Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand and One Nights, Sir Richard Francis Burton [best love novels of all time .txt] 📗
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[FN#568] Give.
[FN#569] Excepting, unless.
[FN#570] Face, countenance.
[FN#571] Care, close examination.
[FN#572] Pallata, Lat. (Paletot, O. Fr. ), sometimes signifying a particular stuff, and sometimes a particular dress. See Du Cange.
[FN#573] Cut; divided
[FN#574] Wept.
[FN#575] Sailing.
[FN#576] More.
[FN#577] Much.
[FN#578] Sultan.
[FN#579] Name.
[FN#580] Voice, i.e., command.
[FN#581] Slew.
[FN#582] Labour.
[FN#583] Drew.
[FN#584] Went.
[FN#585] Burning coal.
[FN#586] Pray; beg.
[FN#587] Recovered.
[FN#588] Head.
[FN#589] Weeping.
[FN#590] Saw.
[FN#591] Waving.
[FN#592] Began to climb.
[FN#593] Against.
[FN#594] More.
[FN#595] From an early volume of the “Asiatic Journal,” the number of which I did not “make a note of—thus, for once at least, disregarding the advice of the immortal Captain Cuttle.
[FN#596] “It was no wonder,” says this writer, “that his (i.e.
Galland’s) version of the ‘Arabian Nights’ achieved a universal popularity, and was translated into many languages, and that it provoked a crowd of imitations, from ‘Les Mille et Un Jours’ to the ‘Tales of the Genii.’”
[FN#597] This is a version of The Sleeper and the Waker—with a vengeance! Ab� Hasan the Wag, the Tinker, and the Rustic, and others thus practiced upon by frolic-loving princes and dukes, had each, at least, a most delightful “dream.” But when a man is similarly handled by the “wife of his bosom”—in stories, only, of course—the case is very different as the poor chief of police experienced. Such a “dream” as his wife induced upon him we may be sure he would remember “until that day that he did creep into his sepulchre!”
[FN#598] I call this “strikingly similar” to the preceding Persian story, although it has fewer incidents and the lady’s husband remains a monk, she could not have got him back even had she wished; for, having taken the vows, he was debarred from returning to “the world ” which a kalandar or dervish may do as often as he pleases.
[FN#599] “The Woman’s trick against her Husband.”
End of the Project Gutenberg Etext of Supplemental Nights, Volume 2
by Richard F. Burton
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