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Three things I reckon, I know not of which to most complain; Give ear whilst I recount them and be you judge, I trow. I answer, "And where is my heart? Heigho!" When Maimouneh heard this, she said, 'Thou hast done well, O Dehnesh!
'Nay, my beloved is more beautiful than thine! And they ceased not to gainsay each other, till Maimouneh cried out at Dehnesh and would have laid violent hands on him; but he humbled himself to her and softening his speech, said to her, 'Let us leave talking, for we do but contradict each other, and rather seek one who shall judge fairly between us, whether of the two is fairer, and let us abide by his sentence. 'I agree to this, answered she and smote the earth with her foot, whereupon there came up a one-eyed Afrit, hump-backed and scurvy, with eyes slit endlong in his face.
And quoth another: Two fair ones lying on the earth I did of late espy; Two that I needs must love, although they lay upon mine eye. Dehnesh and Maimouneh gazed on them awhile, and the former said, 'By Allah, O my lady, it is good! My mistress is assuredly the fairer. 'Not so, answered she, 'my beloved is the fairer. Out on thee, O Dehnesh! Dost thou not see his beauty and grace and symmetry?
'O most ill-omened of Marids and vilest of Satans! Sure am I that there is not in this world the like of my beloved. Art thou mad to even thy beloved with mine? 'I conjure thee by Allah, O my lady, said Dehnesh, 'to go back with me and see my mistress, and after I will return with thee and look upon thy beloved. 'It must needs be so, O accursed one! answered she.
When he saw Maimouneh, he kissed the earth before her and standing with his hands clasped behind him, said, 'What is thy will, O king's daughter? 'O Keshkesh, answered she, 'I would have thee judge between me and this accursed Dehnesh. And she made known to him the whole matter, whereupon he looked at the prince and princess and saw them lying asleep, embraced, each with an arm about the other's neck, alike in beauty and grace and equal in goodliness.
But how could his family find it in their hearts to leave him in this desert place, where if one of our Marids came upon him at this hour, he would kill him? Then she bent over him and kissing him between the eyes, folded back the coverlet over his face; after which she spread her wings and soaring into the air, flew upward till she drew near the lowest heaven, when she heard the noise of wings beating the air and making for the sound, found that it came from an Afrit called Dehnesh.
'Know, O Dehnesh, answered she, 'that there hath befallen him the like of what befell thy mistress; for his father pressed him again and again to marry, but he refused, till at length his father waxed wroth and imprisoned him in the tower where I dwell: and I came up to-night and saw him. 'O my lady, said Dehnesh, 'show me the youth, that I may see if he be indeed handsomer than my mistress, the Princess Budour, or not; for I cannot believe that there lives her equal. 'Thou liest, O accursed one! rejoined Maimouneh.
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