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  • بی‌درنگی هین ز بغداد ای نژند  ** رو به سوی مصر و منبت‌گاه قند 
  • Hark, O wretched man, go without any delay from Baghdád to Cairo and the home of sugar-candy.”

  • چون ز بغداد آمد او تا سوی مصر  ** گرم شد پشتش چو دید او روی مصر 
  • When he departed from Baghdád (and came) to Cairo, at the sight of Cairo his courage was restored,

  • بر امید وعده‌ی هاتف که گنج  ** یابد اندر مصر بهر دفع رنج  4245
  • (For he was) in hope of (the fulfilment of) the promise given by the heavenly Voice that he would find in Cairo the treasure to remove his trouble—

  • در فلان کوی و فلان موضع دفین  ** هست گنجی سخت نادر بس گزین 
  • “In such and such a quarter and such and such a spot there is a buried treasure exceedingly rare and very choice.”

  • لیک نفقه‌ش بیش و کم چیزی نماند  ** خواست دقی بر عوام‌الناس راند 
  • But of money for expenses, great or small, he had nothing left; and he was about to go and beg from the common folk,

  • لیک شرم و همتش دامن گرفت  ** خویش را در صبر افشردن گرفت 
  • But (feelings of) shame and honour held him back, (so that) he began to plant himself firmly on fortitude.

  • باز نفسش از مجاعت بر طپید  ** ز انتجاع و خواستن چاره ندید 
  • (Meanwhile), however, his soul fluttered (in distress) on account of hunger: he saw no means of escape from foraging and begging.

  • گفت شب بیرون روم من نرم نرم  ** تا ز ظلمت نایدم در کدیه شرم  4250
  • “At nightfall,” he said (to himself), “I will slip out very quietly, in order that I may beg in the dark without feeling ashamed.

  • هم‌چو شبکوکی کنم شب ذکر و بانگ  ** تا رسد از بامهاام نیم دانگ 
  • At night I will chant (litanies) and bawl like a night-mendicant, that half a dáng  may come to me from the roofs.”

  • اندرین اندیشه بیرون شد بکوی  ** واندرین فکرت همی شد سو به سوی 
  • Thus meditating, he went out into the street, and with these thoughts (in his head) he wandered to and fro.