"Sir, said the young man, for God’s sake do not stop me, let me go, I cannot without horror look upon that abominable barber; though he is born in a country where all the natives are whites, he resembles an Ethiopian; and when all is come to all, his soul is yet blacker and yet more horrible than his face."
The Story Told by the Taylor [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>].<br>
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