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Quotation from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang (ed.)
“the cure depended neither on them nor their skill, but only on the princess herself.”
The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Enchanted Horse, trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898)
Physicians from many countries fail to cure the Princess of Bengal, whose madness is feigned to avoid marriage to the Sultan of Cashmere.
Citation: "the cure depended neither on them nor their skill, but only on the princess herself." — Andrew Lang (ed.), The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Enchanted Horse, trans. Andrew Lang (ed.), from Galland's French (1898). (id the-arabian-nights-q8)
Portrait: Arabian nights' entertainments (Longman 1898) Ford illustration to frontispiece, Henry Justice Ford, Public domain.
