Has sickness touched you ? Tell me that I may seek a cure . '' Alas ! there was now no way of concealing the mingled delight and anguish of our love ; from secret it became known . I was put in prison and the world grew dark to my rose , bereft of her lover . ` The peri-king ordered me to be burnt , and said : `` Why have you , a man , done this perfidious thing in my house ? '' His demons and peris . collected amber-wood and made a pile , and would have set me on it , when I remembered the word of life which the two peris . I had rescued had breathed into my ear , and I asked that my body might be rubbed with oil to release me the sooner from torture . This was allowed , and those two contrived to be the anointers . I was put into the fire and it was kept up for seven days and nights . By the will of the Great King it left no trace upon me . At the end of a week the pert-king ordered the ashes to be cast upon the dust-heap , and I was found alive and unharmed . ` Peris who had seen Gul consumed by her love for me now interceded with the king , and said : `` It is clear that your daughter 's fortunes are bound up with his , for the fire has not hurt him . It is best to give him the girl , for they love one another . He is King of Waq of Qaf , and you will find none better . '' ` To this the king agreed , and made formal marriage between Gul and me . You now know the price I paid for this faithless creature . O prince ! remember our compact . ' '
I remember , ' said the prince ; ` but tell me what brought Queen XXXXX to her present pass ? '
Gul King Qaf anointers days fire left nights peris torture