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Entertainments.
The Thirty Firſt Night.

THE next Morning Dinarzade did not fail to awaken the Sultaneſs at the ordinary Time, and ſaid, dear Siſter, if you are not aſleep, I would pray you (until Break of Day, which is near at Hand) to go on with that agreeable Story you began. Upon which Scheherazade addreſs’d the Sultan thus: Sir, with your leave, I am willing to ſatisfy my Siſter’s Curioſity, and at the ſame time went on with the Story of the three Callenders, a ſort of Mahometan Monks.

Zobeide would not take back the Money from the Porter, but ſaid, my Friend, in conſenting that you ſtay with us, I muſt fore warn you, that it’s not only on Condition that you keep ſecret what we have required you, but alſo that you obſerve exactly the Rules of good Manners and Civility. In the mean time the charming Amine put off the Apparel ſhe went abroad with, put on her Night-Gown that ſhe might be more eaſy, and cover’d the Table, which ſhe
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