The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ung man, whom I delivered from horrors,isserteth, he said, Hast thou brothers ? I answered, Yes : six.—Andire thy six brothers, said he, like thyself, distinguished by science andknowledge, and paucity of speech ? I answered, They lived not so as;o be like me : thou hast disparaged me by thy supposition, 0 Princeif the Faithful, and it is not proper that thou shouldst compare mybrothers to me; for through the abundance of their speech, and thesmallness of their generous qualities, each of
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ung man, whom I delivered from horrors,isserteth, he said, Hast thou brothers ? I answered, Yes : six.—Andire thy six brothers, said he, like thyself, distinguished by science andknowledge, and paucity of speech ? I answered, They lived not so as;o be like me : thou hast disparaged me by thy supposition, 0 Princeif the Faithful, and it is not proper that thou shouldst compare mybrothers to me; for through the abundance of their speech, and thesmallness of their generous qualities, each of them experienced a defect :the first was lame; the second, deprived of many of his teeth : the third,blind; the fourth, one-eyed; the fifth, cropped of his ears; and the<ixth had both his lips cut off:7- and think not, O Prince of theFaithful, that I am a man of many words : nay, I must prove tothee that I am of a more generous character than they; and eachof them met with a particular adventure, in consequence of whichhe experienced a defect : if thou please, I will relate their stories THE BARBERS STORY OF HIS FIRST BROTHER, Know, 0 Prince of the Faithful, that the first (who was namedEl-Bakbook) was the lame one. He practised the art of a tailor inBaghdad, and used to sew in a shop which he hired of a man possess-ing great wealth, who lived over the shop, and who had, in the lowerpart of his house, a mill. And as my lame brother was sitting in hisshop one day, sewing, he raised his head, and saw a woman like therising full moon, at a projecting window of the house, looking at thepeople passing by; and as soon as he beheld her, his heart was en-tangled by her love. He passed that day gazing at her, and neglect-ing his occupation, until the evening ; and on the following morninghe opened his shop, and sat down to sew; but every time that hesewed a stitch, he looked towards the window; and in this state hecontinued, sewing nothing sufficient to earn a piece of sil
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