ss Williams. See Allan Cunningham's Songs of
Scotland, iv. 59.

{319} Boswell's Johnson, 11 April 1776.

{320} This struck E. F. G. so much that he introduced it into Omar
Khayyam, stanza xxxiii. Professor Cowell writes, 'I well remember
shewing it to FitzGerald and reading it with him in his early Persian
days at Oxford in 1855. I laughed at the quaintness; but the idea seized
his imagination from the first, and, like Virgil with Ennius' rough
jewels, his genius detected gold where I had seen only tinsel. He has
made two grand lines out of it.'

{322} A retired clergyman who lived at Bramford.

{323a} On Comparative Mythology. Oxford Essays, 1856.

{323b} Fraser's Magazine for April 1857.

{328} M. Garcin de Tassy scrupulously observed this injunction in his
Note sur les Ruba'iyat de Omar Khaiyam, which appeared in the journal
Asiatique.

{337} See Letter to John Allen, 12 July 1840.

{344} Rather of the Orthodox reader by Omar himself.

{348} Hatifi's Haft Paikar, a poem on the Seven Castles of Bahram Gur,
as I learn from Professor Cowell, 'each with its princess who lives in
it, and tells Bahram a story.' He adds, 'We always used the name with an
understood playful reference to Corporal Trim's unfinished story of the
King of Bohemia and _his_ Seven Castles.'

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