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230 into the garden. Now this garden contained all manner birds, nightingale and mocking-bird and ringdove and curlew and other than these of all the kinds, and therein were all kinds of fruits. Its channels were of gold and silver and the water thereof, as it broke forth of its conduits, was like unto fleeing serpents’ bellies, and indeed it was as it were the Garden of Eden.

When Tuhfeh beheld this, she called to mind her lord and wept sore and said, ‘I beseech God the Most High to vouchsafe me speedy deliverance, so I may return to my palace and thatto [sic] my high estate and queendom and glory and be reunited with my lord and master Er Reshid.’ Then she walked in that garden and saw in its midst a dome of white marble, raised on columns of black teak and hung with curtains embroidered with pearls and jewels. Amiddleward this pavilion was a fountain, inlaid with all manner jacinths, and thereon a statue of gold, and [beside it] a little door. She opened the door and found herself in a long passage; so she followed it and behold, a bath lined with all kinds of precious marbles and floored with a mosaic of pearls and jewels. Therein were four cisterns of alabaster, one facing other, and the ceiling of the bath was of glass coloured with all manner colours, such as confounded the understanding of the folk of understanding and amazed the wit.