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1219-1228

  • (When he is still like) a well-kept house, with its roof very lofty, its sides (walls) symmetrical, without buttressing and clamps—
  • Ere the days of eld arrive and bind your neck with a halter of palm-fibres; 1220
  • (Ere) the soil becomes nitrous (barren), crumbling, and poor —never did good herbage grow from nitrous soil;
  • (When) the water of strength and the water of lust (is) cut off, and he has no profit from himself or others:
  • The eyebrows fallen down like a crupper-strap; the eyes grown moist and dim;
  • The face, from wrinkling, like the back of a lizard; speech and taste and teeth gone out of use;
  • The day late, the ass lame, and the way long; the shop ruined and the business in disorder; 1225
  • The roots of bad habit firmly set, and the power to tear them up decreased.
  • How the Governor commanded a certain man, saying, “Root up the thorn bush which you have planted on the road.”
  • As (for example) that callous fair-spoken person planted a thorn bush in the middle of the road.
  • The wayfarers reproached him and oftentimes told him to dig it up: he dug it not up.