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Title: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 (of 10)

Translator: Sir Richard Francis Burton


Release date: October 10, 2016 [eBook #53254]
Most recently updated: May 22, 2025

Language: English

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لا لابرار كلّ شي تبر
“TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE.”
(Puris omnia pura)
—Arab Proverb.
“Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole.”
—“Decameron”—conclusion.
“Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum
Sed coram Bruto. Brute! recede, leget.”
—Martial.
“Mieulx est de ris que de larmes escripre,
Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes.”
—Rabelais.

“The pleasure we derive from perusing the Thousand-and-One Stories makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively small part of these truly enchanting fictions.”

—Crichton’s “History of Arabia.”

A PLAIN AND LITERAL TRANSLATION OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. NOW ENTITULED

THE BOOK OF THE
Thousand Nights and a Night
 
WITH INTRODUCTION EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF MOSLEM MEN AND A TERMINAL ESSAY UPON THE HISTORY OF THE NIGHTS
 
VOLUME IV.

BY
RICHARD F. BURTON
PRINTED BY THE BURTON CLUB FOR PRIVATE SUBSCRIBERS ONLY
Shammar Edition

Limited to one thousand numbered sets, of which this is

Number 547
Printed in U. S. A.