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

Note 196
The First Kalandar’s Tale.

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Arab. "Khinzír" (by Europeans pronounced "Hanzír"), prop. a wild-boar, but popularly used like our "you pig!"

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…harred wood; it was as if they had been cast into a pit of fire. When my uncle saw this spectacle, he spat in his son's face and said, "Thou hast thy deserts, O thou hog![FN#196] this is thy judgment in the transitory world, and yet remaineth the judgment in the world to come, a durer and a more enduring "— And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.

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Note 196The First Kalandar’s Tale.

Note 196
The First Kalandar’s Tale.