o the hands of another woman, who first
marries him, and then keeps him locked up in her house, and never lets
him out for a whole year. When, however, he does get away for a day
only, he goes at once to see his former mistress, who is furious on
hearing that he is married to somebody else, and with the aid of her
slave girls serves him out in a way which, from one point of view,
makes marriage quite a failure for him in the future. On going back to
his wife, she, having found out what had occurred, immediately puts
him into the street, and he returns in a sad plight to his mother, who
nurses him and gives him the present and the letter that his cousin
Azizah had left for him. Finally Aziz, for the sake of distraction,
takes to foreign travel, and there meets with Taj al Muluk, whom he
assists to find the princess Dunya.

The tale of Kamar Al-Zaman and the Lady Budur is both amusing and
interesting. It is truly an Eastern story, full of curious and
wonderful situations, and quite a kaleidoscope of passing events,
which succeed each other rapidly. The hero and the heroine are a young
prince and princess, living in very different parts of the world
(space and geography have no place in the "Nights"), and both very
averse to matrimony. The one fears the smiles and wiles of woman, the
other the tyranny and selfishness of man. A certain Queen of the
Jinns, with her assistants, bring the two together one night in the
same bed, and separate them in the morning. But the sight that each
had had of the other caused them to fall desperately in love, and deep
are the lamentations of each over the separation, which continues for
some years. At last Kamar Al-Zaman finds his way to his lady-love, the
Princess Budur, and they are happily wedded; alas! after a short time,
to be again separated. Then follow the adventures of each--the lady
becomes a king, and is married to a princess, and rules a country,
while Kamar Al-Zaman's fate assigns him the place of an
under-gardener. Destiny, however, re-unites them, and the Lady Budur's
joke before recognition and re-union is certainly humorous. She makes
him further marry the lady that she herself was married to, and a son
is born to each, respectively called Amjad and Asaad. When the boys
grow up, the mother of each falls violently in love with the son of the
other, _i.e._, Budur adores Asaad, and Heyat en Nufus worships Amjad,
and the two mothers end by making dishonourable proposals to the