Читать книгу One Thousand and One Nights (Complete Annotated Edition) - Richard Francis Burton - Страница 17
When it was the Fifth Night,
ОглавлениеHer sister said, “Do you finish for us thy story if thou be not sleepy,” and she resumed:— It hath reached me, O auspicious King and mighty Monarch, that King Yunan said to his Minister, “O Wazir, thou art one whom the evil spirit of envy hath possessed because of this physician, and thou plottest for my putting him to death, after which I should repent me full sorely, even as repented King Sindibad for killing his falcon.” Quoth the Wazir, Pardon me, O King of the age, how was that?” So the King began the story of
