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[ Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. Don Juan ii. 178.]
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[ The ox (Bakar) and the bull (Taur, vol. i. 16) are the Moslem emblems of stupidity, as with us are the highly intelligent ass and the most sagacious goose.]
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[ In Arab. "'Ud" means primarily wood; then a lute. See vol. ii. 100. The Muezzin, like the schoolmaster, is popularly supposed to be a fool.]
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[ I have noticed that among Arab lovers it was the fashion to be jealous of the mistress's nightly phantom which, as amongst mesmerists, is the lover's embodied will.]
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[ i.e. I will lay down my life to save thee from sorrow—a common-place hyperbole of love.]