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THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT:              Now First Completely Done Into English            Prose and Verse, From The Original Arabic,                 

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When it was the Seven Hundred and Seventy-seventh Night, She resumed, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the old Queen heard the handmaid's words she was wroth

When it was the Six Hundred and Thirty-seventh Night, Shahrazad continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Sa’adan having broken into the palace of King Jamak and

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