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[FN#20] A similar tale is still told at Akka (St. John d'Acre)

concerning the terrible "butcher"-Jazzar (Djezzar) Pasha. One can

hardly pity women who are fools enough to run such risks.

According to Frizzi, Niccolo, Marquis of Este, after beheading

Parisina, ordered all the faithless wives of Ferrara to be

treated in like manner.

[FN#21] "Shahrazad" (Persian) = City-freer, in the older version

Scheherazade (probably both from Shirzad=lion-born).

"Dunyazad"=World-freer. The Bres. Edit. corrupts theformer to

Shahrzad or Shahrazad, and the Mac. and Calc. to Shahrzad or

Shehrzad. I have ventured to restore the name as it should be.

Galland for the second prefers Dinarzade (?) and Richardson

Dinazade (Dinazad = Religion-freer): here I have followed Lane

and Payne; though in "First Footsteps" I was misled by Galland.

See Vol. ii. p. 1.

[FN#22] Probably she proposed to "Judith" the King. These learned

and clever young ladies are very dangerous in the East.