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Robert Bland, Proverbs
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Quæ dolent ea molestum est contingere.

Ing. You touched him in a tender part
Esp. No se ha de mentar la soga, en casa del ahorcado
You touched him in a tender part, and brought to his memory some instance of vice or folly he would gladly have forgotten. This, however, is equally a breach of good manners, as it would be of humanity to tread on the foot of a person afflicted with corns or the gout, or to handle rudely any part that was diseased or wounded: No se ha de mentar la soga, en casa del ahorcado, we should not mention a halter in the house of one whose father was hanged.
Fuente: Erasmo, 3057.
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