5. Comp. V, Pt. I, i.
CHAPTER 4. MENCIUS＇S WARNING TO SUNG K＇ANG ON THE ERROR AND DANGER OF COUNSELING THE PRINCES FROM THE GROUND OF PROFIT, THE PROPER GROUND BEING THAT OF BENEVOLENCE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Comp. I, Pt. I, i; et al. 1. K＇ang was one of the traveling scholars of the times, who went from state to state, making it their business to counsel (说, shwuy,up. 3rd tone) the princes, with a view for the most part,though not apparently with him, to exalt themselves.Shih-k＇ew was in the state of Sung. Here, and also in the next par., 之 is the verb. 3. 搆 (=构) 兵,= "crossing weapons."