Then the Sultan summoned Bahram and bade strike off his head；but he said，'O most mighty King，art thou indeed resolved to put me to death？'Replied the King，'Yes，except thou save thyself by becoming a Moslem.'Quoth Bahram，'O King，bear with me a little while！'Then he bowed his head groundwards and presently raising it again，made pro fession of The Faith and islamised at the hands of the Sultan. They all rejoiced at his conversion and Amjad and As'ad told him all that had befallen them，whereat he wondered and said，'O my lords，make ready for the journey and I will depart with you and carry you back to your father's court in a ship.'At this they rejoiced and wept with sore weeping but he said，'O my lords，weep _disibledevent=a silly or abusive tirade （Pilgrimage，ii. 22）.
[10] The popular form is，'often the ear loveth before the eye.'
[11] Not the first time that royalty has played this prank，nor the last，perhaps.
[12] i.e. the Lady Dunya.
[13] These magazines are small stronglybuilt rooms on the ground floor，where robbery is almost impossible.
[14] Lit.'approbation，''benediction'；also the Angel who keeps the Gates of Paradise and who has allowed one of the Ghilman （or Wuldan） the boys of supernatural beauty that wait upon the Faithful，to wander forth into this wicked world.
[15] In Europe this would be a plurale majestatis，used only by Royalty. In Arabic it has no such significance，and even the lower orders apply it to themselves；although it often has a soup噊n of'I and thou.'