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This chest contains coloured dresses, and four gallon flasks of

Zemzem water;[FN#564] and now one of them hath got unstoppered

and the water is running out over the clothes and it will spoil

their colours." The eunuch answered, "Take up thy boxes and get

thee gone to the curse of God!" So the slaves carried off all the

chests, including mine; and hastened on with them till suddenly I

heard the voice of one saying, "Alack, and alack! the Caliph! the

Caliph !" When that cry struck mine ears I died in my skin and

said a saying which never yet shamed the sayer, "There is no

Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the

Great!