CHAPTER XXX.
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Zhuangzi and Giles, Herbert Allen
The prince each time received the dish from the attendants, handed it to Chuang Tzŭ, and then walked round to his own seat again.
"Be seated, great prince," said Chuang Tzŭ, "and compose your mind. I have said all I have to say on swords."
After this the prince did not quit his palace for three months, while the swordsmen, submitting to the new order of things, died in their own homes.
One commentator says "killed themselves in their own dwellings." But if so, Chuang Tzŭ's influence was of small practical value as far as the swordsmen were concerned. They might as well have continued their profession of arms.