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verdure and greenness adorned their hands all over with the beau- 

 tiful dye of the myrtle : and wherever the newly married brides had 

 put on bracelets of small pods and the favourite wives bracelets of 

 new buds, all of them filled their bosoms with the flowers of favour 

 and love. And three years' taxes were remitted throughout the 

 whole of the kingdom to all the people in whatever way it could be 

 done, whether on the fields and gardens, or on the ploughing, or on 

 the selling of cloth and rags ; and it was ordered that all should 

 make preparations in their houses to celebrate the wedding. And 

 into all the wells of the whole kingdom were poured the contents 

 of the sugar factories. And in all the forests and mountains and 

 hillocks the glittering of lanterns was seen all night long. And in 

 all the lakes, the bastard saffron, blossoms of the palas tree, and 

 flowers of the weeping Nyctanthes were lying. And a little saffron 

 also was mixed with the water, and from the summit to the roof, on 



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