When it was night, the princess took her leave of the sultan her father:  their adieus were tender, and accompanied with tears.  They embraced each other several times, and at last the princess left her own apartment for Alla ad Deen’s palace, with his mother on her left hand carried in a superb litter, followed by a hundred women slaves, dressed with surprising magnificence.  All the bands of music, which had played from the time Alla ad Deen’s mother arrived, being joined together, led the procession, followed by a hundred state ushers, and the like number of black eunuchs, in two files, with their officers at their head.  Four hundred of the sultan’s young pages carried flambeaux on each side, which, together with the illuminations of the sultan’s and Alla ad Deen’s palaces, made it as light as day.

In this order the princess proceeded in her litter on the carpet, which was spread from the sultan’s palace, preceded by bands of musicians, who, as they advanced, joining with those on the terraces of Alla ad Deen’s palace, formed a concert, which increased the joyful sensations not only of the crowd assembled in the great square, but of the metropolis and its environs.

At length the princess arrived at the new palace.  Alla ad Deen ran with all imaginable joy to receive her at the grand entrance.  His mother had taken care to point him out to the princess, in the midst of the officers who surrounded him, and she was charmed with his person.  “Adorable princess,” said Alla ad Deen, accosting her, and saluting her respectfully, as soon as she had entered her apartment, “if I have the misfortune to have displeased you by my boldness in aspiring to the possession of so lovely a princess, and my sultan’s daughter, I must tell you, that you ought to blame your bright eyes and charms, not me.”  “Prince (as I may now call you),” answered the princess, “I am obedient to the will of my father; and it is enough for me to have seen you to tell you that I obey without reluctance.”

Alla ad Deen, charmed with so agreeable and satisfactory an answer, would not keep the princess standing; but took her by the hand, which he kissed with the greatest demonstration of joy, and led her into a large hall, illuminated with an infinite number of wax candles, where, by the care of the genie, a noble feast was served up.  The dishes were of massive gold, and contained the most delicate viands.  The vases, basins, and goblets, were gold also, and of exquisite workmanship, and all the other ornaments and embellishments of the hall were answerable to this display.  The princess, dazzled to see so much riches collected in one place, said to Alla ad Deen, “I thought, prince, that nothing in the world was so beautiful as the sultan my father’s palace, but the sight of this hall alone is sufficient to show I was deceived.”

Alla ad Deen led the princess to the place appointed for her, and as soon as she and his mother were seated, a band of the most harmonious instruments, accompanied with the voices of beautiful ladies, began a concert, which lasted without intermission to the end of the repast.  The princess was so charmed, that she declared she had never heard anything like it in the sultan her father’s court; but she knew not that these musicians were fairies chosen by the genie, the slave of the lamp.