^{27 Ref} For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

^{28 Ref} Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.

^{29 Ref} Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?

^{30 Ref} Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.

^{31 Ref} Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

^{32 Ref} In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

^{33 Ref} Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

^{34 Ref} Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.

^{35 Ref} They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.