Love (காமத்துப்பால்) — The Post-marital love (கற்பியல்) — Feigned Anger (புலவி நுணுக்கம்)

Kural 1311:
பெண்ணியலார் எல்லாரும் கண்ணின் பொதுஉண்பர்
நண்ணேன் பரத்தநின் மார்பு.
penniyalaar ellaarum kannin podhu-unpar
nannen paraththa-nin maarpu
English couplet:
From thy regard all womankind Enjoys an equal grace;
O thou of wandering fickle mind, I shrink from thine embrace.
Explanation: You are given to prostitution; all those who are born as womankind enjoy you with their eyes in an ordinary way. I will not embrace you.

Kural 1312:
ஊடி இருந்தேமாத் தும்மினார் யாம்தம்மை
நீடுவாழ் கென்பாக் கறிந்து.
ooti irundhaemaath thumminaar yaamdhammai
neetuvaazh kenpaak karindhu
English couplet:
One day we silent sulked; he sneezed: The reason well I knew;
He thought that I, to speak well pleased, Would say, 'Long life to you!'.
Explanation: When I continued to be sulky he sneezed and thought I would (then) wish him a long life.

Kural 1313:
கோட்டுப்பூச் சூடினும் காயும் ஒருத்தியைக்
காட்டிய சூடினீர் என்று.
koattup-pooch chootinum kaayum oruththiyaik
kaattiya sootineer endru
English couplet:
I wreathed with flowers one day my brow, The angry tempest lowers;
She cries, 'Pray, for what woman now Do you put on your flowers?'.
Explanation: Even if I were adorned with a garland of branch-flowers, she would say I did so to show it to another woman.

Kural 1314:
யாரினும் காதலம் என்றேனா ஊடினாள்
யாரினும் யாரினும் என்று.
yaarinum kaadhalam endraenaa ootinaal
yaarinum yaarinum endru
English couplet:
'I love you more than all beside,' 'T was thus I gently spoke;
'What all, what all?' she instant cried; And all her anger woke.
Explanation: When I said I loved her more than any other woman, she said "more than others, yes, more than others," and remained sulky.

Kural 1315:
இம்மைப் பிறப்பில் பிரியலம் என்றேனாக்
கண்நிறை நீர்கொண் டனள்.
immaip pirappil piriyalam endraenaak
kannirai neerkon danal
English couplet:
'While here I live, I leave you not,' I said to calm her fears.
She cried, 'There, then, I read your thought'; And straight dissolved in tears.
Explanation: When I said I would never part from her in this life her eyes were filled with tears.

Kural 1316:
உள்ளினேன் என்றேன்மற் றென்மறந்தீர் என்றென்னைப்
புல்லாள் புலத்தக் கனள்.
ullinaen endraen-mat ren-marandheer endrennaip
pullaal pulaththak kanal
English couplet:
'Each day I called to mind your charms,' 'O, then, you had forgot,'
She cried, and then her opened arms, Forthwith embraced me not.
Explanation: When I said I had remembered her, she said I had forgotten her and relaxing her embrace, began to feign dislike.

Kural 1317:
வழுத்தினாள் தும்மினேன் ஆக அழித்தழுதாள்
யாருள்ளித் தும்மினீர் என்று
vazhuththinaal thumminen aaka azhiththazhudhaal
yaarullith thummineer endru
English couplet:
She hailed me when I sneezed one day; But straight with anger seized,
She cried; 'Who was the woman, pray, Thinking of whom you sneezed?'.
Explanation: When I sneezed she blessed me, but at once changed (her mind) and wept, asking, "At the thought of whom did you sneeze?".

Kural 1318:
தும்முச் செறுப்ப அழுதாள் நுமர்உள்ளல்
எம்மை மறைத்திரோ என்று.
thummuch cheruppa azhudhaal numar-ullal
emmai maraiththiroa endru
English couplet:
And so next time I checked my sneeze; She forthwith wept and cried,
(That woman difficult to please), 'Your thoughts from me you hide'.
Explanation: When I suppressed my sneezing, she wept saying, "I suppose you (did so) to hide from me your own people's remembrance of you".

Kural 1319:
தன்னை உணர்த்தினும் காயும் பிறர்க்கும்நீர்
இந்நீரர் ஆகுதிர் என்று.
thannai unarththinum kaayum pirarkkum-neer
inneerar aakudhir endru
English couplet:
I then began to soothe and coax, To calm her jealous mind;
'I see', quoth she, 'to other folks How you are wondrous kind' .
Explanation: Even when I try to remove her dislike, she is displeased and says, "This is the way you behave towards (other women)."

Kural 1320:
நினைத்திருந்து நோக்கினும் காயும் அனைத்துநீர்
யாருள்ளி நோக்கினீர் என்று.
ninaiththirundhu noakkinum kaayum anaiththu-neer
yaarulli noakkineer endru
English couplet:
I silent sat, but thought the more, And gazed on her. Then she
Cried out, 'While thus you eye me o'er, Tell me whose form you see'.
Explanation: Even when I look on her contemplating (her beauty), she is displeased and says, "With whose thought have you (thus) looked on my person?".