Note 14 — NUR AL-DIN ALI AND THE DAMSEL ANIS AL-JALIS
Richard Francis Burton translation
i.e. Why not make thy heart as soft as thy sides! The converse of this was reported at Paris during the Empire, when a man had by mistake pinched a very high personage: "Ah, Madame! if your heart be as hard as (what he had pinched) I am a lost man."