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 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. 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
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