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

Note 60
THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINNI.

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Here, as in other places, I have not preserved the monorhyme, but have ended like the English sonnet with a couplet; as a rule the last two lines contain a "Husn makta'" or climax.

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…d wet and gloom in ease and comfort fain, Laud to the Lord who gives to this, to that denies his wishes * And dooms one toil and catch the prey and other eat the fishes.[FN#60]

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Note 60THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINNI.

Note 60
THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINNI.