487 ([return])
[ The lines have occurred in vol. i. 265. I quote Mr. Payne.]
488 ([return])
[ The fabliau is a favourite in the East; this is the third time it has occurred with minor modifications. Of course the original was founded on fact, and the fact was and is by no means uncommon.]
489 ([return])
[ This would hardly be our Western way of treating a proposal of the kind; nor would the European novelist neglect so grand an opportunity for tall-talk.]
490 ([return])
[ This is a rechauffé of "The House with the Belvedere;" see vol. vi. 188.]
491 ([return])
[ Arab. "Mastúrah,"=veiled, well-guarded, confined in the Harem.]