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who was ſo much troubled at the Diſloyalty of his Wife, that he was ſeized with extream Melancholy, which prey’d upon him during his whole Journey.
When he drew near the Capitol of the Indies, the Sultan Schahriar, and all his Court came out to meet him: The Princes were overjoy’d to ſee one another, and alighting, after mutual Embraces, and other Marks of Affection and Reſpect, they mounted again, and enter’d the City, with the Acclamations of vaſt Multitudes of People. The Sultan conducted his Brother to the Palace he had provided for him, which had a Communication with his own, by means of a Garden, and was ſo much the more magnificent, that it was ſet apart as a Banqueting-Houſe for publick Entertainment and other Diverfions of the Court, and the Splendor of it had been lately augmented by new Furniture.
Schahriar immediately left the King of Tartary, that he might give him time to bath himſelf, and to change his Apparel. And as ſoon as he had done, he came to him again, and they ſat down together upon a Sofa or Alcove. The Courtiers kept at a diſtance, out of Reſpect, and thoſe two Princes entertain’d one another ſuitably to their Friendſhip, their Nearneſs of Blood, and the long Separation that had been betwixt ’em. The Time of Supper being come they eat together, after which they renew’d their Converſation, which continu’d till Schahriar perceiving that it was very late, left his Brother to his Reſt.
The unfortunate Schahzenan went to Bed; and tho’ the Converſation of his Brother had ſuſpended his Grief for ſome time, it return’d upon him with more Violence; ſo that inſtead of taking his neceſſary Reſt, he tormented himſelf with cruel Reflections: All the Circumſtances of his Wife’s Diſloyalty repreſented themſelves afreſh to his Imagination, in fo lively a Manner, that he was like one beſides himſelf. In a Word, not being able to ſleep, he got up, and giving himſelf over to afflicting Thoughts, they made ſuch an Impreſſion upon his Countenance, that the Sultan could not but take notice of it; and ſaid thus to himſelf, What can be the matter with the King of Tartary,that
