Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 60 of 142
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 60: what you’re looking at
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This is a notes page from a Victorian text, containing scholarly annotations in Greek and English. The page discusses a theatrical scene where "the Pot calls a bystander to be a witness to his bad treatment," with a woman's sarcastic rejoinder about buying a rivet instead of testifying. The notes include a lengthy anecdote from an 1871 "Autobiography of a Cornish Rector" about a village character nicknamed "the Allegory" due to his resemblance to a figure from *Pilgrim's Progress*, whom local boys mockingly called "Old Clome-face" and told to return to the potter. The page concludes with a brief reference to Ramazan (Ramadan). This appears to be scholarly commentary rather than penny dreadful fiction.
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ae NOTES. PilokA\twy. "“Akove, py pevy’* ev DuBaoee yuvn wore 1, 1435 katéak’ Exivov. Karnyopoc. Tair’ éyw paprvpopat. i. Ovyivoc oby Exwv Ti’ éwepaprvparo’ Ei@’ 9 LuPapirie eiwev, & vai Tay Kdpav THY papTUptay TAaUTHY éucag, EV TAayEL ETIOETHOV ETPIW, VOUY AY Eivec mAEtova. ‘‘ The Pot calls a bystander to be a witness to his bad treat- ment. ‘The woman says, ‘ If, by Proserpine, instead of all this ‘testifying’ (comp. Cuddie and his mother in ‘ Old Mortality !’) you would buy yourself a rivet, it would show more sense in you!’ The Scholiast explains echinus as dyyog rt ix Kepapov.” One more illustration for the oddity’s sake from the “‘ Auto- biography of a Cornish Rector,” by the late James Hamley Tregenna. 1871. ‘‘ There was one old Fellow in our Company—he was so like a Figure in the ‘ Pilgrim's Progress’ that Richard always called him the ‘ ALLEGORY,’ with a long white beard—a rare Appen- dage in those days—and a Face the colour of which seemed to have been baked in, like the Faces one used to see on EKarthen- ware Jugs. In our Country-dialect Earthenware is called ‘Clome’; so the Boys of the Village used to shout out after him—‘ Go back to the Potter, Old Clome-face, and get baked over again.’ For the ‘ Allegory,’ though shrewd enough in most things, had the reputation of being ‘ saift-baked,’ i.e., of weak intellect. (XC.) At the Close of the Fasting Month, Ramazan (which makes the Musulman unhealthy and unamiable), the first Glimpse —_ Eee ee (C(O) aml eClA@O) @ 0)