"After the princess had passed by Aladdin, and got into the baths, he remained some time astonished and confounded, and in a kind of extacy, in reflecting and imprinting the idea of so charming an object deeply in his mind."
Story of Aladdin; or, the Wonderful Lamp [from Arabian Nights' Entertainments]
81 entries in ESTC (1706, 1712, 1713, 1715, 1717, 1718, 1721, 1722, 1725, 1726, 1728, 1730, 1736, 1744, 1745, 1748, 1753, 1754, 1763, 1767, 1772, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1781, 1783, 1785, 1789, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1800).<br>
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See Antoine Galland's <u>Mille et une Nuit</u> (1704-1717); translated into English from 1706 to 1721 (six volumes published in French and translated into English by 1706; 1717 vols. xi and xii published and translated).<br>
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Some text from <u>Tales of the East: Comprising the Most Popular Romances of Oriental Origin</u>, ed. Henry Weber, 3 vols. (Edinburgh: Ballantyne, 1812). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=EwEyAQAAMAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading <u>Arabian Nights Entertainments</u>, ed. Robert L. Mack (Oxford: OUP, 1995). [Mack bases his text on Weber's <u>Tales of the East</u>]