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[ (The Arabic seems here to contain a pun, the consonantic outline of "Tasht" = "basin" being the same as of "tashshat" = she was raining, sprinkling.—ST.)]
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[ In Arab. "Yá Wárid": see vol. iii. 56.]
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[ The growing beard and whisker being compared with black letters on a white ground.]
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[ In the text these seven couplets form one quotation, although the first three rhyme in —úru and the second four in —íru.]
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[ This "diapedesis" of bloodstained tears is frequently mentioned in The Nights; and the "Bloody Sweat" is well-known by name. The disease is rare and few have seen it whilst it has a certain quasi-supernatural sound from the "Agony and bloody sweat" in the Garden of Gethsemane. But the exudation of blood from the skin was described by Theophrastus and Aristotle and lastly by Lucan in these lines:—