Note 282 — TALE OF KING OMAR BIN AL-NU'UMAN AND HIS SONS SHARRKAN AND ZAU AL-MAKAN, AND WHAT BEFEL THEM OF THINGS SELD-SEEN AND PEREGRINE.[138] (continued 3)
Richard Francis Burton translation
i.e. humbly without the usual strut or swim: it corresponds with the biblical walking or going softly (1 Kings xxi. 27; Isaiah xxxviii. 15, etc.).