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

Note 95
The Tale of the Prince and the Ogress.

The Bresl. Edit. absurdly has Jazírah (an island).

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… from my people and sore bewildered." The Prince, hearing these words, pitied her case and, mounting her on his horse's crupper, travelled until he passed by an old ruin [FN#95], when the damsel said to him, "O my master, I wish to obey a call of nature": he therefore set her down at the ruin where she delayed so long that the King's son thought that she was only wasting time; so he followed her without her knowledge and behol…

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