[FN#388] Here again the Cairo Edit. repeats the six couplets already given in Night xvii. I take them from Torrens (p. 163).
[FN#389] This na ï ve admiration of beauty in either s*x characterised our chivalrous times. Now it is mostly confined to "professional beauties" or what is conventionally called the "fair s*x"; as if there could be any comparison between the beauty of man and the beauty of woman, the Apollo Belvidere with the Venus de Medici.
[FN#390] Arab. "Sh á sh" (in Pers. urine) a light turband generally of muslin.
[FN#391] This is a lieu commun of Eastern worldly wisdom. Quite true! Very unadvisable to dive below the surface of one's acquaintances, but such intimacy is like marriage of which Johnson said, "Without it there is no pleasure in life."
[FN#392] The lines are at
