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R. C. Temple —Tlie Lokaniii translated 
[No. 3, 
Chapter V. 
1. The beauty of the black cuckoo is his voice : the beauty of a 
woman is her love for her husband : the beauty of the uncomely is their 
knowledge, and the beauty of the priest is his long-suffering. 
2. The wealth of a woman lieth in her beauty : of a man in his know¬ 
ledge : of a priest in his well-doing : of a king in the strength of his 
armies. 
f3. A priest is comely if he be lean, as a four-footed beast is comely 
when he is fat: so a man becometh comely when he is wise and a woman 
when she hath an husband. 
4. Re the harper never so good, if he play not on the harp for five 
days only his skill is fled ; be the archer never so skilful if he shoot not 
with the bow for seven days his cunning deserteth him : so the honour of 
a wife if she be a month separate from her husband is destroyed, and the 
disciple is lost if he be but half a month from his master. 
5. The buffalo rejoiceth when he is in the mud, and the red duck 
when he is in the lake : so the woman rejoiceth when she hath an husband, 
and the priest when he doth according to the law. 
6. Thou mayest praise the corn* after thou hast eaten of it, so thou 
mayest praise thy wife when she is become old : so likewise thou mayest 
praise the army when it returneth home after the enemy is conquered, and 
thy grain after thou hast stored it in thy barns. 
7. The woman that hath been put away from two or three husbands ; 
the scholar that hath learned in two or three schools ; and the bird that 
hath escaped twice or thrice from the net knoweth well the way thereof. 
8. Tame the wicked by beating : tame the bad husband by firm 
words : tame the bad wife by keeping away the money from her, and the 
greedy man by making him an-hungered. 
9. The night that hath no moon is not good to look upon ; nor the 
sea that hath no waves ; nor the lake that is without wild-ducks ; nor the 
damsel that is without an husband. 
10. It is the husband that should bring the riches, and it is the wife 
that should keep them. Is not this saying true ? For it is the man that 
should be the leader of the womanfi as the needle is of the thread. 
11. Every river is crooked : every forest is full of fire-wood : every 
woman when she is in a quiet place doeth evil. 
12. The woman that is a disputer ; that is envious and a backbiter ; 
that is covetous of whatsoever she seeth ; that cooketh much and eateth of 
it , that eateth before her husband ; that goeth abroad to other’s houses : 
* Or the rice. 
f Or he the beginner or the original cause. 
