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Updated: May 12, 2025
Now, as chance and destiny would have it, the tower in question was old and had been many years deserted; and there was therein a Roman well, inhabited by an Afriteh of the lineage of Iblis the Accursed, by name Maimouneh, daughter of Ed Dimiryat, a renowned King of the Jinn.
With this, he considered awhile and said to himself, 'If I guess aright, this is she to whom my father would have married me and I have refused these three years past; but, God willing, as soon as it is day, I will say to him, "Marry me to her that I may enjoy her," nor will I let half the day pass ere I possess her and take my fill of her beauty and grace. Then he bent over Budour, to kiss her, whereat Maimouneh trembled and was confounded and Dehnesh was like to fly for joy.
Except thou obey me forthright, I will dart my sparks at thee and consume thee with my fire; yea, I will rend thee in pieces and cast thee into the deserts, as an example to stay-at-home and wayfarer. 'O my lady, answered the Afrit, 'I will do thy bidding, for I know that my mistress is the fairer and sweeter. So saying, he flew away and Maimouneh flew with him, to guard him.
So the two Afrits lifted up the Princess Budour and flying away with her, carried her back to her own place and laid her on her bed, whilst Maimouneh abode alone with Kemerezzeman, gazing upon him as he slept, till the night was all but spent, when she went her way.
I conjure thee, therefore, O my lady, to go back with me and look on her beauty and symmetry; and after, if thou wilt, chastise me or enslave me: for it is thine to command and to forbid. So saying, he bowed his head towards the earth and drooped his wings; but Maimouneh laughed at his words and spitting in his face, answered, 'What is this girl of whom thou pratest but a potsherd to cleanse the privities withal?
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.
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!
But tell me, which of the two is the handsomer? And he answered, 'My mistress Budour is certainly handsomer than thy beloved. 'Thou liest, O accursed one! cried Maimouneh.
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?
Needs must I do my endeavour, in my turn, to celebrate my mistress, to the best of my power, and recite somewhat in her honour. Then he went up to the lady Budour and kissing her between the eyes, looked at her and at Maimouneh and recited the following verses, for all he had no skill in poetry: They chide my passion for my fair in harsh and cruel guise; But, of their ignorance, forsooth, they're neither just nor wise.
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