She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the relations of Julnar the Sea-born farewelled the King and her, weeping together because of parting; then they flew off and descending into the depths disappeared from sight. After this King Shahriman showed the more kindness to Julnar and honoured her with increase of honour; and the little one grew up and flourished, whilst his maternal uncle and grandam and cousins visited the King every few days and abode with him a month or two months at a time. The boy ceased not to increase in beauty and loveliness with increase of years, till he attained the age of fifteen and was unique in his perfection and symmetry. He learnt writing and Koran reading; history, syntax and lexicography; archery, spearplay and horsemanship and what not else behoveth the sons of Kings; nor was there one of the children of the folk of the city, men or women, but would talk of the youth’s charms, for he was of surpassing beauty and perfection, even such an one as is praised in the saying of the poet,[FN#315] “The whiskers write upon his cheek, with ambergris on pearl, * Two lines, as ’twere with jet upon an apple, line for line. Death harbours in his languid eye and slays with every glance, * And in his cheek is drunkenness, and not in any wine.” And in that of another:— Upsprings from table of his lovely cheek[FN#316] * A growth like broidery my wonder is: As ’twere a lamp that burns through night hung up * Beneath the gloom[FN#317] in chains of ambergris.