[FN#80] "His" for "her," i.e. herself, making somewhat of confusion between her state and that of her son.
[FN#81] i.e. his mother; the words are not in the Mac. Edit.
[FN#82] Baghdad is called House of Peace, amongst other reasons, from the Dijlah (Tigris) River and Valley "of Peace." The word was variously written Baghdád, Bághdád, (our old Bughdaud and Bagdat), Baghzáz, Baghzán, Baghdán, Baghzám and Maghdád as Makkah and Bakkah (Koran iii. 90). Religious Moslems held Bágh (idol) and Dád (gift) an ill-omened conjunction, and the Greeks changed it to Eirenopolis. (See Ouseley's Oriental Collcctions, vol. i. pp. 18-20.)
[FN#83] This is a popular saying but hardly a "vulgar proverb." (Lane iii. 522.) It reminds rather of Shakespear's:
"So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly."
[FN#84] i.e. God forbid that I should oppose thee!
[FN#85] Here the writer again forgets apparently, that Shahrazad is speaking: she may, however, use the plural for the singular when speaking of herself.
[FN#86] i.e. She would have pleaded ill-treatment and lawfully demanded to be sold.
[FN#87] The Hindus speak of "the only bond that woman knows--her heart."
[FN#88] i.e. a rarity, a present (especially in Persian).
[FN#89] Arab. "Al-bisát" wa'l-masnad lit. the carpet and the cushion.
[FN#90] For "Báb al-bahr" and "Báb al-Barr" see vol. iii. 281.
[FN#91] She was the daughter of Ja'afar bin Mansúr; but, as will be seen, The Nights again and again called her father Al-Kásim.
[FN#92] This is an error for the fifth which occurs in the popular saying, "Is he the fifth of the sons of Al-Abbás!" i.e. Harun al-Rashid. Lane (note, in loco) thus accounts for the frequent mention of the Caliph, the greatest of the Abbasides in The Nights. But this is a causa non causa.
[FN#93] i.e. I find thy beauty all-sufficient. So the proverb "The son of the quarter (young neighbour) filleth not the eye," which prefers a stranger.
[FN#94] They are mere doggerel, like most of the pièces de circonstance.