Book xxiv.
» I I PART III. Suction II. A
Q V V Hsu Wu—kwei’.
1. Hsu Wu—kwei having obtained through Nu ,°{
W Shang 2 an introduction to the marquis Wu of Wei 3, I the marquis, speaking to him with kindly sympathy ", I it I rj M said, ‘·You are ill, Sir; you have suffered from your V hard and laborious toils"· in the forests, and still you ° ip [ iki have been willing to come and see poor me “.’ Hsu V y; ar<‘ Wu-kwei replied, ‘ It is I who have to comfort your o , °¥Qg Q lordship; what occasion have you to comfort me?
If your lordship go on to fill up the measure of rig,
` your sensual desires, and to prolong your likes and j , dislikes, then the condition of your mental nature will be diseased, and if you discourage and repress those desires, and deny your likings and dislikings, V that will be an affliction to your ears and eyes ij ’ See vol. xxxix, pp. 153, 154. 2 A favourite and ministerof the marquis Wu. . ’ This was the second marquis of Wei, one of the three princi- , YF palities into which the great state of Bin had been broken up, and I which he ruled as the marquis Ki for sixteen years, 1;. c. 386-371. I V His son usurped the title of king, and was the ‘ king Hui of Liang,' ` whom Mencius had interviews with. WO, or ‘ martial,' was K'i’s { ii r honorary, posthumous epithet.
- ” The character which I thus translate, has two tones, the j
second and fourth. Here and elsewhere in this paragraph and the » t.i,.t Q next, it is with one exception in the fourth tone, meaning ‘ to com· ‘ I I r.ei,_ fort or reward for toils endured} The one exception is its next 3 igti 3. " occurrence,-—·‘ hard and laborious toils.’ ‘ The appropriate and humble desi ation of himself b the * an Y . ruler of a. state. ` i
