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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 227 — TALE OF HARUN AL-RASHID AND ABDULLAH BIN NAFI’.[131]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Mr. Payne translates “Take this and glorify thyself withal over the people of the world.” His reading certainly makes better sense, but I do not see how the text can carry the meaning. He also omits the bussing of the bosom, probably from artistic reasons.

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