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course and entered his palace, he bade forthright carry his daughter the Lady Bedrulbudour in procession to the palace of her bridegroom Alaeddin. So the troops forthright mounted with the officers of state, who had been in Alaeddin’s procession, and the slave-girls and eunuchs went out with flambeaux and carried the Lady Bedrulhudour in great state to her bridegroom’s palace, Alaeddin’s mother by her side and before her the women of the Viziers and Amirs and grandees and notables. Moreover, she had with her eight-and-forty slave-girls, whom Alaeddin had presented to her, in each one’s hand a great candle of camphor and ambergris, set in a candlestick of gold, studded with jewels; and all the men and women in the palace went out with her and fared on before her, till they brought her to her bridegroom’s palace and carrying her up to her pavilion,[1] attired her in various robes[2] and displayed her. Then, after they had made an end of displaying her, they carried her to the pavilion of her groom Alaeddin and he went in to her. Now his mother was with the Lady Bedrulbudour, and
- ↑ Keszriha. Burton, “her bower in the upper story.”
- ↑ Lit. “changed the robes (khila) upon her.” For the ceremony of displaying (or unveiling) the bride, see my “Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night,” Vol. I. pp. 192 et seq., and “Tales from the Arabic,” Vol. III. pp. 189 et seq.
