Thereupon the one-eyed Wazir arose and took Nur al-Din and carried him to his palace，thinking to slaughter him on the threshold of the gate；but the painters said to him，'O my lord；we have two days' painting yet to do： so bear with us and delay to cut the throat of this captive，till we have made an end of our work；haply by that time the rest of the thirty will come，so thou mayst despatch them all at one bout and accomplish thy vow in a single day.'Thereupon the Wazir bade imprison Nur al-Din.--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
When it was the Eight Hundred and Eighty-seventh Night； She said，It hath reached me，O auspicious King，that when the Wazir bade imprison Nur al-Din，they carried him to the stables and left him there in chains，hungering and thirsting and making moan for himself；for indeed he saw death face to face.Now it fortuned，by the ordinance of Destiny and fore-ordained Fate；that the King had two stallions，own brothers，[551] such as the Chosroe Kings might sigh in vain to possess themselves of one of them；they were called Sabik and Lahik[552] and one of them was pure silvern white while the other was black as the darksome night.And all the Kings of the isles had said，'Whoso stealeth us one of these stallions，we will give him all he seeketh of red gold and pearls and gems；'but none could avail to steal them.