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

Note 495
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)

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This is one of the best tales for humour and movement, and Douce and Madden show what a rich crop of fabliaux, whose leading incident was the disposal of a dead body, it produced.

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…e Tailor and the Hunchback and the Jew and the Reeve and the Nazarene, and what betided them." Quoth the King, "And what may that be?" So Shahrazad began, in these words,[FN#495]

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Note 495TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)

Note 495
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)