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leave, and the sooner, because he was satisfied of his long
services, both in his father's reign and during his own; and

before he went from him, he asked him what recompense he
should give him? Sir, replied the intendant of the gardens, I have
received so many obligations from your majesty, and the late
sultan your father, of happy memory, that I desire no more than
the honour of dying in your favour.
He took his leave of the sultan Khosrouschah, and afterwards
returned to the country retreat he had built, with the two

princes, Bahman and Perviz, and the princess Parizade: For his
wife, she had been dead some years; and he himself had lived
not above six months with them before he was surprised by so
sudden a death, that he had not time to give the least account of
their birth, which he had resolved to do that night. They lived as
they always had done, and agreeable to the education he had
given them.
The princes Bahman and Perviz, and the princess Parizade, who
knew no other than that the intendant of the sultan's gardens

was their father, regretted and bewailed him as such, and paid
him all the honours in his funeral obsequies which their duty
and gratitude required of them. They were content with the
plentiful fortune he left them, and lived together in a perfect
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