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

Note 415
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

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Lit. burst the "gall-bladder:" In this and in the "liver" allusions I dare not be baldly literal.

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…y dress?" * She answered us in pleasant way with double meaning dight; "We call this garment creve-coeur; and rightly is it hight, * For many a heart wi' this we broke [FN#415] and conquered many a sprite!"

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Note 415TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

Note 415
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.