[100] The Diwan of Abu’l-Ala, by Henry Baerlein, 1908, st. 36. Cp. 1, 37, 41, 42, 53, 81, 86, 94, and the extracts given by Nicholson, pp. 316–23. [↑]
[102] Decline and Fall, ch. lvii. Bohn ed. vi, 382, and note. Cp. E. H. Whinfield, The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám, 1882, p. 4. [↑]
[103] See the preface to Fitzgerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát. [↑]
[104] In one quatrain, of doubtful authenticity, is the line “Khayyám, who longtime stitched the tents of learning” (Whinfield, xxxviii), which excludes the idea of literal handicraft. [↑]
[105] J. K. M. Shirazi, Life of Omar Al-Khayyámi, ed. 1895, pp. 30–41. [↑]