Vita senis."
Horace.
390. The same remark will apply to Cromwell.
391. "Mohammed once asked Hassan if he had made any poetry about Abu Bakr, and the poet repeated these lines; whereupon Mohammed laughed so heartily as to show his back teeth, and said, 'Thou hast spoken truly, O Hassan! It is just as thou hast said.'"—Muir, Vol. II. p. 256.
392. Muir, Vol. II. p. 128.
393. Koran, Sura 80.
394. Mahomet and the Origin of Islam. Studies of Religious History. Translated by O. B. Frothingham.
395. Lewes, Life of Goethe, Vol. I. p. 207.
396. Mahomet et le Coran, par J. Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire, Paris, 1865, p. 114.
397. Les Religions et les Philosophies dans L'Asíe Centrale. Par M. le Comte Gobineau. Paris.