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

Note 9
The Book Of The THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT

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… malice of woman is mighty!" Then he took refuge from them with Allah and said, "In very sooth, O my brother, thou hast escaped many an evil by putting thy wife to death,[FN#9] and right excusable were thy wrath and grief for such mishap which never yet befel crowned King like thee. By Allah, had the case been mine, I would not have been satisfied without slaying a thousand women and that way madness lies! But now praise be to…

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