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42 had eaten,] she sought of him wine and he went to the Jew and fetched it. Then they sat down and drank; and when she grew drunken, she took the lute and smiting it, fell a-singing and chanted the following verses:

And when she had made an end of her song, she wept sore.

All this time, the young Damascene was hearkening, and whiles he likened her voice to that of his slave-girl and whiles he put away from him this thought, and the damsel had no whit of knowledge of him. Then she broke out again into song and chanted the following verses:

Then she drank three cups and filling the old man other three, sang the following verses:

His love he’d have hid, but his tears denounced him to the spy, For the heat of a red-hot coal that ’twixt his ribs did lie.