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    A grunting swine,
    A rootless tree,
    A waxing wave,
    A boiling kettle,

86. A flying dart,
    A falling billow,
    A one night's ice,
    A coiled serpent,
    A woman's bed-talk
    Or a broken sword,
    A bear's play
    Or a royal child,

87. A sick calf,
    A self-willed thrall,
    A flattering prophetess,
    A corpse newly slain,
    A serene sky,
    A laughing lord,
    A barking dog
    And a harlot's grief,

88. An early-sown field,
    Let no one trust,
    Nor prematurely in a son:
    Weather rules the field,
    And wit the son,
    Each of which is doubtful.

89. A brother's murderer,
    Though on the high-road met,
    A half-burnt house,
    An over-swift horse
    (A horse is useless
    If a leg be broken):
    No man is so confiding
    As to trust any of these.

90. Such is the love of women,
    Who falsehood meditate,
    As if one drove not rough-shod
    On slippery ice,