But how could she get into this tower without my
consent? For whatever my grand vizier told you, it was only to
appease you: it must therefore be a mere dream; and I beg of you
not to believe otherwise, but to recover your senses.'
'Sir,' replied the prince, 'I should be for ever unworthy of your
majesty's favour, if I did not give entire credit to what you are
pleased to say; but I humbly beseech you at the same time to give a
patient hearing to what I shall say to you, and then to judge
whether what I have the honour to tell you be a dream or not.'
Then Prince Camaralzaman related to the king his father after what
manner he had been awakened, and the pains he took to awaken the
lady without effect, and how he had made the exchange of his ring
with that of the lady: showing the king the ring, he added, 'Sir,
your majesty must needs know my ring very well, you have seen it so
often. After this, I hope you will be convinced that I have not
lost my senses, as you have been almost made to believe.'
The king was so perfectly convinced of the truth of what his son
had been telling him, that he had not a word to say, remaining
astonished for some time, and not being able to utter a syllable.
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