dead, and adorned him with perfumes and jewels and flowers.

But when in her love-madness she lifted his face and kissed him, a
goblin who had come to live in her dead lover, bit off her nose.
And she was startled and ran in pain from the spot. But then she
came back to see if perhaps he was alive after all. But the goblin
had gone, and she saw that he was motionless and dead. So she
slowly went back home, frightened and disgraced and weeping.

And the concealed thief saw it all and thought: "What has the
wicked woman done? Alas! Can women be so dreadful as this?
What might she not do next?" So out of curiosity the thief still
followed her from afar.

And the wretched woman entered the house and cried aloud, and
said: "Save me from my cruel enemy, my own husband. He cut off
my nose and I had done nothing." And her servants heard her cries
and all arose in excitement. Her husband too awoke. Then her
father came and saw that her nose was cut off, and in his anger he
had his son-in-law arrested.

And the poor man did not know what to do. Even when he was
being bound, he remained silent and said nothing. Then they all
woke up and heard the story, but the thief who knew the whole
truth, ran away. And when day came, the merchant's son was
haled before the king by his father-in-law. And Fortune went there
without her nose, and the king heard the whole story and
condemned the merchant's son to death for mistreating his wife.

So the innocent, bewildered man was led to the place of execution