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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 (of 10)

Note 53 — NUR AL-DIN ALI AND THE DAMSEL ANIS AL-JALIS

Richard Francis Burton translation

i.e. the Sáki, cup-boy or cup-bearer. "Moon-faced," as I have shown elsewhere, is no compliment in English, but it is in Persian and Arabic.

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