Note 82 — ABU NOWAS WITH THE THREE BOYS AND THE CALIPH HARUN AL-RASHID.[82]

Here the “Ana” begin; and they mostly date themselves. Of the following forty-nine, Lane (vol. ii. p. 578 et seq.) gives only twenty-two and transfers them to notes in chapt. xviii. He could hardly translate several of them in a work intended to be popular. Abu Nowás is a person carefully to be avoided; and all but anthropological students are advised to “skip” over anecdotes in which his name and abominations occur.