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Shortly after she too came home in yet fouler and sorrier plight

than that of my eldest sister; and I dealt by her still more

honorably than I had done by the first, and each of them had a

share of my substance. After a time they said to me, 'O our

sister, we desire to marry again, for indeed we have not patience

to drag on our days without husbands and to lead the lives of

widows bewitched;" and I replied, "O eyes of me![FN#304] ye have

hitherto seen scanty weal in wedlock, for now-a-days good men and

true are become rarities and curiosities; nor do I deem your

projects advisable, as ye have already made trial of matrimony

and have failed." But they would not accept my advice and married

without my consent: nevertheless I gave them outfit and dowries

out of my money; and they fared forth with their mates. In a

mighty little time their husbands played them false and, taking

whatever they could lay hands upon, levanted and left them in the

lurch.