Note 217 — THE ADVENTURES OF MERCURY ALI OF CAIRO.[214]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The Mac. and Bul. Edits. give two silly couplets of moral advice:—
Strike with thy stubborn steel, and never fear ✿ Aught save the Godhead of Almighty Might;
And shun ill practices and never show ✿ Through life but generous gifts to human sight.
The above is from the Bresl. Edit. ix. 247.