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They spent some happy hours planning how they should spend it, and thinking how clever they had been. 'When the Sultan goes this evening to Subida's palace, said Abu Nowas, 'she will be sure to tell him that Abu Nowas is dead. "Not Abu Nowas, it is his wife," he will reply, and they will quarrel over it, and all the time we shall be sitting here enjoying ourselves.
Abu Nowas one day shut himself up and, making ready a richly-furnished feast, collected for it meats of all kinds and of every colour that lips and tongue can desire. Then he went forth, to seek a minion worthy of such entertainment, saying, "Allah, my Lord and my Master, I beseech Thee to send me one who befitteth this banquet and who is fit to carouse with me this day!"
Quoth Ja'afar, "He who went out but now to make water is the Commander of the Faithful, Harun al-Rashid, and I am the Wazir Ja'afar; and this is Masrur the executioner and this other is Abu Nowas Hasan bin Hani.. And now, O Ala al-Din, use thy reason and bethink thee how many days' journey it is between Cairo and Baghdad."
'Yes, noble Sultan; it is the wife, replied the porter. 'He only says that to please you, cried Subida in a rage; and calling to her chamberlain, she ordered him to go at once to the dwelling of Abu Nowas and see which of the two was dead. 'And be sure you tell the truth about it, added she, 'or it will be the worse for you.
He answered, "Patience, and thou shalt see him presently. As they were talking together, up came the lad, clad in a white tunic, under which was another of red and under this yet another black. Now when Abu Nowas saw him, he sighed a loud sigh and improvised these couplets, "He showed himself in shirt of white, * With eyes and eyelids languor-digit.
Now as soon as it was morning, he repaired to his sitting-room and called for Abu Nowas, but found him not and sent his chamberlain to ask after him. The chamberlain found him in a tavern, pawned and pledged for a score of a thousand dirhams, which he had spent on a certain beardless youth, and questioned him of his case.
And he sprang up and kissed her, and said: 'Now you are mine for ever and ever, and when we die we will both be buried in one grave. And so they were. The Death Of Abu Nowas And Of His Wife Once upon a time there lived a man whose name was Abu Nowas, and he was a great favourite with the Sultan of the country, who had a palace in the same town where Abu Nowas dwelt.
So Abu Nowas took his wife home, and for some time they were very happy, and spent the money freely which the Sultan had given them, never thinking what they should do for more when that was gone. But come to an end it did, and they had to sell their fine things one by one, till at length nothing was left but a cloak apiece, and one blanket to cover them.
'My husband is dead, answered she, pointing to the bed; and the chamberlain drew back the sheet and beheld Abu Nowas lying stiff and motionless. Then he gently replaced the sheet and returned to the palace. 'Well, have you found out this time? asked the Sultan. 'My lord, it is the husband who is dead. 'But I tell you he was with me only a few hours ago, cried the Sultan angrily.
'We must all die, answered the Sultan; but this was not the reply for which Abu Nowas had hoped. 'True, O Sultan, but I have neither shroud to wrap her in, nor money to bury her with, went on Abu Nowas, in no wise abashed by the way the Sultan had received his news. 'Well, give him a hundred pieces of gold, said the Sultan, turning to the Grand Vizir.
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