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 " The king appoints " — Trans, from Clock's Symbolik 



der Bienen ... 251 



" I take you to wife " — Ibid. . . 251 



Tilings compounded with honey for medicine, etc., etc., 



— W. M. Flinders Peirie : History of Egypt . . . 251 



" Bees are kept in Egypt " — Eiicyc. Brit. Art. Bees . . 254 



" H^ ^^"^ '"°''^ ^^^^^y " \ Burckhardt^s Arabic Proverbs 254 

 " The lazy " ) 



" Nor want " — It?ian Shafay Moha}nmed ben Idris. 



(Specimens of Arabian poetry. — I. D. Carlyle.) . . 254 

 The Assemblies of Al Hariri — Trans, by Thomas 



Cheney . 255 



Firdusi's Epic of Kings — Trans, by Helen Zimmern 255 

 Divan of Hafiz — Trans, by H. Wilberforce Clarke . . 255 

 " At Harshness " — Odes 0/ Hajiz, cxxix. . . . 255 



Les Bddouins, ou Arabes du desert. Raphael Trans, 

 from Friedreich, Die Symbolik und Mythologie der 

 Natur ... . ... .... . 255 



" There proceedeth a liquor of various colors." There 

 is the following note in the Rev. J. M. Rodwell's trans- 

 lation of the Koran : " The Arabs are curious in and 

 fond of honey. Mecca alone affords eight or nine 



varieties, green, white, red, and brown " 256 



This does not mean that Mecca has that many varieties of 

 bees. Honey diiiers in color, flavor, and consistency accord- 

 ing to the flowers from which it is gathered. 

 Strabo — Geography of Greece, xv. 3 ... . 257 



Diana of the Ephesians. The Ancient Empires of the 



East — A. H. Sayce,-p. 212, 



" And the Amorites " — Deuteronomy i. 44 . 



"All nations" — Psalms cxviii. 10. 12 . . 



" Butter and honey " — Isaiah vii. 15 . . 



" My son " — Proverbs xxiv. 13.14 



" How sweet are thy words " • — Psalms cxix. 103 



" The judgments of the Lord " — Psalms xix. 9 



" Pleasant words " — Proverbs xsS. i\ . 



" Take of the best " — Getiesis xliii. 11... 



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