When they came to the last of the supper and the princess knew that the wine had gotten the mastery in his head, she said to him, “We have in our country a custom, meknoweth not if you in this country use it or not.”  “And what is this custom?” asked the Maugrabin.  “It is,” answered she, “that, at the end of supper, each lover taketh the other’s cup and drinketh it.”  So saying, she took his cup and filling it for herself with wine, bade the handmaid give him her cup, wherein was wine mingled with henbane, even as she had taught her how she should do, for that all the slaves and slave-girls in the palace wished his death and were at one against him with the Lady Bedrulbudour.  So the damsel gave him the cup, and he, hearing the princess’s words and seeing her drink in his cup and give him to drink in hers, deemed himself Iskender of the Horns, whenas he saw from her all this love.  Then she bent towards him, swaying gracefully from side to side, and laying her hand on his, said, “O my life, here is thy cup with me and mine is with thee; thus do lovers drink one from other’s cup.”  Then she kissed [FN#613] his cup and drinking it off, set it down and came up to him and kissed him on the cheek; [FN#614] whereat he was like to fly for joy and purposing to do even as she had done, raised the cup to his mouth and drank it all off, without looking if there were aught therein or not; but no sooner had he done this than he turned over on his back, like a dead man, and the cup fell from his hand.

The Lady Bedrulbudour rejoiced at this and the damsels ran, vying with each other in their haste, [FN#615] and opened the palace-door [FN#616] to Alaeddin, their lord; whereupon he entered and [FN#617] going up to his wife’s pavilion, [FN#618] found her sitting at the table and the Maugrabin before her, as one slain.  So he went up to the princess and kissed her and thanked her for this [that she had done] and rejoiced with an exceeding joy.  Then said he to her, “Get thee now into thine inner chamber, thou and thy damsels, and leave me alone, so I may consider of that which I have to do.”  Accordingly, the Lady Bedrulbudour tarried not, but entered the inner pavilion, she and her women; whereupon Alaeddin arose and locked the door on them and going up to the Maugrabin, put his hand to his sleeve and pulled out the lamp; after which he drew his sword and cut off the sorcerer’s head.  Then he rubbed the lamp and the Marid, its slave, appeared to him and said, “Here am I, O my lord; what wiliest thou?” Quoth Alaeddin, “I will of thee that thou take up this palace from this country and carry it to the land of China and set it in the place where it was erst, before the Sultan’s palace.”  “Hearkening and obedience, O my lord,” replied the Marid [and disappeared], whilst Alaeddin went in and sat with the Lady Bedrulbudour his bride and embraced her and kissed her and she him; and they sat talking and making merry, what while the Marid took up the palace with [FN#619] them and set it down in its place before the Sultan’s palace.