The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . l> IVZ f7! vVl. ^- i^- A2? (^ L77 J~V -n l? l- -?.- .* |P>c5fe^ps»c-^ig»^5^cSsiS^& fe-tti^; S:0&£ iiiiiiliil. CHAPTER VIII. COMMENCING WITH PART OF THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH NIGHT,1 AND ENDINGWITH PART OF THE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVENTH. THE STORY OF TAJ-EL-MULOOK AND THE LADY DUNYA. There was, in former times, a city behind the mountains ofIspahan, called El-Medeeneh el-Khadra,2 and in it resided a Kingcalled the King Suleyman. He was a person of liberality andbeneficence, and justice
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . l> IVZ f7! vVl. ^- i^- A2? (^ L77 J~V -n l? l- -?.- .* |P>c5fe^ps»c-^ig»^5^cSsiS^& fe-tti^; S:0&£ iiiiiiliil. CHAPTER VIII. COMMENCING WITH PART OF THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH NIGHT,1 AND ENDINGWITH PART OF THE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVENTH. THE STORY OF TAJ-EL-MULOOK AND THE LADY DUNYA. There was, in former times, a city behind the mountains ofIspahan, called El-Medeeneh el-Khadra,2 and in it resided a Kingcalled the King Suleyman. He was a person of liberality andbeneficence, and justice and integrity, and of a generous and obligingdisposition : travellers repaired to him from every quarter, and hisfame spread throughout all the regions and countries; and he reigneda long time in glory and security; but he was destitute of childrenand of wives. 470 THE STORY OF TAJ-EL-MULOOK He had a Wezeer who nearly resembled him in his qualities, inliberality and other endowments; and it came to pass that he sentto this Wezeer one day, and having summoned him into his presence,said to him, O Wezeer, my heart is contracted, and my patience isovercome, and my strength is impaired, because I have neither a wifenor
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