سندبادنامه 414
English (machine translation) 414
- Language
- English
414.1
Though our service has been forgotten by you, / we still remember our debt to your favor.
She breathed blandishments and spells upon her, and meanwhile asked for food; the woman set about preparing
it without ceremony, and some delay intervened. The old crone placed the piece of cloth under
414.5
21. The Tale of the Old Crone, the Young Man, and the Draper's Wife
the pillow, and when she had eaten something, she went out. The draper's wife was heedless of her cunning and treachery,
and knew nothing of it. At nightfall, when the draper had finished with buying and selling and taking and placing,
he returned home; his eye fell upon the edge of the pillow; the edges of the pillow appeared uneven to his sight.
He looked and found in his own house at nightfall the cloth he had sold in the morning.
414.10
Impossible fancies found room in his mind, corrupt suspicions entered his inward thoughts,
and whispers and anxious thoughts overcame his brain and heart. He said to himself: "They bought this cloth for
my house, and that young man was the suitor of my bride!" From these imaginings
and suspicions crossing his mind, the man's yellow bile became agitated, and black bile
overpowered him. He seized a stick and battered the woman's back and ribs, and inflicted a severe thrashing
and punishment upon her. The woman, ignorant of the reason for this punishment, came out of
the house and went to the dwelling of her parents. The next day, the old crone, in order to inquire into
the matter, went to the door of the draper's house, and when she obtained news of the affair, she came to the wife
and said in a friendly manner:
414.20
21. The Tale of the Old Crone, the Young Man, and the Draper's Wife
Linked texts (1)
- سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian