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

Note 333
Tale of the Portress.

A popular Arab hyperbole.

ITS PLACE IN THE BOOK

…me of marble stone firmly seated on solidest foundation, and leading to a Palace whose walls from earth rose tall and proud, and whose pinnacle was crowned by the clouds,[FN#333] and over the doorway were writ these couplets:—

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