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 princess of China's nurse had a son whose name was Marzavan, who had
been foster-brother to the princess, and brought up with her, The
friendship was so great during their childhood, and all the time they
had been together, that as they grew up, even some time after their
separation, they treated each other as brother and sister. Marzavan,
among other studies, had from his youth been much addicted to judicial
astrology, geomancy, and the like secret arts, wherein he became
exceedingly skilful. Not satisfied with what he had learned from
masters, he travelled, and there was hardly any person of note in any
science or art, but he sought him in the most remote cities, to obtain
information, so great was his thirst after knowledge. After several
years' absence in foreign parts, he returned to the capital of his
native country, where, seeing so many heads on the gate by which he
entered, he was exceedingly surprised, and demanded for what reason they
had been placed there; but he more particularly inquired after the
princess his foster-sister. As he could not receive an answer to one
inquiry without the other, he heard at length a general account of what
had happened, and waited for further particulars till he could see his
mother, the princess's nurse. Although the nurse, the mother of
Marzavan, was much employed about the princess, yet she no sooner heard
her son was returned, than she found time to come out, embrace him, and
converse with him a little. Having told him, with tears in her eyes, the
unhappy condition of the princess, and for what reason the king her
father had confined her; her son desired to know if she could not
procure him a private view of her royal mistress, without the king's
knowledge. After some pause, she t