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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 (of 10)

Volume 10 — Appendix II. (continued 3)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

166. Abu Al-Hasan of Khorasan 4 3 1 3 + - + 9 9

167. Kamar Al-Zaman and the Jeweller’s Wife 4 3 1 3 + - 4 + 9 9

168. Abdullah bin Fazil and his Brothers 4 3 3 + - + 9 9

169. Ma’aruf the Cobbler and his wife Fatimah 4 3 3 3 + 3 4 + 9 10

170. Asleep and Awake 9 5 4 4 2 + 7 1 I.

a. Story of the Lackpenny and the Cook - + I.

171. The Caliph Omar ben Abdulaziz and the Poets - + 2 I.

172. El Hejjaj and the Three Young Men - + I.

173. Haroun Er Reshid and the Woman of the Barmecides - + I.

174. The Ten Viziers, or the History of King Azadbekht and his Son 8 6 - + 10 2 I.

524 a. Of the uselessness of endeavour against persistent ill-fortune

aa. Story of the Unlucky Merchant 8 6 - + 10 2 I.

b. Of looking to the issues of affairs

bb. Story of the Merchant and his Sons 8 6 + 10 2 I.

c. Of the advantages of Patience

cc. Story of Abou Sabir 8 6 + 10 2 I.

d. Of the ill effects of Precipitation

dd. Story of Prince Bihzad 8 6 + 10 2 I.

e. Of the issues of good and evil actions

ee. Story of King Dabdin and his Viziers 8 6 + 10 2 I.

f. Of Trust in God

ff. Story of King Bekhtzeman 8 + 2 I.

g. Of Clemency

gg. Story of King Bihkerd 8 6 + 10 2 I.

h. Of Envy and Malice

hh. Story of Ilan Shah and Abou Temam 8 6 + 10 2 I.

i. Of Destiny, or that which is written on the Forehead

ii. Story of King Ibrahim and his Son 8 7 + 13 2 I.

j. Of the appointed Term, which if it be advanced, may not be deferred, and if it be deferred, may not be advanced

jj. Story of King Suleiman Shah and his Sons 8 + 2 I.

k. Of the speedy Relief of God

kk. Story of the Prisoner, and how God gave him relief 8 + 2 I.

175. Jaafer Ben Zehya and Abdulmelik Ben Salih the Abbaside + 2 I.

176. Er Reshid and the Barmecides + 2 I.

177. Ibn Es-Semmak and Er-Reshid + I.

178. El Mamoun and Zubeideh + I.

525179. En Numan and the Arab of the Benou Tai + I.

180. Firouz and his Wife + I.

181. King Shah Bekht and his Vizier Er Rehwan + 14 I.

a. Story of the Man of Khorassan his son and his governor + 14 I.

b. Story of the Singer and the Druggist + 14 I.

c. Story of the King who knew the quintessence of things + 14 I.

d. Story of the Rich Man who gave his fair Daughter in Marriage to the Poor Old Man + 14 I.

e. Story of the Rich Man and his Wasteful Son + 14 I.

f. The King’s Son who fell in love with the Picture + 14 I.

g. Story of the Fuller and his Wife + 14 I.

h. Story of the Old Woman, the Merchant, and the King + 14 I.

i. Story of the credulous Husband + 14 I.

j. Story of the Unjust King and the Tither + 14 I.

jj. Story of David and Solomon + 14 I.

k. Story of the Thief and the Woman + 14 I.

l. Story of the Three Men and our Lord Jesus + 14 I.

ll. The Disciple’s Story + 14 I.

m. Story of the Dethroned King whose kingdom and good were restored to him + 14 I.

n. Story of the Man whose caution was the cause of his Death + 14 I.

o. Story of the Man who was lavish of his house and his victual to one whom he knew not + 14 I.

p. Story of the Idiot and the Sharper + 14 I.

q. Story of Khelbes and his Wife and the Learned Man + 14 I.

r. Story of the Pious Woman accused of lewdness + II.

s. Story of the Journeyman and the Girl + 14 II.

t. Story of the Weaver who became a Physician by his Wife’s commandment + 14 II.

u. Story of the Two Sharpers who cheated each his fellow + 14 II.

v. Story of the Sharpers with the Money-changer and the Ass + 14 II.

526 w. Story of the Sharper and the Merchants + 14 II.

wa. Story of the Hawk and the Locust + 14 II.

x. Story of the King and his Chamberlain’s Wife + 14 II.

xa. Story of the Old Woman and the Draper’s Wife + 14 II.

y. Story of the Foul-favoured Man and his Fair Wife + 14 II.

z. Story of the King who lost Kingdom and Wife and Wealth, and God restored them to him + 14 II.

aa. Story of Selim and Selma + 14 II.

bb. Story of the King of Hind and his Vizier + 14 II.

182. El Melik Ez Zahir Rukneddin Bibers El Bunducdari, and the Sixteen Officers of Police + 14 II.

a. The First Officer’s Story + 14 II.

b. The Second Officer’s Story + 14 II.

c. The Third Officer’s Story + 14 II.

d. The Fourth Officer’s Story + 14 II.

e. The Fifth Officer’s Story + 14 II.

f. The Sixth Officer’s Story + 14 II.

g. The Seventh Officer’s Story + 14 II.

h. The Eighth Officer’s Story + 14 II.

ha. The Thief’s Story + 14 II.

i. The Ninth Officer’s Story + 14 II.

j. The Tenth Officer’s Story + 14 II.

k. The Eleventh Officer’s Story + 14 II.

l. The Twelfth Officer’s Story + 14 II.

m. The Thirteenth Officer’s Story + 14 II.

n. The Fourteenth Officer’s Story + 14 II.

na. A Merry Jest of a Thief + 14 II.

nb. Story of the Old Sharper + 14 II.

527 o. The Fifteenth Officer’s Story + 14 II.

p. The Sixteenth Officer’s Story + 14

183. Abdallah Ben Nafi, and the King’s Son of Cashgbar + 14 II.

a. Story of the Damsel Tuhfet El Culoub and Khalif Haroun Er Reshid + 14 II.

184. Women’s Craft 2 3 6 4 II. +

185. Noureddin Ali of Damascus and the Damsel Sitt El Milah + 15 III.

186. El Abbas and the King’s Daughter of Baghdad + 15 III.

187. The Two Kings and the Vizier’s Daughters + 15 III.

188. The Favourite and her Lover + 15 III.

189. The Merchant of Cairo and the Favourite of the Khalif El Mamoun El Hakim bi Amrillah + 15 III.

190. Conclusion 4 3 3 + 3 + 15 + 9 & III. 10

*191. History of Prince Zeyn Alasnam 8 5 4 4 6 3

*192. History of Codadad and his Brothers 8 5 4 4 6 3

*a. History of the Princess of Deryabar 8 5 4 4 6 3

*193. Story of Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp 9, 10 5, 6 4 4, 5 7, 8 3

*194. Adventures of the Caliph Harun Al-Rashid 10 6 5 5 8 3

*a. Story of the Blind Man, Baba Abdallah 10 6 5 5 8 3

*b. Story of Sidi Numan 10 6 5 5 8 3

*c. Story of Cogia Hassan Alhabbal 10, 11 6 5 5 8 3

*195. Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 11 6 5 5 9 3

*196. Story of Ali Cogia, a Merchant of Bagdad 11 7 5 5 9 3

*197. Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou 12 7 5 5 9 3

*198. Story of the Sisters who envied their younger sister 12 7 5 5 10 3

199. (Anecdote of Jaafar the Barmecide, = No. 39) 2

200. The Adventures of Ali and Zaher of Damascus 4

201. The Adventures of the Fisherman, Judar of Cairo, and his meeting with the Moor Mahmood and the Sultan Beibars 4

202. The Physician and the young man of Mosul 1

203. Story of the Sultan of Yemen and his three sons 6 3 6 11

204. Story of the Three Sharpers and the Sultan 6 3 6 11

a. Adventures of the Abdicated Sultan 6 3 6 11

b. History of Mahummud, Sultan of Cairo 6 3 6 11

c. Story of the First Lunatic 8 6 3 6 11

528 d. (Story of the Second Lunatic = No. 184) 2 3 6 11

e. Story of the Sage and his Pupil 6 3 6 11

f. Night adventure of the Sultan 6 3 6 11

g. Story of the first foolish man 3

h. Story of the broken-backed Schoolmaster 6 3 6 11

i. Story of the wry-mouthed Schoolmaster 6 3 6 11

j. The Sultan’s second visit to the Sisters 6 3 6 11

k. Story of the Sisters and the Sultana, their mother 6 3 6 11

205. Story of the Avaricious Cauzee and his wife 6 3 6 11

206. Story of the Bang-Eater and the Cauzee 6 3 6 11

a. Story of the Bang-Eater and his wife 6 3 6 11

b. Continuation of the Fisherman, or Bang-Eater’s Adventures 6 3 6 11

207. The Sultan and the Traveller Mhamood AlHyjemmee 6 3 6 11

a. The Koord Robber (= No. 33) 3 6

b. Story of the Husbandman 3 6

c. Story of the Three Princes and Enchanting Bird 6 3 6 11

d. Story of a Sultan of Yemen and his three Sons 6 4 6 11

e. Story of the first Sharper in the Cave 4 6

f. Story of the second Sharper 4 -

g. Story of the third Sharper 4 -

h. History of the Sultan of Hind 5 4 6 10

208. Story of the Fisherman’s Son 4 6

209. Story of Abou Neeut and Abou Neeuteen 6 4 6 11

210. Story of the Prince of Sind, and Fatima, daughter of Amir Bin Naomaun 6 4 6 11

211. Story of the Lovers of Syria, or the Heroine 6 4 6 11

212. Story of Hyjauje, the tyrannical Governor of Confeh, and the young Syed 4 6

529213. Story of the Sultan Haieshe 4 -

214. Story told by a Fisherman 4 -

215. The Adventures of Mazin of Khorassaun 6 4, 5 6 10

216. Adventure of Haroon Al Rusheed 6 5 6 11

a. Story of the Sultan of Bussorah 5 -

b. Nocturnal adventures of Haroon Al Rusheed 5 6

c. Story related by Munjaub 5 6

d. Story of the Sultan, the Dirveshe and the Barber’s Son 5 6

e. Story of the Bedouin’s Wife 5 -

f. Story of the Wife and her two Gallants 5 -

217. Adventures of Aleefa, daughter of Mherejaun, Sultan of Hind, and Eusuff, son of Sohul, Sultan of Sind 6 5 6 11

218. Adventures of the three Princes, sons of the Sultan of China 5 5 6 10

219. Story of the Gallant Officer 5 -

220. Story of another officer 5 -

221. Story of the Idiot and his Asses 5 -

222. Story of the Lady of Cairo and the Three Debauchees 5 -

223. Story of the Good Vizier unjustly imprisoned 6 5 6 11

224. Story of the Prying Barber and the young man of Cairo 5 -

225. Story of the Lady of Cairo and her four Gallants 6 5 6 11

a. The Cauzee’s Story 5 6

b. The Syrian 5, 6 -

c. The Caim-makaum’s Wife 6 -

d. Story told by the Fourth Gallant 6 -

226. Story of a Hump-backed Porter 6 -

227. The Aged Porter of Cairo and the Artful Female Thief 6 -

228. Mhassun and his tried friend Mouseh 6 -

229. Mahummud Julbee, son to an Ameer of Cairo 6 -

230. The Farmer’s Wife 6 -

231. The Artful Wife 6 -

232. The Cauzee’s Wife 6 -

233. Story of the Merchant, his Daughter, and the Prince of Eerauk 6 6

234. The Two Orphans 6 -

530235. Story of another Farmer’s Wife 6 -

236. Story of the Son who attempted his Father’s Wives 6 -

237. The Two Wits of Cairo and Syria 6 -

238. Ibrahim and Mouseh 6 -

239. The Viziers Ahmed and Mahummud 6, 7 -

240. The Son addicted to Theft 7 -

241. Adventures of the Cauzee, his Wife, &c. 6 7 6 11

a. The Sultan’s Story of Himself 6 7 6 11

242. Story of Shaykh Nukheet the Fisherman, who became favourite to a Sultan 7 -

a. Story of the King of Andalusia 7 -

243. Story of Teilone, Sultan of Egypt 7 -

244. Story of the Retired Man and his Servant 7 -

245. The Merchant’s Daughter who married the Emperor of China 7 -

*246. New Adventures of the Caliph Harun Al-Rashid 8 7 12

*247. The Physician and the young Purveyor of Bagdad 8 13

*248. The Wise Heycar 8 7 13

*249. Attaf the Generous 9 7 13

*250. Prince Habib and Dorrat-al-Gawas 9 7 12

*251. The Forty Wazirs 1 1

*a. Story of Shaykh Shahabeddin 1 1

*b. Story of the Gardener, his Son, and the Ass 1 1

*c. The Sultan Mahmoud and his Wazir 1 1

*d. Story of the Brahman Padmanaba and the young Fyquai 1 1

*e. Story of Sultan Akshid 1 1

*f. Story of the Husband, the Lover and the Thief 1 1

*g. Story of the Prince of Carisme and the Princess of Georgia 1 1

*h. The Cobbler and the King’s Daughter 1 1

531 *i. The Woodcutter and the Genius 1 1

*j. The Royal Parrot 1 1

*252. Story of the King and Queen of Abyssinia 6 10

*253. Story of Princess Amina 7 12

*a. Story of the Princess of Tartary 7 12

*b. Story told by the Old Mans’ Wife 7 12

*254. Story of Ali Johari 7 12

*255. Story of the two Princes of Cochin Chin 7 12

*256. Story of the Two Husbands 7 12

*a. Story of Abdallah 7 12

*b. Story of the Favourite 7 12

*257. Story of Yusuf and the Indian Merchant 7 12

*258. Story of Prince Benazir 7 12

*259. Story of Selim, Sultan of Egypt 7 13

*a. Story of the Cobbler’s Wife 7 13

*b. Story of Adileh 7 13

*c. Story of the scarred Kalender 7 13

*d. Continuation of the story of Selim 7 13

*260. Story of Seif Sul Yesn 14

261. Story of the Labourer and the Chair A A

262. Story of Ahmed the Orphan A A

N. B.—In using this Table, some allowance must be made for differences in the titles of many of the tales in different editions. For the contents of the printed text, I have followed the lists in Mr. Payne’s “Tales from the Arabic,” vol. iii.

532And here I end this long volume with repeating in other words and other tongue what was said in “L’Envoi”:—

‏ان تجد عيبا فسدّ الخلاه ✿ جلّ من لا عيب فيه و علا‎
‏ان تجد عيبا فسدّ الخلاه ✿ جلّ من لا عيب فيه و علا‎

Hide thou whatever here is found of fault;

And laud The Faultless and His might exalt!

After which I have only to make my bow and to say

‏وٱلسلام‎
‏وٱلسلام‎
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