[FN#446] I here quote Mr. Payne’s note.  “Sic in the text; but the passage is apparently corrupt.  It is not plain why a rosy complexion, blue eyes and tallness should be peculiar to women in love.  Arab women being commonly short, swarthy and blackeyed, the attributes mentioned appear rather to denote the foreign origin of the woman; and it is probable, therefore, that this passage has by a copyist’s error, been mixed up with that which relates to the signs by which the mock physician recognised her strangerhood, the clause specifying the symptoms of her love-lorn condition having been crowded out in the process, an accident of no infrequent occurrence in the transcription of Oriental works.”

[FN#447] Most men would have suspected that it was her lover.

[FN#448] The sumptuary laws, compelling for instance the Jews to wear yellow turbans, and the Christians to carry girdles date from the Capture of Jerusalem in A.D. 636 by Caliph Omar.  See vol. i. 77; and Terminal Essay § 11.

[FN#449] i.e.  Our Sunday:  the Jewish week ending with the Sabbath (Saturday).  I have already noted this term for Saturn’s day, established as a God’s rest by Commandment No. iv.  How it lost its honours amongst Christians none can say:  the text in Col. ii. 16, 17, is insufficient to abolish an order given with such pomp and circumstance to, and obeyed, so strictly and universally by, the Hebrews, including the Founder of Christianity.  The general idea is that the Jewish Sabbath was done away with by the Christian dispensation (although Jesus kept it with the usual scrupulous care), and that sundry of the Councils at Colossae and Laodicea anathematised those who observed the Saturday after Israelitish fashion.  With the day its object changed; instead of “keeping it holy,” as all pious Jews still do, the early Fathers converted it into the “Feast of the Resurrection,” which could not be kept too joyously.  The “Sabbatismus” of the Sabbatarian Protestant who keeps holy the wrong day is a marvellous perversion and the Sunday feast of France, Italy, and Catholic countries generally is far more logical than the mortification day of England and the so-called Reformed countries.

[FN#450] Harais, plur. of Harisah:  see vol. i. 131.

[FN#451] It would have been cooked on our Thursday night, or the Jewish Friday night and would be stale and indigestible on the next day.

[FN#452] Marw (Margiana), which the Turkomans pronounce “Mawr,” is derived by Bournouf from the Sansk.  Maru or Marw; and by Sir H. Rawlinson from Marz or Marj, the Lat.  Margo; Germ.  Mark; English March; Old French Marche and Neo-Lat.  Marca.  So Marzban, a Warden of the Marches:  vol. iii. 256.  The adj. is not Marazi, as stated in vol. iii. 222; but Marwazi, for which see Ibn Khallikan, vol. i. p. 7, etc.:  yet there are good writers who use “Marazi” as Razi for a native of Rayy.

[FN#453] i.e. native of Rayy city.  See vol. iv. 104.