Note 3 — Chapter LXIII
C. H. (Charles Henry) Tawney translation
The fact of this incident being found in the Arabian Nights is mentioned by Wilson (Collected Works, Vol. IV, p. 146.) See Lane’s Arabian Nights, Vol. I, p. 9. Lévêque (Les Mythes et les Légendes de l’ Inde et de la Perse, p. 543) shews that Ariosto borrowed from the Arabian Nights.