害人不淺 Harm To Many Hereafter
行者道：「師父不可惜他，恐日後成了大怪，害人不淺也。」那獃子索性一頓鈀，將松、柏、檜、竹一齊皆築倒，卻才請師父上馬，順大路一齊西行。行者道：「师父不可惜他，恐日后成了大怪，害人不浅也。」那呆子索性一顿钯，将松、柏、桧、竹一齐皆筑倒，却才请师父上马，顺大路一齐西行。
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim said, "Master, do not spare them. If they should become great monsters in days to come, the harm they do will not be small."
The argument is entirely about the future and it settles the matter in one sentence. Nothing is said about what happened last night.
So the Idiot, once and for all, gave another bout with the rake and pounded the pine, the cypress, the juniper and the bamboo all down together; and only then did he ask his master to mount, and they went west along the highroad in company.
索性 is doing a thing outright and having done with it. The four felled here are the four who wrote the poems, and with the six of the passage before they make ten — the whole stand named on the cliff. 鈀 is fixed at pá across the corpus.
Pilgrim wins the argument in one sentence and does not argue the case at all. He says nothing about the abduction, the coercion or the marriage; his point is that these things will grow into great monsters and do harm hereafter. It is an argument about the future made by the only character who has been consistently right about the present.
Eight Rules then finishes what he started, and the word for it is outright — no more weighing, no more halves. The four poets go down together in a single clause: pine, cypress, juniper, bamboo, in the order they were listed on the cliff and not the order in which they spoke.
The chapter ends by putting everyone back on the road. He asks his master to mount, and they go west along the highroad. Two days of clearing brambles, a night of formal verse, a doctrinal quarrel, an attempted seduction and ten trees pounded flat — and the last clause is the ordinary formula for a journey resumed.