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If choler be the cause, let her take burrage, buglos, red roses, endive and succory roots, lettuce and white poppy-seed, of each a handful; boil these in white wine until one half be wasted; let her drink half a pint every morning to which half pint add syrup of chicory and syrup of peach-flowers, of each an ounce, with a little rhubarb, and this will gently purge her.
When ye make to resound the stone melodious, the Ming-Khieou, When ye touch the lyre that is called Kin, or the guitar that is called Ssé, Accompanying their sound with song, Then do the grandfather and the father return; Then do the ghosts of the ancestors come to hear. Sang the Poet Tching-Kou: "Surely the Peach-Flowers blossom over the tomb of Sië-Thao."
The home of Sië had disappeared! All suddenly the High Commissioner smote his forehead with his hand, and turning to Pelou, recited the well-known verse of the ancient poet Tching-Kou: "Surely the peach-flowers blossom over the tomb of SIË-THAO." "Friend Pelou," continued Tchang, "the beauty who bewitched your son was no other than she whose tomb stands there in ruin before us!
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