Page:Arabian Nights Entertainments (1728)-Vol. 4.djvu/87
( 85 )
done, I found my ſelf perfectly well. Here, take this, ſaid I, reaching out to her my Purſe which was full, ’tis to you alone that I owe my Cure: I reckon this Money better employed than what I gave to the Phyſicians, who have done nothing but tormented me during the whole Courſe of my Illneſs.
When the Lady was gone, I found I had Strength enough to get up: And my Relations finding me ſo well, complimented me upon it, and went home.
Friday Morning the old Woman came juſt when I was dreſſing myſelf, and laying out the fineſt Cloaths I had, I do not ask you, ſays ſhe, how you do: What you are about, is Intimation enough of your Health, but will not you bathe before you go to the firſt Cadis’s Houſe. That would take up too much time, ſaid I, I’ll content my ſelf with calling a Barber to get my Head and Beard ſhaved. Preſently, I ordered one of my Slaves to call a Barber that could do his Buſineſs cleverly and expeditiouſy.
The Slave brought me this Wretch you ſee here; who came in, and after ſaluting me, Sir, ſaid he, you look as if you were not well. I told him I was juſt recovered of a fit of Sickneſs, I wiſh, ſaid he, God may deliver you from all Miſchance; may his Grace always go along with you. I hope, ſaid I, he will grant your Wiſh, for which I am very much obliged to you. Since you are recovering of a fit of Sickneſs, ſaid he, I pray God preſerve your Health; but now pray let me know what Service I am to do; I have brought my Razors and my Lancets. do you | defire to be Shaved or to be Bled; I replied, I am juſt recovered of a fit of Sickneſs I told you, and ſo you may I readily judge I only want to be Shaved; come; make haſte, do not loſe time in prattling; for am in haſte, and preciſely at noon I am to be at a Place.
Here the approach of Day interrupted Scheherazade but next Night ſhe purſued her Story thus.
The Hundred and Sixty Firſt Night.
very