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عفو کردم تو هم از من عفو کن ** از گناه نو ز زلات کهن
- I have pardoned (him), do Thou also pardon me—(pardon) the new sin and the old lapses!”
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گفت اکنون ای کنیزک وا مگو ** این سخن را که شنیدم من ز تو
- He said, “Now, O girl, do not relate (to any one) this tale which I have heard from thee.
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با امیرت جفت خواهم کرد من ** الله الله زین حکایت دم مزن
- I will unite thee with the Amír: for God's sake, for God's sake, do not breathe a word of this story,
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تا نگردد او ز رویم شرمسار ** کو یکی بد کرد و نیکی صد هزار
- Lest he become ashamed to face me; for he has done one bad deed and a hundred thousand good.
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بارها من امتحانش کرده‌ام ** خوب‌تر از تو بدو بسپرده‌ام 4015
- (Many) times have I put him to the test: I have entrusted him with (girls) fairer than thou art.
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در امانت یافتم او را تمام ** این قضایی بود هم از کرده‌هام
- I (always) found him perfect in fidelity; (so I know that) this too was a (Divine) judgment resulting from things done by me.”
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پس به خود خواند آن امیر خویش را ** کشت در خود خشم قهراندیش را
- Then he summoned his Amír to his presence: he extinguished in himself the wrath that meditates a violent revenge.
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کرد با او یک بهانه‌ی دل‌پذیر ** که شدستم زین کنیزک من نفیر
- He made an agreeable excuse to him, saying, “I have become disinclined to this slave-girl,
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زان سبب کز غیرت و رشک کنیز ** مادر فرزند دارد صد ازیز
- Because the mother of my children is terribly agitated by jealousy and envy of the girl.
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مادر فرزند را بس حقهاست ** او نه درخورد چنین جور و جفاست 4020
- The mother of my children has many claims (on me): she does not deserve (to suffer) such injustice and unkindness.