"Covetise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Shah Bekht," continued the vizier, "is the issue of eagerness for [the goods of] the world and covetise of that which our knowledge embraceth not; indeed, [whoso doth thus] shall perish and repent Nor, O king of the age, (added he) is this story more extraordinary than that of the sharper and ...
— Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3 • John Payne |
