come forth and seek union with the beloved.’  Whereto she will reply ‘Thou art the lord and I am the bondswoman.’ " Now the youth abode marvelling at such marvel-forms and the Warlock having repeated to him these words three times, turned to him and said “Arise to thy feet and perfume and fumigate thy person and don thy choicest dress and dispread thy bed, for at this very hour thou shalt see thy mistress by thy side.”  And so saying the Sage cast out of hand the shoulder-blades and set the phial upon the fire.  Thereupon the youth arose without stay or delay and bringing a bundle of raiment the rarest, he spread it and habited himself, doing whatso the Wizard had bidden him; withal could he not believe that his mistress would appear.  However ere a scanty space of time had elapsed, lo and behold! the young lady bearing her bedding[FN#251] and still sleeping passed through the house door and she was bright and beautiful as the easting sun.  But when the youth the Cook sighted her, he was perplex” and his wits took flight with his sense and he cried aloud saying, “This be naught save a wondrous matter!” “And the same,” quoth the Sage, “is that requiredst thou.”  Quoth the Cook, “And thou, O my lord art of the Hallows of Allah,” and kissed his hand and thanked him for his kindly deed.  “Up with thee and take thy pleasure,” cried the Warlock; so the lover crept under the coverlet into the bed and he threw his arms round the fair one and kissed her between the eyes; after which he bussed her on the mouth.  She sensed a sensation in herself and straightway awaking opened her eyes and beheld a youth embracing her, so she asked him, “Ho thou, who art thou?” Answered he, “One by thine eyes a captive ta’en and of thy love the slain and of none save thyself the fain.”  Hereat she looked at him with a look which her heart for love longing struck and again asked him, “O my beloved; say me then, who art thou, a being of mankind or of Jann-kind?” whereto he answered, “I am human and of the most honourable.”  She resumed, “Then who was it brought me hither to thee?” and he responded, “The Angels and the Spirits, the Jinns and the Jann.”  “Then I swear thee, O my dearling,” quoth she, “that thou bid them bear me hither to thine arms every night,” and quoth he, “Hearkening and obeying, O my lady, and for me also this be the bourne of all wishes.”  Then, each having kissed other, they slept in mutual embrace until dawn.  But when the morning morrowed and showed its sheen and shone, behold, the Warlock appeared and, calling the youth who came to him with a smiling face, said to him, “How was it with thy soul this night?"[FN#252] and both lovers cried, “We were in the Garden of Paradise together with the Hur and Ghilman:[FN#253] Allah requite thee for us with all weal.”  Then they passed into the Hammam and when they had bathed, the youth said, “O my lord, what shall we do with the young lady and how shall she hie to her household and what shall be the case of me without