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it ought not to prevent us from pursuing what we do and ought to
wish for. I offered to go this journey, and am in the same mi d and

readiness still; his example has no effect upon my resolution: to-
morrow I will go myself.
The princess did all she could to dissuade Prince Perviz off his
journey, conjuring him not to expose her to the loss of two
brothers; but he was resolved; and all the remonstrances she
could urge had no effect upon him. Before he went, that she
might know what success he had, he left her, as his brother had

done, a knife, and a necklace of an hundred pearls, telling her,
that if they would not run when she told them upon the string,
but remain fixed, that should be a certain sign he had undergone
the same fate as his brother; but at the same time told her, he
hoped that would never happen, but that he should have the
happiness to see her again, to her utmost satisfaction.
Prince Perviz, on the twentieth day from his setting out, met with
the same dervise, in the same place his brother Bahman had done
before him. He went directly up to him, and after he had saluted

him, asked him if he could tell him where to find the talking bird,
singing tree, and the golden water? The dervise made the same
difficulties and remonstrances he had done to Prince Bahman,
telling him, that a young gentleman, who very __

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