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NOTE 43. It is common (as my sheykh has remarked) to say, of a very spacious chamber, that a horseman might gallop in it. The playing at goff by horsemen has been mentioned in a former tale. It was a common exercise in Egypt as well as Persia and other Eastern countries.

NOTE 44. "Deleeleh" is an epithet used in modern Arabic as indicative of artifice, machination, or fraud.[378] It is often employed as a female nickname.

NOTE 45. From this point to the end of the story of 'Azeez and 'Azeezeh I omit some portions which are tedious, and others which are more objectionable.

NOTE 46. Any one may enter the public bath, but none can go out of it, without paying.[379]

NOTE 47. The "kaạk," commonly called "kaḥk," has been described in Note 16 to