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for the box of medicine and showed it to the prince that he might see with his own eyes that he could give hime* nor* more and to cure him said he by any other means will be very difficult after remaining some time silent the Shah said To gratify me make a little more of that medicine He answered may the king live for ever if the plant of which it is made can be Procured in this country any where except on the hill of Serendil The Prince asked how many days journey it was off he answered a whole months journey The Prince ordered some swift runners to be brought into the presence and asked them in how many days they could bring him that plant one said in twenty days The prince said it must be brought much quicker Another said in fifteen days The Prince said it must be brought much sooner than that Then said one of them I will bring it in ten days The Prince conferred on him great rewards and presents beyond number and bade him instantly depart The Messenger set out with speed and flew like the swiftest falcon and in five days he arrived [at]
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the foot of the Hill and by the favour of Providence, brought away the plant in his hand and immediately turning round he began to fly like a bird so that on the tenth day at noon he presented the Plant to the Shah The Shah praised him highly and conferred* on him and sending for Danish Bait he showed him the plant Danish Bait immediately at the command of the Shah Brought some other ingredients from his house and prepared such a quantity of the medicine that if Melech Mahommed had been metamorphised* a hundred times into a beast it would have been sufficient to restore him to his own shape The Shah ordered Melech Mahommed to be brought They brought him accordingly and placed him at the foot of the throne Danish Bait said [fallous?] face this time by the fortune and favour* of the Shah you are to be come a man else you had died under your disgrace for you had never been curried* by me but if you will now take a solemn Oath never again to incur the same I will give you the medicine once more”
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The [ox?] saw that the box was again [full]

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the foot of the Hill and by the favour of Providence, brought away the plant in his hand and immediately turning round he began to fly like a bird so that on the tenth day at noon he presented the Plant to the Shah The Shah praised him highly and conferred* on him and sending for Danish Bait he showed him the plant Danish Bait immediately at the command of the Shah Brought some other ingredients from his house and prepared such a quantity of the medicine that if Melech Mahommed had been metamorphised* a hundred times into a beast it would have been sufficient to restore him to his own shape The Shah ordered Melech Mahommed to be brought They brought him accordingly and placed him at the foot of the throne Danish Bait said [fallous?] face this time by the fortune and favour* of the Shah you are to be come a man else you had died under your disgrace for you had never been curried* by me but if you will now take a solemn Oath never again to incur the same I will give you the medicine once more” The [ox?] saw that the box was again [full]