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

...move all day, following him until night approached. The plowman took it to the house and tied it to the manger. The ox entered, making a noise and hitting with its hand and foot, and moved away from the manger. The plowman moved away from its story and brought it the bean feed. The ox smelled it, slept far away, and spent the night thinking about the separation and the separation until the morning. The plowman came and found the manger full. He went to the one who had not eaten anything from it and it had not changed. He saw the ox lying down, its belly swollen, and it made itself look better and lifted its legs. The plowman felt sorry for it and said to himself, "By God, perhaps it was weak and slacking." Then he went to the merchant and said, "O my master, the ox did not eat its feed all night nor did it taste a thing from it." The merchant knew the matter and said to the plowman, "Go to the cunning donkey, tie the plow upon it, and exert yourself in using it until it is finished." The ox was tied to the plow, and it went out from the wall. He hit it and tasked it until the ox was experienced. It continued to plow until its ribs collapsed and its neck was skinned. Night came, and he took it to the house, and the donkey could not move its hand or leg, and its ears were drooping. X As for the story of the ox, it spent its day sleeping, resting, chewing its cud, and it had eaten all its feed, drank, had patience, and rested. It spent all its day praying for the donkey, and when it praised its judgment upon it, when night approached and the donkey entered to it that night, it rose, standing, and said, "Good evening, O Abu al-Yaqzan. By God, you have done me a favor I cannot describe. May you never be moved, being guided; may God reward you on my behalf with goodness, O Abu al-Yaqzan." The donkey answered him from its anger at it and said to itself, "All this has happened due to the badness of my management. I was sitting at my length, and my meddling would not leave me alone. If I do not do a trick with it and return it to what it was, I will perish." Then it went to its manger saheeh correct and lay down, and the ox chewed its cud and prayed for it. "**And you, O my daughter, you will perish by your bad management. Sit and be content, and do not throw yourself into destruction. I am a counselor to you and an intercessor for you." She said, "O my father, I must go to this Sultan and you must present me to him." He said, "Do not do it." She said, "It must be done." He said, "If you do not desist, I will do with you as the merchant, the owner of the farm, did with his wife." He said to her...