"Thy shape's temptation, eyes as Houri's fain * And sheddeth Beauty's sheen[FN#75] that radiance rare: My glance portrayed thy glorious portraiture: * Rubies one-half and gems the third part were: Musk made a fifth: a sixth was ambergris * The sixth a pearl but pearl without compare. Eve never bare a daughter evening thee * Nor breathes thy like in Khuld's[FN#76] celestial air. An thou would torture me 'tis wont of Love * And if thou pardon 'tis thy choice I swear: Then, O world bright'ner and O end of wish! * Loss of thy charms who could in patience bear?"
--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.
When it was the Seven Hundred and Ninety-second Night,
She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Hasan went in unto the King's daugh
