sun went into the westerq side, and
moon
got up, and the stars appeared, Khojisteh
the
having put on apparel of gold brocade, ornamented
her ears and neck with gold and jewels, and went to the parrot to ask leave, saying, tt
my
lover at midnight
The " he
parrot said:
lent merchant,
"
possess
"
for
me
" In
now
I
tell
I
want
to
go to
a short story."
a certain city
who had
said to himself,
" of riches
;
"
was an opu-
not any child.
One day
have amassed a great quantity
in this world, but have not any child to
my
wealth at
to dispose
of
my all
decease
my
O
it is
adviseable
property amongst der-
" veishes, the poor, and orphans. 2
;
In short, he gave **
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" away **
in a
"
Who
all
dream, he saw a person,
thou
art
?
The
" archetype of your ''
this
That very night,
his property in charity.
vision answered,
destiny
day disposed of
whom
to
all
:
Forasmuch
I
will visit
on the head with a
stick,
strike
its
you have
as
me
several
it
blows
I will fall
into gold
" member you may require cut diately
the
part to yourself,
on which
" the ground, and be converted
"
am
you to-morrow under the semblance
" of a brahmin, when do you ''
I
said,
your riches amongst the
" poor without having reserved any "
he
to
whatever
;
and imme-
off,
place will be supplied with another limb.
" The next day a barber was shaving the merchant's " beard,
at
which time a brahmin
" chant got up, and with a "
several times
to his
own
" a
stick
said. Tell
striking with a stick a
house,
" mins, and gave a
on the ground
not this
The barber concluded,
to any one.
" he would be turned "
fell
brahmin
The merchant gave
into gold.
" the barber some rupees, and
" upon any person
The mer-
stick struck the
on the head, who
" and was changed
" adventure
arrived.
into gold.
when he feast
;
The
that
brahmin
barber went
invited several brah-
after
which he took up
and repeatedly belaboured the brahmins on
"
their
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heads in such a manner that their pates were
their
' broken, and blood flowed.
" ''
The brahmins began
who dragged
gether a crowd of people,
" ber before the magistrate.
"
Why
I
was
" gave
several
blows on
to
the
whereupon he was changed fore supposed that
" min with a
" gold *'
"
mins
stick
:
not one
chief has
saith
?
whom
answered,
the merchant
head with a
into gold
;
and
stick I
there-
this gain, 1 also beat the
is
changed into gold
ensued.
The
The merchant
;
brah-
but mis-
magistrate sent for the
replied.
is
it
that this barber
He was my
servant,
" and some days ago went out of his mind.
" magistrate gave
â&#x20AC;˘
on any person beating a brah-
" merchant, and asked, What "
He
?
he would be thereby turned into
Covetous of
:
the bar-
house of a certain mer-
at the
" chant a brahmin entered,
to-
The judge asked him,
did you beat the brahmins
" Because when
"
which brought
to vociferate their complaints,
The
credit to the merchant's assertion,
" and drove ^way the barber."
The jisteh,
parrot having finished this story, said to
"
Now
clined to go,
She
arise."
when
the
stood up, and
Kho-
was in-
cock crowed, and the dawn
appearing, her departure
was
delayed.
it.
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TALE THE THIRTY-SECOND.
The Frog
the Bee,
J
and
the Bird,
who
killed the Elephant,
VV HEN
the sun was sunk into the west, and
moon-
shine appeared, Khojisteh went to the parrot, and
The
asked leave.
"
tress
!
parrot said, " Rejoice,
be not in the
" undoubtedly
least thoughtful
" bring about your meeting with your
" ing you and
"
I,
thou greencoat
replied,
my
stars are so
" Know you
" time, a
will
most
lover."
Kho-
notwithstand-
!
with one mind, exert our joint en-
" deavours, yet they produce no " why
I
mis-
your business, and
exert myself in
jisteh answered,
:
my
frog, a bee,
effect.
unpropitious."
not,
madam,
that,
I
know
The
not
parrot
once on a
and a bird, by means of their
" unanimity, vanquished an elephant, the most tre''
mendous of
all
beasts
:
how
is
it,
then, that our
"
joint
)er
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"
?" joint exertions cannot effect our purpose
jisteh desiring to
know
parrot began
The
the story.
" In a
:
Kho-
certain city
was a tree
resembling a round umbrella, wherein an inofFen''
Saweh* had
sive
laid
One day an
her eggs.
'
ph^nt came there, and began scrubbing
'
against the trunk of the tree, and,
'
lence of the shock, the eggs Tlie poor
Saweh
fell
ele-
body
his
from the vio-
out of the
tree.
fluttered about in great perturba-
tion, beat herself against the
branches, and wept;
but what can a flea do in opposition to an ele-
The Saweh
phant?
enemy must be subdued by She had a to
bill,
trive
art
powerful
and stratagem.
Long-
friend, another bird, called the
whom
plaint, said.
A
said to herself,
she repaired, and, making her
An
elephant has oppressed
some stratagem
to
revenge
friends are serviceable to us
me
con-
!
on nim
when we
The
me
com-
;
for
are labour-
an
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'
arduous undertaking to war with an elephant, and
bird said,
without assistance cannot succeed. a Bee,
who
is
A
little
have a friend,
remarkable for his wisdom 2
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will consult.
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the bee, and set forth
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" and " of
said, I
my
case,
may
this story
" and the Longbili, ;
his apprehensions,
he expressed
Thereupon the Saweh, the Bee, three went together to the
all
they acquainted him with the particulars, his assistance.
" great concern
at the destruction
said.
Make your mind
" mountain may be
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to
The
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my mind
of the eggs, and
for,
The
frog expressed
by
art,
frog added.
even a
There
a stratagem whereby the
" elephant may be overcome, and which " the bee approach the elephant's
ear,
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apply the
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to the elephant's eyes,
and pluck
out,
and turn
into darkness. is
Some
tormented with
and begin croaking
" say
is
bill shall
" furious, the bird with the long
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I
be told to the general of
" and entreated
"
to the service
however, out of sincere regard,
;
" the army of frogs.
" Frog
When
the circumstances.
have long devoted myself
friends
" wish that
all
lo
to himelf.
light in this
days afterwards,
thirst,
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he
I
will
will
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shall
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frogs
his cry, after strivi\*g
it
self.
"
killed the elephant."
Thus they
parrot,
" elephant.
"
Two
or
me, he
as
no one
by
"
arise quickly
we
fail
shall
will die
art
of him-
and stratagem
tale to this part,
three feeble
animals
with our resolutions,
accomplishing our desire
;
?
Now
your lover."
Khojisteh
at that instant the
cock crowed,
and go
have gone
hear
and destroyed such a mighty
We two persons,
how
to
acted, and
resolution,
"
can
and
having brought the
said to Khojisteh,
" formed a
;
some days he
"
wanted
then, following
plunge into such a place that he shall not
able to get out of
The
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and the dawn appearing, her departure was deferred.
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TALE THE THIRTY-THIRD. The Emperor of China, in a dream, falls in love with the Queen of Room.
When the sun had
and the
set,
went
Khojisteh, full of thought, said,
"
O
thou,
who
my
art
moon was
to the
associate
" that some one asked a great man.
" He answered. Love
is
" of
same
Now
life.
" pation,
is
" relinquish " the word
this
arrived it
at
!
risen,
parrot,
I
and
have heard
What
love
is
?
a kind of death in the midst love,
which
is
my
such a pitch that
altogether,
and not even
love in future."
The
I
to
occu-
wish to
mention
parrot said,
"
O
" Khojisteh, there is a wide difference between speak" ing and acting.
" tience ''
?
What
relation hath love with pa-
and can the lover
exist
without the mis-
tress? If a woman could live (continued he)
" nected with man, then the queen of
" mained " years
single
felt
;
uncon-
Room had
re-
but notwithstanding she had for
an aversion towards man, she
at
last
" took unto herself a husband." Khojisteh asked "
What
kind of story
is
this ?"
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parrot said
"
thus related
It is
Once on
:
who had
a time, there was an emperor of China,
" a wise "
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One
vizier.
come
asleep, the vizier, having
" some
when
day,
was
the emperor
him on
to consult
The
of government, awaked him.
affairs
" emperor, on being roused from
his sleep,
drew
"
who
from his
sword, and pursued the vizier,
" presence, and escaped " emperor smote *'
hands together, rent
his
" swered. At
" where was
that juncture I
a
woman
saw
in a
ministers
"
In
my
placed
dream a place
" contemplating
" who was
head on her
awaked
a skilful limner
the face, and the vizier
;
to
feet
out of the
and
another
vizier,
him he described
drew the
" erected a hermitage on the high ;
me
He had
that form.
" attended every day
my hands,
emperor was continually
the
short,
an-
surpassing in beauty all I
at that instant the vizier
" dream.
"
I
He
?
" have ever beheld. Sometimes she kissed
" and sometimes
gar-
his
The
has befallen you
What
said.
state
The
into another house.
mcnts, and uttered exclamations.
" of
fled
his
picture.
road,
He
where he
to every person
who
ar-
"
rived
from a
"
ture,
and asked. Have you seen or heard of any
distant country
2
Q
he shewed
this
pic-
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woman
resembling
" answered "
traveller
"
vizier
" "
this
"
this,
"
this
he was lavish
in
"
to
marry?
" which
is
in a
" on the " eggs.
He
this
:
answered,
Queen of Room
praise,
I
said.
The
:
after
With
all
vizier asked,
like
do know the reason,
was
sit-
situated in a garden, where,
top of a tree, a peahen
had deposited her
Suddenly the garden was struck with lightall
the trees;
when, the flames
that tree, the peacock, unable to sup-
port the heat of the ;
and
a time the queen
Once on
summer-house
" approaching
" nest
the
any reason why she does not
" ning, which burnt
"
her
whom
this face very well
beauty she will not marry.
Do you know
" ing
know
the portrait of the
to
and asked him about
portrait,
traveller said, I
"
some time, a
into the hermitage,
shewed the
is
But no person
?
After
in the affirmative.
came
The
it.
this portrait
fire,
inhumanely quitted the
but the hen, from her affection for the eggs,
" remained with them and was " queen saw
this
" exclaimed.
Men
burnt.
want of feeling
" self never to speak of a
man
!
the
the male, she
in
are very faithless
When
!
I
vow
to
my-
Accordingly years
" have elapsed without her having mentioned the " name of a man.
When
the vizier heard this dis-
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course,
" the day
he went
to the
that I drew
emperor and
''
stationed
on the road
" arrived from
" a
trait
the picture, and
of the
he
" The
"
self
to require the
vizier said.
" formed by the queen
" had heard from the
" The
The emperor vizier
is
I
the por-
The emperor was and
said.
queen
in
This very
marriage for me.
there
is
?
The
in
The emperor
said.
vizier related,
What ought
If I
resolution
this
you
**
she, whilst awake, will be
he
as
Of the peato
be done ?
am commanded,
and shew her your picture
in love
whom
sent to the territory of
*'
fell
to
traveller, the story
answered.
self will go,
he knew such
This
never to accept of a husband.
" cock.
have been
I
The queen has agreed with her-
" asked. What mystery
"
said,
at this discovery,
" day some person must be
if
traveller,
Queen of Room.
" highly pleased
" Room,
him
asked
I
dream,
and whenever a traveller
To-day arrived a
face.
" shewed "
afar,
;
in a
From
woman
of the
the picture
" whom your Majesty saw
said.
I
my-
and, as
;
with her appearance in a dream,
ensmoured of your por-
"
trait.
The emperor
"
vizier
immediately took his leave, and set out for
replied. It will
be well.
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The
Room,
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Room, where he passed himself
When the queen him
to
heard of his
be brought,
portraits as
skill,
in order that
cise his art in her palace,
many
off for a painter.
she
commanded
he might exer-
and decorate
he was able
it
with as
The
to delineate.
vizier repaired to the queen's palace,
and painted
the emperor's portrait, with the beasts in the
The queen, on viewing
nagerie.
was struck with amazement; picture
The
is
that,
vizier
answered.
peror of China beasts, deer
;
It is
is
Whose
here represented ?
Em-
the portrait of the
this is his bull
and fawns.
these paintings,
she asked.
and what place
One
;
me-
and these are his
empe-
day, as the
ror was sitting in a balcony belonging to a
sum-
mer-house, a deer brought thither a fawn.
Sud-
denly the river overflowed
its
banks,
when
the doe,
not having resolution to face the water, separated herself at a distance from her
young
;
that
representation of the female running away
the buck, having
more
is
the
:
but
natural affection, staid there
with the fawn and was drowned,
May
please
it
your Majesty, from the day he saw such inhu-
manity committed by the doe, he has never men'
tioned the
name
of
woman.
When
the queen had ''
heard
JV
i6o
" heard
this relation,
"
ror's
"
to the painter.
" mine
adventure was similar to her own, she said
:
I,
The emperor's
" on viewing the to
case
"
it
insensibility of the
" consented
*'
to
If
how
us,
resolved
an
alli-
delightful
emperor of China, and
marry him."
the parrot had proceeded thus far with the
he observed
"
to Khojisteh,
My
say you will abandon your friend
" had
doe,
he,
In short, the next day, the queen
sent an ambassador to the
tale,
whilst
;
mention the name of woman.
would be!
When
man
the society of
" ance could be formed between "
with
parallel
is
from having seen the inhumanity of the
" peacock, forsook
" not
and perceived that the empe-
persisted in this course, the
;
mistress,
if
you
every person
Queen of Room
" would not have married the Emperor of China.
" Get up now, and be going jisteh
wanted
to
to
have done so
;
your friend." instantly the
Khocock
crowed, and the dawn appearing, her departure was deferred.
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TALE THE THIRTY-FOURTH.
The Elh and
who arc
the Ass,
loth taken
Prisoners.
When
appeared, the sun was set, and the nioon
and said, Khojisteh went to the parrot to ask leave, " Thou
who
the depositor)' of
art
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Omar Abdullah
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not you sleep at
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swered.
If
I
" therefore " rot! *'
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I
I
also
may
ful to
fied
ceal
:
I
lose
him, I
1
ha'.e
ul Azccz slepi
some appomted time
Why He
?
my
;
and were subjects
do not take any regular
am
my husband
my
;
and
that
suffer
par-
rest.
if
lover will be jealous
my 1
aii-
to take
I
would
afraid that, by obliging
do
God
should sleep during the night,
the day-time,
in
rest
secret,
They asked him,
" would not be worshipped "
my
am
and
friend. faith-
dissatis-
therefore wish to relinquish both, and con-
myself with the
veil
of chastity."
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rot said,
"
"
but there
able, sent,
it
a time for all
commend-
very
things
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story
Kho-
that ?"
is
^They have thus related
Once
:
'
on a time, an
'
elk,
and they grazed together on the same
One
night, in the season of spring,
'
'
ass
pre-
at
;
as unpleasant as the ass's song."
is
jisteh asked,
The
is
is
had contracted friendship with an spot.
the ass and
the elk happened to be grazing together.
All
of
'
a sudden the ass
'
the elk, In this delightful night, whilst the garden diffuses
'
'
The
in
high
sweets, and the
its
around us, be!
was
if I
were
air
elk said to the ass.
you uttering
?
You may be
scatters
how
to sing,
and said to
spirits,
musk
pleasant
What
it
all
comparison
with singing stealth,
and
?
if
We
;
able io converse about
soners. into the
is
harsh
what business has an
have got into
ass
garden by
this
you should now begin braying, the
gardener, being awakened, will his assistance,
would
discourse are
pack-saddles and fullers, but your voice
beyond
all
when you and
Just as
when some
I
call
shall
other
be
thieves,
house of a rich man, found
a vessel full of wine,
which having
men
made
to
pri-
having got in a
corner
seized, *^
and
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till
When
" began
it
be time
to sing
thieves,
"
I
am
" judge
and put them
a citizen, are
" what harm " the
ass
commit the rob-
will
The
in bonds.
sijiging
it
they
his servants, seized the ass replied,
and you a country boor
you of
drink
the master of the house
:
" awoke, gathered together "
to
they had drunken the wine,
bawl and
to
shall
now
Let us
said.
?
do you
Positively to
hear
I
;
what
will sing
me ?
:
In short,
began braying, which awakened the gar-
" dener and the master of the house, who bound
"them both." The
parrot having finished this discourse, said to
Khojistch,
"
" formably "
I
"
Arise,
My mistress, whosoever doth to circumstances will
not actcon-
meet with
would, therefore, advise you to observe
wanted
and go quickly to
have gone
:
to
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your friend." at
that
instant
this fate ail
;
times.
Khojisteh the cock
crowed, and the dawn appearing, her departure was deferred.
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TALE THE THIRTY-FIFTH.
A
Kin^ falls
in love.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Khojlsteh
is
put
to
death by the hands of Miemun.
W^HEN
the sun descended into the west, and the
appeared in the east, Khojisteh went to the
moon parrot,
and
said,
"
I
have waited on you
many nights
" and go away without accomplishing my " preserve thy allegiance
"
so
"
me
much
" night
I
will exert every
" carry you
to
" ver your
secret
" *'
salt
but quickly give
My
means in
mistress, this
my
However,
lover.
sprinkle not
:
power, and
if
you disco-
any one besides myself, con-
to
daughter of the Emperor of Room,
established her reputation for virtue."
jisteh asked,
The "
your
trive like the
who
parrot said, "
The
leave."
my
my wound,
upon
salt
to
desire
a king
"
Hpw
is
parrot began.
:
that
Kho-
?
" Once on a time there was
whose dominions bordered on the !?
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territorj^
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" of Room.
One
day the vizier said to the king:
" emperor of Room has " be
it
would
well were he to give her in marriage to your
" majesty. "
a beautiful daughter;
The
The king was
pleased at the vizier's dis-
course, and immediately sent an ambassador to the
" emperor of Room, with valuable presents, and " ask
" Room was not "
that the
" fected
On
with the proposal.
satisfied
ambassador returned, without having ef-
his purpose.
" invaded the "country.
" great
The emperor of
marriage.
his daughter in
to
The
territory
of Room, and desolated the
The emperor
straits,
king, with a large army,
of Room, being reduced to
The
gave his daughter to the king.
" princess had a son by a former marriage; which " circumstance the emperor, her
father,
charged her
*'
When
she
came
to
was continually grieving
at
never to divulge to the king.
" the
king's palace, she
" being separated from her son.
She wanted
" contrive some means of discovering the
affair
to'
to
" the king.
It
" made her
a present of a casket full of jewels, she
"
said.
"
if
My
happened that one day the king having
father has a slave very skilful in jewels
he were now here, he would discriminate ml-
" nutely between the good and the bad.
The king "
said,
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were
said. If I
" would he
" No
him
part with
your
slave of
to ask that
me ?
to
father,
She answered,
because he considers him as his adopted son
;
" but
if
your majesty
is
desirous to have him, I will
" send a merchant with
certain tokens
" him, and who,
him by promises of promo-
alluring
"
tion,
"
ingly the king sent to
" with
"
I
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articles
my own
Room
of trade.
come.
to
Accord-
an intelligent merchant,
The emperor's daughter
He
not a slave,
is
son, although, for particular reasons,
him
treat
to
merchant.
have told the king he
" not
him
perhaps engage
said privately to the
" but **
may
me
from
like
bondman
a
is
a slave.
In
;
short,
you must
mer-
the
brought him
chant, after
some time had
to the king,
who, on beholding his beautiful coun-
" tenance, and perceiving
elap;;ed,
his
good
capacity,
was
" greatly pleased, and bestowed oq the merchant a " dress of
state,
with other valuable
The
gifts.
" youth's mother saw him from a distance, and was
" delighted with " pened
that
" the wife
salutations
and messages.
It
hap-
one day, when the king went a hunting,
called her son into the palace, kissed his
" head and
face, and, bidding adieu to sorrow,
" versed with him
freely.
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con-
porter being ap-
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suspicions
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what he had discovered. and
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ceit,
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afflicted,
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had learnt the circumstances of the
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preceding night, said.
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artifice,
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mother; through delicacy she avoided men-
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is
have punished her, but was restrained
venge myself on to
with him:
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it
to the king.
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to spare
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my
life
;
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have told the
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;
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will
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require the boy at
will then repent.
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the king,
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and then
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to the king immediately;
place the amulet
false.
on her bosom, and
it
Bring the amulet quickly.
said,
is
because
may be
or they
true,
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*'
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to death
asleep, place
is
who
for a slave,
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prevail
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wife sent to
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alive.
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the
sent for
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" the mother saw her
"
any
if
tale to this
pe-
do you
also,
should occur, assert your
own
Khojisteh, "
difficulty
Now
purity.
wanted
jisteh
brought the
parrot, having
riod, said to
**
embraced him, and
praised God/*
The
"
son, She
arise,
to
My
and go
mistress,
to
have gone
;
Kho-
your friend." the
instantly
cock
crowed, and dawn appearing, her departure was deferred.
It so
happened
on
that
Miemun
that very day
returned from his journey.
Upon
not seeing the
Sharuck, he asked what was become of her
had not yet opened her
jisteh
given an answer, *'
of
me
when
a relation of
all
parrot
end,
all
related to
the adven
Miemun
.ires
" Require
of the Sha-
said,
" Speak!"
Miemun, from beginning
to
the particulars of Khojisteh falling in love
with the young man, and killed
Kho-
order to have
the parrot said,
" ruck and of Khojisteh."
The
lips in
?
how
by the hands of Khojisteh.
diately put
an end
die
Sharuck was
Miemun imme-
to the life of Khojisteh.
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