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

Note 231
The Tale of the Envier and the Envied.

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I need hardly say that Easterns use a reed, a Calamus (Kalam applied only to the cut reed) for our quills and steel pens.

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Thou hast a reed[FN#231] of rede to every land, * Whose driving causeth all the world to thrive; Nil is the Nile of Misraim by thy boons * Who makest misery smile with fingers five

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Note 231The Tale of the Envier and the Envied.

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The Tale of the Envier and the Envied.