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she, “I will not dispense with your company to night.” The Shah was exceedingly rejoiced at the proposal.

“Inflamed with wine inflamed with love

How could he frame the banquets move

His maudlin eyes with nectar shine

He pants for her who hands the wine.”

He turned to Danish Bait and muttered, “There can be no great harm in staying a single night”. “As your Majesty pleases,” said the vizir. This resolution was equally agreeable to all parties and the princess having taken the hands of the Shah, the vizir, and her lover conducted them to see the chambers. The first chamber they entered was splendidly illuminated with [Castres?] of jewels each of which was worth an empire in value. In that chamber they found a beautiful damsel of fourteen years of age whose [chuks?] were brought as the circle of the sun and whose name was derived from the honeyed sherbet which distilled from her lips.

“That fair if night's refulgent queen

In all her lovelings had seen