A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 01 (of 17)

Transcriber's Note:
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TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE.
(Puris omnia para)
— 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.