The device of the third lady seems a reflection of the “Elopement,” but without the underground tunnel between the houses of the wife and the lover. The lady proposes to her lover to marry him, and he believes that she is only jesting, seeing that she is already married, but she assures him that she is quite in earnest, and even undertakes that her husband will consent. The lover is to come for her husband and take him to the house of Dan Eustace, where he has a fair niece, whom the lover is to pretend he wishes to espouse, if he will give her to him. The wife will go thither, and she will have done her business with Eustace before they arrive. Her husband cannot but believe that he has left her at home, and she will be so apparelled that he cannot recognise her. This plan is accordingly carried out. The lover asks the husband for the hand of his niece in marriage, to which he joyously consents, and without knowing it makes a present of his own wife. “All his life long the lover possessed her, because the husband gave and did not lend her; nor could he ever get her back.” * * * * * Le Grand mentions that this _fabliau_ is told at great length in the tales of the Sieur d’Ouville, tome iv. p. 255. In the “Facetiæ Bebelianæ,” p. 86, three women wager which of them will play the best trick on her husband. One causes him to believe he is a monk, and he goes and sings mass; the second husband believes himself to be dead, and allows himself to be carried to that mass on a bier; and the third sings in it quite naked. (There is a very similar story in Campbell’s “Popular Tales of the West Highlands.”) It is also found, says Le Grand, in the “Convivales Sermones,” tome i. p. 200; in the “Delices de Verboquet,” p. 166; and in the Facetiæ of Lod. Doménichi, p. 172. In the “Contes pour Rire,” p. 197, three women find a diamond, and the arbiter whom they select promises it, as in the _fabliau_, to her who concocts the best device for deceiving her husband, but their _ruses_ are different. INDEX. Abárík (Al-), _pl._ of Ibrík, an ewer containing water for the Wuzu-ablution, 170. Abtál (_pl._ of Batal) = champions, athletes (_tr._ “braves”), 42. Abú al-Tawáif (_pron._ “Abut-tawáif”), the Father of the (Jinn-) tribes, 84. Abú Nowás (appearing in The Nights, a signal for an outburst of facetiæ), 153. Adab = accomplishments, 68. ’Adi = an enemy (_tr._ “foe”), 14. Afras = _lit._ a better horseman (_tr._ “doughtier”), 105. Ahbábu-ná _pl. for sing._ = my beloved (_tr._ “my friends”), 103. ’Akíl, first cousin of Mahommed, 164. Akwà min dahni’l-lauz = more strengthening than oil, 75. ’Alà kulli hál = “whatever may betide” or “willy nilly,” 283. ’Alam al-Din = “Flag of the Faith,” 4. Alaykum = “Peace be on you” (addressed to a single person), 52. ’Alkam = the bitter gourd, colocynth, 218. Allah, (“An alms, for the love of”), 44.