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

Note 388
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

Anonymous

Here again the Cairo Edit. repeats the six couplets already given in Night xvii. I take them from Torrens (p. 163).

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…that dimly haunts the Bear) Kept off all evil eyes that threaten and ensnare, The sage stood mazed to see such fortunes meet, And Luna kissed the earth beneath his feet. [FN#388]

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Note 388TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

Note 388
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.