Transcriber's Note:
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“TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE.”
(Puris omnia pura)
—Arab Proverb.
“Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole.”
—“Decameron”—conclusion.
“Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum
Sed coram Bruto. Brute! recede, leget.”
—Martial.
“Mieulx est de ris que de larmes escripre,
Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes.”
—Rabelais.
“The pleasure we derive from perusing the Thousand-and-OneStories makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively smallpart of these truly enchanting fictions.”
—Crichton’s “History of Arabia.”
upplemental
ights
TO THE BOOK OF THE
Thousand Nights and a Night
WITH NOTES ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND EXPLANATORY
VOLUME VI.
BY
RICHARD F. BURTON
PRINTED BY THE BURTON CLUB FOR PRIVATE SUBSCRIBERS ONLY
Shammar Edition
Limited to one thousand numbered sets,of which this is
Number 547
Printed in U. S. A.