408 ([return])
[ i.e. The private bagnio which in old days every grand house possessed.]
409 ([return])
[ This is a fancy title, but it suits the tale better than that in the text (xi. 183) "The Richard who lost his wealth and his wits." Mr. Clouston refers to similar stories in Sacchetti and other early Italian novelists.]
410 ([return])
[ Arab. "Al-Muwaswis": for "Wiswás" see vol. i. 106. This class of men in stories takes the place of our "cunning idiot," and is often confounded with the Saudáwi, the melancholist proper.]
411 ([return])
[ Arab. "Hamhama," an onomapœic, like our hum, hem, and haw.]
412 ([return])
[ Arab. "Barniyah," a vessel either of glass or pottery like that in which the manna was collected (Exod. xvi. 33).]