and told her mistress, saying, “O my lady, this man crieth, ’Ho! who will barter an old lamp for a new lamp?’ and the boys are following him and laughing at him;” and the Lady Bedrulbudour laughed also at this marvel.  Now Alaeddin had forgotten the lamp in his pavilion, [FN#565] without locking it up in his treasury [as was his wont], and one of the girls had seen it; so she said to the princess, “O my lady, methinketh I have seen an old lamp in my lord Alaeddin’s pavilion; let us barter it with this man for a new one, so we may see an his speech be true or leasing.”  And [FN#566] the princess said to her, “fetch the lamp whereof thou speakest.”  Now the Lady Bedrulbudour had no knowledge of the lamp and its properties, neither knew she that this it was which had brought Alaeddin her husband to that great estate, and it was the utmost of her desire to prove and see the wit of this man who bartered new for old, nor was any one aware of the Maugrabin enchanter’s craft and trickery.  So the slave-girl went up into Alaeddin’s pavilion and returned with the lamp to the Lady Bedrulbudour, who bade the Aga of the eunuchs [FN#567] go down and exchange it for a new one; so he took it and going down, gave it to the Maugrabin and took of him a new lamp, with which he returned to the princess, who examined it and finding it new and real, fell to laughing at the Maugrabin’s [lack of] wit.  Meanwhile, when the enchanter had gotten the lamp and knew it for that of the Treasure, he thrust it forthwith into his sleeve [FN#568] and leaving the rest of the lamps to the folk who were in act to barter of him, set off running, till he came without the city, and walked about the waste places, awaiting the coming of the night.  Then, when he saw himself alone in the open country, he brought out the lamp from his sleeve and rubbed it; whereupon the Marid immediately appeared to him and said, “Here am I; thy slave [is] before thee.  Seek of me what thou wilt.”  Quoth the Maugrabin, “My will is that thou take up Alaeddin’s palace from its place, with its inhabitants and all that [FN#569] is therein and myself also, and set it down in my country of Africa. [FN#570] Thou knowest my town and I will have this palace be thereby among the gardens.”  “Hearkening and obedience,” replied the Marid.  “Shut [thine] eye and open [thine] eye, and thou wilt find thyself in thine own country with the palace.”  And immediately this befell in the twinkling of an eye and the Maugrabin was transported, with Alaeddin’s palace and all that was therein, to the land of Africa.

So much for the enchanter, and now let us return to the Sultan and Alaeddin.  The Sultan, of his love and affection for his daughter the Lady Bedrulbudour, was wont, every day, when he awoke from his sleep, to open the window and look at her therefrom; so he arose on the morrow, according to his wont, and opened his chamber-window, so he might see his daughter; but [FN#571] when he put out his head and looked for