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be naturally that way inclin’d; and that they could not reſiſt thoſe violent Deſires. Being of this Opinion, it ſeemed to me to be an unaccountable Weakneſs in Men, to make themſelves uneaſy at their Infidelity. This Reflection brought many others along with it, and, in ſhort, I thought it the beſt thing I could do, to make my ſelf eaſy. It coſt me ſome Pains indeed, but at laſt I effected it, and if you’ll take my Advice, you ſhall follow my Example.
Tho’ the Advice was good, the Sultan could not take it, but fell in to a Rage. What! ſays he, is the Sultaneſs of the Indies capable of proſtituting her ſelf in ſo baſe a manner! No, Brother, I can’t believe what you fay, except I faw it with my Eyes; yours muſt needs have deceiv’d you; the Matter is ſo important, that I muſt be ſatisfied of it my ſelf. Dear Brother, anſwers Schahzenan, that you may without much Difficulty. Appoint another Hunting-Match, and when we are out of Town with your Court and mine, we will ſtop under our Pavilions, and at Night let you and I return alone to my Apartment; I am certain that next Day you will ſee what I ſaw. The Sultan approv’d the Stratagem, immediately appointed anew Hunting-March, And that ſame Day the Pavilions were ſet up ac the Place appointed.
Next Day, the two Princes ſet out with all their Retinue; they arriv’d at the Place of Encampment, and ftay’d there till Night. Then Schahriar call’d his Grand Viſier, and without acquainting him with his Deſign, commanded him to ſtay in his Place during his Abſence, and to ſuffer no Perſon to go out of the Camp, up on any Account whatever. As ſoon as he had-given this Order, the King of Grand Tartar, and he took Horſe, paſs’d through the Camp incognito, return’d to the City, and went to Schahzenan’s Apartment. They had ſcarce plac’d themſelves in the ſame Window where the King of Tartary had ſeen the diſguiſed Blacks act their Scene, but the ſecret Gate open’d, the Sultaneſs and her Ladies enter’d the Garden with the Blacks, and ſhe having call’d upon Maſoud, the Sultan ſaw more than enough to convince him plainly of his Diſhonour and Misfortune,O
