p. 65.—_And his floating eyes—oh! they resemble._ “Whose wanton eyes resemble blue water-lilies, agitated by the breeze.”—_Jayadeva._ Footnote 87: p. 65.—_Blue water-lilies._ The blue lotus, which grows in Cashmere and in Persia. Footnote 88: p. 67.—_To muse upon the pictures that hung round._ It has been generally supposed that the Mahometans prohibit all pictures of animals; but _Toderini_ shows that, though the practice is forbidden by the Koran, they are not more averse to painted figures and images than other people. From Mr. Murphy’s work, too, we find that the Arabs of Spain had no objection to the introduction of figures into painting. Footnote 89: p. 67.—_Whose orb when half retir’d looks loveliest._ This is not quite astronomically true. “Dr. Hadley (says Keil) has shown that Venus is brightest when she is about forty degrees removed from the sun; and that then but _only a fourth part_ of her lucid disk is to be seen from the earth.” Footnote 90: p. 67.—_He read that to be blest is to be wise._ For the loves of King Solomon (who was supposed to preside over the whole race of Genii) with Balkis, the Queen of Sheba or Saba, see _D’Herbelot_, and the _Notes on the Koran_, chap. 2. “In the palace which Solomon ordered to be built against the arrival of the Queen of Saba, the floor or pavement was of transparent glass, laid over running water, in which fish were swimming.” This led the Queen into a very natural mistake, which the Koran has not thought beneath its dignity to commemorate. “It was said unto her, ‘Enter the palace.’ And when she saw it she imagined it to be a great water; and she discovered her legs, by lifting up her robe to pass through it. Whereupon Solomon said to her, ‘Verily, this is the place evenly floored with glass.’”—Chap. 27. Footnote 91: p. 67.—_Here fond_ ZULEIKA _woos with open arms._ The wife of Potiphar, thus named by the Orientals. “The passion which this frail beauty of antiquity conceived for her young Hebrew slave has given rise to a much-esteemed poem in the Persian language, entitled _Yusef vau Zelikha_, by _Noureddin Jami_; the manuscript copy of which, in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, is supposed to be the finest in the whole world.”—_Note upon Nott’s Translation of Hafez._ Footnote 92: p. 67.—_With a new text to consecrate their love._ The particulars of Mahomet’s amour with Mary, the Coptic girl, in justification of which he added a new chapter to the Koran, may be found in _Gagnier’s Notes upon Abulfeda_, p. 151. Footnote 93: p. 70.—_But in that deep-blue, melancholy dress._ “Deep blue is their mourning colour.”—_Hanway._ Footnote 94: p. 71.—_Sat in her sorrow like the sweet night-flower._ The sorrowful nyctanthes, which begins to spread its rich odour after sunset. Footnote 95: p. 73.—_As the viper weaves its wily covering._