{"id":176,"date":"2013-07-13T01:26:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=176"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:26:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:24","slug":"18-the-viziers-of-bassora-act-4-sc-2-vol-07-collected-plays-part-ii-volume-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/07-collected-plays-part-ii-volume-07\/18-the-viziers-of-bassora-act-4-sc-2-vol-07-collected-plays-part-ii-volume-07","title":{"rendered":"-18_The Viziers of Bassora Act-4 Sc-2.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<span style=\"letter-spacing: 3pt;font-weight: 700\"><br \/>\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"4\">SCENE II<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>The Pavilion of Pleasure.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>Anice-Aljalice, Nureddene, Shaikh Ibrahim on couches, by a table<br \/>\nset with dishes.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UREDDENE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">These kabobs are indeed good, and the conserves look sweet and<br \/>\nthe fruit very glossy. But will you sit and eat nothing?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Verily, my son, I have eaten at midday. Allah forbid me from<br \/>\ngluttony!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Old father, you discourage our stomachs. You shall eat a morsel<br \/>\nfrom my fingers or I will say you use me hardly.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">No, no, no, no. Ah well, from your fingers, from your small<br \/>\nslim rosy fingers. Allah! Only a bit, only a morsel: verily, verily!<br \/>\nAllah! surely thy fingers are sweeter than honey. I could eat<br \/>\nthem with kisses.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">What, old father, you grow young?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Oh, now, now, now! &#8216;Twas a foolish jest unworthy of my grey<br \/>\nhairs. I take refuge with Allah! A foolish jest.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UREDDENE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">But, my aged host, it is dry eating without wine. Have you never<br \/>\na flagon in all this palace ? It is a blot, a blot on its fair perfection.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I take refuge with Allah. Wine! for sixteen years I have not<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 677<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">touched the evil thing. When I was young indeed! Ah well, when<br \/>\nI was young. But &#8217;tis forbidden. What saith Ibn Batata? That<br \/>\nwine worketh transmogrification. And Ibrahim Alhashhash bin<br \/>\nFuzfuz bin Bierbiloon al Sandilani of Bassora, he rateth wine<br \/>\nsorely and averreth that the red glint of it is the shine of the red<br \/>\nfires of Hell, its sweetness kisseth damnation and the coolness<br \/>\nof it in the throat causeth bifurcation&#8217;. Ay, verily, the great<br \/>\nAlhashhash.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Who are these learned doctors you speak of, old father? I have<br \/>\nread all the books, but never heard of them.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Oh, thou hast read? These are very distant and mystic Sufis,<br \/>\nvery rare doctors. Their books are known only to the adepts.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">What a learned old man art thou, Shaikh Ibrahim! Now Allah<br \/>\nsave the soul of the great Alhashhash!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Hm! &#8216;Tis so. Wine! Verily, the Prophet hath &quot;cursed grower<br \/>\nand presser, buyer and seller, carrier and drinker. I take refuge<br \/>\nwith Allah from the curse of the Prophet.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\">N<font size=\"2\">UREDDENE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Hast thou not even one old ass among all thy belongings ? And<br \/>\nif an old ass is cursed, is it thou who art cursed ?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Hm! My son, what is thy parable?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UREDDENE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I will show you a trick to cheat the devil. Give three denars of<br \/>\nmine to a neighbour&#8217;s servant with a dirham or two for his<br \/>\ntrouble, let him buy the wine and clap it on an old ass, and let<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 678<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">the old ass bring it here. So art thou neither grower nor presser,<br \/>\nseller nor buyer, carrier or drinker, and if any be damned, it is an<br \/>\nold ass that is damned. What saith the great Alhashhash?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Hm! Well, I will do it. <i>(aside)<\/i> Now I need not let them know that<br \/>\nthere is wine galore in my cupboards, Allah forgive me!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>Exit.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\">N<font size=\"2\">UREDDENE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">He is the very gem of hypocrites.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">The fitter to laugh at. Dear my lord, be merry<br \/>\nTonight, if only for tonight. Let care<br \/>\nExpect tomorrow.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UREDDENE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">You are happy, Anice ?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I feel as if I could do nothing else<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">But laugh through life&#8217;s remainder. You&#8217;re safe, safe<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">And that grim devil baffled. Oh, you&#8217;re safe!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UREDDENE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">It was a breathless voyage up the river:<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I think a price is on my head. Perhaps<br \/>\nOur helpers suffer.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">But you are safe, my joy,<br \/>\nMy darling.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>She goes to him and kisses and clings about him.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UREDDENE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Anice, your eyes are full of tears!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 679<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">You are quite overwrought.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Let only you be safe<br \/>\nAnd all the world beside entirely perish.<br \/>\nMy love! my master!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>She again embraces and kisses him<br \/>\nrepeatedly. Shaikh Ibrahim returns with<br \/>\nthe wine and glasses in a tray.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Allah! Allah! Allah!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Where&#8217;s that old sober learning?<br \/>\nI want to dance, to laugh, to outriot riot.<br \/>\nOh, here he is.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\">N<font size=\"2\">UREDDENE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">What a quick ass was this. Shaikh Ibrahim!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">No, no, the wineshop is near, very near. Allah forgive us, ours<br \/>\nis an evil city, this Bagdad; it is full of winebibbers and gluttons<br \/>\nand liars.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Dost thou ever lie. Shaikh Ibrahim?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Allah forbid! Above all sins I abhor lying and liars.<br \/>\nO my son,<br \/>\nkeep thy young lips from vain babbling and unnecessary lying.<br \/>\nIt is of the unpardonable sins, it is the way to Jahannam. But I<br \/>\npray thee what is the young lady to thee, my son?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">She is my slave-girl.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 680<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Ah, ah! thy slave-girl? Ah, ah! a slave-girl! ah!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Drink, my lord.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UREDDENE<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>(drinking&#8217;)<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">By the Lord, but I am sleepy. I will even rest my head in thy<br \/>\nsweet lap for a moment.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>He lies down.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Allah! Allah! What, he sleeps?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Fast. That is the trick he always serves me. After the first cup<br \/>\nhe dozes off and leaves me quite sad and lonely.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Why, why, why, little one! Thou art not alone and why shouldst<br \/>\nthou be sad? I am here, \u2014old Shaikh Ibrahim; I am here.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><br \/>\nI will not be sad, if you will drink with me.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Fie, fie, fie!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">By my head and eyes!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Well, well, well! Alas, &#8217;tis a sin, &#8217;tis a sin, &#8217;tis a sin. <i>(drinks)<br \/>\n<\/i>Verily, verily.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Another.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 681<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">No, no, no.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">By my head and eyes!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Well, well, well, well! Tis a grievous sin, Allah forgive me!<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>(drinks)<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Just one more.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Does he sleep ? Now if it were the wine of thy lips, little one.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Old father, old father! Is this thy sanctity and the chastity of<br \/>\nthee and thy averseness to frivolity? To flirt with light-minded<br \/>\nyoung hussies like me! Where is thy sanctification ? Where is<br \/>\nthy justification ? Where is thy predestination ? O mystic, thou<br \/>\nart biforked with an evil bifurcation. Woe&#8217;s me for the great<br \/>\nAlhashhash!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">No, no, no.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Art thou such a hypocrite? Shaikh Ibrahim! Shaikh Ibrahim!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">No, no, no! A fatherly jest! a little little jest!<br \/>\n<i>(drinks)<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UREDDENE<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>(starting up)<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Shaikh Ibrahim, thou drinkest?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Oh, ah! &#8216;Twas thy slave-girl forced me. Verily, verily!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 682<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\">N<font size=\"2\">UREDDENE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Anice! Anice! Why wilt thou pester him? Wilt thou pluck down<br \/>\nhis old soul from heaven ? Fie! draw the wine this side of the<br \/>\ntable. I pledge you, my heart.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">To you, my dear one.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UREDDENE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">You have drunk half your cup only; so, again; to Shaikh Ibrahim and his learned sobriety!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">To the shade of the great Alhashhash!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Fie on you! What cursed unneighbourly manners are these, to<br \/>\ndrink in my face and never pass the bowl?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">and N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UREDDENE<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>(together)<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Shaikh Ibrahim! Shaikh Ibrahim! Shaikh Ibrahim!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Never cry out at me. You are a Hour and she is a Houri come<br \/>\ndown from Heaven to ensnare my soul. Let it be ensnared! &#8216;Tis not worth one beam from under your eyelids. Hour, I will<br \/>\nembrace thee, I will kiss thee, Houri.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UREDDENE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Embrace not. Shaikh Ibrahim, neither kiss, for thy mouth<br \/>\nsmelleth evilly of that accursed thing, wine. I am woeful for the<br \/>\nmystic Alhashhash.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Art thou transmogrified, O Sufi, O adept, O disciple of Ibn<br \/>\nBatata?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 683<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Laugh, laugh! laughter is on your beauty like the sunlight on the<br \/>\nfair minarets of Mazinderan the beautiful. Give me a cup.<i> drinks)<\/i> You are sinners and I will sin with you. I will sin hard,<br \/>\nmy beauties, <i>(drinks) <\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Come now, I will sing to you, if you will give me a lute. I am a<br \/>\nrare singer, Shaikh Ibrahim.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>(drinks)<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">There is a lute in yonder corner. Sing, sing, and it may be I will<br \/>\nanswer thee. <i>(drinks)<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">But wait, wait. To sing in this meagreness of light! Candles,<br \/>\ncandles.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>She lights the eighty candles of the great candelabrum.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>(drinks)<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Allah! it lights thee up, my slave-girl, my jewel,<br \/>\n<i>(drinks)<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\">N<font size=\"2\">UREDDENE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Drink not so fast. Shaikh Ibrahim, but get up and light the lamps<br \/>\nin the windows.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>(drinks)<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Sin not thou by troubling the coolness of wine in my throat.<br \/>\nLight them, light them but not more than two.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>Nureddene goes out lighting the lamps one<br \/>\nby one and returns in the same way. Mean-<br \/>\nwhile Shaikh Ibrahim drinks.<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Allah! hast thou lit them all?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Shaikh Ibrahim, drunkenness sees but double, and dost thou<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 684<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">see eighty-four? Thou art far gone in thy cups,<br \/>\nO adept, O Ibn<br \/>\nBatatist.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I am not yet so drunk as that. You are bold youths to light them<br \/>\nall.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\">N<font size=\"2\">UREDDENE <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Whom fearest thou? Is not the pavilion thine?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Surely mine; but the Caliph dwells near and he will be angry<br \/>\nat the glare of so much light.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UREDDENE<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Truly, he is a great Caliph.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Great enough, great enough. There might have been greater<br \/>\nif Fate had willed it. But &#8217;tis the decree of Allah. Some He<br \/>\nraiseth to be Caliphs and some He turned into gardeners. <i>(drinks)<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I have found a lute.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">N<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">UREDDENE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Give it me. Hear me improvise. Old Sobriety.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>(Sings)<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Saw you Shaikh Ibrahim the grave old man?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Allah! Allah! I saw him drunk and drinking.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">What was he doing when the dance began ?<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">He was winking; verily, verily, he was winking.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Fie! What cobbler&#8217;s poetry is this? But thou hast a touch. Let<br \/>\nme hear thee rather.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 685<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">NICE<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">-A<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">LJALICE<br \/>\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I have a song for you.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><i>(Sings)<\/i><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">White as winter is my beard,<br \/>\nAll my face with wrinkles weird,<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Yet I drink.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Hell-fire? judgment? who&#8217;s afraid?<br \/>\nIbrahim would kiss a maid<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">As soon as think.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">BRAHIM<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Allah! Allah! Nightingale! Nightingale!<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page \u2013 686<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE II &nbsp; &nbsp; The Pavilion of Pleasure. Anice-Aljalice, Nureddene, Shaikh Ibrahim on couches, by a table set with dishes. 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