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However, she let down her hair about her body by way of shift,

and throwing herself into the basin disported herself and dived

like a duck and swam up and down, and took water in her mouth,

and spurted it all over the Porter, and washed her limbs, and

between her breasts, and inside her thighs and all around her

navel. Then she came up out of the cistern and throwing herself

on the Porter's lap said, "O my lord, O my love, what callest

thou this article?" pointing to her slit, her solution of

continuity. "I call that thy cleft," quoth the Porter, and she

rejoined, Wah! wah, art thou not ashamed to use such a word?" and

she caught him by the collar and soundly cuffed him. Said he

again, Thy womb, thy vulva;" and she struck him a second slap

crying, "O fie, O fie, this is another ugly word; is there no

shame in thee?" Quoth he, "Thy coynte;" and she cried, O thou!

art wholly destitute of modesty?" and thumped him and bashed him.