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گفت زن نه نیست اینجا غیر من ** هین سرت برگشته شد هرزه متن
- “Nay,” said the wife, “there is no one here but me. Hark, thy head is turned: don't talk nonsense.”
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او مکرر کرد بر زن آن سخن ** گفت زن این هست از امرودبن 3555
- He repeated the charge against his wife. “This,” said the wife, “is from the pear-tree.
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از سر امرودبن من هم‌چنان ** کژ همی دیدم که تو ای قلتبان
- From the top of the pear-tree I was seeing just as falsely as you, O cuckold.
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هین فرود آ تا ببینی هیچ نیست ** این همه تخییل از امروبنیست
- Hark, come down, that you may see there is nothing: all this illusion is caused by a pear-tree.”
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هزل تعلیمست آن را جد شنو ** تو مشو بر ظاهر هزلش گرو
- Jesting is teaching: listen to it in earnest, do not thou be in pawn to (taken up with) its appearance of jest.
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هر جدی هزلست پیش هازلان ** هزلها جدست پیش عاقلان
- To jesters every earnest matter is a jest; to the wise (all) jests are earnest.
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کاهلان امرودبن جویند لیک ** تا بدان امرودبن راهیست نیک 3560
- Lazy folk seek the pear-tree, but ’tis a good (long) way to that pear-tree.
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نقل کن ز امرودبن که اکنون برو ** گشته‌ای تو خیره‌چشم و خیره‌رو
- Descend from the pear-tree on which at present thou hast become giddy-eyed and giddy-faced.
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این منی و هستی اول بود ** که برو دیده کژ و احول بود
- This (pear-tree) is the primal egoism and self-existence wherein the eye is awry and squinting.
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چون فرود آیی ازین امرودبن ** کژ نماند فکرت و چشم و سخن
- When thou comest down from this pear-tree, thy thoughts and eyes and words will no more be awry.