that condition merely by virtue of my enchantments, resume thy natural shape, and become what thou west before.”  She had scarcely spoken these words, when the prince, finding himself restored to his former condition, rose up and returned thanks to God.  The enchantress then said to him, “Get thee from this castle, and never return on pain of death.”  The young king, yielding to necessity, went away from the enchantress, without replying a word; and retired to a remote place, where he patiently awaited the event of the design which the sultan had so happily begun.  Meanwhile, the enchantress returned to the Palace of Tears, and supposing that she still spoke to the black, said, “Dear love, I have done what you required; nothing now prevents your rising and giving me the satisfaction of which I have so long been deprived.”

The sultan, still counterfeiting the pronunciation of the blacks, said, “What you have now done is by no means sufficient for my cure; you have only removed a part of the evil; you must cut it up by the root.”  “My lovely black,” resumed the queen, “what do you mean by the root?” “Wretched woman,” replied the sultan, “understand you not that I allude to the town, and its inhabitants, and the four islands, destroyed by thy enchantments?  The fish every night at midnight raise their heads out of the lake, and cry for vengeance against thee and me.  This is the true cause of the delay of my cure.  Go speedily, restore things to their former state, and at thy return I will give thee my hand, and thou shalt help me to arise.”

The enchantress, inspired with hope from these words, cried out in a transport of joy, “My heart, my soul, you shall soon be restored to your health, for I will immediately do as you command me.”  Accordingly she went that instant, and when she came to the brink of the lake, she took a little water in her hand, and sprinkling it, had no sooner pronounced some words over the fish and the lake, than the city was immediately restored.  The fish became men, women, and children; Mahummedans, Christians, Persians, or Jews; freemen or slaves, as they were before:  every one having recovered his natural form.  The houses and shops were immediately filled with their inhabitants, who found all things as they were before the enchantment.  The sultan’s numerous retinue, who found themselves encamped in the largest square, were astonished to see themselves in an instant in the middle of a large, handsome, well-peopled city.

To return to the enchantress:  As soon as she had effected this wonderful change, she returned with all expedition to the Palace of Tears, that she might receive her reward.  “My dear lord,” cried she, as she entered, “I come to rejoice with you in the return of your health:  I have done all that you required of me, then pray rise, and give me your hand.”  “Come near,” said the sultan, still counterfeiting the pronunciation of the blacks.  She did so.  “You are not near enough,” he continued, “approach