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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 409 — THE WHORISH WIFE WHO VAUNTED HER VIRTUE.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

I have inserted this sentence, the tale being absolutely without termination. So in the Mediæval Lat. translations the MSS. often omit “explicit capitulum (primum). Sequitur capitulum secundum,” this explicit being a sine qua non.

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