Note 95 — HISTORY OF AL-HAJJAJ BIN YUSUF AND THE YOUNG SAYYID.[42]

For the Seven Ages of womankind (on the Irish model) see vol. ix. 175. Some form of these verses is known throughout the Moslem East to prince and peasant. They usually begin:—

From the tenth to the twentieth year ✿ To the gaze a charm doth appear;

and end with:—

From sixty to three score ten ✿ On all befal Allah’s malison.