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

Note 229
The Tale of the Envier and the Envied.

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The text has "in the character Ruká'í,"," or Riká'í,, the correspondence-hand.

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… he. Would Heaven my real son were his match in morals and manners." I took the reed, and stretching out my paw, dipped it in ink and wrote, in the hand used for letters,[FN#229] these two couplets:—

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Note 229
The Tale of the Envier and the Envied.