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Lot Essay
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'So she rose forthright and going to a chest, arrayed herself in what was the richest and dearest to her of her trinkets of gold and jewels of price, and she fared forth her handmaids recking naught. So he carried her up to the roof of the palace and, mounting the ebony horse, took her up behind him and made her fast to himself binding her with strong bonds; after which he turned the shoulder-pin of ascent, and the horse rose with him high in air. The Prince joyed with great joy and made the horse fly and fare softly with them, so as not to disquiet her; nor did they stay their flight till they came in sight of a green meadow, wherein was a spring of running water' (M. Chagall, Arabian Nights, Four Tales from A Thousand and One Nights (trans. R.F. Burton), London, 1999, p. 24).
'So she rose forthright and going to a chest, arrayed herself in what was the richest and dearest to her of her trinkets of gold and jewels of price, and she fared forth her handmaids recking naught. So he carried her up to the roof of the palace and, mounting the ebony horse, took her up behind him and made her fast to himself binding her with strong bonds; after which he turned the shoulder-pin of ascent, and the horse rose with him high in air. The Prince joyed with great joy and made the horse fly and fare softly with them, so as not to disquiet her; nor did they stay their flight till they came in sight of a green meadow, wherein was a spring of running water' (M. Chagall, Arabian Nights, Four Tales from A Thousand and One Nights (trans. R.F. Burton), London, 1999, p. 24).