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

Note 434
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

In Arab. "this night" for the reason before given.

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… you?"; and they answered, "We found thee lying here asleep during the call to dawn-prayer and this is all we know of the matter, but where diddest thou lie last night?" [FN#434] "By Allah, O good people," replied he, "I lay last night in Cairo." Said somebody, "Thou hast surely been eating Hashish," [FN#435] and another, "He is a fool;" and a third, "He is a citrouille;" and a fourth asked him, "Art thou out of thy mind? thou…

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