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Quotation from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang (ed.)

“do not trifle thus with me, a poor fisherman, who can hardly support his family!”

Andrew Lang (ed.) (spoken by The Fisherman)

The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Story of the Fisherman, trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898)

Portrait of Andrew Lang (ed.)

After his second cast brings up only a basket of rubbish, the old fisherman cries out to Fortune.

Citation: "do not trifle thus with me, a poor fisherman, who can hardly support his family!" — Andrew Lang (ed.), The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Story of the Fisherman, trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898). (id the-arabian-nights-q4)

Portrait: Arabian nights' entertainments (Longman 1898) Ford illustration to frontispiece, Henry Justice Ford, Public domain.

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