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

Note 537
The Nazarene Broker’s Story.

The lines have occurred in Night xii. By way of variety I give Torrens' version p. 273.

ITS PLACE IN THE BOOK

…en they brought basin and ewer and I washed my hands and we scented ourselves with rose water musk'd and sat down again to converse. So she began repeating these couplets[FN#537]:

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MAKE YOURSELF COMFORTABLE

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