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she had seen him in his cage; and the sultan had spared no
panegyric in his praise during the repast.

When there was nothing to detain the sultan any longer, he
took horse again, and with the princes Bahman and Perviz on
his right and left hand, and the sultaness and the princess
following them, preceded and followed by all the officers of his
court, according to their posts, returned back to his capital.
Crowds of people came out to meet them, and with
acclamations of joy ushered them into the city, where all the

people's eyes were not only upon the sultaness, the two princes,
and the princess, but also upon the bird, which the princess
carried before her in his cage, and who, by his sweet notes, had
drawn flocks of all sorts of birds about him, which followed
him, by flying from tree to tree, and from one house top to
another: and nothing was to be seen or heard all that night but
illuminations and acclamations of joy, from the palace to the
utmost parts of the town.

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