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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 (of 10)

Note 328 — JULNAR THE SEA-BORN AND HER SON KING BADR BASIM OF PERSIA.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

i.e. naming her before the lieges as if the speaker were her and his superior. It would have been more polite not to have gone beyond “the unique pearl and the hoarded jewel”: the offensive part of the speech was using the girl’s name.

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