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154 kings are shut out, by reason of their exalted station!’ Then came forward another man from amongst the company and said, ‘There hath reached me from one of my friends another story bearing on the malice of women and their craft, and it is rarer and more extraordinary and more diverting than all that hath been told to you.’

Quoth the company, ‘Tell us thy story and expound it unto us, so we may see that which it hath of extraordinary.’ And he said ‘Know, then, that