Читать книгу One Thousand and One Nights (Complete Annotated Edition) - Richard Francis Burton - Страница 54
When it was the Twenty-seventh Night,
ОглавлениеShe said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the King of China declared “There is no help for it but that you be hanged,” the Reeve of the Sultan’s Kitchen came forward and said, “If thou permit me I will tell thee a tale of what befell me just before I found this Gobbo, and, if it be more wondrous than his story, do thou grant us our lives.” And when the King answered “Yes” he began to recount
