Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 136: what you’re looking at

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oe ee : 110 APPENDIX. I suppose—being used on such ocasions; the test of Affection being whether the one sent were returned with or without its Fellow. “ The Royal Game of Chugdn.” (p. 68.) For centuries the Royal Game of Persia, and adopted (Ouseley thinks) under varying modifications of name and practice by other nations, was played by Horsemen, who, suitably habited, and armed with semicircular-headed Bats or Sticks, strove to drive a Ball through a Goal of upright Pillars. (See Frontis- piece). We may call it “ Horse-hockey,” as heretofore played by young Englishmen in the Maidan of Calcutta, and other Indian cities, I believe, and now in England itself under the name of Polo. The Frontispiece to this version of the Poem is “ accurately copied from an Engraving in Sir William’s Book, which he says (and those who care to look into the Bodleian for it may see), is accurately copied from a very beautiful Persian MS., containing the Works of Hafiz, transcribed in the year 956 of the Hejirah, 1549 of Christ ; the MS. is in my own Collection. This Delineation | exhibits the Horsemen contending for the Ball; their short | Jackets seem peculiarly adapted to the Sport ; we see the Mit, | or Goals; Servants attend on Foot, holding CuUeAns in | readiness for other Persons who may join in the Amusement, or to supply the place of any that may be broken. A young Prince—as his Parr, or Feather, would indicate—receives on his Entrance into the Merpan, or Place of Exercise, a CHUGAN | from the hands of a bearded Man very plainly dressed ; yet (as : an intelligent Painter at Ispahan assured me, and as appears i OOOKS. CO @) come