[Footnote 41: Pocock (Specimen, p. 158 - 161) and Casiri
(Bibliot. Hispano- Arabica, tom. i. p. 48, 84, &c., 119,
tom. ii. p. 17, &c.) speak of the Arabian poets before
Mahomet; the seven poems of the Caaba have been published in
English by Sir William Jones; but his honorable mission to
India has deprived us of his own notes, far more interesting
than the obscure and obsolete text.]