A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Volume 08 (of 17)

“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-One Stories makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively small part of these truly enchanting fictions.”