THE MAN WHO STOLE THE DISH OF GOLD WHEREIN THE DOG ATE SOME time erst there was a man who had accum...
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of them, and all flocked round him saying: "We will play a game wherein none shall join save he can...
soon as he had secured a lodging, he presented himself before the Sultan, who entreated him with hi...
THE EBONY HORSE THERE was once in times of yore and ages long gone before, a great and puissant Ki...
grains!' And drag him here perforce, but without doing him a harm." And they replied, "It is well."...
thee with these perfections was a cunning craftsman, and if the Almighty extend the term of my life...
accompanied his uncle, Shams al-Din, to the Divan, and after saluting the Sultan and doing him reve...
his beauty and loveliness and his face that shone like the new moon, their hearts inclined to him a...
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...