Page:The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Vol 8.djvu/103

91 she was perfect in beauty and grace and symmetry, even as saith one, describing her:

The Persian lighted down from his mule and making the damsel alight also, called the broker and said to him, ‘Take this damsel and cry her for sale in the market.’ So he fetched a stool of ebony, inlaid with ivory, and setting it amiddleward the bazaar, seated her thereon. Then he raised her veil and discovered a face as it were a Median targe or a sparkling star: and indeed she was like the full moon, when it appears on its fourteenth night, accomplished to the utmost in surpassing beauty. As saith the poet:

And how well saith another: