. 6 U m A IT E 4. 
I'd**;? pajfang palfftff^ 
CaUo teeHah dangan foomhQmia f 
Ap& gi&m hermitie mam^ 
CaHo tetda dangatt fomgomia ? 
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What fignifies attempting to light a lamp, 
If the wick be wanting ? 
What fignifies nnaktng love with the eyes. 
If nothing in earneil be intended ? 
Itmuftbe obferved however, that it often proves a very diificult matter 
to trace the connexion between the figurative and the literal fenfe'of ihe 
ftanza. The effentials in the compofition of the fantooni for fuch thefe 
Tittle pieces are called ; the longer being called dendang ; are the ryth* 
mus and the figure, particularly the latter, which they con fid er as the 
life and fpirit of the poetry, I had a proof of this in an attempt which 
I made, to impofe a panUon of my own conapofing, on the natives, as 
a work of their countrymen. The fubjeit was a dialogue between a 
lover, and a rich, coy mtftrefs : The expreflions were proper to the 
occafion^ and in fome degree charafflcriilic. It pafTed with fever a I, but 
an old lady who was a more difcerning critic than the others^ remarked 
fhat it was " cam cnito fajo** — mere converfation ; meaning that it was 
deftitutc of the quaint and figurative exprefhons which adorn their own 
poetry. Their language, in common fpeaking, is proverbial and fen- 
tentious. If a young woman prove with child before marriage^ they ob- 
Ifrve it is, douho kca, cadeem baongo'' — the fruit before the flower**' 
Hearing of a perfon's death, they fay, neu matteiy matue ; nmcedoop, 
hecrajo ; callo fampi-la janjeenia^ apo hooiee booat — ** thofe who are 
dead J are dead ; thofe who furvive muft work ; if his allotted time was 
expired, what refource is there 
• The apo bvokg hp&f is a phrafe they alwayt make ufe of, to cxprcf* their fcnfe of 
*vhabitiij^ and hai more force than any tranflation of it I can employ. 
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