Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 1 (of 6)

Note 215 — THE TEN WAZIRS; OR THE HISTORY OF KING AZADBAKHT AND HIS SON.[130] (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

For the practice of shampooing often alluded to in The Nights, see vol. iii. 17. The king “sleeping on the boys’ knees” means that he dropped off whilst his feet were on the laps of the lads.

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