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Zan meaning "woman" and also "beat," and ma-zan "beat not." There was in Burton, as in most great men, a touch of the Don Quixote, derived, no doubt, in his case, from his father. He was generous and magnanimous, and all who knew him personally spoke of him with affection. He was oftenest referred to as "a dear chap." Arbuthnot regarded him as a paladin, with no faults whatever.
which may be translated: "Ask their advice, ye men of wit And always do the opposite." Another of his favourite sayings against women was the Persian couplet: "Agar nek budi zan u Ray-i-Zan Zan-ra Ma-zan nam budi, na Zan," which may be rendered: "If good were in woman, of course it were meeter To say when we think of her, Beat not, not Beat her."
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