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

Note 386 — TALE OF KAMAR AL-ZAMAN, (continued 3)

Richard Francis Burton translation

Lane (ii. 168) reads:—"The niggardly female is protected by her niggardness;" a change of "Nahílah" (bee-hive) into "Bakhílah" (she skin-flint).

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