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Thinking her well-disposed, the king speaks sweetly, thrilled with love: your wish is fulfilled, dear one; every house is celebrating. Tomorrow I make Rama yuvaraja; prepare the festive things. Her hard heart cracks like a ripe boil touched. Yet she hides the pain with a smile, as a thief's wife never weeps openly. The king sees no deceit, for a master of crooked minds has taught her; skilled as he is in statecraft, a woman's ways are a sea too deep for him. Feigning more love, smiling into his face, she says: you keep saying ask, ask, beloved, but you never give. You promised two boons, and I doubt I shall get even those.
पुनि कह राउ सुह्रद जियँ जानी । प्रेम पुलकि मृदु मञ्जुल बानी ॥
भामिनि भयउ तोर मन भावा । घर घर नगर अनन्द-बधावा ॥
puni kaha rāu suhrada jiyam̐ jānī | prema pulaki mṛdu mañjula bānī ||
bhāmini bhayau tora mana bhāvā | ghara ghara nagara ananda-badhāvā ||
रामहिँ देउँ कालि जुबराजू । सजहि सुलोचनि मङ्गल-साजू ॥
दलकि उठेउ सुनि ह्रदउ कठोरू । जनु छुइ गयउ पाक बरतोरू ॥
rāmahim̐ deum̐ kāli jubarājū | sajahi sulocani maṅgala-sājū ||
dalaki uṭheu suni hradau kaṭhorū | janu chui gayau pāka baratorū ||
ऐसिउ पीर बिहँसि तेहि गोई । चोर-नारि जिमि प्रगटि न रोई ॥
लखी न भूप कपट चतुराई । कोटि कुटिल-मनि गुरू पढ़ाई ॥
aisiu pīra biham̐si tehi goī | cora-nāri jimi pragaṭi na roī ||
lakhī na bhūpa kapaṭa caturāī | koṭi kuṭila-mani gurū par̤hāī ||
जद्यपि नीति-निपुन नर-नाहू । नारि-चरित जलनिधि अवगाहू ॥
कपट सनेह बढ़ाइ बहोरी । बोली बिहँसि नयन मुँह मोरी ॥
jadyapi nīti-nipuna nara-nāhū | nāri-carita jalanidhi avagāhū ||
kapaṭa saneha bar̤hāi bahorī | bolī biham̐si nayana mum̐ha morī ||
माँगु माँगु पै कहहु पिय, कबहुँ न देहु न लेहु ।
देन कहेहु बरदान दुइ, तेउ पावत सन्देहु ॥
mām̐gu mām̐gu pai kahahu piya, kabahum̐ na dehu na lehu |
dena kahehu baradāna dui, teu pāvata sandehu ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0
