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

Note 546
The Nazarene Broker’s Story.

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Koran viii. 17.

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"I swear by Allah's name, fair sir! no thief was I, * Nor, O thou best of men! was I a bandit bred: But Fortune's change and chance o'erthrew me suddenly, * And cark and care and penury my course misled: I shot it not, indeed, 'twas Allah shot the shaft * That rolled in dust the Kingly diadem from my head."[FN#546]

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Note 546The Nazarene Broker’s Story.

Note 546
The Nazarene Broker’s Story.