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

Note 6
The Book Of The THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT

i.e., I am sick at heart.

ITS PLACE IN THE BOOK

…ill one day when he again said, "O my brother, I see thou art grown weaker of body and yellower of colour." "O my brother," replied Shah Zaman "I have an internal wound:"[FN#6] still he would not tell him what he had witnessed in his wife. Thereupon Shahryar summoned doctors and surgeons and bade them treat his brother according to the rules of art, which they did for a whole month; but their sherbets and potions naught availe…

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