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Quotation from The Thousand and One Nights (Lane's translation, Volume I) by Anonymous; translated by Edward William Lane
“either I shall die, and be a ransom for one of the daughters of the Muslims, or I shall live, and be the cause of their deliverance from him.”
The Thousand and One Nights (Lane's translation, Volume I), Introduction, trans. Edward William Lane
Shahrazád asks her father to give her in marriage to the King; Lane's Note 29 explains that he slightly altered the order of the original sentence.
Citation: "either I shall die, and be a ransom for one of the daughters of the Muslims, or I shall live, and be the cause of their deliverance from him." — Anonymous; translated by Edward William Lane, The Thousand and One Nights (Lane's translation, Volume I), Introduction, trans. Edward William Lane. (id lane-thousand-and-one-nights-q2)
Portrait: Edward William Lane, Richard J. Lane, Public domain.
