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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 4 (of 6)

Note 290 — THE TALE OF THE KAZI AND THE BHANG-EATER.[224] (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

In text “Al-Bulaybul” (the little Nightingale, Philomelet), “Al Sayyáh” (the Shrieker). The latter epithet suggests to me the German novel which begins, “We are in Italy where roses bestink the day and Nightingales howl through the live-long night,” &c.

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