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It is also told that Abu Suwayd said: One day, I happened to enter an orchard with a party of my companions to buy some fruit. In one corner we saw an old woman with a lovely face, though the hair upon her head was white, and she was combing it with an ivory comb. We stopped beside her, but she paid us no heed and did not cover her head. I said to her, “Old woman, if you dyed your hair black, you would be fairer than a young girl. What has kept you from doing so?” She raised her head toward me … But morning overtook Shahrazad, and she fell silent, ceasing her permitted tale.

When it was the four hundred and twenty-fourth night

She said: It has reached me, O fortunate King, that Abu Suwayd said: When I spoke these words to the old woman, she raised her head toward me, stared wide-eyed, and recited these two verses: “I dyed what time had dyed, but my dye did not stay; the dye of passing days endured. In those days I strutted in the robes of youth, and was fucked from behind and from before.” I said to her, “What an old woman you are! How truthfully you speak of forbidden pleasures, and how falsely you profess repentance for your sins!”