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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.Volume 1.by Richard F. Burton.Foreword.This
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.Volume 1.by Richard F. Burton.Foreword.This work, labourious as it may appear, has been to me a labour of love, an unfailing source of solace and satisfaction. During my long years of official banishment to the
- 401 [FN#8] These policemen's tales present a curious contrast with the detective stories of M. Gaboriau and his host of imitators.In the East the police, like the old Bow Street runners, were and are still recruited princ.i.p.ally amongst the criminal cla.s.
- 402 [FN#54] i.e. the "Basil(issa)," mostly a servile name, see vol.i. 19.[FN#55] Arab. "La'alla," used to express the hope or expectation of some event of possible occurrence; thus distinguished from "Layta"--Would heaven! utinam! O si! etc.-- expressi
- 403 [FN#100] For this reedy Poa, see vol. ii. 18.[FN#101] I have repeatedly noticed that singing and all music are, in religious parlance, "Makruh," blameable though not actually d.a.m.nable; and that the first step after "getting religion" is to forswear
- 404 [FN#142] i.e. "Choice gift of the Fools," a skit upon the girl's name "Tohfat al-Kulub"=Choice gift of the Hearts. Her folly consisted in refusing to be sold at a high price, and this is often seen in real life. It is a Pundonor amongst good Moslems
- 405 [FN#186] Slaves, male as well as female, are as fond of talking over their sale as European dames enjoy looking back upon the details of courts.h.i.+p and marriage.[FN#187] Arab. "Du'a,"=supplication, prayer, as opposed to 'Salat"=divine wors.h.i.+p,
- 406 [FN#235] Sic in text xii. 20. It may be a misprint for Abu al-Tawaif, but it can also mean "O Shaykh of the Tribes (of Jinns)!"[FN#236] The capital of King Al-s.h.i.+sban.[FN#237] Arab "Fajj", the Spanish "Vega" which, however, means a mountain-plai
- 407 [FN#282] See vol. i.85, for the traditional witchcraft of Babylonia.[FN#283] i.e. More or less thoroughly.[FN#284] i.e. "He who quitteth not his native country diverteth not himself with a sight of the wonders of the world."[FN#285] For similar sayings,
- 408 [FN#330] In Arab. "'Ud" means primarily wood; then a lute. See vol. ii. 100. The Muezzin, like the schoolmaster, is popularly supposed to be a fool.[FN#331] I have noticed that among Arab lovers it was the fas.h.i.+on to be jealous of the mistress's n
- 409 [FN#376] Called from Rustak, a quarter of Baghdad. For Rustak town see vol. vi. 289.[FN#377] From Damietta comes our "dimity." The cla.s.sical name was Tamiathis apparently Coptic graecised: the old town on the sh.o.r.e famed in Crusading times was dest
- 410 [FN#424] i.e. an thou prank or adorn thyself: I have translated literally, but the couplet strongly suggests "nonsense verses."[FN#425] Arab. "Santir:" Lane (M.E., chapt. xviii.) describes it as resembling the Kanun (dulcimer or zither) but with two o
- 411 [FN#464] The practice of fumigating gugglets is universal in Egypt (Lane, M. E., chapt. v.); but I never heard of musk being so used.[FN#465] Arab. "Laysa fi 'l-diyari dayyar"--a favourite jingle.[FN#466] Arab. "Khayr Kathir" (p.r.o.n. Katir) which a
- 412 [FN#509] So, too, in the "Bahar-i-Danish" a woman is described as being so able a professor in the school of deceit, that she could have instructed the devil in the science of stratagem: of another it is said that by her wiles she could have drawn the d
- 413 [FN#557] Inn. [FN#558] Hem: them. [FN#559] Chief of the army. [FN#560] I note: I know not. [FN#561] Nor. [FN#562] Place. [FN#563] That is by means of his hounds. [FN#564] A wood. [FN#565] Those. [FN#566] Her: their. [FN#567] Looks towards; attends to. [FN
- 414 Supplemental Nights.Volume 13.by Sir Richard Francis Burton.Foreword.The peculiar proceedings of the Curators, Bodleian Library, 1 Oxford, of which full particulars shall be given in due time, have dislocated the order of my volumes. The Prospectus had pr
- 415 Quoth Dunyazad, "O sister mine, an thou be other than sleepy, do tell us some of thy pleasant tales," whereupon Shahrazad replied, "With love and good will."--It hath reached me, O King of the Age, that the Maroccan Magician fared forth next morning a
- 416 When it was the Five Hundred and Thirty-sixth Night, Quoth Dunyazad, O sister mine, an thou be other than sleepy, do tell us some of thy pleasant tales," whereupon Shahrazad replied, "With love and good will."--It hath reached me, O King of the Age, th
- 417 The marriage-feasts lasted throughout that day with Almahs[FN#148] and singers and the smiting of all manner instruments of mirth and merriment, while the Queen and the Wazir and his son strave right strenuously to enhance the festivities that the Princes
- 418 Quoth Dunyazad, "O sister mine, an thou be other than sleepy, do tell us some of thy pleasant tales." whereupon Shahrazad replied, "With love and good will."--It hath reached me, O King of the Age, that Alaeddin won for himself day by day a fairer fam
- 419 Quoth Dunyazad, "O sister mine, an thou be other than sleepy, do tell us some of thy pleasant tales," whereupon Shahrazad replied, "With love and good will."--It hath reached me, O King of the Age, that the Maghrabi, the Necromancer, habited as Fatima
- 420 Then said she:--I have heard, O auspicious King, that after this the King and his Queen and daughter-in-law sat long conversing, and they marvelled much how Khudadad, albeit he was sorely gashed and pierced with the sword, had escaped alive from that wild
- 421 Then said she:--I have heard, O auspicious King, that Sidi Nu'uman continued his story saying:--When I had secured the mare, I loaded her with reproaches for her wickedness and her base behaviour, and lashed her with a whip till my forearm was tired.[FN#
- 422 Then said she:--I have heard, O auspicious King, that Kasim gave up all hope of the life which he by his greed and envy had so sore imperilled. It came to pa.s.s that at noontide the robbers, returning by that way, saw from afar some mules standing beside
- 423 The end of the Six Hundred and Forty-second Night.Then said she:--I have heard, O auspicious King, that the two boys who played the parts of oil-merchants pretended to take some berries from the jar and taste them and presently they said, "O our lord the
- 424 The end of the Six Hundred and Fifty-sixth Night.Then said she:--I have heard, O auspicious King, that Peri-Banu joyed with exceeding joy at the sight of Prince Ahmad as he returned to his home; and it seemed to her as though they had been parted for thre
- 425 Then said she:--I have heard, O auspicious King, that at these words of the Shah the sisters, confused and filled with shame, durst not reply but stood before him silent with heads bent low; and despite all questioning and encouragement they could not plu
- 426 Albeit the place is not worthy of the Shahinshah's exalted presence, yet at times do mighty Kings condescend to visit the huts of their slaves." The King, ever more and more enchanted with their comeliness and pleasant speech, vouchsafed a most gracious
- 427 "This is the tradition of the inhabitants, as it was told me there. And in testimony thereof, there was then his picture, with his wife and three children, in every window of the aisle, with an inscription running through the bottom of all those windows,
- 428 Another tale in the Pandit's collection (No. 4) informs us that once upon a time in a town named Vajaimnagar there ruled a king named Sivchar. He was a most just king and ruled so well that no stone thrown up fell down, no crow pecked at the new-drawn mi
- 429 A poor woodcutter, about to fell a beech at the back of the scattered ruins of the castle of Dummburg, seeing a monk approach slowly through the forest, hid himself behind a tree. The monk pa.s.sed by and went among the rocks. The woodcutter stole cautiou
- 430 This pavilion he also receives from the fairies, and it was much finer and richer than the first. His brother's demands rise when he sees that the hero does not find any difficulty in satisfying him. He now commands that a column of iron 12 cubits (bracc
- 431 Through the Moors, perhaps, the story found its way among the wandering tribes (the Kabail) of Northern Africa, who have curiously distorted its chief features, though not beyond recognition, as will be seen from the following abstract of their version, f
- 432 ICELANDIC VERSION.Not very far from a town where dwelt the king lived once upon a time a farmer.He was well to do and had three daughters; the eldest was twenty years of age, the two others younger, but both marriageable. Once, when they were walking outs
- 433 The Tale of Prince Ahmad.Though my paper on this tale is of considerable length, it would perhaps have been deemed intolerably long had I cited all the versions of the first part-- the quest of the most wonderful thing--which are current in Europe, for it
- 434 [FN#35] In the text "Ymin," a copyist's error, which can mean nothing else but "Yasimn."[FN#36] The H. V. rejects this detail for "a single piece of mother-o'-pearl twelve yards long," etc. Galland has une seule ecaille de poisson. In my friend M.
- 435 [FN#69] i.e. blood is thicker than water, as the Highlanders say.[FN#70] A popular saying amongst Moslems which has repeatedly occurred in The Nights. The son is the "lamp of a dark house."Vol. ii 280.[FN#71] Out of respect to his brother, who was proba
- 436 [FN#112] Arab. Ban Adam, as opposed to Ban Elohim (Sons of the G.o.ds), B. al-Jnn etc The Ban al-Asfar = sons of the yellow, are Esau's posterity in Edom, also a term applied by Arab historians to the Greeks and Romans whom Jewish fable derived from Idum
- 437 [FN#154] Arab. Dahab ramli = gold dust washed out of the sand, placer-gold. I must excuse myself for using this Americanism, properly a diluvium or deposit of sand, and improperly (Bartlett) a find of drift gold. The word, like many mining terms in the Fa
- 438 [FN#195] In truly Oriental countries the Wazir is expected to know everything, and if he fail in this easy duty he may find himself in sore trouble.[FN#196] i.e. must he obeyed.[FN#197] We see that "China" was in those days the normal Oriental "despoti
- 439 [FN#239] The onager, confounded by our older travellers with the zebra, is the Gr-i-khr of Persia, where it is the n.o.blest game from which kings did not disdain to take a cognomen, e.g., Bahrm-i-Gr. It is the "wild a.s.s" of Jeremiah (ii. 24: xiv. 6).
- 440 [FN#281] For the diamond (Arab. "Alms" from {Greek}, and in Hind."Hra" and "Pann") see vols. vi. 15, i. ix. 325, and in latter correct, "Euritic," a misprint for "dioritic." I still cannot believe diamond-cutting to be an Indian art, and I must
- 441 [FN#321] The text has "But-Khanah" = idol-house (or room) syn.with "But-Kadah" = image-cuddy, which has been proposed as the derivation of the disputed "PaG.o.da." The word "Khnah" also appears in our balcony, origin. "balcony," through the Sout
- 442 [FN#358] A clarum et venerabile nomen in Persia; meaning one of the Spirits that preside over beasts of burden; also a king in general, the P.N. of an ancient sovereign, etc.[FN#359] This is the older p.r.o.nunciation of the mod. (Khusrau) "Parvz"; and
- 443 [FN#401] A holy man whose austerities have obtained for him supernatural powers.[FN#402] Also called "Story of the King and his Four Ministers."There is another but wholly different Tamil romance ent.i.tled the "Alaksa Kath," in which
- 444 wolf!" [FN#436] Again the old notion of maternal and paternal instincts; but the children dont often seem in folk-tales, to have a similar impulsive affection for their unknown parents. [FN#437] Colotropis gigantea. [FN#438] Rkshashas and rksha.s.s a
- 445 Supplemental Nights.Volume 14.by Richard F. Burton.Foreword.As my first and second volumes (Supplemental) were composed of translated extracts from the Breslau Edition of The Nights, so this tome and its successor (vols. iv. and v.) comprise my version fr
- 446 The Three Hundred and Forty-sixth Night, Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and goo
- 447 All this and the Youth still sat there without being seen. But when the dung-smoke thickened, his eyes brimmed and he could not but shed tears, and the more smoke there was the more his eyes watered and big drops flowed till at last all the Kohl was washe
- 448 Now as soon as the Sultan heard these last two couplets he made certain that the damsel was aware of his quality. She did not leave off her lute-playing till near daylight, when she rose and retired and presently brought in a breakfast befitting her degre
- 449 Now when it was the next night and that was The Three Hundred and Seventy-eighth Night, Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter ni
- 450 The Three Hundred and Ninety-first Night, Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and go
- 451 There was once, O King of the Age, a merchant and a man of Ba.s.sorah who went about trading with eunuchs and slave-boys and who bore his goods in bales[FN#250] from Ba.s.sorah to Ajam-land there to sell them and to buy him other merchandise for vending i
- 452 Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and good will!" It hath reached me, O auspi
- 453 Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and good will!" It hath reached me, O auspi
- 454 The Four Hundred and Forty-ninth Night, Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and good
- 455 'When G.o.d would execute His will in anything On one endowed with sight, hearing and reasoning, He stops his ears and blinds his eyes and draws his will From him, as one draws out the hairs to paste that cling; Till, His decrees fulfilled, He gives
- 456 As nearly a month had elapsed without my receiving any reply, I directed the following to the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Rev. Dr. Bellamy:-- No. II.ATHENAEUM CLUB, PALL MALL, Oct. 13, 1886."Sir, "I have the honour to submit to you the fo
- 457 On Sat.u.r.day, September 25th, Curators could not form quorum, and deferred next meeting till Sat.u.r.day, October 9th.Sat.u.r.day, October 9th. Again no quorum; and yet it might easily have been formed, as three Curators were on or close to the spot.Sat
- 458 Old "Alma Mater," who to me has ever been a "durissima noverca,"dubs herself "University;" and not a few of her hopefuls entre faiblesse et folie, still ent.i.tle themselves "University men."The t.i.tle once belonge
- 459 [FN#16] Arab. "Ja'idiyah," a favourite word in this MS."Ja'ad"=a curl, a liberal man: Ja'ad al-yad=miserly, and Abu ja'dah=father of curls,=a wolf. Scott (pa.s.sim) translates the word "Sharper;" Gore Ouse
- 460 "Oda" whence "Odalisque"), a popular word in Egypt and Syria.[FN#60] Arab. "Al Afandiyah" showing the late date or reduction of the tale. The Turkish word derives from the Romaic Afentis ({Greek}) the corrupted O.G.{Greek}=an
- 461 [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
- 462 [FN#149] This form of cleverness is a favourite topic in Arabian folk-lore. The model man was Iyas al-Muzani, al-Kazi (of Ba.s.sorah), in the 2nd century A.H., mentioned by Al-Hariri in his 7th a.s.s. and noted in Arab. Prov. (i. 593) as "more intell
- 463 [FN#190] The reader will have remarked the use of the Arabic "'Alaka"=he hung, which with its branches greatly resembles the Lat. pendere.[FN#191] Arab. "Min al-Malabis," plur. of "Malbas"=anything pleasant or enjoyable;
- 464 [FN#233] Arab. "Ummali"; gen. Ummal, an affirmation; Certes, I believe you![FN#234] For the many preparations of this drug, see Herklots, Appendix, pp. lxviii. ciii. It is impossible to say how "Indian hemp," like opium, datura, ether
- 465 [FN#277] This again shows the "Nakkal" or coffee-house tale-teller. See vol. x. 144.[FN#278] This is the Moslem version of "Solomon's Judgment" (1 Kings iii. 16-20). The Hebrew legend is more detailed but I prefer its rival for su
- 466 [FN#319] "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise." Matt. Xxi. 16. The idea is not less Moslem than Christian.[FN#320] [I read "Sarkhah adwat la-ha al-Sarayah" = a cry to which the palace-women raised an echo
- 467 iv. p. 83. Readers will be pleased with this description of a Jinni; and not a few will regret that they have not one at command. Yet the history of man's locomotion compels us to believe that we are progressing towards the time when humanity will be
- 468 [FN#399] For the "Zakat" = legal alms, which must not be less than two-and-a-half per cent, see vol. i. 339.[FN#400] In text "Kazdir," for which see vols. iv. 274 and vi.39. Here is may allude to the canisters which make great show in
- 469 Supplemental Nights.Volume 15.by Richard F. Burton.FOREWORD.This volume contains the last of my versions from the Wortley Montague Codex, and this is the place to offer a short account of that much bewritten MS.In the "Annals of the Bodleian Library,
- 470 and the most imperious is the word of Almighty Allah, 'Verily Allah ordereth justice and well-doing and bestowal of gifts upon kith and kin';[FN#67] and the justest is the word of the Almighty, 'Whoso shall have wrought a mithkal (nay an at
- 471 Hearing this Manjab the master of the house shrieked out a mighty loud shriek and tare his upper dress and fell aswoon to the ground, and as Al-Ras.h.i.+d looked upon him (and he bestrown in his fainting fit) he beheld upon his sides the stripes of scourg
- 472 An thou be 'stranged of estrangement who * Of men shall save me?Would G.o.d I wist!Fate hath won the race in departing me * And who with Fate can avail contest?'""Then, O Commander of the Faithful, my longings grew and I poured fast te
- 473 The fourth lady through dread of the arrow of whose cunning the warrior of the fifth heaven[FN#173] trembled in the sky, like the reed, having bestowed her attention on the pilgrim bramin (Brahman), despatched him to an orchard; and having gone home, said
- 474 "For the gathering of friends and familiars design'd * Between hands of Kings and Wazirs I'm shrin'd: Upon me is whatever taste loves and joys * Of flesh and viands all kinds combin'd: From me fill thee full of these cates and pra
- 475 "Rain, O mine eyeb.a.l.l.s, gouts of blood beshed * From clouds of eyelids e'en as gra.s.s turns red.O mighty bane that beatest on my bones * And oh heart-core, that melts with fire long-fed!My soul's own dearling speedeth on his march * Wh
- 476 Man hath no merit save in kindly mind * And loquent tongue with light of wits unite."[FN#253]And when Yusuf had ended his poetry he presented an hundred dinars to Ibn Ibrahim, who took the letter and fell to cutting through the wilds and the wolds, a
- 477 Then quoth her sister Dunyazad, "How sweet and tasteful is thy tale, O sister mine, and how enjoyable and delectable!" Quoth she, "And where is this compared with that I would relate to you on the coming night an the Sovran suffer me to sur
- 478 Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and good will!" It hath reached me, O auspi
- 479 THE GOODWIFE OF CAIRO AND HER FOUR GALLANTS.[FN#354]It is said that in Misr lived a woman, a model of beauty and loveliness and stature and perfect grace, who had a difficulty with a man which was a Kazi and after this fas.h.i.+on it befel. She was the wi
- 480 Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and good will!" It hath reached me, O auspi
- 481 MOHAMMED THE SHALABI AND HIS MISTRESS AND HIS WIFE.[FN#455]It is told among the many things which happened in Cairo the G.o.d-guarded that therein dwelt a man who was an Emir and who had a son Mohammed Shalabi[FN#456] hight, a youth in his day unique for
- 482 Whilome there was, men say, a Khwajah, a merchant man who was lord of money and means and estates and endowments and appanages, withal he had no seed, or son or daughter, and therefore he sued Almighty Allah that he might be blessed with even a girl-child
- 483 The Eight Hundred and Fourteenth Night, Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and good
- 484 so he stood amiddlemost the floor considering the folk as they entered the jakes to do their jobs in private lest the bazar-people come upon them during their eas.e.m.e.nt. And all were sore pressed wanting to pa.s.s urine or to skite; so whenever a man e
- 485 Introductory Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-9 Tale of the Trader and the Jinni, Night i.-ii. . . . . . . . . .9 The First Shaykh's Story, Night ii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 The Second Shaykh's Story, Night ii. . . . . . .
- 486 History of Al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf and the Young Sayyid, Night dx-dxx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213 SCOTT: "The Young Sayd and Hijauje."Uns al-Wujud and the Wazir's Daughter Rose-in-hood, Night dxxi.-dxli . .
- 487 The Story of Ahmad and Ali who cuckolded their Masters, Night dcccxxiv.-dcccxxix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225 SCOTT: "The Two Orphans."The Fellah and his fair Wife, Night dcccxxix.-dcccx.x.x. . . . .241 The Youth who would futt
- 488 Story of the Second Lunatic (pp. 49-55).This is a variant of "Woman's Craft" (No. 184 of our Table), or "Woman's Wiles," (Supp. Nights, ii. pp. 99-107). Mr. L. C. Smithers tells me that an English version of this story, based
- 489 The present story, though not very important in itself, is interesting as combining some of the features of three distinct cla.s.ses of folk-tales. One of these is the anti-Jewish series, of which Grimm's story of the Jew in the Bramble-Bush is one o
- 490 This story belongs to the large category known to students of folk-lore as the Sage and his Pupil; and of this again there are three main groups: 1. Those in which (as in the present instance) the two remain on friendly terms.2. Those in which the sage is
- 491 she a.s.sumed a satisfied air; and as the only way to preserve her honour, received the addresses of the treacherous master with pretended complacency, and consented to receive him as a husband at the first port at which the s.h.i.+p might touch."[FN
- 492 "ikhsau" = be ye driven away, an in two other places (ii. 61, vii. 166), the nomen agentis "khasi" = "scouted" occurs, as applied to the apes into which the Sabbath-breaking Jews were transformed. In the popular language of t
- 493 [FN#96] [Here I suppose the word "kal" has been dropped after "bi 'l-s.h.i.+'r," and it should be: He (the youth) replied, that was our common sire, Adam, etc.--ST.][FN#97] "Habil" and "Kabil" are the Arab
- 494 [FN#137] In the text "Darajah"=an instant; also a degree (of the Zodiac). We still find this division of time in China and j.a.pan, where they divide the twenty-four hours into twelve periods, each of which is marked by a quasi-Zodiacal sign: e.
- 495 [FN#174] The Asiatics have a very contemptible opinion of the Russians, especially of the females, whom they believe to be void of common modesty. Our early European voyagers have expressed the same idea.--Scott.[FN#175] i.e. having enjoyed the woman.--R.
- 496 [FN#218] The "Sa'ah," I may here remark, is the German Stunde, our old "Stound," somewhat indefinite but meaning to the good Moslem the s.p.a.ces between prayer times. The cla.s.sical terms, Al-Zuha (undurn-hour, or before noon) a
- 497 [FN#265] Or "Yathrib" = Al-Madinah; vol. iv. 114.[FN#266] Scott (vi. 358 et seqq.) who makes Ali bin Ibrahim, "a faithful eunuch," renders the pa.s.sage, "by some accident the eunuch's turban unfortunately falling off; the pr
- 498 [FN#311] [Arab. "Yastanit," aor. to the preter. "istanat," which has been explained, supra, p. 24.--ST.][FN#312] The bed would be made of a carpet or thin mattress strewn upon the stucco flooring of the terrace-roof. But the ignorant s
- 499 [FN#351] [The MS. has: "Ya Gharati a-Zay ma huna Rajil;" "Ya Gharati" will recur presently, p. 195, along with "ya Musibati" = Oh my calamity! I take it therefore to be an exclamation of distress from "Gharat" = inv
- 500 [FN#384] The barber being a surgeon and ever ready to bleed a madman.[FN#385] i.e. Can play off equally well the soft-brained and the hard-headed.[FN#386] i.e. a deputy (governor, etc.); in old days the governor of Constantinople; in these times a lieuten