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When the Khalif Haroun er Reshid heard this story from the mouth of his Vizier Jaafer, he wondered and said, 'It behoves that these stories be written in letters of gold. Then he set the slave at liberty and assigned the young man who had killed his wife such a monthly allowance as sufficed to make his life easy.
We drank of the wine cup, both mingled and pure, And agreed whoso slept, we should touzle at will. At this moment, there came a knocking at the door; so they bade him who knocked enter, and behold, it was the Khalif Haroun er Reshid.
It should not be said that we have been seen inside that man's enclosure lately." Reshid assented to the truth of this last remark and left his uncle's side. He leaned against the lintel of the big doorway and looked idly across the courtyard through the open gate on to the main road of the settlement. It lay empty, straight, and yellow under the flood of light.
Now the cause of this knocking was that, that very night, the Khalif Haroun er Reshid had gone down into the City, as was his wont, every now and then, to walk about for his diversion and hear what news was stirring, attended by his Vizier Jaafer and Mesrour his headsman, all three, as usual, disguised as merchants.
The cup went round till it came to Er Reshid, who refused it, and the mock Khalif said to Jaafer, 'What ails thy friend that he drinks not? 'O our lord, replied the Vizier, 'this long while he hath drunk no wine. Quoth the mock Khalif, 'I have drink other than this, a kind of apple-wine, that will suit him. So he let bring apple-sherbet and said to Haroun, 'Drink thou of this, as often as it comes to thy turn. Then they continued to drink and make merry, till the wine rose to their heads and mastered their wits; and Haroun said to Jaafer, 'O Jaafer, by Allah, we have no such vessels as these.
At this time, the Sherif Abd el Muttalib arrived at Meccah, from Taif, and almost simultaneously Reshid Pasha came from Constantinople with orders to seize him, send him to the capital, and appoint the Sherif Nazir to act until the nomination of a successor, the state prisoner Mohammed bin Aun. The tumult redoubled.
It is related that the Khalif Haroun er Reshid, being one night troubled with a persistent restlessness, summoned his Vizier Jaafer the Barmecide and said to him, 'My heart is straitened and I have a mind to divert myself tonight by walking about the streets of Baghdad and looking into the affairs of the folk; but we will disguise ourselves as merchants, that none may know us. 'I hear and obey, answered Jaafer.
It is said that Jaafer the Barmecide was one night carousing with Er Reshid, when the latter said to him, 'O Jaafer, I hear that thou hast bought such and such a slave-girl.
'And what wilt thou do there? asked Jaafer. 'I go to seek medicine for my eye, replied the old man. Quoth the Khalif, 'O Jaafer, make us sport with him. 'If I jest with him, answered Jaafer, 'I shall hear what I shall not like. But Er Reshid rejoined, 'I charge thee, on my authority, jest with him.
This letter is from Haroun er Reshid son of el Mehdi to His Highness Mohammed ben Suleiman ez Zeini, whom I have compassed about with my favour and made governor for me in certain of my dominions. The bearer of these presents is Noureddin son of Felz ben Khacan the Vizier.
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