[91.] Three smiles that are worse than sorrow: the smile of the snow as it melts, the smile of your wife[59] on you after another man has been with her,[60] the grin of a hound ready to leap at you.[61]
[59] 'Of a bad woman,' LN.
[60] 'After sleeping with another man,' H.
[61] 'To tear you to pieces,' H. 'Coming up to devour you,' MB.
[92.] Three deaths that are better than life: the death of a salmon, the death of a fat pig, the death of a robber.[62]
[62] 'Of a criminal,' B.
[93.] Three fewnesses that are better than plenty: a fewness of fine words, a fewness of cows in grass, a fewness of friends around ale.[63]
[63] 'good ale,' MB.
[94.] Three sorrowful ones of an alehouse: the man who gives the feast, the man to whom it is given, the man who drinks without being satiated.[64]
[64] 'Who goes to it unsatiated,' M. i.e. who drinks on an empty stomach.