201.[GREED: ]2~. Greed said, '0 listen to me Pride, you who have spoken
the words of good counsel
2~. You know very well that I shall never sacrifice food- Already on the night when I was born, I was nursed
with milk
28. Now that I have grown older, I shall not stop [feasting]
- So, do not keep [the food] away from me anymore, but
pass it on to me.
[ PRIDE:]
- 0 Greed, listen to me, disaster has flashed before you
[like lightning luring you with the promise of rain] - If you satisfy your hunger now, tomorrow, you may
fail to find sustenance
3~. A poor man is not trusted merely on account of .his
eloquence3.:3. Wherever they are, the leaders of a community are not
taken [for hospitality] to the homestead of a poor man
- If you finish your provisions now, you will despair
later
[GREED: ]- I am Greed, 0 Pride, listen to me and do not upset me
i6. I shall not give up eating the slaughtered meat - even
the birds of prey do not leave it alone - I am in league with those who say, 'It is not give good gifts to
3~. I will put a curse on the man thing who deprives that I want me of to any-eat
- I should not put on clothes if I had nothing to eat