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And presently Izzah invited Ayishah and the women of the tribe Kuraysh to her house, when Ayishah sang these two couplets with Mus'ab standing by, "And the lips of girls, that are perfume sweet; * So nice to kiss when with smiles they greet: Yet ne'er tasted I them, but in thought of him; * And by thought the Ruler rules worldly seat."
So she went away and returning to Mus'ab, said, "I have seen her, and her face is fairer than health; she hath large and well-opened eyes and under them a nose straight and smooth as a cane; oval cheeks and a mouth like a cleft pomegranate, a neck as a silver ewer and below it a bosom with two breasts like twin- pomegranates and further down a slim waist and a slender stomach with a navel therein as it were a casket of ivory, and back parts like a hummock of sand; and plumply rounded thighs and calves like columns of alabaster; but I saw her feet to be large, and thou wilt fall short with her in time of need."
Upon this report he married her, And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say. When it was the Three Hundred and Eighty-seventh Day She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Izzah this wise reported of Ayishah bint Talhah, Mus'ab married her and went in to her.
The Caliph bade give a myriad of money each to Al-Rakashi and Abu Mus'ab, but bade strike off the head of Abu Nowas, saying, "Thou wast with us yesternight in the palace." Said he, "By Allah, I slept not but in my own house! And another tale is that of
Hath left me in sorrow and love distraught, * Unseen and unseeing, that fairest may: She promised me grace, then jilted and said, * 'The promise of night is effaced by day!" Then Abu Mus'ab came forward and recited these couplets, "When wilt thou be wise and love-heat allay * That from food and sleeping so leads astray?
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