[292]The Egyptian Fellah knows nothing of boxing like the Haus man；but he is fond of wrestling after a rude and uncultivated fashion，which would cause shouts of laughter in Cumberland and Cornwall.And there are champions in this line；See vol.iii.93.
[293]The usual formula.See vol.ii.5.
[294]As the Fellah still does after drinking a cuplet （'fing n'he calls it） of sugared coffee.
[295]He should have said'white，'the mourning colour under the Abbasides.
[296]Anglic？，'Fine feathers make fine birds'；and in Eastern parlance，'Clothe the reed and it will become a bride.'
（Labbis al-Bāsah tabki'Arāsah，Spitta Bey，No.275.） I must allow myself a few words of regret for the loss of this Savant；one of the most singleminded men known to me.He was vilely treated by the Egyptian Government，under the rule of the Jew-Moslem Riy z；and，his health not allowing him to live in Austria，he died shortly after return home.
[297]Arab.'Saub （Tobe）'At bi'： see vol.iii.149.
[298]In text'Kimkh ，'which Dozy also gives Kumkh=chenille；tissu de soie veloutee： Damasqu？te de soie or et argent de Venise，du Levant ，… fleurs，etc.It comes from Kamkh b or Kimkh b，a cloth of gold，the well-known Indian'Kimcob.'
[299]Here meaning=Enter in Allah's name！
[300]The Arabs have a saying，'Wine breeds gladness，music merriment and their offspring is joy.'
[301]Arab.'Jokh al-Sakl t，'rich kind of brocade on broadcloth.
[302]Arab.'Hanab t，'which Dozy derives from O.German Hnapf，Hnap now Napf： thence too the Lat.Hanapus and Hanaperium：
Ital.Anappo，Nappo；Provenc.Enap and French and English'Hanap'= rich bowl，basket，bag.But this is known even to the dictionaries.
[303]Arab.'Kir m，'nobles，and'Kurām，'vines，a word which appears in Carmel=Karam-El （God's vineyard）.
[304]Arab.'Sul f al-Khandarisi，'a contradiction.Sul f=the ptisane of wine.Khandarisi，from Greek ，lit.gruel；applies to old wine.
[305]i.e.in bridal procession.
[306]Arab.'Al-'Arās，one of the innumerable tropical names given to wine by the Arabs.Mr.Payne refers to Grangeret de la Grange，Anthologie Arabe，p，190.
[307]Here the text of the Mac.Edition is resumed.
[308]i.e.'Adornment of （good） Qualities.'See the name punned on in Night dcccli.Lane omits this tale because it contains the illicit'Amours of a Christian and a Jewess who dupes her husband in various abominable ways.'The text has been taken from the Mac.and the Bresl.Edits.x.72 etc.In many parts the former is a mere Epitome.
[309]The face of her who owns the garden.
[310]i.e.I am no public woman.
[311]i.e.with the sight of the garden and its mistress--
purposely left vague.
[312]Arab.'D dat.'Night dcclxxvi.vol.vii.p.372.
[313]Meaning respectively'Awaking'（or blowing hard）；'Affairs'（or Misfortunes） and'Flowing'（blood or water）.They are evidently intended for the names of Jewish slave-girls.
[314]i.e.the brow-curls，or accroche-coeurs.See vol.i.168.
[315]Arab.'Wish h'usually applied to woman's broad belt；stomacher （Al-Hariri Ass.af Rayy）.
[317]The old Greek'Stephane.'
[317]Alluding to the popular fancy of the rain-drop which becomes a pearl.
[318]Arab.'Gh zi'=one who fights for the faith.
[319]i.e.people of different conditions.
[320]The sudden change appears unnatural to Europeans；but an Eastern girl talking to a strange man in a garden is already half won.The beauty，however，intends to make trial of her lover's generosity before yielding.
[321]These lines have occurred in the earlier part of the Night： I quote Mr.Payne for variety.
[322]Arab.'Al-Sh h m t'=the King is dead，Pers.and Arab.
grotesquely mixed： Europeans explain'Checkmate'in sundry ways；all more or less wrong.
[323]Cheating （Ghadr） is so common that Easterns who have no tincture of Western civilisation look upon it not only as venial but laudable when one can take advantage of a simpleton.No idea of'honour'enters into it.Even in England the old lady whist-player of the last generation required to be looked after pretty closely--if Mr.Charles Dickens is to be trusted.
[324]Arab.'Al-Gh liyah，'whence the older English Algallia.
See vol.i.，128.The Voyage of Linschoten，etc.Hakluyt Society MDCCCLXXXV.，with notes by my learned friend the late Arthur Coke Burnell whose early death was so sore a loss to Oriental students.
[325]A favourite idiom，'What news bringest thou？'（'O
As m！'Arab.Prov.ii.589） used by H ris bin Amrā，King of Kindah，to the old woman As m whom he had sent to inspect a girl he purposed marrying.
[326]Amongst the Jews the Arab Sal m becomes'Shalām'and a Jewess would certainly not address this ceremonial greeting to a Christian.But Eastern storytellers care little for these minutiae；and the'Adornment of Qualities，'was not by birth a Jewess as the sequel will show.
[327]Arab.'S lifah，'the silken plaits used as adjuncts.See vol.iii，313.
[328]I have translated these lines in vol.i.131，and quoted Mr.Torrens in vol.iv.235.Here I borrow from Mr.Payne.
[329]Mr.Payne notes：--Apparently some place celebrated for its fine bread，as Gonesse in seventeenth-century France.It occurs also in Bresl.Edit.（iv.203） and Dozy does not understand it.But Arj the root=good odour.
[330]Arab.'T s，'from Pers.T sah.M.Charbonneau a Professor of Arabic at Constantine and Member of the Asiatic Soc.
Paris，who published the Histoire de Chams-Eddine et Nour-Eddine with Maghrabi punctuation （Paris，Hachette，1852） remarks the similarity of this word to Tazza and a number of other whimsical coincidences as Zauj，{Greek letters} jugum；Ink r，negare；
matrah，matelas；Ishtir ，acheter，etc.To which I may add wasat；waist；zabad，civet；B s，buss （kiss）；uzrub （pron.Zrub），drub；
Kat'，cut；Tarik，track；etc.，etc.
[331]We should say'To her （I drink）'etc.