his beauty and loveliness and his face that shone like the new moon, their hearts inclined to him a...
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fright you nor shake your steadfast sprite nor turn you back from the faith which is right.' Their ...
THE TALE OF THE THREE APPLES THEY relate, O King of the Age and Lord of the Time and of these days...
afraid lest my mother should swinge me on account of the apple, so for fear of her I went with my b...
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN ALI AND HIS SON BADR AL-DIN HASAN KNOW, O Commander of the Faithful, that in tim...
not to thy youthtide's suggestions, and question us no questions." Then they slept and I with them,...
his mule and stayed not till he reached the Wazir's palace. There he dismounted and went in to the ...
saffron and blazing with light from branched candelabra of gold and lamps fed with costly oils, whi...
the meanest of mankind. Save thy dirhams and deem them the sovereignest salve for the wounds of the...
"All drinks wherein is blood the Law unclean Doth hold save one, the bloodshed of the vine. Fill! ...
the robe of honor and mount him on the mule, and let him be surrounded by the guards and preceded b...
The heavenly mansion openeth, But Hell I see when lost thy sight. From thee comes madness, nor the...
and quoth he, "No, by Allah, 'twas a marvelous matter and a wondrous mischance which caused my eye ...
THIRD THE THIRD KALANDAR'S TALE KNOW, O my lady, that I also am a king and the son of a king and ...
FIRST THE FIRST KALANDAR'S TALE KNOW, O my lady, that the cause of my beard being shorn and my eye...