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  • گفت می‏خواهم در این کوچه زنی ** کیست لایق از برای چون منی‏
  • He said, “I wish to marry a woman in this street: who is suitable for one like me?”

  • گفت سه گونه زن‏اند اندر جهان ** آن دو رنج و این یکی گنج روان‏ 2405
  • “There are three kinds of women in the world,” said he: “two of those are a sorrow, and one is the soul's treasure.

  • آن یکی را چون بخواهی کل تراست ** و آن دگر نیمی ترا نیمی جداست‏
  • The first, when you marry her, is wholly yours; and the second is half yours and half separate (from you);

  • و آن سوم هیچ او ترا نبود بدان ** این شنودی دور شو رفتم روان‏
  • And the third, know she is not yours at all. You have heard this. Away (with you)!—I start in a trice—

  • تا ترا اسبم نپراند لگد ** که بیفتی بر نخیزی تا ابد
  • Lest my horse let fly a kick at you, so that you fall and never rise up (again).”

  • شیخ راند اندر میان کودکان ** بانگ زد بار دگر او را جوان‏
  • The Shaykh rode off amongst the children, (but) the young man shouted to him once more,

  • که بیا آخر بگو تفسیر این ** این زنان سه نوع گفتی بر گزین‏ 2410
  • “Come, prithee declare the exposition of this. Thou hast said that these women are of three kinds: pick (them) out.”

  • راند سوی او و گفتش بکر خاص ** کل ترا باشد ز غم یابی خلاص‏
  • He rode towards him and said to him, “The virgin of your choice will be wholly yours, and you will gain freedom from sorrow;

  • و انکه نیمی آن تو بیوه بود ** و انکه هیچست آن عیال با ولد
  • And she that is half yours is the (childless) widow; and she that is nothing (to you) is the married woman with a child:

  • چون ز شوی اولش کودک بود ** مهر و کل خاطرش آن سو رود
  • When she has a child by her first husband, her love and whole heart will go to that quarter.