Note 403
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.
Not to "spite thee" but "in spite of thee." The phrase is still used by high and low.
… 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 him and married him to the daughter of the Wazir, lief or loath, and hath ordered a pompous marriage procession for him…
Return to passage