475 ([return])
[ Arab. "'Alà kulli hál" = "whatever may betide," or "willy-nilly." The phrase is still popular.]
476 ([return])
[ The dulce desipere of young lovers, he making a buffoon of himself to amuse her.]
477 ([return])
[ "The convent of Clay," a Coptic monastery near Cairo.]
478 ([return])
[ i.e. this is the time to show thyself a man.]
479 ([return])
[ The Eastern succedaneum for swimming corks and other "life-preservers." The practice is very ancient; we find these gourds upon the monuments of Egypt and Babylonia.]