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Besides the guards and porters at the gate, this drew together a
great number of people about Prince Camaralzaman. No physician,
astrologer, nor magician had appeared for a long time, deterred by
the many tragic examples of ill success that appeared before their
eyes; it was therefore thought that there were no more men of these
professions in the world, or that there were no more so mad as
those that had gone before them.
The prince's good mien, noble air, and blooming youth made
everybody that saw him pity him. 'What mean you, sir,' said some
that were nearest to him, 'thus to expose a life of such promising
expectation to certain death? Cannot the heads you see on all the
gates of this city deter you from such an undertaking? Consider
what you do: abandon this rash attempt, and be gone.'
The prince continued firm, notwithstanding all these remonstrances;
and as he saw nobody come to introduce him, he repeated the same
cry with a boldness that made everybody tremble. Then they all
cried, 'Let him alone, he is resolved to die; God have mercy upon
his youth and his soul!' He then proceeded to cry out a third time
in the same manner, when the grand vizier came in person, and
introduced him to the King of China.
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