A vicious child of a liar chooses the company of liars;
he prefers appearances to reality. The fruit
is like the seed; when the plant comes to maturity,
it scatters abroad the fragrance of its kind. A
jewel round a monkey’s neck is nothing to him; a
vagabond leaves his true wife and goes roaming
about the streets. Tuka says, The mother of such
a one is an ass; shame waits to overtake her.
We need output poems 1017 onward but initial is tail of prior poem lacks number, exclude. Need preserve poem numbers 1017-1031 though 1031 truncated but contains poem text, keep. Remove headings. Correct OCR. Need decide line-separated verses—source prose poetic lines paragraphs? User says keep lines of poem on separate lines likely verse formatting, but OCR wrapped lines not reliably verses. Existing line breaks correspond print wrapping, can join into paragraphs, while "verses" maybe stanzas? Render paragraph text. Each ## Poème N. English exact correction. 1017 starts "Those..." 1018. fix OCR. section headings excluded.
1021 "He who sells merit commits incest" likely sells merit? OCR égells. "He who sells merit commits incest; the wealth of a pander..." Text preserve. "He ruins himself". 1024 "There is one that makes his wife play the part..." 1025 "Those who acquire..." 1027 punctuation. 1031 ends incomplete "But we are entangled in errors." include. Output only.
he prefers appearances to reality. The fruit
is like the seed; when the plant comes to maturity,
it scatters abroad the fragrance of its kind. A
jewel round a monkey’s neck is nothing to him; a
vagabond leaves his true wife and goes roaming
about the streets. Tuka says, The mother of such
a one is an ass; shame waits to overtake her.
We need output poems 1017 onward but initial is tail of prior poem lacks number, exclude. Need preserve poem numbers 1017-1031 though 1031 truncated but contains poem text, keep. Remove headings. Correct OCR. Need decide line-separated verses—source prose poetic lines paragraphs? User says keep lines of poem on separate lines likely verse formatting, but OCR wrapped lines not reliably verses. Existing line breaks correspond print wrapping, can join into paragraphs, while "verses" maybe stanzas? Render paragraph text. Each ## Poème N. English exact correction. 1017 starts "Those..." 1018. fix OCR. section headings excluded.
1021 "He who sells merit commits incest" likely sells merit? OCR égells. "He who sells merit commits incest; the wealth of a pander..." Text preserve. "He ruins himself". 1024 "There is one that makes his wife play the part..." 1025 "Those who acquire..." 1027 punctuation. 1031 ends incomplete "But we are entangled in errors." include. Output only.