Now after seeing his father in the dream and hearing his re preaches,Kamar alZaman awoke in the morning,afflicted and troubled,whereupon the Lady Budur questioned him and he told her what he had seen.And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
When it was the Two Hundred and Sixth Night,She said,It hath reached me,O auspicious King,that when Kamar alZaman acquainted the Lady Budur with what he had seen in his dream,she and he went in to her sire and,telling him what had passed,besought his leave to travel. He gave the Prince the permission he sought;but the Princess said,'O my father,I cannot bear to be parted from him.'Quoth Ghayur,her sire,'Then go thou with him,'and gave her leave to be absent a whole twelvemonth and afterwards to visit him in every year once;so she kissed his hand and Kamar alZaman did the like. Thereupon King Ghayur proceeded to equip his daughter and her bridegroom for the journey,and furnished them with outfit and appointments for the march;and brought out of his stables horses marked with his own brand,blooddromedaries[306] which can journey ten days without water,and prepared a litter for his daughter,besides loading mules and camels with victual;moreover,he gave them slaves and eunuchs to serve them and all manner of travellinggear;and on the day of departure,when King Ghayur took leave of Kamar alZaman,he bestowed on him ten splendid suits of cloth of gold embroidered with stones of price,together with ten riding horses and ten shecamels,and a treasury of money;[307] and he charged him to love and cherish his daughter the Lady Budur. Then the King accompanied them to the farthest limits of his Islands where,going in to his daughter Budur in the litter,he kissed her and strained her to his bosom,weeping and repeating,'O thou who wooest Severance,easy fare!