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این سخن گرچه که رسوایی‌فزاست ** در میان تونیان زین فخرهاست
- Albeit this saying is exceedingly disgraceful, there are boasts on this account amongst the stokers.
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که تو شش سله کشیدی تا به شب ** من کشیدم بیست سله بی کرب 255
- (One of them says), “Thou hast carried (only) six baskets ere nightfall; I have carried twenty baskets without trouble.”
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آنک در تون زاد و پاکی را ندید ** بوی مشک آرد برو رنجی پدید
- He that was born in the stove and never saw purity, the smell of musk produces a painful effect upon him.
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قصه‌ی آن دباغ کی در بازار عطاران از بوی عطر و مشک بیهوش و رنجور شد
- Story of the tanner who fainted and sickened on smelling otto and musk in the bazaar of the perfumers.
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آن یکی افتاد بیهوش و خمید ** چونک در بازار عطاران رسید
- A certain man fell senseless and curled up as soon as he came into the bazaar of the perfumers.
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بوی عطرش زد ز عطاران راد ** تا بگردیدش سر و بر جا فتاد
- The scent of the perfume (floating) from the goodly perfumers smote him, so that his head reeled and he fell on the spot.
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هم‌چو مردار اوفتاد او بی‌خبر ** نیم روز اندر میان ره‌گذر
- He fell unconscious, like a carcase, at noontide in the middle of the thoroughfare.
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جمع آمد خلق بر وی آن زمان ** جملگان لاحول‌گو درمان کنان 260
- Thereupon the people gathered over him, all crying Lá hawl and applying remedies.
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آن یکی کف بر دل او می براند ** وز گلاب آن دیگری بر وی فشاند
- One was putting his hand on his (the tanner's) heart, while another sprinkled rose-water upon him;
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او نمی‌دانست کاندر مرتعه ** از گلاب آمد ورا آن واقعه
- (For) he did not know that from (smelling) rose-water in the meadow (the bazaar) that calamity had overtaken him.
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آن یکی دستش همی‌مالید و سر ** وآن دگر کهگل همی آورد تر
- One was massaging his hands and head, and another was bringing moist clay mixed with straw (to serve as a cold plaster);