The Arabian Nights

and the young gentlemen as before bedaubed their faces, wept and beat themselves, crying, “This is the fruit of our idleness and debauches,” and continued the same actions the following night. At last, not being able to resist my curiosity, I earnestly prayed them to satisfy me, or to shew me how to return to my own kingdom; for it was impossible for me to keep them company any longer, and to see every night such an odd exhibition,


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and the young gentlemen as before bedaubed their faces, wept and beat themselves, crying, “This is the fruit of our idleness and debauches,” and continued the same actions the following night. At last, not being able to resist my curiosity, I earnestly prayed them to satisfy me, or to shew me how to return to my own kingdom; for it was impossible for me to keep them company any longer, and to see every night such an odd exhibition,


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