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

Note 568
The Reeve’s Tale.

Showing that her monthly ailment was over.

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…meats and rich viands and distributed them among all the Odahs[FN#567] of the Harim. Thus they did other ten days, at the end of which time my mistress went to the baths.[FN#568] Meanwhile, they set before me a tray of food where on were various meats and among those dishes, which were enough to daze the wits, was a bowl of cumin ragout containing chickens breasts, fricandoed[FN#569] and flavoured with sugar, pistachios, musk …

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