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n the mean time, the princess Parizade, several times a-
day, after her brother Perviz set out, flung over her necklace,
which she generally held in her hand, and failed not every night
she went to bed to do the same, and tie it about her neck, and
in the morning count over the pearls again.
The day that Prince Perviz was changed into a stone, she was

pulling over the pearls as she used to do, when, all of a sudden,
she could not stir them, and never disputed but that it was a
certain token that the prince her brother was dead: But as she
had determined before what to do, in case it should so happen,
she lost no time in outward shews of grief, which she disguised
as much as possible; but having armed and disguised herself in
men's apparel, she took horse the next morning, having told
her servants she should return in two or three days, and took
the same road her brothers had done before her.

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