Excerpt from The Works of Thomas Moore, Vol. 2: Comprehending All His Melodies, Ballads, Etc;, Before Published Without the Accompanying Music, Embellished With a Portrait, and a Sketch of the Author's Life Kempfer mentions such an Officer among the attendants of the King of Persia, and calls him formae corpoiis estima tor. His business was, at stated periods, to measure the ladies of the Haram by a sort of regulation-girdle, whose li mits it was not thought graceful to exceed. If any of them outgrew this standard of shape, they were reduced by absti nence till they came within its bounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.