The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (32)

The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (32)

  " For these jewels and jacinths with us are more plentiful than the gavel upon the land, and we know the excellent among them, and the bad, and the places where they are found, and they are easy of uccess to us. "

  And when the King looked atthese jewels, his reason was confounded and his mind was bewildered, and he said : " By Allah, one of these jewels is worth my kingdom ! "

  Then the King thanked Saleh of the Sea for his generosity, and looking toward the Queen Gulnare dsif to her : " I am abashed at thy brother ; for he has shown favour to me, and presented me with this magnificent present, which the people of the earth would fail to procure. "

  So Gulnare thanked her brother for that which he had done.

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The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (33)

The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (33)

  But her brother said : " O King of age, to thankthee has been incumbent on us : for thou hast treated my sister with beneficence, and we entered thine abode, and eaten of thy provision. "

  Then Saleh said : " If we stood serving thee, O King of the age, a thousand yeas, regarding nothing else, we could not rewuite thee, and our doing so would be but a small thing in comparison with thy desert. "

  And Saleh remained with the King, he and his mother and the daughters of his uncle, forty days ; after which he srose and kissed the ground before the King, the husband of his siter.

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The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (34)

The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (34)

  So the King said to him : " What dost thou desire, O Saleh？”
※dost→doの主語が古語thouのときの現在形

  And he answered : " O King of age, we desire of thy goodness that thou wouldst give us permission to depart ; for we have become desirous of seeing again our family and our country and our relations and our homes. We will not, however, relinquish the service of thee, nor that of my sister nor the son of my sister ; and by Allah, O King of age, to quit you is not pleasant to my heart ; but how can weact, when we have been reared in the sea, and land is not agreeable to us ? "

  So when the King heard his words, he rose upon his feet, and bade farewell to Saleh of the Sea and his mother and the daughters of his uncle, and they wept together on account of the separation.

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The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (35)

The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (35)

  Then they said to the King : " We will never relinquish you, but after every period of a few days we will visit you. "

  And after this, they flew toward the sea, and descended into it, and disappeared.

  The King treated Gulnare with beneficence, and honoured her exceedingly, and the little one grew up well ; and his maternal uncle, with his grandmother and the daughters of his uncle, after every period of a few days used to come to the residence of the King, and to remain with him  month, and then return to their places.

  The boy ceased not to increase in beauty and loveliness until his age beccame fifteen  years ; and he was incomparable in his perfect beauty, and his stature and his justness of form.

  He had learned writing and reading, and hsitory andgrammer and philology, and archery ; and he learned to play with the spear ; and he also learned horsemanship, and all that the sons of the King required.

  There was not one of the children of the inhabitants of the city, men and women, that talked not of charms of that young man ; for he was of surpassing loveliness and perfection ; and the King loved him greatly.

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The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (36)

The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (36)

  Then the King summoned the vizier and the emeers, and the lord of theempire, and the great men of the kingdom, and made them swear by binding oaths that they would make Bedr Basim KIng over them after his father ; so they swore to him by binding oaths, and rejoiced thereat.

  And the King himself was beneficent to the people, courteous in speech and of auspicious aspect.

  And on the following day, the King mounted, together with the lords of the empire and all the emeers, and all the soldiers, and they ceased not to proceed until they arrived at the vestibule of the palace : the King's son riding.

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The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (3７)

The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (37)

  Thereupon he alighted, and his father embraced him, he and the emeers, and they seated him upon the throne of the kingdom, while his father stood, as also did the emeers, before him.

  Then Bedr Basin judged the people, displaced the tyrannial and invested the just, and continued to give judgment until near midday, when he rose from the throne of the kingdom, and went in to his mother, Gulnare of the Sea, having upon his head the crown, and resembling the moon.

  So when his mother saw him, and the King before him, she rose to him and kissed him, and congratulated him on his elevation to the dignity of sultan.

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The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (38)

The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (38)

  And she offered up a prayer in favour of him and his father for length of life, and victory over their enemies.

  He then sat with his mother and rested ; and when the timeof afternoon-prayers arrived, he rode with the emeers before him until he came to the horse-course, where he played with arms till the timeof nightfall, together with his father and the lords of his empire ; after wich he returned to the palace, with all the people before him.

  Every day he used to ride to the horse-course ; and when he returned, he sat to judge the people, and administered justice between the emeer and the poor man. 　　

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The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (39)

The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (39)

  He ceased not to do thus for a whole year ; and after that, he used to ride to the chase, and go about through the cities and provinces that were under his rule making proclamation of dsfrty and security, and doing as do the Kings ; and he was incomparable among the people of his age in glory and courage, and in justice to the people.

  Now it came to pass that theold King, the father of Bedr Basim, fell sick one day, whereupon his heart throbbed, and he felt that he was about to be removed to the mansion of eternity.

  Then his malady increased so that he was at the point of death.

  He therefore summoned his son, and charged him to take care of his subject and his mother and all the lords of his empire and all the dependants.

  He also made them swear, and  covenanted with them a second time, that they wouldobey his son ; and he confided in theiroaths.

  And after this he remained a few days, and was admitted to the merry of God, whose name be exalted.

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The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (40)

The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (40)

  His son Bedr Basin, and his wife Gulnare and the emeers ans viziers and the lords of the empire, mounted over him ; and they made for him a tomb, and buried him in it, and continued the ceremonies of mourning for him a whole maonth.

  Seleh, the brother of GUlnare, and her mother, and the daughters of her uncle, also came, and consoled them for the loss of the King.

  They said : " O Gulnare, if the King has died, he has left this ingenuous youth, and he who has left such as he is has not died>

  This is  he who has not an equal, the crushing lion, and the splendid moon. "

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The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (41)

The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (41)

  Then the lords of the empire, and the grandees, went in to the King Bedr Basim, and said to him : " O King, there is harm in mourning for the King ; but mourning become not any save women; therefore trouble not they heart and ours by mourning for they father ; for he has dies and left thee, and he who has left such as thou art has not died. "

  They proceeded to address him with soft words, and to console him, and after that they conducted him into the bath ; and when he came forth from the bath, he put on a magnificent suit woven of gold, adorned with jewels and jacinths, and he put the royal crown upon his head, seated himself upon the throne of his Kingdom, and performed the affairs of the people, deciding equitably between the strong and the weak, and exacting for the his due from the emeer.

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The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (42 完)

The Story of the Gulnare of the Sea (42)

  Wherefore the people loved him exceedingly.

  Thus he continued to do for the space of a whole year ; and after every short period, his family of the sea visited him ; so his life was pleasant, and his eye was cheerful.

  He ceased not to live in this state until he was visited by the terminator of delights and the separator of companions.

  This is the end of their story.

  The mercy of God be on them all.

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