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Citation Information
CHAP. IV. BATTLE—DESCRIPTION
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jJ [Dozy (Supp. aux Dict. Arabes) has [naggárè] " petit tambour ou timbale,
bassin de cuivre ou de terre recouvert d'une peau tendue," and „ grosses timbales en cuivre portées sur un chameau ou un mulet."—Devic (Dict. Étym.) writes : " Bas
Latin, nacara ; bas grec, dváxapa. Ce n'est point comme on l'a dit, l'Arabe ot.X.:i;
nagz'r ou 2;36' qör, qui signifient trompette, clairon, mais le persan
en arabe, ibta nagära, timbale." It is to be found also in Abyssinia and south of
Gondokoro ; it is mentioned in the Sedjarat Malayu.
In French, it gives 7zacaire and gnacare from the Italian gnacare. " Quatre jouent de la guitare, quatre des castagnettes, quatre des gnacares." (MOLIÉRE, Pastorale Comique.)—H. C.]
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No'rE 4.—This description of a fight will recur again and again till we ire very tired of it. It is difficult to say whether the style is borrowed from the historians of the East or the romancers of the West. Compare the two following parallels. First from an Oriental history :-
" The Ear of Heaven was deafened with the din of the great ÄZtrkalzs and Drums, and the Earth shook at the clangour of the Trumpets and Cktrions. The shafts began to fall like the rain-drops of spring, and blood flowed till the field looked like the Oxus." (J A S. sér. IV. tom. xix. 256 )
Next from an Occidental Romance :—
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" Now rist grete tabour betyng,
Blaweyng of pypes, and ek trumpyng,
Stedes lepyng, and ek arnyng,
Of sharp speres, and avalyng
Of stronge knighttes, and wyghth meetyng ;
Launces breche and increpyng ;
Knighttes fallyng, stedes lesyng ;
Herte and hevedes thorough kervyng ;
Swerdes draweyng, lymes lesyng
I Iard assaylyng, strong defendy ng,
Stiff withstondyng and wighth fleigheyng.
Sharp of takyng armes spoylyng ;
So gret bray, so gret crieyng,
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