Sytty maids per man, sir
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- Three score and ten, sir: (nursery rhyme) "How many miles to Babylon? Three score and ten, sir... "→ three score and ten in line 15 above
- sytti: (Norwegian) 70 → three score and ten in line 15 above
- sette: (Italian) 7 → FW 003.04-14 which repeats the phrase not yet (or a variant thereof) seven times
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- al-Mansur: The name of a number of Muslim caliphs. The name means "victorious".
- seventy maids per man → according to one Islamic tradition, there are 72 houri (nymphs) for every man in Paradise
