Vulgar words in Moorish Literature (Page 1)
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It is scarcely admissible that the Berbers had read the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius, but it is probable that he was born at Madaure, in Algeria, and retained an episode of a popular Berber tale which he had heard in his childhood, and placed in his story.
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I was a court buffoon and broke my heart.
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You will bring your axe very well sharpened and when I say to you, 'What is that which I see with you now?' you must answer, 'It is an ass which I have taken with me to carry barley.'
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I will say to you, 'I am looking for the lion, and not for an ass,' Then he will ask you, 'Who is speaking to you?'
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He proceeded and met next an ass attacked by a swarm of flies.
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"I saw an ass attacked by a swarm of flies."
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"My father is an ass, and my mother is a mare."