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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.

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.

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