When all was ready , Prince Almas set out for home , taking with him Jamila , and Dil-aram and Gul , daughter of Taram-taq , and the wicked Mihr-afruz , and all the belongings of the four , packed on horses and camels , and in carts without number . As he approached the borders of his father 's country word of his coming went before him , and all the city came forth to give him welcome . King Saman-lal-posh -- Jessamine , wearer of rubies -- had so bewept the loss of his sons that he was now blind . When the prince had kissed his feet and received his blessing , he took from a casket a little collyrium of Solomon , which the Simurgh had given him , and which reveals the hidden things of earth , and rubbed it on his father 's eyes . Light came , and the king saw his son . Mihr-afruz was brought before the king , and the prince said : ` This is the murderer of your sons ; do with her as you will . ' The king fancied that the prince might care for the girl 's beauty , and replied : ` You have humbled her ; do with her as you will . ' Upon this the prince sent for four swift and strong horses , and had the negro bound to each one of them ; then each was driven to one of the four quarters , and he tore in pieces like muslin . This frightened Mihr-afruz horribly , for she thought the same thing might be done to herself . She cried out to the prince : ' O Prince Almas ! what is hardest to get is most valued . Up till now I have been subject to no man , and no man had had my love . The many kings and kings sons who have died at my hands have died because it was their fate to die like this . In this matter I have not sinned . That was their fate from eternity ; and from the beginning it was predestined that my fate should be bound up with yours . ' The prince gave ear to the argument from pre-ordainment , and as she was a very lovely maiden he took her too in lawful marriage . She and Jamila , set up house together , and Dil-aram and Gul set up theirs ; and the prince passed the rest of his life with the four in perfect happiness , and in pleasant and sociable entertainment . Now has been told what the rose did to the cypress . Finished , finished , finished ! Footnotes : -LSB- Footnote 1 : Translated from two Persian MSS .
in the possession XXXXX the British Museum and the India Office , and adapted , with some reservations , by Annette S. Beveridge . -RSB-
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