'Filth fell upon dirt. "Welcome! my friend," said he.'
'Scarcer than fly-brains.'
'Gain upon dirt rather than loss upon musk.'
Musk plays a great part in the East. Even the porters in Cairo bear bags of it and are scented by it.
'When the monkey reigns, dance before him.'
This slavish proverb is thoroughly Oriental.
'They met a monkey defiling the mosque. "Dost thou not fear," quoth they, "lest God may metamorphose thee?" "I should," quoth he, "if I thought he would change me into a gazelle."'
'He fled from the rain and sat down under the water-spout.'
Or, as we say, out of the frying-pan into the fire.