'My lord,' said he, 'I
am very sorry to be the messenger of ill news to your majesty,
which I know must create you fresh affliction. The prince is
distracted, my lord; and his treatment to me, as you may see, too
plainly proves it.' Then he proceeded to tell all the particulars
of what Prince Camaralzaman had said to him, and the violence with
which he had been treated.
The king, who did not expect to hear anything of this afflictive
kind, said to the prime minister, 'This is very melancholy, very
different from the hopes you gave me just now: go immediately,
without loss of time, see what is the matter, and come and give me
an account.'
The grand vizier obeyed instantly; and coming into the prince's
chamber, he found him sitting on his bed in good temper, and with a
book in his hand, which he was reading.
After mutual salutations, the vizier sat down by him, and said, 'My
lord, I wish that a slave of yours were punished for coming to
frighten the king your father.'
'What,' replied the prince, 'could give my father alarm? I have
much greater cause to complain of that slave.'
'Prince,' answered the vizier, 'God forbid that the news which he
has told your father concerning you should be true; indeed, I
myself find it to be false, by the good temper I observe you in.
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