“I do not allow, that you have hit it off,” says Mangogul: “but supposing you have, do you know a remedy?” Mirzoza answered the Sultan, after a moment’s pause, that his highness seem’d to take so much pleasure at the narratives she made him of the gallantries of the town, that she was sorry she had no more to relate to him, or that she was not better informed of those of the court; that she would have tried that expedient, till she thought of somewhat better. “I think it a good one,” says Mangogul: “But who knows the stories of all those fools; and though they were known to any, who could relate them like you?”

“Let us learn them however,” replied Mirzoza. “Whosoever it be that tells them, I am certain that your highness will gain more by the matter, than you will lose by the form.”

“I shall join with you, if you please, in fancying the adventures of the court ladies very diverting,” says Mangogul: “but though they were to be a hundred times more so, what does that avail, if it be impossible to come at them?”