Note 372 — MASRUR AND ZAYN AL-MAWASIF.[307] (continued 2)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The unfortunate Jew, who seems to have been a model husband (Orientally speaking), would find no pity with a coffee-house audience because he had been guilty of marrying a Moslemah. The union was null and void therefore the deliberate murder was neither high nor petty treason. But, The Nights, though their object is to adorn a tale, never deliberately attempt to point a moral and this is one of their many charms.