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

Note 224
The Tale of the Envier and the Envied.

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Compare the tale of The Three Crows in Gammer Grethel, Evening ix.

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…d journeyed for the sole purpose of taking his life by throwing him into the well. Yet he did not requite his injurious dealing, but forgave him and was bountiful to him.[FN#224] Then I wept before him, O my lady, with sore weeping, never was there sorer, and I recited:—

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Note 224The Tale of the Envier and the Envied.

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The Tale of the Envier and the Envied.