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And Mesrour answered her with these verses.verses: [sic]

They ceased not from chiding and discourse till the morning beamed, when Zein el Mewasif said to him, ‘O Mesrour, it is time for thee to depart, lest one of the folk see thee and foul befall us.’ So he arose and going forth, fared on, accompanied by Huboub, till they came to his lodging, where he talked with her and said to her, ‘All thou seekest of me thou shalt presently have, so but thou wilt bring me to her enjoyment.’ Quoth Huboub, ‘Comfort thy heart;’ whereupon he rose and gave her a hundred dinars, saying, ‘O Huboub, I have by me a dress worth a hundred dinars.’ ‘O Mesrour,’ answered she, ‘make haste with the dresses and what not else thou didst promise her, ere she change her mind, for we may not avail to take her save with craft and beguilement, and she loveth the recitation of verses.’ Quoth he, ‘I hear and obey,’ and bringing her the musk and ambergris and