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She handed him another cup and he drank it off, when she slapped

him hard on the nape of his neck.[FN#644] Upon this my brother

would have gone out of the house in anger; but the old woman

followed him and winked to him to return. So he came back and the

lady bade him sit and he sat down without a word. Then she again

slapped him on the nape of his neck; and the second slapping did

not suffice her, she must needs make all her handmaidens also

slap and cuff him, while he kept saying to the old woman, "I

never saw aught nicer than this." She on her side ceased not

exclaiming, "Enough, enough, I conjure thee, O my mistress!"; but

the women slapped him till he well nigh swooned away.