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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Anonymous
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163. Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman
164. Harun Al-Rashid and Abu Hasan, The Merchant of Oman
165. Ibrahim and Jamilah
166. Abu Al-Hasan of Khorasan
167. Kamar Al-Zaman and the Jeweller's Wife
168. Abdullah Bin Fazil and His Brothers



The Book Of The
THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT




When it was the Eight Hundred and Eighty-ninth Night,

She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Nur
al-Din heard the voice singing these verses he said in himself,
"Verily this be the Lady Miriam chanting without hesitation or
doubt or suspicion of one from without.[FN#1] Would Heaven I knew
an my thought be true and if it be indeed she herself or other
self!" And regrets redoubled upon him and he bemoaned himself and
recited these couplets,

"When my blamer saw me beside my love * Whom I met in a site that
lay open wide,
I spake not at meeting a word of reproach * Though oft it comfort
sad heart to chide;
Quoth the blamer, 'What means this silence that bars * Thy making
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