Chapter VI: Wise Sayings of the Rabbis (12)

Og, king of Bashan, 225, 226.
Old man and young wife, 29.
Old man's prayer, 109;
reason for not marrying, 31.
Old woman in mosque, 109.
Omens, unlucky, 107, 108.
Opportunity, 263.
Oriental story-books, general plan of, 123.
Orientalist, or Letters of a Rabbi, 141.
Origin, all things return to their, 131.
Ouseley, Sir Gore, 6, 52.

Painter and critics, 78.
Panchatantra, 49, 129, 140, 146, 147, 159, 240.
Panjábí Legends, 179.
Paradise, persons translated to, 209.
Parents, reverence for, 236.
Parrot and maina, 178;
oilman's parrot, 114;
Moghul's parrot, 116.
Parrot-Book, 124;
frame-story of, 125, 178.
Parrot, Seventy Tales of a, 124.
Parrots in Hindú fictions, 179.
Passion-service, 323, 326.
Pasquil's Jests, 81, 330.
Patient Grissell, 331.
'Paveant illi,' etc., 319.
Payne's Arabian Nights, 274.
Peasant in Paradise, 327.
Peasants, Foolish, 111.
Persian and his cat, 80;
and the governor, 116;
courtier and old friend, 79;
ladies, witty, 63;
Moonshee, 71;
poet and the impostor, 106;
Tales of a Thousand and one Days, 93, 135.
Petis de la Croix, 93.
Petronius Arbiter, 307.
Phædrus, 300.
Pharaoh and Moses, 208.
Pharaoh's daughters, 209.
Pirke Aboth, 260.
Plants, to keep alive, 78.
Planudes' Life of Esop, 108, 301.
Poets in praise of springtide, 14.
Poet, rich man and, 107.
Poet's meaning, 104.
Poetry, 'stealing,' 106.
Poets, royal gifts to, 101, 104, 105.
Poverty, 263.
Prayers, odd, 71, 109.
Preachers, Muslim, 34, 66, 70, 71.
Precept and Practice, 47, 263.
Prefaces to books, 11.
Priest confessing poor man, 325.
Pride, 261.
Princess of Rúm and her son, 166.
Procrustes, bed of, 199.
Prodigality, 24.
Psalm-singing at gallows, 331.

Quevedo's Visions, 343.

Rabbi and the poor woman, 227;
and the emperor Trajan, 265;
and the cup of wine, 119.
Ralston's Russian Folk-Tales, 141;
Tibetan Tales, 159.
'Ram caught in a thicket,' 205.
Rasálú, Legend of Rájá, 178.
Rats that ate iron, 129.
Richardson, Octavia, 317.
Rich, Barnaby, 350.
Riches, 44, 50, 261.
Rieu, Charles, 124.
Robber and the Khoja, 69.
Rogers, the poet, 359.
Rose and Nightingale, 42.
Ross, David, 278.
Rúm, country of, 134.
Russian Folk-Tales, 141.

Saádí: sketch of his life, 3;
character of his writings, 6;
on a bad musician, 7;
his 'Gulistán,' 9;
prefaces to books, 11;
preface to the 'Gulistán,' 12;
the fair cup-bearer, 28;
assured of lasting fame, 55;
on money, 125.
Sacchetti, 231, 306.
Saint-worship, 321, 327.
Samradians, sect of the, 97.
Satan in form of a deer, 213.
Satiety and hunger, 45.
Sayce, A. H., 210.
Scarronides, 332.
Schoolmaster and wit, 79.
Scornfulness, 260.
Scott's 'Lay,' 331.
Scribe's excuse, 79.
Secrets, 48, 263.
Seneca on aphorisms, 259.
Senegambian Tales, 278.
Sermon, burlesque, 328.
Servant, wakeful, 112.
Servants, lazy, 76.
Seven stages of human life, 257.
Seven Vazírs, 173
_see also_ Sindibád, Book of.
Seven Wise Masters, 133, 173, 178, 307.
Shakspeare, 53, 163, 257, 342, 347, 349, 350.
Sheba, Queen of, 218.
Shelley's Queen Mab, 291.
Signing with ×, 333.
Silence, on keeping, 38, 39, 45, 263.
Simonides, 40.
Sindibád, Book of, 123, 159, 173, 176, 178, 306.
Singing Ass, 149.
Sinhásana Dwatrinsati, 124.
Shopkeeper and governor, 116.
Sindbán, 173.
'Skip over three leaves,' 322.
Slander, 44.
Slave, witty, 35.
Slippers, the unlucky, 83.
Smith, Horace, 53.
Smiths and rich man, 77.
Socrates, 300, 338.
Sodom, the citizens of, 198.
Solomon: advice to three men, 215;
the Queen of Sheba, 218;
the egg-stealer, 218;
his signet-ring, 220;
his lost fables, 239;
his precocious sagacity, 73;
his choice of wisdom, 249;
the serpent's prey, 274.
Son, dutiful, 236.
Sorrow, times of, 260.
Spectator, Addison's, 359.
Spenser, Edmund, 284.
Springtide, in praise of, 14.
Stingy merchant and poor Bedouin, 95.
Story-teller and the King, 100.
Stubbes on beards and barbers, 352.
Stupidity, 26.
Súfís, 51.
Suka Saptati, 124.
Sully and the courtiers, 341.
Summa Praedicantium, 305.
Superiors and inferiors, 260.
Swynnerton, Charles, 179.
Syntipas, 173.

Tales and Quicke Answeres, 37, 71, 218, 321.
Talkers, comprehensive, 45.
Talmud, authors of the, 185, 186;
traducers of the, 187;
teachings of the, 188.
Tantrákhyána, 159.
Taylor's Wit and Mirth, 330;
Superbiae Flagellum, 351.
Teaching and learning, 262.
Temple's Panjábí Legends, 179.
Thálebí and the Khalíf, 105.
Thief, self-convicted, 218;
without opportunity, 263.
Thieves, Foolish, 151.
Thomson's Seasons, 46.
Three Dervishes, 113.
Throne, Tales of a, 124.
Tibetan Tales, 159.
Tongue, the key of wisdom, 46.
Tongues, dish of, 305.
'Tongues in Trees,' 53.
Trajan and the Rabbi, 265.
Treasure, concealed, 129.
Treasure-seekers, the Four, 144.
Tree of Life, 174, 177.
Trouvères, 327.
Turkish Jester: in the pulpit, 66;
the cauldron, 67;
the beggar, 68;
the drunken governor, 68;
the robber, 69;
the hot broth, 69.
Turkish poetess, 17.
Turkmans, weeping, 110.
Tútí Náma, 124;
frame story, 125, 178.
Tyl Eulenspiegel, 306.

Ugly wife, 61, 62.
Uncle Remus, 279.
Unicorn, 225.
Unlucky omens, 107, 108.
Unlucky slippers, 83.

Van Butchell, 348.
Vasayadatta, 133.
Vase, use thy, 263.
Vatsyayana's Káma Sutra, 126.
Vazírs, the Seven, 173.
Vetála Panchavinsati, 124, 162, 179.
Vicious hate the virtuous, 44.
Vine, planting of the, 196.
Virgil Travestie, 332.
Virtue cannot come out of vice, 50.
Visitors, troublesome, 40.
Von Hammer, 293.
Vrihat Kathá, 158.

Wakeful servant, 112.
Wamik and Azra, 293.
Want: moderation, 7.
Warton's Hist. of Eng. Poetry, 163.
Water of Life, 174, 177.
Weil's Bible, Korán, and Talmud, 273.
Weeping Turkmans, 110.
Wheel on man's head, 146, 147.
Wicked rich man, 44.
Widowhood, compulsory, 287.
Wife, choosing a, 263.
Williams, Sir Monier, 259.
Will, Ingenious, 237.
Wisdom, who gains, 261.
Wise man in mean company, 49.
Witches' beards, 358.
Witty Baghdádí, 83;
Isfahání, 116;
Jewish boys, 117, 118;
Persian ladies, 63;
slave, 35.
Woman: carved out of wood, 130;
seven requisites of, 165.
Woman's counsel, 64, 65;
wiles, 87.
Women, bearded, 358.
Woodcutter and Moses, 270.
World of Wonders, 316.
Wright's Latin Stories, 76.

Young's Night Thoughts, 46.
Youth, modest and learned, 27.

Zemzem, 285.
Zotenberg, Hermann, 246.
Zozimus, the ballad-singer, 209.
Zulaykhá, Potiphar's wife, 206.