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اشترش بردند از هنگام چاشت ** تا شب و افغان او سودی نداشت
- (But) they took away his camel from the time of forenoon until nightfall, and his lamentation was of no use.
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بر شتر بنشست آن قحط گران ** صاحب اشتر پی اشتر دوان 660
- Upon the camel sat that sore famine (the insolvent), while the owner of the camel was running at its heels.
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سو به سو و کو به کو میتاختند ** تا همه شهرش عیان بشناختند
- They sped from quarter to quarter and from street to street, till the whole town knew him by sight.
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پیش هر حمام و هر بازارگاه ** کرده مردم جمله در شکلش نگاه
- Before every bath and market-place all the people gazed on his (features and) figure.
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ده منادی گر بلند آوازیان ** کرد و ترک و رومیان و تازیان
- (There were) ten loud-voiced criers, Turks and Kurds and Anatolians and Arabs, (proclaiming),
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مفلس است این و ندارد هیچ چیز ** قرض تا ندهد کس او را یک پشیز
- “This man is insolvent and has nothing: let no one lend him a single brass farthing;
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ظاهر و باطن ندارد حبهای ** مفلسی قلبی دغایی دبهای 665
- He does not possess a single mite, patent or latent: he is a bankrupt, a piece of falsehood, a cunning knave, an oil-bag.
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هان و هان با او حریفی کم کنید ** چون که کاو آرد گره محکم کنید
- Beware and beware! Have no dealings with him; when he brings the ox (to sell), make fast the knot.
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ور به حکم آرید این پژمرده را ** من نخواهم کرد زندان مرده را
- And if ye bring this decayed fellow to judgement, I will not put a corpse in prison.
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خوش دم است او و گلویش بس فراخ ** با شعار نو دثار شاخ شاخ
- He is fair-spoken and his throat is very wide; (he is clad) with a new inner garment (of plausibility) and a tattered outer garment.