The three days of grace are running out, and the caliph goes out himself to meet the wonders Alaeddin promised him — disguised past recognition, an arquebus on his shoulder, his pockets full of gold. In a bazaar he follows an old woman whose reciting of the Quran has earned her nothing all morning, and finds a daughter whose beauty none of his wives could match. Before the day is out he has married her for four thousand sequins and set every marble-worker, carpenter, whitewasher and painter in Baghdad to make her mother's hovel a palace in a single day — and on his wedding night the spurned merchant's revenge brings the lieutenant of police and four hundred men down upon the house. Part Two of Three.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Fresh in-house English rendering from Caussin de Perceval's continuation of Les mille et une nuits (Le Normant, 1806).
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