Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 02

It is said that a gentleman possessed a slave of exquisite beauty, whom he regarded with love and affection. He nevertheless said to a friend: -Would that this slave of mine, with all the beauty and good qualities he possesses, had not a long and uncivil tongue!- He replied: -Brother, do not expect service, after professing friendship; because when relations between lover and beloved come in, the relations between master and servant are superseded-:

When a master with a fairy-faced slave
Begins to play and to laugh
What wonder if the latter coquets like the master
And the gentleman bears it like a slave?
A slave is to draw water and make bricks.
A pampered slave will strike with the fist.

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