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Next morning,Nur al-Din took the zone and carried it to the market;where he sat down on a shop-bench and talked with the sons of the merchants,till the drowsiness preceding slumber overcame him and he lay down on the bench and fell asleep.Presently,behold,up came the Frank whom the damsel had described to him,in company with seven others,and seeing Nur al-Din lying asleep on the bench,with his head wrapped in the kerchief which Miriam had made for him and the edge thereof in his grasp,sat down by him and hent the end of the kerchief in hand and examined it,turning it over for some time.Nur al-Din sensed that there was something and awoke;then,seeing the very man of whom Miriam had warned him sitting by his side,cried out at him with a great cry which startled him.Quoth the Frank,'What aileth thee to cry out thus at us? Have we taken from thee aught?';and quoth Nur al-Din,'By Allah,O accursed,haddest thou taken aught from me,I would carry thee before the Chief of Police!'Then said the Frank,'O Moslem,I conjure thee by thy faith and by that wherein thou believest,inform me whence thou haddest this kerchief;'and Nur al-Din replied,'Tis the handiwork of my lady mother,'--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.

When it was the Eight Hundred and Seventy-seventh Night; She pursued,It hath reached me,O auspicious King,that when the Frank asked Nur al-Din anent the maker of the kerchief,he answered,saying,'In very sooth this kerchief is the handiwork of my mother,who made it for me with her own hand.'Quoth the Frank'Wilt thou sell it to me and take ready money for it?,'and quoth Nur al-Din,'By Allah,I will not sell it to thee or to any else,for she made none other than it.''Sell it to me and I will give thee to its price this very moment five hundred dinars;money down;and let her who made it make thee another and a finer.''I will not sell it at all,for there is not the like of it in this city.''O my lord,wilt thou sell it for six hundred ducats of fine gold?'And the Frank went on to add to his offer hundred by hundred,till he bid nine hundred dinars;but Nur al-Din said,'Allah will open to me otherwise than by my vending it.I will never sell it,not for two thousand dinars nor more than that;no,never.'The Frank ceased not to tempt him with money,till he bid him a thousand dinars,and the merchants present said,'We sell thee the kerchief at that price:[490]

pay down the money.'Quoth Nur al-Din,'I will not sell it,I swear by Allah!'[491] But one of the merchants said to him;'Know thou,O my son,that the value of this kerchief is an hundred dinars at most and that to an eager purchaser,and if this Frank pay thee down a thousand for it,thy profit will be nine hundred dinars,and what gain canst thou desire greater than this gain? Wherefore'tis my rede that thou sell him this kerchief at that price and bid her who wrought it make thee other finer than it: so shalt thou profit nine hundred dinars by this accursed Frank,the enemy of Allah and of The Faith.'Nur al-Din was abashed at the merchants and sold the kerchief to the Frank;who,in their presence,paid him down the thousand dinars,with which he would have returned to his handmaid to congratulate her on what had passed;but the stranger said,'Harkye,O company of merchants,stop my lord Nur al-Din,for you and he are my guests this night.I have a jar of old Greek wine and a fat lamb,fresh fruit,flowers and confections;wherefore do ye all cheer me with your company to-night and not one of you tarry behind.'So the merchants said,'O my lord Nur al-Din,we desire that thou be with us on the like of this night,so we may talk together,we and thou,and we pray thee,of thy favour and bounty,to bear us company,so we and thou,may be the guests of this Frank,for he is a liberal man.'And they conjured him by the oath of divorce[492] and hindered him by main force from going home.

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