THE PORTER AND THE THREE LADIES OF BAGHDAD ONCE upon a time there was a porter in Baghdad who was a...
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As soon as the Wazir drew near Shah Zaman's court in Samarkand he dispatched to report his arrival. ...
When I heard his words, and saw with my own eyes what passed between these two wretches, the world w...
THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINNI IT hath reached me, O auspicious King, that there was a fisherman well ...
THE ELDEST LADY'S TALE VERILY a strange tale is mine and 'tis this: Yon two black bitchesare my eld...
Now when the portress heard her second ode, she shrieked aloud and said: "By Allah! 'Tis right ...
And lo and behold! the young man shook and trembled, then he rose to his feet and, rejoicing at his ...
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS (ALF LAYLAH WA LAYLAH Translated by Sir Richard Burton) ...
Then, O my lady, the Captain wept with exceeding weeping and we all made sure of death doom and each...
But I sprang up and laid hold of the rais's skirt, and shed tears which poured down my chops. The Ca...
The fisherman accepted his promises on both conditions, not to trouble him as before, but on the con...
Now when the Ifrit heard these words he answered: "No more of this talk. Needs must I kill thee...
THE FIRST KALANDAR'S TALE KNOW, O my lady, that the cause of my beard being shorn and my eye being ...
But when the porter heard these words, he rose up and, fixing his eyes fiercely upon them, said: &qu...