and eke thou, O my lady Look-at-me-and-thou-shalt-know-me.”  And they drove him to drink still more until he fell to the ground without a vein swelling[FN#381] for he had become drunken and dead drunk.  When they saw him in this condition they doffed his turband and crowned him with a cap, and fringes projecting from the peak,[FN#382] which they had brought with them; then they arose and finding in his room a box full of raiment and ready money, they rifled all that was therein.  Presently they donned their dresses and, waiting until the door of the Wakalah was opened after the call to the morning-prayer, they went their ways and the Veiler vouchsafed them protection[FN#383] and they left the Syrian man in his room strown as a tried toper and unknowing what the women had done with him of their wile and guile.  Now when it was the undurn-hour he awoke from his crapula and opening his eyes, cried, “Ho my lady Never-sawest-thou-my-like! and ho my lady Hast-thou-seen-aught-like-me! and ho my lady Look-at-me-and-thou-shalt-know-me!” But none returned to him any reply.  Then he pulled himself together and glanced carefully around but his sight fell not upon anyone beside him, so he arose and went to the box wherein he found never a single thing.  This restored him to his right senses and he recovered from his drink and cried, “There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great:  this be a judgment they have wrought forme.”  Then he went forth still wearing the tall fringed cap and knowing nothing of himself and, when he had issued from his caravanserai, he cried to everyone he met in the streets, “I am seeking Hast-thou-seen-aught-like-me?” and the men would reply, “No, I never sighted the like of thee;” and to a second he would say, “I am looking for one Never-sawest-thou-aught-like-me;” and the other would answer, “Indeed, I never beheld thy fellow;” then he would ask a third, “Hast thou seen one Look-at-me-and-thou-shalt-know-me?” and the questioned would answer, “Indeed, I have looked at thee but I know thee not at all.”  And he ceased not wandering about, bonnet on head, and everyone who met him by the way returned to him the like replies until he came upon a party of folk who were in front of a barber’s booth.[FN#384] There he cried upon them also, “Ah!  Hast-thou-seen-aught-like-me! and Ah!  Never-sawest-thou-my-like! and Ah!  Look-upon-me-and-thou-shalt-know-me!” Hereat, understanding that he was touched in brain and this was a judgment that had been wrought upon him, they seized him and forced him into the barber’s shop and bringing a mirror set it in his hands.  When he looked therein he found a fool’s cap upon his head, so forthwith he tore it off and took thought and said to those present, “Who of you can guide me to those three women?” They said to him, “O Syrian, march off with thyself to thy own land for that the folk of Egypt can play with the egg and the stone."[FN#385] So he arose without stay and delay; then, taking what provaunt was sufficient