The queen consented with great willingness.  “Sir,” said she to the king, “be pleased to take the bird into your closet, and I will shew you a king worthy of the consideration you have for him.”  The bird, which had ceased eating, and attended to what the king and queen said, would not give his majesty the trouble to take him, but hopped into the closet before him; and the queen came in soon after, with a vessel full of water in her hand.  She pronounced over the vessel some words unknown to the king, till the water began to boil; when she took some of it in her hand, and sprinkling a little upon the bird, said, “By virtue of those holy and mysterious words I have just pronounced, and in the name of the Creator of heaven and earth, who raises the dead, and supports the universe, quit the form of a bird, and re-assume that received from thy Creator.”

The words were scarcely out of the queen’s mouth, when, instead of a bird, the king saw a young prince of good shape, air, and mien.  King Beder immediately fell on his knees, and thanked God for the favour that had been bestowed upon him.  He then took the king’s hand, who helped him up, and kissed it in token of gratitude; but the king embraced him with great joy, and testified to him the satisfaction he had to see him.  He would then have made his acknowledgments to the queen, but she was already retired to her apartment.  The king made him sit at the table with him, and prayed him to relate how the Princess Jehaun-ara could have the inhumanity to transform into a bird so amiable a prince; and the king of Persia immediately satisfied him.  When he had ended, the king, provoked at the proceeding of the princess, could not help blaming her.  “It was commendable,” said he, “in the princess of Samandal not to be insensible of the king her father’s ill treatment; but to carry her vengeance so far, and especially against a prince who was not culpable, was what she could never be able to ,justify herself for.  But let us have done with this subject, and tell me, I beseech you, in what I can farther serve you.”

“Sir,” answered King Beder, “my obligation to your majesty is so great, that I ought to remain with you all my life to testify my gratitude; but since your majesty sets no limits to your generosity, I entreat you to grant me one of your ships to transport me to Persia, where I fear my absence, which has been but too long, may have occasioned some disorder, and that the queen my mother, from whom I concealed my departure, may be distracted under the uncertainty whether I am alive or dead.”

The king readily granted what he desired, and immediately gave orders for equipping one of his largest ships, and the best sailors in his numerous fleet.  The ship was soon furnished with all its complement of men, provisions, and ammunition; and as soon as the wind became fair, King Beder embarked, after having taken leave of the king, and thanked him for all his favours.