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

Note 313
The Eldest Lady’s Tale.

Mr. Payne (i. 148) quotes the German Zuckerpüppchen.

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…s full, fair of face and rare of form, soft sided and slight, of well proportioned height, and cheek smoothly bright and diffusing light; in brief a sweet, a sugar stick,[FN#313]. even as saith the poet of the like of him in these couplets:—

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