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“ Now El Melik ez Zahir was passionately fond of stories of the common folk and of that which men purposed and loved to see this with his eyes and hear their sayings with his ears, and it befell that he heard one night from one of his story-tellers [5] that among women are those who are doughtier than men of valour and greater of excellence and that among them are those who will do battle with the sword and others who cozen the quickest-witted of magistrates and baffle them and bring down on them all manner of calamity ”

“ The first to relate was a man, a captain of the watch, by name Muïneddin, whose heart was engrossed with the love of women; and he said, ‘Harkye, all ye people of [various] degree, I will acquaint you with an extraordinary affair which befell me aforetime. ”