سندبادنامه 288
English (machine translation) 288
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288.1
in her hand and sent her in search of a suitable woman. The old bawd took the gold,
and since there was no one more beautiful than his own wife, she went to her house and said: "A young man, exceedingly
comely, and a merchant with great wealth, has arrived, and he desires for a few days
to clap hands [in revelry]; he has given so much gold and prepared a chamber. Take the gold and come, so that
I may take you there." The woman arose immediately and came with the old bawd to that place.
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When she set foot inside the door of the chamber, she saw her own husband; without fear or perplexity,
she raised an outcry, seized the man's beard, cried out "Help, O Muslims!"
and said: "O faithless scoundrel, and O traitorous evildoer! A long time has passed since
you went away, leaving me in the hands of sorrow, while you yourself have been busy with moon-faced beauties in sight-seeing and pleasure:
occupied:
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- سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian