Note 350 — MASRUR AND ZAYN AL-MAWASIF.[307]

See note, vol. vii. 267. So Dryden (Virgil):—

And the hoarse raven on the blasted bough

By croaking to the left presaged the coming blow.

And Gay (Fable xxxvii.):—

That raven on the left-hand oak,

Curse on his ill-betiding croak!

In some Persian tales two crows seen together are a good omen.