Note 402
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.
Arab. "Bárid," lit. cold: metaph. vain, foolish, insipid.
…xceeding wrath and cried, 'When the like of me asketh a girl in marriage of the like of thee, he conferreth an honour, and thou rejectest me and puttest me off with cold [FN#402] excuses! Now, by the life of my head I will marry her to the meanest of my men in spite of the nose of thee! [FN#403] There was in the palace a horse-groom which was a Gobbo with a bunch to his breast and a hunch to his back; and the Sultan sent for h…
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