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Ancient Classics -> Book of Poetry -> Minor odes of the kingdom -> Decade Of Sang Hu -> Bin Zhi Chu Yan -> 3.1

When the guests first approach the mats,
All harmonies are they and reverent.
Before they have drunk too much,
反反Their deportment is carefully observant of propriety;
But when they have drunk too much,
Their deportment becomes light and frivolous:
They leave their seats, and go elsewhere,
They keep dancing and capering.
Before they have drunk too much,
Their deportment is cautious and grave:
But when they have drunk too much,
Their deportment becomes indecent and rude:
Thus when they have too mcuh,
They lose all sense of orderliness.


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