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that Hump-back Fellow to his Stable again, where he is juſt now eating a Diſh of Cream. And you may reſt affur’d, that he will never appear any more before your Eyes.”

At this Diſcourſe the Vizier’s Daughter (who was more like one dead than alive when ſhe came into the Bride-chamber) put on a gay Air, which made her ſo handſome, that Bedreddin was perfecly charm’d with her.

I did not expect, ſaid ſhe, to meet with fo plealant a Surprize; and I had condemn’d my ſelf to live unhappy all my Days. But my good Fortune is ſo much the greater, that I poſſeſs in you a Man that is worthy of my tendereſt Affection.

Having ſpoke thus, ſhe undreſs’d herſelf and ſtep’d into Bed, Bedreddin Haſſan overjoy’d to ſee himſelf Poſeſſor of ſo many Charms, made haſte to follow her, and laid his Cloaths upon a Chair, with his Bag that he got from the Jew; which notwithſtanding all the Money he had pulled out, was ſtill full. He likewiſe laid off his Turban, and put on a Night-cap that had been ordain’d for Hump-back, and ſo went to Bed in his Shirt and Drawers. His Drawers^[1] were of blue Sattin, tied with a Lace of Gold.

Day beginning to dawn, oblig’d Scheherazade to ſtop, but next Night, being call’d upon at the ordinary Hour, ſhe reſumed her Story, and went on after this manner.

WHILST the two Lovers were aſleep, (ſaid the Grand Vizier Giafar) the Genie, who had met again with the Fairy, ſays to him, That it was high time to finiſh what was begun, and ſo ſucceſsfully carried on hitherto, then let us not be overtaken by Day-light, which will ſoon appear, go you and bring off the young Man again without awak’ning him.

The Fairy went into the Bed-chamber where the two Lovers were faſt aſleep, took up Bedreddin Haſſan juſt as he was, that is to ſay, in his Shirt and Drawers, and in Company with the Genie with a wonderful Swiftneſs flew away with him to the Gates of Damaſcus in Syria, where they arrived juſt at the time when the Officers of