Note 238 — PERSIAN STORIES.
Edward Rehatsek translation
The carpenter is a curious compound of shrewdness and simplicity: not content to vaunt his acquaintance with popular tales, he must add that his father daily passed by a famous school-house—implying that the knowledge supposed to be thus obtained by his parent had been transmitted to himself! The Kází is no doubt “all there,” but for his love of money and jealousy of his artful wife. We have the authority of a certain noble poet that avarice is “a good old-gentlemanly vice”; but nobody can say a word in favour of jealousy, the “green-eyed monster,” who caused the death of sweet Desdemona.