[95] [A Turkish messenger, sergeant or lictor. The proper sixteen-seventeenth century pronunciation would have been _chaush_, but apparently the nearest approach to this was _chaus_, whence _chouse_ and _chiaush_, and the vulgar form _chiaus_ (_N. Eng. Dict_., art. "Chiaus"). The peculations of a certain "chiaus" in the year A.D. 1000 are said to have been the origin of the word "to chouse."] [96] {114} A phenomenon not uncommon with an angry Mussulman. In 1809 the Capitan Pacha's whiskers at a diplomatic audience were no less lively with indignation than a tiger cat's, to the horror of all the dragomans; the portentous mustachios twisted, they stood erect of their own accord, and were expected every moment to change their colour, but at last condescended to subside, which, probably, saved more heads than they contained hairs. [97] {115} "Amaun," quarter, pardon. [Line 603 was inserted in a proof of the Second Edition, dated July 24, 1813: "Nor raised the _coward_ cry, Amaun!"] [98] The "evil eye," a common superstition in the Levant, and of which the imaginary effects are yet very singular on those who conceive themselves affected. [99] [Compare "As with a thousand waves to the rocks, so Swaran's host came on."--_Fingal_, bk. i., Ossian's _Works_, 1807, i. 19.] [dp] {116} _That neither gives nor asks for life_.--[MS.] [100] {117} The flowered shawls generally worn by persons of rank. [101] [Compare "Catilina vero longè a suis, inter hostium cadavera repertus est, paululum etiam spirans ferociamque animi, quam habuerat vivus, in vultu retinens."--_Catilina_, cap. 61, _Opera_, 1820, i. 124.] [dq] {118} _His mother looked from the lattice high_, _With throbbing heart and eager eye;_ _The browsing camel bells are tinkling_, _And the last beam of twilight twinkling:_ _'Tis eve; his train should now be nigh_. _She could not rest in her garden bower_, _And gazed through the loop of her steepest tower_. _"Why comes he not? his steeds are fleet_, _And well are they train'd to the summer's heat_."--[MS.] Another copy began-- _The browsing camel bells are tinkling_, _And the first beam of evening twinkling;_ _His mother looked from her lattice high_, _With throbbing breast and eager eye_-- "'_Tis twilight--sure his train is nigh_."--[MS. Aug. 11, 1813.] _The browsing camel's bells are tinkling_ _The dews of eve the pasture sprinkling_ _And rising planets feebly twinkling:_ _His mother looked from the lattice high_ _With throbbing heart and eager eye_.--[Fourth Edition.] [These lines were erased, and lines 689-692 were substituted. They appeared first in the Fifth Edition.] [102] ["The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariot?"--Judges v. 28.] [dr] {119} _And now his courser's pace amends_.--[MS. erased.]