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give you why I loſt my right Eye, wherefore my Beard and Eye-browe are ſhav’d, and how I came to be with you at this preſent Time.

’Tis enough, ſays Zobeide, you may retire to what Place you think fit. The Callender made his Excuſe, and beg’d the Ladies Leave to ſtay till he had heard the Relations of his two Comrades, whom I cannot (ſays he) leave with Honour; and till he might alſo hear thole of the three other Perſons that were in Company.

Here Scheherazade ſaid to the Sultan, Sir, The Day-light which ſee, prevents me from going on with the Story of the ſecond Callender; but if your Majeſty will hear it to-morrow, you will find as much Satisfaction in that, as in this Story, of the firſt. To which the Sultan gave Conſent, and ſo got up, in order to go to Council.

The Fortieth Night.

DInarzade not doubting to find as much Delight in the Story of the ſecond Callender, as ſhe had in the firſt, fail’d not to call upon the Sultaneſs before Day. If you be not aſleep, Siſter, ſaid ſhe, I would pray you to begin the Story that you promis’d: Upon which, Scheherazade addreſſed her Diſcourſe to the Sultan, and ſpoke as follows:

Sir, The Story of the firſt Callender ſeem’d very ſtrange to the whole Company, but eſpecially to the Califf, who notwithſtanding the Slaves ſtood by with their Scimeters in their Hands, could not forbear whiſpering to the Viſier. Many Stories have heard, but never any thing that came near the Story of the Callender. Whilſt he was ſaying this the ſecond Callender began, addreſſing his Speech to Zobeide.

The Story of the Second Callender a King’s Son.
MADAM, ſaid he, to obey your Command, and to ſhow you by what ſtrange Accident I became blind
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