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209 speedily return with the baggage, and great good shall betide us from him.’ And he went on to appease her and chide the vizier, being duped by her device.

Meanwhile Marouf fared on into the open country, perplexed and knowing not to what land he should betake himself; and for the anguish of parting and the pangs of passion and love-longing, he lamented and recited the following verses:

Then he wept sore, for indeed the ways were blocked up in his sight and death seemed to him better than life,

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