از سوی خانه بیامد خواجه‌‌اش ** بر دکان بنشست فارغ خواجه‌‌وش‌‌

Its master came from the direction of his house and seated himself on the bench at his ease as a merchant does.

دید پر روغن دکان و جامه چرب ** بر سرش زد گشت طوطی کل ز ضرب‌‌

(Then) he saw the bench was full of oil and his clothes greasy; he smote the parrot on the head: it was made bald by the blow.

روزکی چندی سخن کوتاه کرد ** مرد بقال از ندامت آه کرد

For some few days it refrained from speech; the greengrocer, in repentance, heaved deep sighs,

ریش بر می‌‌کند و می‌‌گفت ای دریغ ** کافتاب نعمتم شد زیر میغ‌‌

Tearing his beard and saying, “Alas! the sun of my prosperity has gone under the clouds.

دست من بشکسته بودی آن زمان ** که زدم من بر سر آن خوش زبان‌‌ 255

Would that my hand had been broken (powerless) at the moment when I struck (such a blow) on the head of that sweet-tongued one?”

هدیه‌‌ها می‌‌داد هر درویش را ** تا بیابد نطق مرغ خویش را

He was giving presents to every dervish, that he might get back the speech of his bird.

بعد سه روز و سه شب حیران و زار ** بر دکان بنشسته بد نومید وار

After three days and three nights, he was seated on the bench, distraught and sorrowful, like a man in despair,

می‌‌نمود آن مرغ را هر گون شگفت ** تا که باشد کاندر آید او بگفت‌‌

Showing the bird every sort of hidden (unfamiliar) thing (in the hope) that maybe it would begin to speak.

جولقیی سر برهنه می‌‌گذشت ** با سر بی‌‌مو چو پشت طاس و طشت‌‌

Meanwhile a bare-headed dervish, clad in a jawlaq (coarse woollen frock), passed by, with a head hairless as the outside of bowl and basin.

طوطی اندر گفت آمد در زمان ** بانگ بر درویش زد که هی فلان‌‌ 260

Thereupon the parrot cried to the dervish, as rational persons (might have done).