The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 · Richard Francis Burton translation

Note 460
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)

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In Arabic the World is feminine.

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"Unjust it were to bid the World [FN#460] be just * And blame her not: She ne'er was made for justice: Take what she gives thee, leave all grief aside, * For now to fair and then to foul her lust is."

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Note 460TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)

Note 460
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)