Tales from the Arabic, Volume 2

unknown author

Translated by John Payne

32 chapters · about 5 h

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The opening

The Eighteenth Night of the Month.

Breslau Text.

(continued).

When the evening evened, the king summoned the vizier and required of him the [promised] story; so he said, “It is well. Know, O king, that

STORY OF THE PIOUS WOMAN ACCUSED OF LEWDNESS.

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The words
John Payne's English translation, copied word for word.