با چنان انکار کوته کن سخن ** احمدا کم گوی با گبر کهن
Cut short thy talk with such (incarnate) scepticism: do not converse, O Ahmad, with the ancient infidel.
آمدن خلیفه نزد آن خوبروی برای جماع
Venit Khalífa ad puellam formosam concubitus causa. [How the Caliph came next to that one of beautiful face for the sake of (sexual) intercourse.]
آن خلیفه کرد رای اجتماع ** سوی آن زن رفت از بهر جماع
Ille Khalífa concubitum sibi proposuit, illam feminam coitus causa adivit. [The Caliph decided on a meeting; he went to that woman for the sake of (sexual) intercourse.]
ذکر او کرد و ذکر بر پای کرد ** قصد خفت و خیز مهرافزای کرد
Eam recordatus penem erexit, animum intendit ut concubitu cum ea quae amorem augebat frueretur. [He remembered her and got (his) penis erect; he intended to (have) sexual intercourse with (that) love-increaser.]
چون میان پای آن خاتون نشست ** پس قضا آمد ره عیشش ببست
Cum inter crura mulieris recubavit, tum venit (Dei) decretum, ei viam voluptatis occlusit. [When he sat between the legs of the lady, then the Decree (of God) came (and) blocked the way to his pleasure.]
خشت و خشت موش در گوشش رسید ** خفت کیرش شهوتش کلی رمید 3945
Ad aures pervenit sonus tenuis quem mus facere solet: penis ejus languit, libido tota decessit; [The rustling of a mouse reached his ear: his penis rested (went limp), his lust completely fled; ]
وهم آن کز مار باشد این صریر ** که همیجنبد بتندی از حصیر
Putabat enim illum susurrum ab angue exortum esse qui sese e storea vehementer sublevaret. [His suspicion (was) that this grating sound was from a snake that was violently moving (out) from (beneath) the straw mat.]
خنده گرفتن آن کنیزک را از ضعف شهوت خلیفه و قوت شهوت آن امیر و فهم کردن خلیفه از خندهی کنیزک
Puellam risus occupat propter libidinem Klalífae debilem et libidinem illius ducis validissimam. Khalífa puellae risum animadvertit. [How laughter took hold of the maidservant because of the weakness of the Caliph’s lust and the strength of the captain’s lust, and how the Caliph understood the maidservant’s laughter.]
زن بدید آن سستی او از شگفت ** آمد اندر قهقهه خندهش گرفت
Femina languorem ejus vidit; rem mirando in cachinnos ivit: risus eam occupavit. [The woman saw his softness; from astonishment, she started to burst out laughing: laughter took hold of her.]
یادش آمد مردی آن پهلوان ** که بکشت او شیر و اندامش چنان
Venit in mentem virilatas ducis fortissimi qui leonem interfecit dum membrum (virile) ejus tale est. [She remembered the virility of the (courageous) Captain who killed the lion, with his (male) organ like that.]
غالب آمد خندهی زن شد دراز ** جهد میکرد و نمیشد لب فراز
The woman's laughter overpowered (her) and was prolonged: she tried hard (to suppress it) but her lips would not shut.
سخت میخندید همچون بنگیان ** غالب آمد خنده بر سود و زیان 3950
She kept laughing violently like beng-eaters: her laughter overpowered (all considerations of) gain or loss.
And if thou tell the truth, I will set thee free: I will not violate the duty I owe to God, I will make thee glad.”
هفت مصحف آن زمان برهم نهاد ** خورد سوگند و چنین تقریر داد
At the same moment he placed seven Qur’áns one on the top of another and swore an oath and thus confirmed (his promise).
فاش کردن آن کنیزک آن راز را با خلیفه از زخم شمشیر و اکراه خلیفه کی راست گو سبب این خنده را و گر نه بکشمت
How the girl disclosed the secret to the Caliph in fear of (having her head cut off by) a blow of the sword, and how she was forced (to speak) by the Caliph (who said), “Give a true account of the cause of thy laughter or else I will kill thee.”
زن چو عاجز شد بگفت احوال را ** مردی آن رستم صد زال را 3965
When the woman became (found herself) helpless, she related what had happened (concerning) the manliness of that Rustam who was the son of a hundred Záls.