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

Note 249 — THE TEN WAZIRS; OR THE HISTORY OF KING AZADBAKHT AND HIS SON.[130] (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Here the vocative Yá is designedly omitted in poetical fashion (e.g., Khaliliyya—my friend!) to show the speaker’s emotion. See p. 113 of Captain A. Lockett’s learned and curious work the “Miet Amil” (= Hundred Regimens), Calcutta, 1814.

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