It is related that there was a man who had a grown-up son, but the youth was a ne’er-do-well,[FN#580] and whatever wife his sire wedded, the son would devise him a device to lie with her and have his wicked will of her, and he so managed the matter that his father was forced to divorce her.  Now the man once married a bride beautiful exceedingly and, charging her beware of his son, jealously guarded her from him.—­And Shahrazad was surprised by the dawn of day and fell silent and ceased to say her permitted say.  Then quoth her sister Dunyazad, “How sweet is thy story, O sister mine, and how enjoyable and delectable!” Quoth she, “And where is this compared with that I would relate to you on the coming night an the King suffer me to survive?” Now when it was the next night, and that was

          The Eight Hundred and Thirty-second Night,

Dunyazad said to her, “Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be not sleeping, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!” She replied, “With love and good will!” It hath reached me, O auspicious King, the director, the right-guiding, lord of the rede which is benefiting and of deeds fair-seeming and worthy celebrating, that the father applied himself to safe-guarding his wife and gave her a charge warning her with threats against his son and saying, “Whenas I wed ever a woman, yonder youth by his cunning manageth to have his wicked will of her.”  Quoth she, “O Man, what be these words thou speakest?  This thy son is a dog, nor hath he power to do with me aught, and I am a lady amongst women.”  Quoth he, “Indeed I but charge thee to have a care of thyself.[FN#581] Haply I may hie me forth to wayfare and he will lay some deep plot for thee and work with thee as he wrought with others.”  She replied, “O Man, hold thyself secure therefrom for an he bespeak me with a single word I will slipper him with my papoosh;[FN#582] and her rejoined, “May safety be thine!” He cohabited with her for a month till one day of the days when he was compelled to travel; so he went in to his wife and cautioned her and was earnest with her saying, “Have a guard of thyself from my son the debauchee for ’tis a froward fellow, a thief, a miserable, lest he come over thee with some wile and have his will of thee.”  Said she, “What words are these?  Thy son is a dog nor hath he any power over me in aught whereof thou talkest, and if he bespeak me with one injurious word, I will slipper him soundly with my foot-gear."[FN#583] He rejoined, “If thou happen to need aught[FN#584] never even mention it to him;” and she, “Hearkening and obedience.”  So he farewelled her and fared forth wholly intent upon his wayfare.  Now when he was far enough from the town the youth came to the grass-widow but would not address a single word to her, albeit fire was lighted in his heart by reason of her being so beautiful.  Accordingly he contrived a wile.  It happened to be summer-tide so he went[FN#585]