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| Shoes thinly woven of the dolichos fibre, | |
| May be used to walk on the hoarfrost. | |
| The delicate fingers of a bride, | |
| May be used in making clothes. | |
| [His bride] puts the waistband to his lower garment and the collar to his upper, | |
| And he, a wealthy man, wears them. | |
| Wealthy, he moves about quite at ease, | |
| And politely he stands aside to the left. | |
| From his girdle hangs his ivory comb-pin. | |
| It is the narrowness of his disposition, | |
| Which makes him a subject for satire. |
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