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[ Here the vocative Yá is designedly omitted in poetical fashion (e.g., Khalíliyya—my friend!) to show the speaker's emotion. See p. 113 of Captain A. Lockett's learned and curious work the "Miet Amil" (=Hundred Regimens), Calcutta, 1814.]
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[ The story-teller introduces this last instance with considerable art as a preface to the dénouement.]
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[ See Chavis and Cazotte "Story of the King of Haram and the slave.">[
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[ i.e. men caught red-handed.]
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[ Arab. "Libwah," one of the multitudinous names for the king of beasts, still used in Syria where the animal has been killed out, soon to be followed by the bear (U. Syriacus). The author knows that lions are most often found in couples.]