The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night/Volume 3

للأبرار كلّ شيء بر‎

"TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE"
(Puris omnia para)

—Arab Proverb.

 

"Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole."

—"Decameron"—conclusion.

 

"Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum
Sed coram Bruto. Brute I 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.

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 III.

 

BY

RICHARD F. BURTON

 

PRINTED BY THE BURTON CLUB FOR PRIVATE

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

Bassorah Edition

Limited to one thousand numbered sets,
of which this is

 

Number 367

Inscribed to the Memory

of

A Friend

Who During A Friendship of Twenty-Six Years

Ever Showed Me The Most

Unwearied Kindness

Richard Monckton Milnes

Baron Houghton.

CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME

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CONTINUATION OF THE TALE OF KING OMAR BIN AL-NU'UMAN AND HIS SONS SHARRKAN AND ZAU AL-MAKAN.
aa. Continuation of The Tale of Aziz and Azizah	1
ab. Conclusion of the Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu'uman and his Sons Sharrkan and Zau al-Makan	48
b. Tale of the Hashish-Eater	91
c. Tale of Hammad the Badawi	104
1. THE BIRDS AND BEASTS AND THE CARPENTER	114
(Lane, II. 52-59. The Fable of the Peacock and Peahen, the Duck, the Young Lion, the Ass, the Horse, the Camel, and the Carpenter, etc.)
2. THE HERMITS	125
3. THE WATER-FOWL AND THE TORTOISE	129
4. THE WOLF AND THE FOX	132
(Lane, II, 59-69. The Fable of the Fox and the Wolf.)
a. Tale of the Falcon and the Partridge	138
5. THE MOUSE AND THE ICHNEUMON	147
6. THE CAT AND THE CROW	149
7. THE FOX AND THE CROW	150
a. The Flea and the Mouse	151
b. The Saker and the Birds	154
c. The Sparrow and the Eagle	155
8. THE HEDGEHOG AND THE WOOD PIGEONS	156
a. The Merchant and the Two Sharpers	158
9. THE THIEF AND HIS MONKEY	159
a. The Foolish Weaver	ib.
10. THE SPARROW AND THE PEACOCK	161
11. ALI BIN BAKKAR AND SHAMS AL-NAHAR	162
(Lane, Vol. II., Chapt. ix. Story of Alee the Son of Bakkar, and Shams en-Nahar, p. 1.)
12. TALE OF KAMAR, AL-ZAMAN	212
(Lane, Chapt. x. Story of the Prince Kamar ez-Zeman and the Princess Budur, p. 78 and ibid. p. 149. Story of the Two Princes El-Amjad and El-As'ad, p. 149.)