[FN#73] Lit. "Coals (fit) for frying pan."
[FN#74] Arab. "Libdah," the sign of a pauper or religious mendicant. He is addressed "Y á Abu libdah!" (O father of a felt calotte!)
[FN#75] In times of mourning Moslem women do not use perfumes or dyes, like the Henna here alluded to in the pink legs and feet of the dove.
[FN#76] Koran, chaps. ii. 23. The idea is repeated in some forty Koranic passages.
[FN#77] A woman's name, often occurring. The "daughters of Sa'ada" are zebras, so called because "they resemble women in beauty and graceful agility."
[FN#78] Arab. "Tiry á k" from Gr. a drug against venomous bites. It was compounded mainly of treacle, and that of Baghdad and Ir á k was long held sovereign. The European equivalent, "Venice treacle," (Theriaca Andromachi) is an electuary conta
