[FN#34] i.e. I have eaten largely and the food lies heavy on my stomach.
[FN#35] Wine is considered by the Arabs a sovereign digestive. See my "Book of the Thousand
Nights and One Night," Vol. IV. p. 357.
[FN#36] "The similitude of Paradise, the which is promised unto those who fear [God]. Therein are rivers of water incorruptible and rivers of milk, the taste whereof changeth not, and rivers of wine, a delight to the drinkers, and rivers of clarified honey."—Koran xlvii. 16, 17.
[FN#37] The ox is the Arab type of stupidity, as with us the ass.
[FN#38] Syn. wood (oud).
[FN#39] i.e. my pallor and emaciation testify to the affliction of my heart and the latter bears witness that the external symptoms correctly indicate the internal malady.
[FN#40] Lit. he is [first] the deposit of God, then thy deposit.
[FN#41] Or "by."
[FN#42] See supra, Vol. I. p. 35, note.
[FN#43] i.e. made him Chief of the Police of Baghdad, in place of the former Prefect, whom he had put to death with the rest of Noureddin's oppressors.