CXXXI + 

Bouderie + 

Embrace him not, my dear, but feign to be angry: let us just see a fun how he is nettled over it. + 

Bouderie is the salt of love: to lengthen it unduly, however, is like adding too much of salt to food. + 

It is like wounding one anew who is already wounded, it thou come away without embracing her whom thou hast left in a pet. + 

To come away without conciliating her who is frowning in a pet is like cutting off the roots from under the starving plant. + 

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

If there were no frowns or pets on the part of the beloved, love would miss its fruits and its half-growns. + 

There is a pain that belongeth unto bouderie: for one asketh oneself whether reconciliation is near or yet a far way off. + 

Of what avail is my grieving when there is no loving one nigh to see how much I suffer? + 

Water is pleasant only in shady groves: and pettishness hath a charm only in one who loveth ardently. + 

If my heart still yearneth for her who sootheth me not, it is due to nothing but a foolish longing. + 