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96 Cantonese Love Songs Song 25 My Heart I have but one heart. How can I give it to so many men? If only all men on seeing me would hate me! Then, even if I thought of lust, I would have no part in it; Even were I to have love-thoughts, I would not have sown the seeds of passion. I grieve most that I do not know why I cannot make men hate me, And therefore men resent me so much. And those who have feelings for me will be disappointed. But this only increases my body's flower- [i.e. lust-] debt. I want to ask my lover: Do you mean to say Bo-yuk once lived in my body in a previous existence ??7 Aye! The seed of passion must have a root of passion before it can be firmly planted. Should I be destined not to marry, then infatuation but injures my ruined life. You do not believe me? Look at my eyes, more filled with tears than ever Lam Doi-yuk's were, who as a young girl was so infatuated with Bo-yuk. Truly, I am not indignant. Although you have given up, your desperation only lasts but a moment. Lam Doi-yuk's tears may have paid her debt in full, but she was never united with her lover, Bo-yuk; not even in death. 77 Bo-yuk (W.-=E) and Lam Doi-yuk (#~.-=E) are respectively the hero and heroine of The Dream of the Red Chamber (#rtl~). (See Song 3, line 13.) They were deeply in love with one another, but Bo-yuk was tricked into marrying Bo-jui (Jfwl), who impersonated Doi-yuk. The real Doi-yuk was dying from anguish at what she supposed was Bo-yuk's desertion of her. When Bo-yuk found out the deception that had been practised on him, and that Doi-yuk had died, he fell into a death trance. Once his soul left the body, it set off, led by a Buddhist monk, on a journey to the Infinite. At last he was taken to see Doi-yuk. A bamboo screen hanging at the entrance to Doi-yuk's room was raised. Bo-yuk stretched out his hand to greet her. The screen suddenly dropped. The Buddhist monk who had brought him there pushed him backwards and he fell, awaking as though from a dream. 96 Cantonese Love Songs Song 25 My Heart I have but one heart. How can I give it to so many men? If only all men on seeing me would hate me! Then, even if I thought of lust, I would have no part in it; Even were I to have love-thoughts, I would not have sown the seeds of passion. I grieve most that I do not know why I cannot make men hate me, And therefore men resent me so much. And those who have feelings for me will be disappointed. But this only increases my body's flower- [i.e. lust-] debt. I want to ask my lover: Do you mean to say Bo-yuk once lived in my body in a previous existence ??? Aye! The seed of passion must have a root of passion before it can be firmly planted. Should I be destined not to marry, then infatuation but injures my ruined life. You do not believe me? Look at my eyes, more filled with tears than ever Lam Doi-yuk's were, who as a young girl was so infatuated with Bo-yuk. Truly, I am not indignant. Although you have given up, your desperation only lasts but a moment. Lam Doi-yuk's tears may have paid her debt in full, but she was never united with her lover, Bo-yuk; not even in death. 77 Bo-yuk (W.-=-IS.) and Lam Doi-yuk (#~.-=-IS.) are respectively the hero and heroine of The Dream of the Red Chamber (#rtl~). (See Song 3, line 13.) They were deeply in love with one another, but Bo-yuk was tricked into marrying Bo-jui (JfWl), who impersonated Doi-yuk. The real Doi-yuk was dying from anguish at what she supposed was Bo-yuk's desertion of her. When Bo-yuk found out the deception that had been practised on him, and that Doi-yuk had died, he fell into a death trance. Once his soul left the body, it set off, led by a Buddhist monk, on a journey...

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