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The next three quatrains one may teach to bis wife, in case she might fall in with robbers 



or pirates : 



I. 



On the mountains a flower opens a speek of red ( 2 ); 

 Don 't plunder me as you would rob a stranger. 

 If you, inimical foe, interrogate the wife of a Hung-man — 

 Three hundred and twenty one are all Hung. 



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Afar I see on the road before me a speek of red; 



Don 't say that I am lascivious. 



If you want a Si-s/d ( 3 ), there are some on the mountains; 



But my husband and you, my brother-in-law , have the same ancestors. 



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We all of the same year and month are gay; 



The clear moon in the vernal breezes shines on Heaven and Earth ; 



(!) & ( 3 ) Si-shi was a fine woman of antiquity who lived near the mountain Chn-lo (^ j||| I, She sold fa- 

 gots and washed for the people. The king of the state Tueh carried her off, and presented her to the 

 king of Wu. She is always cited as a fine woman, and allusions are made to her beauty in prose and 

 poetry. 

 We would say: „If you want an Aspasia." 



( 2 ) i. e. A Hung-brother comes to rob me on the road. 



