and he took horse with his son and rode out with himthat the folk might see him and rejoice. After awhile the prince enquired for the maker of the horsesaying'O my fatherwhat hath fortune done with him？'May God not bless him，'answered the King'nor the hour in which I set eyes on him！ For he was the cause of thy separation from usO my sonand he hath lain in prison since the day of thy disappearance.'Then he bade release him from prison and sending for himinvested him in a dress of honour and entreated him with the utmost favour and munificencesave that he would not give him his daughter to wife；whereat he was sore enraged and repented of that which he had doneknowing that the prince had learnt the secret of the horse and the manner of its motion. Moreoverthe King said to his son'Methinks thou wilt do well not to mount the horse neither go near it henceforth；for thou knowest not its propertiesand it is perilous for thee to meddle with it.'Now the prince had told his father of his adventure with the King's daughter of Senaaand he said'If the King had been minded to kill theehe had done so；but thine hour was not yet come.'
When the rejoicings were at an endthe people returned to their houses and the King and his son to the palacewhere they sat down and fell to eating and drinking and making merry. Now the King had a handsome slave-girlwho was skilled in playing upon the lute；so she took it and began to play upon it and sing thereto of separation of lovers before the King and his sonand she chanted the following verses：
Think not that absence ever shall win me to forget： For what should I rememberif I'd forgotten you？