[FN#597] This is a version of The Sleeper and the Waker—­with a vengeance!  Abu Hasan the Wag, the Tinker, and the Rustic, and others thus practiced upon by frolic-loving princes and dukes, had each, at least, a most delightful “dream.”  But when a man is similarly handled by the “wife of his bosom”—­in stories, only, of course—­the case is very different as the poor chief of police experienced.  Such a “dream” as his wife induced upon him we may be sure he would remember “until that day that he did creep into his sepulchre!”

[FN#598] I call this “strikingly similar” to the preceding Persian story, although it has fewer incidents and the lady’s husband remains a monk, she could not have got him back even had she wished; for, having taken the vows, he was debarred from returning to “the world " which a kalandar or dervish may do as often as he pleases.

[FN#599] “The Woman’s trick against her Husband.”