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I will assuredly sell it for two hundred with which I will

forthright buy other glass and make by it four hundred; nor will

I cease to sell and buy on this wise, till I have gotten four

thousand and soon find myself the master of much money. With

these coins I will buy merchandise and jewels and ottars[FN#660]

and gain great profit on them; till, Allah willing, I will make

my capital an hundred thousand dirhams. Then I will purchase a

fine house with white slaves and eunuchs and horses; and I will

eat and drink and disport myself; nor will I leave a singing man

or a singing woman in the city, but I will summon them to my

palace and make them perform before me." All this he counted over

in his mind, while the tray of glass ware,: worth an hundred

dirhams, stood on the bench before him, and, after looking at it,

he continued, "And when, Inshallah!