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

Note 41
TALE OF THE TRADER AND THE JINNI.

i.e., sorely against his will.

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…rify himself before death and took his shroud under his arm and bade farewell to his people, his neighbours and all his kith and kin, and went forth despite his own nose.[FN#41] They then began weeping and wailing and beating their breasts over him; but he travelled until he arrived at the same garden, and the day of his arrival was the head of the New Year. As he sat weeping over what had befallen him, behold, a Shaykh,[FN#42…

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