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“Like a friend she has guided my new bride to the bed-chamber and makes no sexual demands on me!” When the merchant praised with these words his lady of the house, his neighbor laughed.

What hope is there that this ketaki in the course of time will develop lovely breasts? In the same measure that she grows, her thorns will multiply.

You, pretending to be asleep! Listening to the sound of my breathing! Why do you pierce me with your fierce sighs, as if you were Cupid aiming with his arrows at a target he can merely hear and concentrating on its sound?

Where are those silken garments—the snake skins? Where the strings of jewels from serpents to decorate yourself with? After Kaliya the “snake” ⋮ your rich patron has left you, “Yamuna,” you can be ⋮ must be approached by everybody.*

The young woman did not say a word, nor did she cast a forgiving glance, when I was prostrate at her feet, all she did was to turn around the cage with the parrot.*

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Laughing and clapping with their hands, the young men watched her, with eyes agitated by passion: flung away time and again and coming back to her body, the bee made her perform a dance.