After these words, which the prince pronounced with so much eagerness that he gave the jeweller no time to interrupt him, he said to the prince, No man can bear a greater share of your affliction than I do; and if you will have patience to hear me, you will perceive that I am capable of giving you ease.  Upon this the prince became silent, and hearkened to him.  I see very well, said the jeweller, that the only thing to give you satisfaction is to fall upon a way that you may converse freely with Schemselnihar.  This I will procure you, and to-morrow will set about it.  You must by no means expose yourself to enter Schemselnihar’s palace; you know by experience the danger of that:  I know a very fit place for this interview, where you shall be safe.  When the jeweller had spoken thus, the prince embraced him with a transport of joy.  You revive, said he, by this charming promise, an unhappy lover who was resolved to die; I see that you have fully repaired the loss of Ebn Thaher:  whatever you do will be well done; I leave myself entirely to you.

The prince, after thanking the jeweller for his zeal, returned home, and next morning Schemselnihar’s confident came to him.  He told her that he had put the prince of Persia in hopes that he should see Schemselnihar speedily.  I am come purposely, answered she, to take measures with you for that end.  I think, continued she, this house will be convenient enough for their interview.  I could receive them very well here, replied he; but I think they will have more liberty in another house of mine, where nobody lives at present; I will quickly furnish it for receiving them.  Since the matter is so, replied the confident, there remains nothing for me to do but to make Sehemselnihar consent to it.  I will go tell her, and return speedily with an answer.

She was as diligent as her promise; and, returning to the jeweller, told him that her mistress would not fail to keep the appointment in the evening.  In the mean time she gave him a purse of money to prepare a collation.  He sent her immediately to the house where the lovers were to meet, that she might know whither to bring her mistress; and when she was gone, he went to borrow from his friends vessels of gold and silver, tapestry, rich cushions, and other furniture, with which he furnished the house very magnificently; and, when he had put all things in order, went to the prince of Persia.

You may easily conceive the prince of Persia’s joy, when the jeweller told him that he came to conduct him to the house he had prepared to receive him and Schemselnihar.  This news obliterated all his former trouble.  He put on a magnificent robe, and went without his retinue along with the jeweller, who led him through several by-streets, that nobody might observe him, and at last brought him to the house, where they discoursed together until Schemselnihar came.