Note 409
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.
This is a solemn "chaff;" such liberties being permitted at weddings and festive occasions.
…present, "Know that this beauty crossed our hands with naught but red gold; so be not chary to do him womanly service and comply with all he says, no matter what he ask. [FN#409] So all the women crowded around Hasan with their torches and gazed on his loveliness and envied him his beauty; and one and all would gladly have lain on his bosom an hour or rather a year. Their hearts were so troubled that they let fall their veils …
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