Note 248
The Tale of the Envier and the Envied.

The King read these lines with wonder and delight and said to his Eunuch,[FN#247] "O Mukbil, go to thy mistress, Sitt al-Husn,[FN#248] and say her, 'Come, speak the King who biddeth thee hither to take thy solace in seeing this right wondrous ape!"' So the Eunuch went out and presently returned with the lady who, when she saw me veiled her face and said, "O my father! hast thou lost all sense of honour? How cometh it thou art …