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By accepting large bribes to give your clothing to her, you lucky man, over a few days the washerwoman made the innocent girl moneyless!

Stop! It will be better if this areca palm is barren; don’t cause it pregnancy longings! For know that nothing but betel nuts ⋮ trouble will result from its bearing fruit.*

When the gods undertook the churning of the ocean by taking a serpent into their hands, relying on a fork-tongued person, it was a fitting result that only lethal poison was produced.*

I remember her lying there: her body languid from making love, her hair disheveled, her garments undone, one arm resting on her breasts that heaved to her breathing.*

You shapely girl, this mango shoot, dark reddish in color, has come out of the bud; it looks like the head of a young turtle peeping out of its shell.*

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Curved at the top, of many fine qualities, long, and granting delight, the eye of my beloved attracts my mind like a fishing-line catching a fish in the lake: it has a hook at the end, and many strings, is long, and offers a tasty bait.*