Note 395
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.
These lines have already occurred in The First Kalandar's Story (Night xi.) I quote by way of change and with permission Mr. Payne's version (i. 93).
"Escape with thy life, if oppression betide thee, * And let the house of its builder's fate! Country for country thou'lt find, if thou seek it; * Life for life never, early or late. It is strange men should dwell in the house of abjection, * When the plain of God's earth is so wide and so great!" [FN#395]
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