Verse 12

¹²Whirling and leaping, throwing, slapping their arms and hauling at each other, the two with their hair in side-locks played at wrestling now and then. ¹³And sometimes, when the others danced, the two were themselves the singer and the player, and praised them, saying, well done, well done, great king. ¹⁴Sometimes with wood-apples, sometimes with pots, sometimes with fistfuls of myrobalan; sometimes at touch-me-not and blindman's games and the like; sometimes by acting out beasts and birds. ¹⁵Sometimes with frog-jumps, with mockeries of every kind, sometimes on a swing, and sometimes playing at being king. ¹⁶So the two went about the forest with the games everybody knows, among the rivers and the hollows of the hills, in the thickets and the woods and beside the pools.