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

Note 28
Tale of the Bull[FN#23] and the Ass.

From the Calc. Edit., Vol. 1., p. 29.

ITS PLACE IN THE BOOK

For others these hardships and labours I bear * And theirs is the pleasure and mine is the care; As the bleacher who blacketh his brow in the sun * To whiten the raiment which other men wear.[FN#28]

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