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[ i.e. Those who commit it.]
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[ The connection between this pompous introduction and the story which follows is not apparent. The "Tale of the Two Kings and the Wazir's Daughters" is that of Shahrazad told in the third person, in fact a rechauffé of the Introduction. But as some three years have passed since the marriage, and the dénoûement of the plot is at hand, the Princess is made, with some art I think, to lay the whole affair before her husband in her own words, the better to bring him to a "sense of his duty.">[
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[ Bresl. Edit., vol. xii. pp. 384-412.]
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[ This clause is taken from the sequence, where the elder brother's kingdom is placed in China.]
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[ For the Tobbas = "Successors" or the Himyaritic kings, see vol. i. 216.]