کر همی‌گوید که آری مشغله ** می‌شود نزدیکتر یاران هله

“Yes,” says the deaf man, “the noise is getting nearer. Come on, my friends!”

آن برهنه گفت آوه دامنم ** از طمع برند و من ناآمنم

The naked man said, “Alas, from covetousness they will cut off my skirt, and I am unprotected.”

شهر را هشتند و بیرون آمدند ** در هزیمت در دهی اندر شدند

They (the three) left the city and came forth and in their flight entered a village.

اندر آن ده مرغ فربه یافتند ** لیک ذره‌ی گوشت بر وی نه نژند

In that village they found a fat fowl, but not a mite of flesh on it: (’twas) abject—

مرغ مرده‌ی خشک وز زخم کلاغ ** استخوانها زار گشته چون پناغ 2620

A dried-up dead fowl, and its bones through being pecked at by crows had become bare like threads.

زان همی‌خوردند چون از صید شیر ** هر یکی از خوردنش چون پیل سیر

They were eating thereof as a lion (eats) of his prey: each of them (became) surfeited, like an elephant, with eating it.

هر سه زان خوردند و بس فربه شدند ** چون سه پیل بس بزرگ و مه شدند

All the three ate thereof and grew exceedingly fat: they became like three very great and big elephants,

آنچنان کز فربهی هر یک جوان ** در نگنجیدی ز زفتی در جهان

In such wise that each young man, because of fatness, was too stout to be contained in the world.

با چنین گبزی و هفت اندام زفت ** از شکاف در برون جستند و رفت

Notwithstanding such bigness and seven stout limbs, they sprang forth through a chink in the door and departed.

راه مرگ خلق ناپیدا رهیست ** در نظر ناید که آن بی‌جا رهیست 2625

The way of creaturely death is an invisible way: it comes not into sight, for it is a way without locality.