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

Note 160
The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad.

i. e. common property for all to beat.

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… stood up and stripped off her garments, whereupon the Porter took his neck in hand, and rubbed and shampoo'd it, saying, "My neck and shoulders are on the way of Allah!"[FN#160] Then she threw herself into the basin, and swam and dived, sported and washed; and the Porter looked at her naked figure as though she had been a slice of the moon[FN#161] and at her face with the sheen of Luna when at full, or like the dawn when it b…

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