Note 8
The Book Of The THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT
The very same words were lately spoken in England proving the eternal truth of The Nights which the ignorant call "downright lies."
… the kings than I am, yet this infamy goeth on in his very palace, and his wife is in love with that filthiest of filthy slaves. But this only showeth that they all do it[FN#8] and that there is no woman but who cuckoldeth her husband, then the curse of Allah upon one and all and upon the fools who lean against them for support or who place the reins of conduct in their hands." So he put away his melancholy and despondency, re…
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