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King Quimūs now sent for his daughter and for her mother, Gul-rukh, and talked to them. He said to Mihr-afrūz: 'Listen to me, you cruel flirt! Why do you persist in this folly? Now there has come to ask your hand a prince of the east, so handsome that the very sun grows modest before the splendour of his face; he is rich, and he has brought gold and jewels, all for you, if you will marry him.
The prince addressed Mihr-afruz: 'What is the question you ask? 'What did the rose do to the cypress? she rejoined. The prince smiled, and turned and addressed the assembly. 'You who are experienced men and versed in affairs, did you ever know or hear and see anything of this matter? 'No! they answered, 'no one has ever known or heard or seen aught about it; it is an empty fancy.
Mihr-afrūz was brought before the king, and the prince said: 'This is the murderer of your sons; do with her as you will. The king fancied that the prince might care for the girl's beauty, and replied: 'You have humbled her; do with her as you will.
'O wealth of my life and source of my joy! responded Dil-aram, 'I do not know what the rose did to the cypress; but so much I know that the person who told Mihr-afruz about it is a negro whom she hides under her throne.
At last his confidants searched his heart and lifted the veil from the face of his love, and then set the matter before his father, King Saman-lāl-pōsh. 'Your son, Prince Tahmāsp, loves distractedly the Princess Mihr-afrūz, daughter of King Quimūs, son of Tīmūs. Then they told the king all about her and her doings.
'O Lady Latīfa, he said, 'I have made a compact with heaven not to sit down off my feet till I have been to Wāq of Qāf and have cleared up this matter, and have taken Mihr-afrūz from her father, as brave men take, and have put her in prison.
He received from the king everything that belonged to Mihr-afrūz; her treasure of gold and silver; her costly stuffs and carpets; her household plenishing; her horses and camels; her servants and slaves. Then he returned to his camp and sent for Dil-arām, who came bringing her goods and chattels, her gold and her jewels.
The prince addressed Mihr-afrūz: 'What is the question you ask? 'What did the rose do to the cypress? she rejoined. The prince smiled, and turned and addressed the assembly. 'You who are experienced men and versed in affairs, did you ever know or hear and see anything of this matter? 'No! they answered, 'no one has ever known or heard or seen aught about it; it is an empty fancy.
He wandered about the city, but heard nothing of service, for there was no one in all that land who understood the riddle of Princess Mihr-afrūz. One day he thought he would go to her own palace and see if he could learn anything there, so he went out to her garden-house. It was a very splendid place, with a wonderful gateway, and walls like Alexander's ramparts.
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