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\nSCENE III<\/b><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nThe Slave-market.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nMuazzim and his man; Balkis and Mymoona, Ajebe, Aziz,
\nAbdullah and other merchants.<\/i><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWell, gentlemen, the biddings, the biddings! Will you begin, sir,
\nfor an example now?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>ALKIS<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWho is the handsome youth in that rich dress?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM<\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt is Ajebe, the Vizier’s nephew, a good fellow with a bad uncle.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>ALKIS<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPraise me to them poetically, broker.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI promise you for the poetry. Biddings, gentlemen.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA M<\/font>ERCHANT<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThree thousand for the pretty one.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhy, sir, I protest! Three thousand pieces! Look at her! Allah
\nbe good to me! You shall not find her equal from China to
\nFrangistan. Seven thousand, say I.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>ziz<\/span><\/font>
\n\t<\/font><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe goods are good goods, broker, but the price heavy.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDidst thou say heavy? Allah avert the punishment from thee,
\nmerchant Aziz. Heavy!<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 574<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tB<\/font>ALKIS
\n\t<\/font>(to Ajebe)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWill you not bid for me ? My mirror tells me
\nThat I am pretty, and I can tell, who know it,
\nI have a touch upon the lute will charm
\nThe winds to hear me, and my voice is sweeter
\nThan any you have heard in Bassora.
\nWill you not bid?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>JEBE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd wherefore do you choose me
\nFrom all these merchants, child ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>ALKIS
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI cannot say
\nThat I have fallen in love with you. Your mother
\nIs kind and beautiful, I read her in your face,
\nAnd it is she I’ld serve.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>JEBE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI bid, Muazzim,
\nFive thousand for this little lady.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFive!
\nAnd she who chose you too! ‘Bid seven or nothing.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>JEBE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWell, well, six thousand, not a dirham more.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM<\/font><\/p>\n

\nDoes any bid beyond?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>ERCHANT
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLet me see, let me see.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>BDULLAH<\/font><\/p>\n

\nFie, leave them, man! You’ll have no luck with her,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 575<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nCrossing her wishes.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>ERCHANT
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLet her go, let her go.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo you, sir, she belongs.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>ALKIS <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBut if you’ll have me,
\nThen take my sister too; we make one heart
\nInseparably.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>JEBE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nShe’s fair, but not like you.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>ALKIS
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIf we are parted, I shall sicken and die
\nFor want of her, then your six-thousand’s wasted.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThey make a single lot.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>JEBE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTwo thousand more then.
\nGive her in that, or else the sale is off.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThat’s giving her away. Well, take her, take her.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>JEBE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI’ll send the money.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nExit with Balkis and Mymoona.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>BDULLAH
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat, a bargain, broker?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 576<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tMUAZZIM <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNot much, not much; the owner’ll have some profit.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t
\n\tA<\/font>ziz <\/font><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Vizier!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEnter Ibn Sawy.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>BDULLAH
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNoble Alfazzal! There will be
\nGood sales today in the market, since his feet
\nHave trod here.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>ERCHANTS
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWelcome, welcome, noble Vizier.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe peace be on you all. I thank you, sirs,
\nWhat, good Abdullah, all goes well at home?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>BDULLAH
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMy brother’s failed, sir.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMake me your treasurer.
\nI am ashamed to think good men should want
\nWhile I indulge in superfluities.
\nWell, broker, how’s the market? Have you slaves
\nThat I can profit by?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAdmired Vizier,
\nThere’s nothing worth the kindness of your gaze.
\nYet do but tell me what you need, I’ll fit you
\nWith stuff quite sound and at an honest price.
\nThe other brokers are mere pillagers,
\nBut me you know.<\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 577<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIf there’s an honest broker,
\nYou are that marvel, I can swear so much.
\nNow pick me out your sweetest thing in girls,
\nPerfect in beauty, wise as Sheban Balkis,
\nYet more in charm than Helen of the Greeks,
\nThen name your price.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI have the very marvel.
\nYou shall not see her equal in a century.
\nShe has the Koran and the law by heart;<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nSong, motion, music and calligraphy
\nAre natural to her, and she contains
\nAll science in one corner of her mind;<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nYet learning less than wit; and either lost<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nIn the mere sweetness of her speech and beauty.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nYou’ll hardly have her within fifteen thousand;<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nShe is a nonpareil.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIt is a sum.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM<\/font><\/p>\n

\nNay, see her only. Khalid, bring the girl.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nExit Khalid.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI should not ask you, sir, but has your son
\nAuthority from you to buy ? He has
\nThe promise of a necklet from me.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA necklet!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA costly trifle. "Send it to such a house,"
\nHe tells me like a prince, "and dun my father
\nFor the amount. I know you’ll clap it on<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 578<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nAs high as Elburz, you old swindler. Fleece him!"
\nHe is a merry lad.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFleece me! The rogue!
\nThe handsome naughty rogue! I’ll pull his curls for this.
\nThe house ? To whom is it given ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWell, sir, it is
\nA girl, a dainty Christian. I fear she has given
\nSomething more precious far than what he pays <\/b>her with.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNo doubt, no doubt. The rogue! quite conscienceless.
\nI’m glad you told me of this. Dun me! Well,
\nThe rascal’s frank enough, that is one comfort;<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHe adds no meaner vices, fear or lying,
\nTo his impetuous faults. The blood is good
\nAnd in the end will bear him through. There’s hope.
\nI’ll come, Muazzim.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nExit.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe son repeats the father,
\nBut with a dash of quicker, wilder blood.
\nHere’s Khalid with the Persian.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nEnter Khalid with Anice-Aljalice.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nKhalid, run
\nAnd call the Vizier, he was here just now.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nExit Khalid. Enter Almuene, Fareed and slaves.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tF<\/font>AREED<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThere she is, father; there, there, there!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LMUENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nYou deal, sir? I know you well. Today be more honest than is<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 579<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nyour wont. Is she bid for?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>(aside)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIblis straight out of Hell with his hobgoblin! (aloud)<\/i> Sir, we are
\nwaiting for the good Vizier, who is to bid for her.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LMUENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHere is the Vizier and he bids for her.
\nTwo thousand for the lass. Who bids against me?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nVizier Almuene, you are too great to find any opposers, and you
\nknow it; but as you are great, I pray you bid greatly. Her least
\nprice is ten thousand.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LMUENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTen thousand, swindler! Do you dare to cheat
\nIn open market? Two thousand’s her outside.
\nThis spindly common wench! Accept it, broker,
\nOr call for bids; refuse at your worst risk.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIt is not the rule of these sales. I appeal to you, gentlemen. What,
\ndo you all steal off from my neighbourhood? Vizier, she is
\nalready bespoken by your elder, Ibn Sawy.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LMUENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI know your broking tricks, you shallow rascal.
\nCall for more bids, you cheater, call for bids.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAbuse me not, Almuene bin Khakan! There is justice in Bassora
\nand the good Ibn Sawy will decide between us.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LMUENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nUs! Between us! Thou dirty broking cheat,
\nAm I thy equal? Throw him the money, Nubian.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 580<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nBut if he boggle, seize him, have him flat
\nAnd powerfully persuade him with your sticks.
\nYou, beauty, come. What, hussy, you draw back?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tF<\/font>AREED
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFather, let me get behind her with my horse-tickler. I will trot
\nher home in a twinkling.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThis is flat tyranny. I will appeal
\nTo the good Vizier and our gracious King.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LMUENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nImpudent thief! have first thy punishment
\nAnd howl appeal between the blows. Seize him.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEnter Khalid with Ibn Sawy.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nProtect me, Vizier, from this unjust man,
\nThis tyrant.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat is this?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHe takes by force
\nThe perfect slave-girl I had kept for you,
\nAnd at a beggarly, low, niggard’s price
\nI’ld not accept for a black kitchen-girl;<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThen, when I named you, fell to tyrant rage,
\nOrdering his slaves to beat me.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIs this true,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nVizier?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LMUENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nSomeone beat out my foggy brains ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 581<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nI took it for a trick, a broker’s trick.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWhat, you bespoke the girl ? You know Fid lose<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nMy hand and tongue rather than they should hurt you.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWell, well, begin the bidding.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFirst, a
\n<\/b>word.
\n<\/b>Vizier, this purchase is not for myself;<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n‘Tis for the King. I deem you far too loyal
\nTo bid against your master, needlessly
\nTaxing his treasuries. But if you will,
\nYou have the right. By justice and the law
\nThe meanest may compete here. Do you bid?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LMUENE
\n\t<\/font>(<\/font><\/i>to himself)<\/i><\/font>
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHe baulks me everywhere, (aloud)<\/i> The perfect slave-girl?
\nNo, I’ll not bid. Yet it is most unlucky,
\nMy son has set his heart upon this very girl.
\nWill you not let him have her, Ibn Sawy?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI grieve that he must be so disappointed,
\nBut there’s no help. Were it my own dear son
\nAnd he should pine to death for her, I would not
\nIndulge him here. The King comes first.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LMUENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nQuite first.
\nWell, shall I see you at your house today ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nState business, brother?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LMUENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOur states and how to join
\nTheir linked loves yet closer. I have a thought
\nTouching Fareed here and your orphaned niece.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 582<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI understand you. We will talk of it.
\nBrother, you know my mind about your boy.
\nHe is too wild and rude; I would not trust
\nMy dear soft girl into such dangerous hands,
\nUnless he showed a quick and strange amendment.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LMUENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIt is the wildness of his youth. Provide him
\n<\/u>A wife and he will soon domesticate.
\nPen these wild torrents into quiet dams
\nAnd they will fertilize the kingdom, brother.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI hope so. Well, we’ll talk.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LMUENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFareed, come with me.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tF<\/font>AREED<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI’ll have my girl! I’ll beat them all and have her!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LMUENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWagtail, your uncle takes her.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tF<\/font>AREED
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBreak his head then,
\nWhip the proud broker up and down the square
\nAnd take her without payment. Why are you
\nThe Vizier, if you cannot do your will ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>LMUENE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nMadcap, she’s for the King, be quiet.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tF<\/font>AREED
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOh!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 583<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tA<\/font>LMUENE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nCome, I will buy you prettier girls than this
\nBy hundredweights and tons.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tF<\/font>AREED
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nShe has such hair! such legs!
\nGod damn the Vizier and the King and you!
\nI’ll take her yet.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nExit in a rage, followed by Almuene and slaves.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tMUAZZIM <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThis is a budding Vizier!
\nSir, look at her; were mine mere broker’s praises?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYou, mistress! Does the earth contain such beauty?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM<\/font><\/p>\n

\nDid I not tell you so ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n‘Tis marvellous,
\nAnd if her mind be equal to her body,
\nShe is an emperor’s portion. What’s your name,
\nSweet wonder ?<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>UALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnice-Aljalice they call me.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWhat is your history?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMy parents sold me
\nIn the great famine.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWhat, is your mould indeed a thing of earth ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 584<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nPeri, have you not come disguised from heaven
\nTo snare us with your lovely smiles, you marvel ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI am a slave and mortal.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nProve me that.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tA<\/font>NICE<\/font>-A<\/font>LJALICE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nA peri, sir, has wings, but I have none.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI see that difference only. Well now, her price?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM<\/font><\/p>\n

\nShe is a gift to thee, 0 Vizier.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nCeremony?
\nI rate her value at ten thousand clear.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIt is the price expected at your hands,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThough from a private purse we’ld have full value.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nKeep her ten days with you; her beauty’s worn<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWith journeying and its harsh fatigues. Give rest,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nGive baths, give food, then shade your eyes to gaze at her.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tI<\/font>BN
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>AWY
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYou counsel wisely. There’s my poaching rascal,\u2014
\nBut I will seal her fast even from his questings,
\nThe peace, Muazzim.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tM<\/font>UAZZIM<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPeace, thou good Vizier, loaded with our blessings.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nExeunt.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

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