[FN#93] By which she accepted the offer. [FN#94] This incident has already occurred in the tale of the Portress (Second Lady of Baghdad, vol. i. 179), but here the consequences are not so tragical. In Chavis the vulgar cock becomes "a golden Censer ornamented with diamonds, to be sold for two thousand sequins" (each=9 shill.). [FN#95] A royal sign of wrath generally denoting torture and death. See vols. iv. 72; vi. 250. [FN#96] Arab. "Yá Sallám," addressed to Allah. [FN#97] Here more is meant than meets the eye. When a Moslem's head was struck off, in the days of the Caliphate, it was placed under his armpit, whereas that of a Jew or a Christian was set between his legs, close to the seat of dishonour. [FN#98] In Chavis and Cazotte the lady calls to "Morigen, her first eunuch, and says, Cut off his head!" Then she takes a theorbo and "composed the following couplets"?of which the first may suffice: Since my swain unfaithful proves, Let him go to her he loves, etc., etc. [FN#99] The device has already occurred in "Ali Baba." [FN#100] Arab. "Al-ma'húd min ghayr wa'd." [FN#101] In Chavis and Cazotte the king is Harun al-Rashid and the masterful young person proves to be Zeraida, the favourite daughter of Ja'afar Bermaki; whilst the go-between is not the young lady's mother but Nemana, an old governess. The over- jealous husband in the Second Lady of Baghdad (vol. i. 179) is Al-Amín, son and heir of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid. [FN#102] Vol. iii. pp. 168-179: and Scott's "Story of the Second Lunatic," pp. 45-51. The name is absurdly given as the youth was anything but a lunatic; but this is Arab symmetromania. The tale is virtually the same as "Women's Wiles," in Supplemental Nights, vol. ii. 99-107. [FN#103] This forward movement on the part of the fair one is held to be very insulting by the modest Moslem. This incident is wanting in "Women's Wiles." [FN#104] Arab. "Labbah," usually the part of the throat where ornaments are hung or camels are stabbed. [FN#105] The Chief of the Moslem Church. For the origin of the office and its date (A.D. 1453) see vols. ix. 289, and x. 85. [FN#106] Arab. "Satíhah" = a she-Satíh: this seer was a headless and neckless body, with face in breast, lacking members and lying prostrate on the ground. His fellow, "Shikk," was a half-man, and both foretold the divine mission of Mohammed. (Ibn Khall. i. 487.) [FN#107] Arab. "Wakt al-Zuhà;" the division of time between sunrise and midday. [FN#108] In the text "Sufrah" = the cloth: see vol. i. 178, etc. [FN#109] Arab. "Ya Tinjír," lit. = O Kettle. [FN#110] Arab. "Tari," lit. = wet, with its concomitant suggestion, soft and pleasant like desert-rain. [FN#111] Here meaning "Haste, haste!" See vol. i. 46.