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mind as one that standeth still: wherefore leave not quickly the old place 
without trying the new. 
23. A woman when she eateth eateth twice as much as a man, but 
her wisdom is four times greater than his, and her lust eight times greater. 
24. In the world the taste of the sugarcane becometh sweeter accord¬ 
ing as the joint is further from the top ; so the excellent man that is a 
good husband becometh sweeter from the beginning even unto the end, as 
doth the sugarcane : likewise also the evil friend by degrees loseth his 
sweetness, as doth the sugarcane when thou eatest thereof from the bottom 
to the top. 
25. If the country he filled full of husbandmen and of merchants and 
of noblemen and of priests of good repute, then shall the borders be increased. 
26. The wisdom of him that prayeth not fadeth away, as the house 
of him that is idle becometh foul: even so also is idleness as rust to him 
that is beautiful, and sloth as dirt to the sober priest. 
27. In the world the riches of them that do little labour become the 
riches of them that work much. They that are come to a low estate teach, 
saying, Our fortune is the reason thereof: but they that are wise teach not 
so, saying, It is because they do not their work with all their might. If 
the work be not finished, and he profiteth not according to his desire ; Is 
the fault with it P Nay, the fault lieth not with it. 
28. Whosoever is of low estate, neither can work with his lips nor 
with his hands, whose form is not fair, who lacketh strength : though he 
be blamed by reason of these, yet is this age a lesser age and maketh his 
wealth only to be of any worth. Here endeth the book concerning divers 
matters. 
29. The book concerning the wise ; the book concerning the good ; 
the book concerning the evil; the book concerning friends ; the book con¬ 
cerning women ; the book concerning kings ; the book concerning divers 
matters. He who put in order these seven books is called Chakkindabi the 
true teacher of the law, # the great High Priest, Master of the Law,f that 
dwelleth in the building that is built of brickJ in the Sacred Ground. § He 
made clear the interpretation of the writings of the Book of the Proverbs 
of Common Life in the second fifth-month|| on the first day of the week^f 
and the seventh of the waning moon, in the eleven hundred and ninety- 
sixth year. 
* Or Saddhamma Dhaja. 
f Or Mafia Dfiammaraja Guru. 
J Or in tfie Ok Kyoung. 
§ Or Mafia Oung mye fiongtsan. 
|| Or intercalary montfi. 
IT Or Sunday. 
