Vulgar words in The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV (Page 1)
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Presently, in came Abou Nuwas and was about to take his usual seat, when the Khalif cried out to Mesrour the headsman and bade him strip the poet of his clothes and clap an ass's pannel on his back.
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There was a miller, who had an ass to turn his mill; and he was married to a wicked wife, whom he loved; but she hated him and loved a neighbour of hers, who liked her not and held aloof from her.
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A certain simple fellow was once going along, haling his ass after him by the halter, when a couple of sharpers saw him and one said to his fellow, 'I will take that ass from yonder man.'
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Quoth the sharper, 'I am thine ass and my story is a strange one.
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But I took the cudgel and beat her, whereupon she cursed me and God the Most High changed me into an ass and caused me fall into thy hands, where I have remained till now.
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And he answered, 'Thou knowest not what was this ass; but I will tell thee.'
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Go to the market and buy us an ass and do thy business with it.'
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Accordingly, he went to the market and stopping by the ass-stand, saw his own ass for sale.
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When she's unclean, she bawds; and when she's clean, she plays the whore: So, all her time, she's either bawd or else adulteress.
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So I fell in love with her; but, two days after, the same man passed, singing the following verse: The jackass with Umm Amri departed; but, alas, Umm Amri!
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Thou hast entered my house and sold my handkerchief and spent my money: so, with whom art thou wroth, O pimp?"
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Then he left me and went away to her, whilst I said, "By Allah, thou art right to call me a fool and a pimp!"
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I had not stood long, before there came up a black slave, leading an ass with jewelled housings, on which sat a damsel, clad in the richest of clothes, richness can go no farther; and I saw that she was elegantly made, with languorous looks and graceful carriage.
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'Jacob's wolf and the Seven Sleepers' dog and Esdras's ass and Salih's camel and the Prophet's mule.'
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He was the founder of the religion of the Druses, who look to him to reappear and be their Messiah [FN#68] Bastard or Spanish pellitory.