Note 97 — THE CALIPH OMAR BIN ABD AL-AZIZ AND THE POETS.[85]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Bayn farsi-k wa ’l-damí” = lit. between fæces and menses, i.e. the foulest part of his mistress’s person. It is not often that The Nights are “nasty”; but here is a case. See vol. v. 162.