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یارم از زفتی دو چندان بد که من ** هم به لطف و هم به خوبی هم به تن
- My friend, from his plumpness, made two of me both in comeliness and beauty and (size of) body.
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بعد از این ز آن شیر این ره بسته شد ** رشتهی ایمان ما بگسسته شد
- Henceforth this road is barred by that lion: this is what happened to me, and it has been told to thee (just as it happened).
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از وظیفه بعد از این اومید بر ** حق همیگویم ترا و الحق مر
- Cut off (abandon) hope of the allowance henceforth; I am telling thee the truth, and truth is bitter.
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گر وظیفه بایدت ره پاک کن ** هین بیا و دفع آن بیباک کن 1180
- If thou want the allowance, clear the way! hey, come on and repel that irreverent one!”
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جواب گفتن شیر خرگوش را و روان شدن با او
- How the lion answered the hare and set off with him.
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گفت بسم الله بیا تا او کجاست ** پیش در شو گر همیگویی تو راست
- “Come on in God's name,” said he, “let me see where he is! Go thou in front, if thou art speaking truth,
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تا سزای او و صد چون او دهم ** ور دروغ است این سزای تو دهم
- That I may give him and a hundred like him the punishment they deserve, or if this is a lie, that I may give thy deserts to thee.”
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اندر آمد چون قلاووزی به پیش ** تا برد او را به سوی دام خویش
- The hare set out on the way, (going) in front like a guide, that he might lead him towards his snare,
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سوی چاهی کاو نشانش کرده بود ** چاه مغ را دام جانش کرده بود
- Towards the well which he had designated: he had made the deep well a snare for his (the lion's) life.
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میشدند این هر دو تا نزدیک چاه ** اینت خرگوشی چو آبی زیر کاه 1185
- (Thus) were these twain going till (they arrived) near the well. Look, you, (this was) a hare (deceitful) as a (pool of) water (hidden) under straw.
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آب کاهی را به هامون میبرد ** آب کوهی را عجب چون میبرد
- The water bears a blade of straw (down) to the plain: how, I wonder, will the water bear away a mountain?