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133 ruby, warbled a plaintive air and improvising, sang the following verses;

When she had made an end of her verses, El Abbas bade the third damsel, who came from Samarcand of the Persians and whose name was Rummaneh, sing, and she answered with “Hearkening and obedience.” Then she took the psaltery and crying out from the midst of her head improvised and sang the following verses: