VIII
Seek not for favour of women. So shall you find it indeed.
Does not the boar break cover just when you're lighting a weed?
IX
If He play, being young and unskilful, for shekels of silver and gold,
Take His money, my son, praising Allah. The kid was ordained to be sold.
X
With a "weed" among men or horses verily this is the best,
That you work him in office or dog-cart lightly—but give him no rest.
XI
Pleasant the snaffle of Courtship, improving the manners and carriage;
But the colt who is wise will abstain from the terrible thorn-bit of Marriage.
XII
As the thiftless gold of the babul[1] so is the gold that we spread
On a Derby Sweep, or our neighbour's wife, or the horse that we buy from a friend.
XIII
The ways of man with a maid be strange, yet simple and tame
To the ways of a man with a horse, when selling or racing that same.
