show it not unto any.  On like wise, as for the ring, it may not be that I should put it off from my finger, forasmuch as, but for this ring, thou hadst not seen me again on life; nay, I had died under the earth within the treasure; so how can I put it off from my hand and who knoweth what may happen to me in time to come of error or calamity or shift of the shifts of mischance, from which the ring might deliver me?  However, of regard for thy wish, I will lay up the lamp and let thee not see it henceforth.”  When his mother heard his words and pondered them, she saw them to be just and true and said to him, “O my son, do what thou wilt.  For my part, I wish never to see them nor ever again to behold that loathsome aspect [FN#303] which I saw [but now].”

Alaeddin [FN#304] and his mother abode two days eating of the food which the genie had brought, and when it was finished and he knew that there was left them nothing to eat, he arose and taking a platter of those which the slave had brought on the tray (now they were of fine gold, but Alaeddin knew it not) went with it to the market, where a Jew, a man viler than devils themselves, accosted [FN#305] him and he gave him the platter.  When the Jew saw it, he took Alaeddin aside, so none might see him, and examining the platter, found it of fine gold, [FN#306] but knew not if Alaeddin was ware of its worth or if he was ignorant thereof; so he said to him, “How much, O my lord, for this platter?” And Alaeddin answered him, saying, “Thou knowest how much it is worth.”  The Jew was perplexed how much he should give Alaeddin for the platter, by reason of his having made him an adroit answer, and bethought himself to give him little, but feared lest he should be aware of its value and debated with himself if he should give him much.  Then said he in himself, “Most like he knoweth not its value;” so he brought out of his pocket a gold diner and gave it to him.  When Alaeddin saw the diner in his hand, he took it and went off in haste, whereby the Jew knew that the lad was unaware of the value of the plate and repented him sore that he had given him a gold diner and not a carat of three-score:  [FN#307]

Meanwhile Alaeddin tarried not, but went forthright to the baker and bought of him bread and changed the diner; then, returning to his mother, he gave her the bread and the rest of the money and said to her, “O my mother, go and buy us what we need.”  So she arose and going to the market, bought all that they needed and they ate and were cheered.  Then, whenassoever the price of a platter was spent, Alaeddin would take another and carry it to the Jew; on which wise the accursed Jew bought them all of him for a small matter and would fain also have reduced the price; but, since he had given him a diner the first time, he feared to offer him less, lest the lad should go and sell to another [FN#308] and he lose that excessive profit.  Accordingly, Alaeddin ceased not to sell him platter after platter till he had sold them all and there was left him only the tray whereon they had been; then, for that it was big and heavy, he went and fetched the Jew to the house and brought out to him the tray.  When he saw it and noted its bigness, he gave Alaeddin ten diners, which he took, and the Jew went his way.