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

Note 337
Tale of the Portress.

Anonymous

The moles are here compared with pearls; a simile by no means common or appropriate.

ITS PLACE IN THE BOOK

His face as the face of the young moon shines * And Fortune stamps him with pearls for signs.[FN#337]

Note 337Tale of the Portress.