[FN#111] i.e. leather from Et Taif, a town of the Hejaz, renowned for the manufacture of scented goats' leather.
[FN#112] Or "suspended in."
[FN#113] i.e. violateth my privacy.
[FN#114] i.e. the plaintive song of a nightingale or turtle-dove.
[FN#115] This curious comparison appears to be founded upon the extreme tenuity of the particles of fine dust, so minutely divided as to seem almost fluid.
[FN#116] i.e. he carried it into the convent, hidden under his cloak.
[FN#117] i.e. all the delights of Paradise, as promised to the believer by the Koran.
[FN#118] "Him" in the text and so on throughout the piece; but Mariyeh is evidently the person alluded to, according to the common practice of Muslim poets of a certain class, who consider it indecent openly to mention a woman as an object of love.
[FN#119] i.e. from the witchery of her beauty. See Vol. II. p. 240, note.
[FN#120] Lit "if thou kohl thyself" i.e. use them as a cosmetic for the eye.