هم ازو گیرند مایه ابرها ** هم بدو باشد نهایت سیل را

From it the clouds take their origin, and in it too the torrent hath an end.

گفت شاهش کین پسر از دست رفت ** گفت اینک آمدم درمان زفت 3165

The king said to him, “This boy has passed out of control (has lost his wits).” He (the magician) said, “Look you, I am come as a potent remedy.

نیست همتا زال را زین ساحران ** جز من داهی رسیده زان کران

None of these sorcerers is equal to the old woman except me, the sagacious one, who have arrived from yonder shore.

چون کف موسی به امر کردگار ** نک برآرم من ز سحر او دمار

Lo, by command of the Creator, I, like the hand of Moses, will utterly destroy her sorcery;

که مرا این علم آمد زان طرف ** نه ز شاگردی سحر مستخف

For to me this knowledge hath come from yonder region, not from having been schooled in the sorcery which is held cheap (by the wise).

آمدم تا بر گشایم سحر او ** تا نماند شاه‌زاده زردرو

I am come to undo her sorcery, so that the prince may not remain pale-faced.

سوی گورستان برو وقت سحور ** پهلوی دیوار هست اسپید گور 3170

Go to the graveyard at the hour of the meal taken before dawn: beside the wall is a whitened tomb.

سوی قبله باز کاو آنجای را ** تا ببینی قدرت و صنع خدا

Dig up that place in the direction of the qibla, that thou mayst behold the power and the working of God.”

بس درازست این حکایت تو ملول ** زبده را گویم رها کردم فضول

This story is very long, and you (O reader) are weary: I will relate the cream (of it), I dismiss what is superfluous.

آن گره‌های گران را بر گشاد ** پس ز محنت پور شه را راه داد

He (the magician) untied those heavy knots: then he gave to the king's son a way (of escape) from the affliction.