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ENTERTAINMENTS.TXT-Part2_THE ARABIAN NIGHTS_Translated Works(翻译文学)-第2页

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And she floodeth cities with torrent tears

When she flasheth her look of levin light.



The Jinni seated her under the tree by his side and looking at

her, said: "O choicest love of this heart of mine! O dame of noblest



line, whom I snatched away on thy bride night that none might

prevent me taking thy maidenhead or tumble thee before I did, and whom



none save myself hath loved or hath enjoyed. O my sweetheart! I

would lief sleep a little while." He then laid his head upon the



lady's thighs, and, stretching out hip legs, which extended down to

the sea, slept and snored and snarked like the roll of thunder.



Presently she raised her head toward the treetop and saw the two Kings

perched near the summit. Then she softly lifted off her lap the



Jinni's pate, which she was tired of supporting, and placed it upon

the ground, then, standingupright under the tree, signed to the



Kings, "Come ye down, ye two, and fear naught from this Ifrit." They

were in a terrible fright when they found that she had seen them,



and answered her in the same manner, "Allah upon thee and by thy

modesty, O lady, excuse us from coming down!" But she rejoined by



saying: "Allah upon you both that ye come down forthright. And if ye

come not, I will rouse upon you my husband, this Ifrit, and he shall



do you to die by the illest of deaths." And she continued making

signals to them.



So, being afraid, they came down to her, and she rose before them

and said, "Stroke me a strong stroke, without stay or delay, otherwise



will I arouse and set upon you this Ifrit, who shall slay you

straightway." They said to her: "O our lady, we conjure thee by Allah,



let us off this work, for we are fugitives from such, and in extreme

dread and terror of this thy husband. How then can we do it in such



a way as thou desirest?" "Leave this talk. It needs must be so," quoth

she, and she swore them by Him who raised the skies on high without



prop or pillar that if they worked not her will, she would cause

them to be slain and cast into the sea. Whereupon out of fear King



Shahryar said to King Shah Zaman, "O my brother, do thou what she

biddeth thee do." But he replied, "I will not do it till thou do it



before I do." And they began disputing about futtering her.

Then quoth she to the twain: "How is it I see you disputing and



demurring? If ye do not come forward like men and do the deed of kind,

ye two, I will arouse upon you the Ifrit." At this, by reason of their



sore dread of the Jinni, both did by her what she bade them do, and

when they had dismounted from her, she said, "Well done!" She then



took from her pocket a purse and drew out a knotted string whereon

were strung five hundred and seventy seal rings, and asked, "Know ye



what be these?" They answered her saying, "We know not!" Then quoth

she: "These be the signets of five hundred and seventy men who have



all futtered me upon the horns of this foul, this foolish, this filthy

Ifrit. So give me also your two seal rings, ye pair of brothers."



When they had drawn their two rings from their hands and given

them to her, she said to them: "Of a truth this Ifrit bore me off on



my bride night, and put me into a casket and set the casket in a

coffer, and to the coffer he affixed seven strong padlocks of steel



and deposited me on the deep bottom of the sea that raves, dashing and

clashing with waves, and guarded me so that I might remain chaste



and honest, quotha! that none save himself might have connection

with me. But I have lain under as many of my kind as I please, and



this wretched Jinni wotteth not that Destiny may not be averted nor

hindered by aught, and that whatso woman willeth, the same she



fulfilleth however man nilleth. Even so saith one of them:

"Rely not on women,



Trust not to their hearts,

Whose joys and whose sorrows



Are hung to their parts!

Lying love they will swear thee



Whence guile ne'er departs.

Take Yusuf for sample,



'Ware sleights and 'ware smarts!

Iblis ousted Adam



(See ye not?) thro' their arts."

Hearing these words, they marveled with exceedingmarvel, and she



went from them to the Ifrit, and taking up his head on her thigh as

before, said to them softly, "Now wend your ways and bear yourselves



beyond the bounds of his malice." So they fared forth saying either to




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