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ma((iishat : 'Living, sustenance, victuals, daily food; the means of life or subsistence, livelihood; way of life'. (Platts p.1050)
FWP:
SETS == HANUZ; NEIGHBORS
MOTIFS
NAMES
TERMSWho is giving this sage advice? Certainly it won't be Mir, speaking from beyond the grave in such a smug and self-righteous way. It might be one of the elder neighbors, who is using a locally famous example to exhort a younger neighbor. Or it might be some long-suffering lover, who is giving advice to some newly passion-struck youngster.
And of course, what kind of life is really being enjoined? One possibility is that one should live in unrelieved sorrow and pathos, thus evoking a steady flow of pity and sympathy.
Another, however, is that one should be quiet, considerate, gallant; rather than weeping loudly all night and keeping the neighbors awake, one should smother his tears in a pillow for the neighbors' sake. Along these lines, see for example
{6,1}.