319 ([return])
[ i.e. The bed where the "rough and tumble" had taken place.]
320 ([return])
[ This word, which undoubtedly derives from cuculus, cogul, cocu, a cuckoo, has taken a queer twist, nor can I explain how its present meaning arose from a shebird which lays her egg in a strange nest. Wittol, on the other hand, from Witan, to know, is rightly applied to one whom La Fontaine calls "cocu et content," the Arab Dayyús.]
321 ([return])
[ Arab. "Shabakah," here a net like a fisherman's, which is hung over the hole in the wall called a shop, during the temporary absence of the shopkeeper. See my Pilgrimage, i. 100.]
322 ([return])
[ i.e. of which the singer speaks.]
323 ([return])
[ i.e., she found him good at the to-and-fro movement; our corresponding phrase is "basket-making.">[