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

Note 293
The Third Kalandar’s Tale.

Lit. "apply Kohl to my eyes," even as Jezebel "painted her face," in Heb. put her eyes in painting (2 Kings ix. 30).

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"If Time unite us after absent while, * The world harsh frowning on our lot shall smile And if thy semblance deign adorn mine eyes,[FN#293] * I'll pardon Time past wrongs and by gone guile."

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