Note 19 — CONTENTS OF THE NINTH VOLUME.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The Caliph could not “see” her “sweetness of speech”; so we must understand that he addressed her and found out that she was fluent of tongue. But this idiomatic use of the word “see” is also found in the languages of Southern Europe: so Camoens (Lus. i. ii.), “Ouvi * * * vereis” lit. = “hark, you shall see” which sounds Hibernian.