Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp Author:John Payne Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to him, "Know, O King, that this babe will become a renowned brave,1 but he shall happen in his time upon certain travail and tribulation; yet, an he endure with... more » fortitude against that which shall befall him, he shall become the richest of the kings of the world." And the King said to them, " Since the babe shall become valiant as ye avouch, the toil and travail which will befall him are nought, for that tribulations teach the sons of kings." Accordingly, after a few days, the queen gave birth to a male child, extolled be the perfection of Him who created him surpassing in grace and goodliness 1 His father named him Zein ul Asnam, and he was as say of him certain of his praisers in verse:' Faith) [he] of the Images, textit{Zein (adornment) not being a name Uied by the Arabic-speaking races, unless with some such addition as textit{ttd- Di ("of the Faith"), and the affix / textit{Asnam ("[He] of the Images") being a sobriquet arising from the circumstances of the hero's after-life, unless its addition, as recommended by the astrologers, w meant as an indication of the latter's fore-knowledge of what was to ljef,.ll him thereafter. This noted, I leave the name as I find it in the Arabic MS. 1 textit{Sheji ntkih. Burton, "Valiant and intelligent." ' Syn. " his describers " textit{(jtmsi/lAi). 3 textit{Wa huwa kema caiou fihi bads wasifihi skiran. Burton (apparently from a different text), " anJ presently he became even as tlie poet sang ot one of his fellows in semblance." chapter{Section 4He shows and " Now Allah be blessed ! " men say : " Extol we his Maker and Fashioner aye 1 The king of the fair1 this is, sure, one and all; Ay, his thralls, every one, and his liegemen are they." The boy grew and flourished till he came to the age of five years, when his...« less