The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 (of 10)

And quoth I, 'O thou who as fool dost wake, To misdoubt of lovers and Love deride; The sign of lover whose love is true When he meets his belovиd is mum to bide.'

We lay one night in the house of a man of the Sa'īd or Upper Egypt, and he entertained us and entreated us hospitably.