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The princess did all she could to dissuade prince Perviz, conjuring him not to expose her to the danger of losing two brothers; but he was obstinate, and all the remonstrances she could urge had no effeft upon him.
The sorceress, who came not to act a sick part long, but to discover prince Ahmed's retreat, being fully satisfied in what she wanted to know, would willingly have declared that the potion had then had its effeft, so great was her desire to return to the sultan, to inform him of the success of her commission: but as she had been told that the potion did not operate immediately, she was forced to wait the women's return.
"Drink this," said the attendant, "it is the water of the fountain of lions, and a sovereign remedy against fevers. You will find the effeft of it in less than an hour's time." The sorceress, the better to dissemble, took it, after a great deal of entreaty, as if she did it with reluctance.
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