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Now this well happened to be haunted by the Jann who, seeing the

case, bore him up and let him down little by little, till he

reached the bottom, when they seated him upon a large stone. Then

one of them asked his fellows, "Wot ye who be this man?" and they

answered, "Nay." "This man," continued the speaker, "is the

Envied hight who, flying from the Envier, came to dwell in our

city, and here founded this holy house, and he hath edified us by

his litanies[FN#219] and his lections of the Koran; but the

Envier set out and journeyed till he rejoined him, and cunningly

contrived to deceive him and cast him into the well where we now

are.