The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 (of 10)

Note 216 — TALE of ALI BIN BAKKAR and of SHAMS AL-NAHAR. (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation

This is one of the many euphemistic formulæ for such occasions: they usually begin "May thy head live," etc.

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