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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 (of 10)

Note 307 — MASRUR AND ZAYN AL-MAWASIF.[307]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

i.e. “Adornment of (good) Qualities.” See the name punned on in Night dcccli. Lane omits this tale because it contains the illicit “Amours of a Christian and a Jewess who dupes her husband in various abominable ways.” The text has been taken from the Mac. and the Bresl. Edits. x. 72 etc. In many parts the former is a mere Epitome.

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