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Then she laid before him a piece of yellow satin and said, My

lady biddeth thee cut her two pair of petticoat trousers out of

this piece and sew them this very day." "Hearkening and

obedience!' replied he, "greet her for me with many greetings and

say to her, Thy slave is obedient to thine order; so command him

as thou wilt." Then he applied himself to cutting out and worked

hard at sewing the trousers; and after an hour the lady appeared

at the lattice and saluted him by signs, now casting down her

eyes, then smiling in his face, and he began to assure himself

that he would soon make a conquest. She did not let him stir till

he had finished the two pair of trousers, when she with drew and

sent the handmaid to whom he delivered them; and she took them

and went her ways. When it was night, he threw himself on his

carpet bed, and lay tossing about from side to side till morning,

when he rose and sat down in his place.