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

Note 303 — ALI SHAR[254] AND ZUMURRUD.

Richard Francis Burton translation

Lane (i. 605) gives a long and instructive note on these public royal banquets which were expected from the lieges by Moslem subjects. The hanging-penalty is, perhaps, a little exaggerated; but we find the same excess in the priestly Gesta Romanorum.

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