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“ Then he bade lodge him near himself and was bountiful to him and took him apart and said to him, ‘Expound to me the story of the phial and whence then knewest that the water therein was that of a man, and he a stranger and a Jew, and that his ailment was indigestion?’ ‘It is well,’ answered the weaver. ‘Thou must know that we people of Persia are skilled in physiognomy [9] and I saw the woman to be rosy-cheeked, blue-eyed and tall. Now these attributes belong to women who are enamoured of a man and are distraught for love of him ”

“ STORY OF THE WEAVER WHO BECAME A PHYSICIAN BY HIS WIFE’S COMMANDMENT.
There was once, in the land of Fars, [1] a man who took to wife a woman higher than himself in rank and nobler of lineage, but she had no guardian to preserve her from want. It misliked her to marry one who was beneath her ”

“ Persia. ↑ i.e. the case with which he earned his living. ↑ i.e. the ten thousand dirhems of the bond. ↑ i.e. exhorted her to patience. ↑ Or performing surgical operations (ilaj) . ↑ i.e. the open space before his house. ↑ Or “drew near unto.” ↑ i.e. a descendant of Mohammed. ↑ Or the art of judging from external appearances (firaseh) . ↑ Sic in the text; but the passage is apparently corrupt. It is not plain why a rosy complexion, blue eyes and tallness should be peculiar to women in love. ”