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long Beard ſhall never make me believe what you ſays what I ſay I know to be true; your Daughter is in Love with our Maſter, and gave him a meeting during the Time of Noon-Prayer; you without doubt have had Notice of it, you returned home, and ſurprized him, and made your Slaves baſtonade him; but this your wicked Action ſhall not paſs with Impunity; the Califf ſhall be acquainted with it, and he will give true and brief Juſtice. Let him come out, deliver him to us immediately; or if you do not, we’ll go in and take him from you to your Shame. There’s no occaſion for ſo many Words, replied the Cadis, nor to make ſo great a Noiſe: If what you ſay is true, go in and find him out, I give you free Liberty. Thereupon the Barber and my Domelticks ruſhed into the Houſe like Furies, and looked for me all about.

Scheherazade perceiving Day, ſtopped at this Period. Schahriar roſe, laughing at the indiſcreet Zeal of the Barber, and curious to know what paſs’d in the Cadis’s Houſe, and by what Accident the young Man became lame. Next Night the Sultaneſs ſatisfied his Curioſity, and reſumed the Story in the following Words.