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Updated: June 26, 2025
It may be yet he will return to thee; And patience, soul, beneath the pain he's smitten thee withal! Kemerezzeman awoke in the morning, afflicted and troubled at what he had seen, whereupon the princess questioned him and he told her his dream. Then they both went in to King Ghaiour and telling him what had passed, besought his leave to depart.
So let not thy beauty and grace delude thee; for, by Allah, if thou cure her not, I will assuredly cut off thy head! 'I knew of this condition before I came hither, answered Kemerezzeman, 'and am ready to abide by it. Then King Ghaiour took the Cadis to witness against him and delivered him to an eunuch, saying, 'Carry this fellow to the lady Budour. So the eunuch took him by the hand and led him along the gallery; but Kemerezzeman out-went him and pushed on before, whilst the eunuch ran after him, saying, 'Out on thee!
Next morning, when the King had gone away and the two young men were left alone, Kemerezzeman told Merzewan his story from first to last and the latter said to him, 'I know her with whom thou didst foregather; her name is the princess Budour and she is daughter to King Ghaiour. Then he told him all that had befallen the princess and acquainted him with the excessive love she bore him, saying, 'All that befell thee with thy father hath befallen her with hers, and thou art without doubt her beloved, even as she is thine; so brace up thy resolution and take heart, for I will bring thee to her and unite you both anon and deal with you even as saith the poet: Though to the lover adverse be the fair And drive him with her rigours to despair, Yet will I soon unite them, even as I The pivot of a pair of scissors were.
He gave the prince the leave he sought; but the princess said, 'O my father, I cannot endure to be parted from him. Quoth Ghaiour, 'Then go thou with him, and gave her leave to be absent a whole year, charging her to visit him once in every year thereafterward.
Quoth King Ghaiour, 'I will go back with thee and thy brother to your father and make your peace with him. Amjed kissed the ground before him and the King bestowed a dress of honour upon him, after which he returned, smiling, to the King of the city of the Magians and told him what he had learnt, at which he wondered exceedingly.
As they drew near, one of the princes rode forward and informed King Ghaiour of Kemerezzeman's coming, whereupon he came out to meet him and they joined company, marvelling at these things and how Fortune had ordered their encounter in that place.
There is nought goodlier than a lover who is faithful to a cruel beloved one. Then, for a subscription, he wrote, 'From the distracted and despairing lover, him whom love and longing disquiet, from the captive of passion and transport, Kemerezzeman, son of Shehriman, to the peerless beauty, the pearl of the fair Houris, the Lady Budour, daughter of King Ghaiour.
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