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 ## s74 ##

I&rsquo;m a wonderful thing, a joy to women, to neighbors useful. I injure no one who lives in a village save only my slayer. I stand up high and steep over the bed; underneath I&rsquo;m shaggy. Sometimes ventures a young and handsome peasant&rsquo;s daughter, a maiden proud, to lay hold on me. She seizes me, red, plunders my head, fixes on me fast, feels straightway what meeting me means when she thus approaches, a curly-haired woman. Wet is that eye.

The pretended answer is Onion. Compare 39 (K-D 65), which is Onion only.


 * 1) s75 ##

Splendidly it hangs by a man&rsquo;s thigh, under the master&rsquo;s cloak. In front is a hole. It is stiff and hard; it has a goodly place. When the young man his own garment lifts over his knee, he wishes to visit