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1411-1420

  • مرغ اندر دام دانه کی خورد  ** دانه چون زهرست در دام ار چرد 
  • How should the bird in the trap eat (enjoy) the grain? The grain in the trap is like poison (to him), if he feed (on it).

  • مرغ غافل می‌خورد دانه ز دام  ** هم‌چو اندر دام دنیا این عوام 
  • (Only) the heedless bird will eat grain from the trap, as these common folk do in the trap of the present world.

  • باز مرغان خبیر هوشمند  ** کرده‌اند از دانه خود را خشک‌بند 
  • Again, the knowing and prudent birds have debarred themselves from the grain;

  • که اندرون دام دانه زهرباست  ** کور آن مرغی که در فخ دانه خواست 
  • For the grain in the trap is poisonous food: blind is the bird that desires the grain in the trap.

  • صاحب دام ابلهان را سر برید  ** وآن ظریفان را به مجلسها کشید  1415
  • The Owner of the trap cut off the heads of the foolish ones, and conducted the clever ones to the (exalted) assembly-places;

  • که از آنها گوشت می‌آید به کار  ** وز ظریفان بانگ و ناله‌ی زیر و زار 
  • For in the former (only) the flesh is serviceable, but in the clever ones (their) song and warble soft and low.

  • پس کنیزک آمد از اشکاف در  ** دید خاتون را به مرده زیر خر 
  • Deinde venit ancilla perque rimam januae heram videt sub asino mortuam. [Then, the maidservant arrived. Through a crack in the door, she saw the lady dead under the ass.]

  • گفت ای خاتون احمق این چه بود  ** گر ترا استاد خود نقشی نمود 
  • “O hera stulta,” inquit, “hoc (facinus ineptum) quid fuit, etsi ea quae perita est technam tibi ostenderat? [She said, “O foolish lady, what was this (foolish deed), even if your teacher showed you a plan (of the method)?]

  • ظاهرش دیدی سرش از تو نهان  ** اوستا ناگشته بگشادی دکان 
  • Technae quod patebat vidisti, tibi ignotum quod latebat: imperita tabernam aperuisti. [You saw its outward (form); its secret (was) hidden from you. Not having become a master (of the craft), you opened the shop.]

  • کیر دیدی هم‌چو شهد و چون خبیص  ** آن کدو را چون ندیدی ای حریص  1420
  • Veretrum tanquam mel vel cibum ex dactylis et butyro comparatum vidisti: cur illam cucurbitam non vidisti, O avida? [You saw the penis, like honey or like dates (cooked with flour and butter): why did you not see the gourd, O greedy one?]