When it was the Two Hundred and Twelfth Night，She said，It hath reached me，O auspicious King，that when King Shahriman had ended his verses，he returned with the troops to his capital，giving up his son for lost，and deeming that wild beasts or banditti had set upon him and torn him to pieces；and made proclamation that all in the Khalidan Islands should don black in mourning for him. Moreover，he built，in his memory，a pavilion，naming it House of Lamentations；and on Mondays and Thursdays he devoted himself to the business of the state and ordering the affairs of his levies and lieges；and the rest of the week he was wont to spend in the House of Lamentations，mourning for his son and bewailing him with elegiac verses，[324] of which the following are some：
'My day of bliss is that when thou appearest；
My day of bale[325] is that whereon thou farest：
Though through the night I quake in dread of death；
Union wi' thee is of all bliss the dearest.'
And again he said，'My soul be sacrifice for one，whose going
Afflicted hearts with sufferings sore and dread：
Let joy her widowed term[326] fulfil，for I Divorced joy with the divorce thricesaid.'[327]
Such was the case with King Shahriman；but as regards Queen Budur daughter of King Ghayur，she abode as ruler in the Ebony Islands，whilst the folk would point to her with their fingers，and say，'Yonder is the soninlaw of King Armanus.'And every night she lay with Hayat alNufus，to whom she lamented her desolate state and longing for her husband Kamar alZaman；weeping and describing to her his beauty and loveliness，and yearning to enjoy him though but in a dream： And at times she would repeat，'Well Allah wots that since my severance from thee，I wept till forced to borrow tears at usury：
'Patience！' my blamer cried，'Heartsease right soon shalt see！'
Quoth I，'Say，blamer，where may home of Patience be？''
This is how it fared with Queen Budur；but as regards Kamar al