The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ened to her;and he also acquainted her with all that he had suffered; and theyoffered up thanks to God for their union. The Wezeer then wrent upto the Sultan, and informed him of these occurrences; and the Kingwas astonished, and ordered that a statement of them should beinserted in the records, to be preserved to future ages. And theWezeer resided with bis brothers son, and his own daughter and herson, and with the wife of his brother; and all of them passed theirlives in the enjoyment of
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ened to her;and he also acquainted her with all that he had suffered; and theyoffered up thanks to God for their union. The Wezeer then wrent upto the Sultan, and informed him of these occurrences; and the Kingwas astonished, and ordered that a statement of them should beinserted in the records, to be preserved to future ages. And theWezeer resided with bis brothers son, and his own daughter and herson, and with the wife of his brother; and all of them passed theirlives in the enjoyment of the utmost happiness until they were visitedby the terminator of delights, and the separator of Such, O Prince of the Faithful, said Jaafar, were the events thathappened to the Wezeer Shems-ed-Deen and his brother Xoor-ed-Deen.—By Allah, exclaimed the Khaleefeh Haroon Er-Rasheed, this storyis wonderful ! And he gave one of his own concubines to the voungman who had killed his wife, and appointed him a regular mainte-nance ; and the young man became one of his companions at the NOTES TO CHAPTER FOURTH. Note 1. From the dose of Chapter iii., the order of the tales in this translation(agreeably with the Cairo edition) differs from that which is followed in the oldversion. Note 2. This alludes to the poor mans want of sufficient clothing; for, in theclimate of Baghdad, a person who is not very scantily clad is in little need of a fire towarm himself. Note 3. My sheykh has remarked, in a marginal note, that these verses would beappropriate only from the mouth of a learned man complaining of the unprofitablenessof his science with respect to procuring him money ; but perhaps, in writing this, hewas actuated by a somewhat over-zealous regard for the honour of his own profession;for, when, a poor man has acquired a little knowledge, his neighbours are apt to flatterhim. Note 1. The izar has been described in the second note to Chapter iii. Note 5. Literally, th
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