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梁
惠
王
下

But on the occasion of this Meng’s second mourning,
his observances exceeded those of the former. Do not
go to see him, my prince.”

The duke said, “I will not.”
The officer Yue Zheng entered the court, and
had an audience. He said, “Prince, why have you not
gone to see Meng Ke?”
The duke said, “One told me that, on the
occasion of the scholar Meng’s second mourning, his
observances exceeded those of the former. It is on
that account that I have not gone to see him.”
“How is this!” answered Yue Zheng. “By what
you call ‘exceeding,’ you mean, I suppose, that, on
the first occasion, he used the rites appropriate to
a scholar, and, on the second, those appropriate to
a great officer; that he first used three tripods, and
afterwards five tripods.”
The duke said, “No. I refer to the greater
excellence of the coffin, the shell, the grave-clothes,

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