ألف ليلة وليلة (Thousand and One Nights — 14th-15th century MS)

The situation is with me, but women are not to be trusted." Then he was enraged with a rage that had no equal.
He said, "O God, if I am a king and ruler of the lands of Samarkand and this happens to me
by my wife, and this matter is completed for me?" Then he called for the sword,
drew his sword, and struck the two—the cook and his wife. He dragged them by their feet and threw them
from his palace to the bottom of the moat. He left in his state to the outskirts of the city to the
vizier and ordered the departure at that time. The drum was beaten and they traveled.
King Shah Zaman had in his heart a fire that did not go out and a flame that did not hide
because of what happened to him from his wife and how she betrayed him and replaced him with a man,
a cook, one of the kitchen servants. They continued to travel, crossing wildernesses and deserts
night and day until they reached the lands of King Shahryar. The king went out to
meet them. When his eye fell upon them, he embraced his brother, drew him near, honored him, and lodged him
in one of the courtyards of his palace. King Shahryar had...
other two high, beautiful, and elegant palaces. He assigned one palace for maintenance and the
other for his wife. He lodged his brother Shah Zaman in the maintenance palace after the
servants had gone up, washed it, wiped it, furnished it, and opened its windows overlooking the garden.
Shah Zaman spent his whole day with his brother, and at night he would go up to the mentioned palace
to sleep in it, and in the morning, he would come to his brother. However, when he was alone with himself and remembered what had happened
to him with his wife of shame, he sighed deeply and hid his affair out of grief. He said,
"If it is me and these ordeals and great calamity happen to me?" He began to consume his soul
and tire himself and say, "What a pity for what has happened to me." His mind became disturbed, his
food intake decreased, jaundice took hold of him, and his condition changed from his worry. He remained in these states
until his body withered and his color changed. The author of the narrative said, "And when King
Shahryar saw his brother and all that he was in, day by day he diminished in his eye and his condition faded,
his color turned yellow and his appearance changed, and he thought that it was from the separation of his kingdom and his family."
He spoke to him about it, so he said to himself: "Indeed, this matter does not please him, but I want..."