[ The Young King of the Black Isles]
When he came to this part of his narrative the young king could not restrain his tears
And she proceeded to burn perfume and repeat spells until the sea foamed and was agitated
At the same time the earth, trembling, opened just before the magician, and uncovered a stone, laid horizontally, with a brass ring fixed into the middle
And when the boat came to me I found in it a man of brass, with a tablet of lead upon his breast, engraven with names and talismans
At the approach of evening I opened the first closet and, entering it, found a mansion like paradise