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They (spread) increase. Just as the beautiful, strange spring-time mango tree spreads its blossoms, but its good fortune is made known everywhere by the excellent cuckoos with the wonder of their five-note song. ||2|| The poison of fault-mentioning, arising from the mouth-like burrow of a wicked man, burning with anger, like a tongue-shaped serpent, does not destroy what growing quality of the virtuous? It destroys all qualities. ||3|| Because of the natural understanding of straightforward words, they considered them to be devoid of essence. In support of profound meaning, indeed, wicked men gave the fault of hardness. What is the name of that quality, what is a good poet, what is poetry, etc. - these doubts are removed by the established order of the virtuous. ||4||