[530] 'Bat and ball，'or hockey on horseback （Polo） is one of the earliest Persian games as shown by every illustrated copy of Firdausi's 'Shahnameh.'This game was played with a Kurrah or small hand-ball and a long thin bat crooked at the end called in Persian Chaugan and in Arabic Saulajan. Another sense of the word is given in the Burhan-i-Kati translated by Vullers （Lex. Persico-Latinum），a large bandy with bent head to which is hung an iron ball，also called Kaukabah （our 'morning-star'） and like the umbrella it denotes the grandees of the court. The same Kaukabah particularly distinguished one of the Marquesses of Waterford. This Polo corresponds with the folliculus，the pallone，the baloun-game （moyen age） of Europe，where the horse is not such a companion of man；and whereof the classics sang：--Folle decet pueros ludere，folle senes.
In these days we should spell otherwise the 'folle'of seniors playing at the ball or lawn-tennis.
[531] 'Dalil'means a guide；`'Dalilah，'a woman who misguides，a bawd. See the Tale of Dalilah the Crafty，Night dcxcviii.
[532] i.e. she was a martyr.
[533] Arab. 'Ghashim'a popular and insulting term，our 'Johnny Raw.'Its use is shown in Pilgrimage i. 110.
[534] Bathers pay on leaving the Hammam；all enter without paying.
[535] i.e. she swore him upon his sword and upon the Koran：a loaf of bread is sometimes added. See Lane （i. 615）.
End of Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night，V2