Malayan Literature_ Comprising Romantic Ta - Unknown

When the three days had passed and the fourth night arrived, Sultan Zayad mounted his horse and traversed th ...

They all obeyed his orders, for they feared him greatly. Their doors remained opened for several nights, and the ...

summoned to his private chamber a learned doctor named Bouzor Djambour, and said to him: "I desire to know w ...

compound; the discovery that you have made is yours." The buyer replied: "I bought the premises alone, ...

they say, there was one belonging to an old woman who was very poor and without a family to help her. ...

King made merry. One day in his presumptuous pride he assembled his ministers and his generals to show his ...

Rassat Rouchin. "How," said they, "dare we present ourselves before his Majesty in his present state of anger ...

off sheep and goats. So I hanged the two dogs as faithless traitors." The King returned to the city and t ...

kingdom. That is the cause of my sorrow and unhappiness." When the minister heard these words he said, ...

mouth of King Darius?" The ambassador replied, "I heard it with my own ears." King Alexander, not being ...

"In hard and calamitous times, how does your King conduct himself?" "He shows that he cares not for riches ...

Ayaz answered with respect: "May the Lord bless the king of the world! How many favors have you ...

their riches, and all that belongs to them. In a word, for them the person of their King should be above ...

out of his palace and sat upon the throne. All the grandees came into his presence. Ayaz was standing befo ...

"Why is the Sultan so sad and what keeps him from going out of his palace?" The Sultan Alexander answered: ...

a tahil in two! That is not proper in a minister; you are not worthy of the name," and he forthwith depos ...

council of state to his house when he was approached by a beggar who said: 'O Yahya! misery brings me to y ...

"Chirine answered: 'Put this question to the fisherman, "Is this a fresh-water or a salt-water fish?" "'I ...

his home." A man had committed a serious offence against King Haroun-er-Raschid. Condemned to death, he succeeded ...

The Sultan replied, "Since they will not come to find kings and ministers, I must go to them." So one ...