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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 (of 10)

Note 292 — ALI SHAR[254] AND ZUMURRUD.

Richard Francis Burton translation

This tetrastich has occurred before (Night cxciii.). I quote Lane (ii. 449), who quotes Dryden’s Spanish Friar:-

There is a pleasure sure in being mad

Which none but madmen know.

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