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Excerpt from Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 2: With Notes Anthropological and Explanatory
Know ye that when I entered the service Of this Emir,2 I had a great repute and every low fellow and lewd feared me most of all. Mankind, and when I rode through the city, each and every Of the folk would point at me with their fingers and sign at me with their eyes. It happened one day, as I sat in the palace of the Prefecture, back-propped against a wall, considering in myself, suddenly there fell somewhat in my lap, and behold, it was a purse sealed and tied. SO I hent it in hand and 10! It had in it an hundred dirhams3, but I found not who threw it and I said, Lauded be the Lord, the King Of the Kingdoms!4 Another day, asi sati' in the same way, somewhat fell on me and startled me, and lookye, 'twas a purse like the first: I took it and hiding the matter, made as though I slept, albeit sleep was not with me. One day as I thus shammed sleep, I suddenly sensed in my lap a hand, and in it a purse of the finest; so I seized the hand and behold, 'twas that Of a fair woman. Quoth I to her, O my lady, who art thou? And quoth she, Rise and come away from here.
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