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

"to prepare for him a good gift and send it to his lands." The sultan remained, meaning
for his brother Shah Zaman, giving gifts for a month. Then King Shahryar brought
his brother Shah Zaman and said, "Know, my brother, that I want to go out on a hunting trip
and enjoy myself for ten days, and I will return and prepare you for the journey and prepare everything for your coming."
He said to him, "My brother, I am depressed and my mind is distressed, so
travel you under the blessing of God and His help." When Shah Zaman heard the words of his brother, he believed
that he was distressed only because of the separation from his kingdom and did not want to bother him, so he left him.
He traveled with the people of his kingdom and his army and they entered the wilderness and set up a ring of
latticed window hunting and trapping. The author of the narrative said, "As for Shah Zaman, when his brother
Shah Zaman left, he sat in the palace and looked out from the window toward the side of the garden.
He looked at the birds and the trees and thought of his wife and what she had done to him, so he showed grief
and hid a deep sigh." The narrator said, "While he was in his thought, burning and sadness,
sleeping in the embrace he was gazing at the sky and looking at the garden, when he happened to look at the garden, and lo,
the secret door of his brother's palace was opened, and the lady, his brother's wife, came out
she lay upon him with twenty slave girls. She was walking with a swagger as if she were a gazelle with wide, dark-eyed beauty. Shah
Zaman watched them from where they could not see him. They kept walking until they arrived under the palace in which
Shah Zaman was, from where they could not see him, and they believed that he had traveled with his brother
to the hunt. They sat under the palace and took off their clothes, and there were ten black slaves
and the ten slave girls. Each of their masters had put on the clothes of the slave girls. The ten fell upon the
ten slave girls. The lady cried out, 'O Mas'ud, O Mas'ud!' A black slave jumped
sitting in groups in that tree to the ground and was immediately with her. He lifted her legs
and entered between her thighs and fell upon her. The ten were upon the ten, and Mas'ud
was upon the lady. They remained like that until the middle of the night. When they finished their work,
they all got up and washed. The ten slaves put on the clothes of the slave girls and mingled
with the other ten slave girls, so they became twenty slave girls for whoever saw them. As for Mas'ud..."