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PART III LOVE
 

CHAPTER 131

BOUDERIE[1]

THE MAID TO THE MISTRESS

1301. Embrace him not, my dear, but feign to be angry: let us just see a fun how he is nettled over it.

1302. Bouderie is the salt of love: to lengthen it unduly, however, is like adding too much of salt to food.

THE WIFE IS IN A FIT OF JEALOUSY AND ADDRESSES THE HUSBAND

1303. It is like wounding one anew who is already wounded, it thou come away without embracing her whom thou hast left in a pet.

1304. To come away without conciliating her who is frowning in a pet is like cutting off the roots from under the starving plant.

THE HUSBAND WITHIN HIMSELF

1305. The bouderie of the beloved hath an attraction even for men who are spotlessly pure.


  1. Sulks.
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