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When the Porter looked upon her his wits were waylaid, and his senses were stormed so that his crate went nigh to fall from his head, and he said to himself, "Never have I in my life seen a day more blessed than this day!" Then quoth the lady portress to the lady cateress, "Come in from the gate and relieve this poor man of his load."
'tis right good!"; and laying hands on her garments tore them, as she did the first time, and fell to the ground fainting. Thereupon the procuratrix rose end brought her a second change of clothes after she had sprinkled water on her. She recovered and sat upright and said to her sister the cateress, "Onwards, and help me in my duty, for there remains but this one song."
Then he came out and threw himself into the eldest lady's lap and putting his arms into the portress's lap and his feet into that of the cateress pointed to his codpiece and said, 'O my mistresses, what is the name of this? They laughed till they fell backward and one of them answered, 'Thy yard. 'Art thou not ashamed? said he. 'A forfeit! and took of each a kiss.
This lady, the cateress, hired me and took me first to the vintner's, then to the butcher's, from the butcher's to the fruiterer's, from the fruiterer's to the grocer's, from the grocer's to the greengrocer's, from the greengrocer's to the confectioner's and the druggist's, and thence to this place, where there happened to me with you what happened.
So the eldest lady said to him, 'What ails thee that thou dost not go away? Belike, thou grudgest at thy pay? And she turned to the cateress and said to her, 'Give him another dinar. 'No, by Allah, O lady! answered the porter.
Then the cateress arose, and set food before them and they ate; after which they changed their drinking place for an other, and she lighted the lamps and candles and burned amber gris and aloes wood, and set on fresh fruit and the wine service, when they fell to carousing and talking of their lovers.
'Good, O sweet basil of the dikes! Then they passed round the cup and presently the cateress rose and throwing herself into the porter's lap, pointed to her kaze and said to him, 'O light of mine eyes, what is the name of this? 'Thy commodity, answered he. 'Art thou not ashamed? said she, and dealt him a buffet that made the place ring again, repeating, 'Fie!
With swimming gait she walks: I laugh for wonder at her hips, But weep to see her waist, that all too slight to bear them is. When the porter saw her, his mind and heart were taken by storm, so that he well-nigh let fall the basket and exclaimed, 'Never in all my life saw I a more blessed day than this! Then said the portress to the cateress, 'O my Sister, why tarriest thou?
Henceforth I am dumb. Then arose the cateress and girding her middle, laid the table by the fountain and set out the cups and flagons, with flowers and sweet herbs and all the requisites for drinking. Moreover, she strained the wine and set it on; and they sat down, she and her sisters, with the porter, who fancied himself in a dream.
"There!" said he, after the last sip of coffee, "I believe I don't want another thing to eat till Christmas-day. Mrs. G., you have the art of concocting the most appetizing meals. I never seem to get enough of them." "Two a day!" suggested Mrs. Grapewine, in her sharp manner. "No, no, no! Mrs. G., you are an experienced cateress, that I confess.
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