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Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp by Unknown
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said to her, "Harkye, Lady Bedrulbudour; it is my present intent
to go out and return in disguise. [FN#594] Marvel thou not at this
and let one of thy slave-girls abide await at the privy door, to
open to me forthright, when she seeth me coming; and I will cast
about for a device whereby I may slay this accursed one." Then he
rose and going forth the [privy] door of his palace, walked on
till he encountered a peasant by the way and said to him,
"Harkye, sirrah, take my clothes and give me thine." The man
demurred, but Alaeddin enforced him and taking his clothes from
him, donned them and gave him his own costly apparel. Then he
fared on in the high road till he came to the city and entering,
betook himself to the drug-market, where for two diners he bought
of [one of] the druggists two drachms of rare strong henbane, the
son of its minute, [FN#595] and retracing his steps, returned to
the palace. When the damsel saw him, she opened him the privy
door and he went in to the Lady Bedrulbudour [FN#596] and said to
her, "Harkye, I will have thee dress and tire thyself and put
away melancholy from thee; and when the accursed Maugrabin cometh
to thee, do thou receive him with 'Welcome and fair welcome' and
go to meet him with a smiling face and bid him come sup with thee
and profess to him that thou hast forgotten thy beloved Alaeddin
and thy father and that thou lovest him with an exceeding love.
Moreover, do thou seek of him wine, and that red, [FN#597] and
make him a show of all joy and gladness and drink to his
health. [FN#598] Then, when thou hast filled him two or three cups
of wine, [FN#599] [watch] till thou take him off his guard; then
put him this powder [FN#600] in the cup and fill it up with wine,
and an he drink it, he will straightway turn over on his back,
like a dead man." When the Lady Bedrulbudour heard Alaeddin's
words, she said! to him, "This is a thing exceeding hard on me to
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