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آن حسودان بد درختان بودهاند ** تلخ گوهر شور بختان بودهاند
- Those envious ones were bad trees; they were ill-fortuned ones of bitter stock.
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از حسد جوشان و کف میریختند ** در نهانی مکر میانگیختند 1570
- They were boiling and foaming with envy, and were starting plots m secret,
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تا غلام خاص را گردن زنند ** بیخ او را از زمانه بر کنند
- That they might behead the favourite slave and tear up his root from the world;
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چون شود فانی چو جانش شاه بود ** بیخ او در عصمت الله بود
- (But) how should he perish, since the King was his soul, and his root was under the protection of God?
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شاه از آن اسرار واقف آمده ** همچو بو بکر ربابی تن زده
- The King had become aware of those secret thoughts, (but) like Bú Bakr-i Rabábí he kept silence.
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در تماشای دل بد گوهران ** میزدی خنبک بر آن کوزهگران
- In (viewing) the spectacle of the hearts of (those) evil-natured ones he was clapping his hands (derisively) at those potters (schemers).
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مکر میسازند قومی حیلهمند ** تا که شه را در فقاعی در کنند 1575
- Some cunning people devise stratagems to get the King into a beer-jug;
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پادشاهی بس عظیمی بیکران ** در فقاعی کی بگنجد ای خران
- (But) a King (so) exceedingly grand and illimitable—how should He be contained in a beer jug, O asses?
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از برای شاه دامی دوختند ** آخر این تدبیر از او آموختند
- They knitted a net for the King; (yet) after all, they (had) learnt this contrivance from Him.
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نحس شاگردی که با استاد خویش ** همسری آغازد و آید به پیش
- Ill-starred is the pupil that begins rivalry with his master and comes forward (to contend with him).