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Then she stripped off her outer gear and she threw open her

chemise from the neck downwards and showed her parts genital and

all the rondure of her hips. When Badr al-Din saw the glorious

sight his desires were roused, and he arose and doffed his

clothes, and wrapping up in his bag-trousers [FN#425] the purse

of gold which he had taken from the Jew and which contained the

thousand dinars, he laid it under the edge of the bedding. Then

he took off his turband and set it upon the settle [FN#426] atop

of his other clothes, remaining in his skull-cap and fine shirt

of blue silk laced with gold. Whereupon the Lady of Beauty drew

him to her and he did likewise. Then he took her to his embrace

and set her legs round his waist and point-blanked that cannon

[FN#427] placed where it battereth down the bulwark of maidenhead

and layeth it waste.