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Rh  "It is on account of the great carpenter's "awkwardness that it is bent down at the "corner."

Then the Grandee Shibi sang again, saying:

"The great lord, on account of the mag- "nanimity of his heart, does not enter and "stand in the eight-fold hedge of branches "of the child of a grandee.

Hereupon the Prince sang again, saying:

"Looking on the breakers of the briny cur- "rent, I see my spouse standing by the "fin of the tunny that comes sporting."

Then the Grandee Shibi, getting more and more angry, sang, saying:

"[Though] the eight-fold hedge of branches "of the Prince the Great Lord be made fast "at eight places, be made fast all round, 'tis "a hedge that shall be cut, 'tis a hedge "that shall be burnt."

Then the Prince again sang, saying:

"Oh fisherman that spearest the tunny, "the great fish! He being [there], thou "must be sad at heart, tunny-spearing "fisherman!"