📔 The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night

"O my son, believe not in swevens which be mere imbroglios of sleep and lying phantasies;"

So she went out to fetch her needful from the Bazar and Alaeddin retired to his chamber and taking the Lamp rubbed it, when forthright appeared to him its Slave and said, "Ask, O my lord, whatso thou wantest."

"O mother mine, verily this Shaykh is soothfast and no liar: for the first time he but tried me and now he proposeth to perform his promise."

They slept well that night and betimes next morning the mother of Alaeddin arose and went with her bowl to the King's court which she found closed.