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

“see how cruelty and injustice are punished.”

Andrew Lang (ed.) (spoken by The head of the physician Douban)

The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban, trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898)

Portrait of Andrew Lang (ed.)

The severed head speaks to the king who has just turned the poisoned pages of its book.

Citation: "see how cruelty and injustice are punished." — Andrew Lang (ed.), The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban, trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898). (id the-arabian-nights-q5)

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

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