Now when this became longsome to him, one day he doffed his shirt and set it upon a cane and shook out the sleeves.

Deel me longsome.

"Speak, for I see thy forehead Sadden in dark denial, Is there not one that standeth Tempter and longsome trial?

So he raised his head to see what was to do, and finding that it was the Wazir Ja'afar the Barmecide coming forth from the Caliph's presence, he rose to him and forewent him, and they walked about conversing for a longsome time.

At the end of the third year I waxed aweary of this longsome mourning, and one day I happened to enter the cenotaph when vexed and angry with some matter which had thwarted me, and suddenly I heard her say: "O my lord, I never hear thee vouchsafe a single word to me!