been brought him upon a Plate, and putting his Hand to his Mouth began to chew, and ſays to my Brother, Come Friend, eat as freely as if you were at Home come eat; you ſaid you were like to die of Hunger, but you eat as if you had no Stomach. Pardon me, my Lord, ſays Schacabac, who perfectly imitated what he did; You ſee I loſe no Time, and that I do my Part well enough. How like you this Bread ſays the Barmecide, Don’t you find it very good? O! My Lord, ſays my Brother, who ſaw neither Bread nor Meat, I never eat any thing ſo white and ſo fine, Come, eat your Belly full, ſays the Barmecide, I aſſure you_the Baker Woman that bakes me this Bread, coſt me five hundred Pieces of Gold to purchaſe her.
Here Scheherazade ſtopt becauſe it was Day, and next
Night went on thus.
The Hundred and Eighty Firſt Night.
THE
Barmecide, ſays the Barber after having boaſted ſo much of this Bread, which my Brother eat only in Idea, cries, Boy, bring us another Diſh; and tho’ no Boy appeared, come my good Friend, ſays he to my Brother, taſte this new Diſh; and tell me, if ever you eat better Mutton and Barley Broth than this. It’s admirable Good, replies my Brother, and therefore you ſee I eat heartily, You oblige me mightily, replies the
Barmecide; I conjure you then, by the Satisfaction I have to ſee you eat ſo heartily that you eat all up ſince you like it ſo well. A little while after he calls for a Gooſe and ſweet Sauce, Vinegar, Honey, dry Raiſins, gray Peaſe, and dry Figs, which was brought juſt in the ſame manner as the other was: The Gooſe is very fat, ſays the
Barmecide, eat only a Leg and a Wing, we muſt ſave our Stomach, for we have abundance of other Diſhes to come. He actually called for ſeveral other Diſhes, of which my Brother, who was ready to die of Hunger, pretended to eat; but what he boaſted of more than all the reſt, was a Lamb fed with Piſtacho-Nuts, which be ordered to be brought up in the ſame manner that the reſt were. And here’s a Diſh, ſays the
Barmecide, that you will ſee at no body’s Table but my own, I wou’d have you eat your Belly full of it. Having ſpoke thus, he ſtretch’d out his Hand as if he had a