The lines are in vols. viii. 279 and ix. 197. I quote Mr. Payne. Footnote 291: Lady or princess of the Fair (ones). Footnote 292: _i.e._ of buying. Footnote 293: Arab. “Ázán-hú,” lit. = its ears. Footnote 294: Here again the policeman is made a villain of the deepest dye; bad enough to gratify the intelligence of his deadliest enemy, a lodging-keeper in London. Footnote 295: _i.e._ You are welcome to it and so it becomes lawful (_halál_) to you. Footnote 296: Arab. “Sijn al-Dam,” the Carcere duro inasprito (to speak Triestine), where men convicted or even accused of bloodshed were confined. Footnote 297: Arab. “Mabásim”; plur. of Mabsim, a smiling mouth which shows the foreteeth. Footnote 298: The branchlet, as usual, is the youth’s slender form. Footnote 299: _Subaudi_, “An ye disdain my love.” Footnote 300: In the text “sleep.” Footnote 301: “Them” and “him” for “her.” Footnote 302: ’Urkúb, a Jew of Yathrib or Khaybar, immortalised in the A.P. (i. 454) as “more promise-breaking than ’Urkúb.” Footnote 303: Uncle of Mohammed. See vol. viii. 172. Footnote 304: First cousin of Mohammed. See ib. Footnote 305: This threat of “’Orf with her ’ead” shows the Caliph’s lordliness. Footnote 306: Arab. “Al-Bashkhánah.” Footnote 307: _i.e._ Amen. See vol. ix. 131. Footnote 308: When asked, on Doomsday, his justification for having slain her. Footnote 309: Khorasan which included our Afghanistan, turbulent then as now, was in a chronic state of rebellion during the latter part of Al-Rashid’s reign. Footnote 310: The brutality of a Moslem mob on such occasions is phenomenal: no fellow-feeling makes them decently kind. And so at executions even women will take an active part in insulting and tormenting the criminal, tearing his hair, spitting in his face and so forth. It is the instinctive brutality with which wild beasts and birds tear to pieces a wounded companion. Footnote 311: The popular way of stopping hæmorrhage by plunging the stump into burning oil which continued even in Europe till Ambrose Paré taught men to take up the arteries. Footnote 312: _i.e._ folk of good family. Footnote 313: _i.e._ the result of thy fervent prayers to Allah for me. Footnote 314: Arab. “Al-Abárík” plur. of Ibrík, an ewer containing water for the Wuzu-ablution. I have already explained that a Moslem wishing to be ceremonially pure, cannot wash as Europeans do, in a basin whose contents are fouled by the first touch. Footnote 315: Arab. “Náihah”, the præfica or myriologist. See vol. i. 311. The proverb means, “If you want a thing done, do it yourself.” Footnote 316: Arab. “Burka’,” the face veil of Egypt, Syria, and Arabia with two holes for the eyes, and the end hanging to the waist, a great contrast with the “Lithám” or coquettish fold of transparent muslin affected by modest women in Stambul. Footnote 317: