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2574-2583

  • گر توانی بار دیگر از خرد  ** باز آوردن مر او را مسترد 
  • If by (using) your wits you can reclaim him and bring him back once more,

  • منت بسیار دارم از تو من  ** جهد کن باشد بیاری‌اش به فن  2575
  • I shall be much obliged to you: try hard, maybe you will fetch him by cunning.”

  • گفت آری گر خدا یاری دهد  ** بر دل او از عمی مهری نهد 
  • “Yes,” said the fox, “if God should give (me) help and set a seal of blindness on his heart

  • پس فراموشش شود هولی که دید  ** از خری او نباشد این بعید 
  • (For) then he will forget the terror which he felt on seeing (thee): this will not be alien to his asininity.

  • لیک چون آرم من او را بر متاز  ** تا ببادش ندهی از تعجیل باز 
  • But when I bring him, do not thou rush (at him), lest thou lose him again by overhaste.”

  • گفت آری تجربه کردم که من  ** سخت رنجورم مخلخل گشته تن 
  • “Yes,” replied the lion; “I have found by experience that I am very ill and that my body has become shaky.

  • تا به نزدیکم نیاید خر تمام  ** من نجنبم خفته باشم در قوام  2580
  • Until the ass comes quite near to me, I will not move, I will (apparently) be sound asleep.”

  • رفت روبه گفت ای شه همتی  ** تا بپوشد عقل او را غفلتی 
  • (Thereupon) the fox departed, saying, “O king, (offer) a prayer that a (great) heedlessness may muffle his reason.

  • توبه‌ها کردست خر با کردگار  ** که نگردد غره‌ی هر نابکار 
  • The ass has made vows of repentance to the Creator (and resolved) that he will not be duped by any ne’er-do-well.

  • توبه‌هااش را به فن بر هم زنیم  ** ما عدوی عقل و عهد روشنیم 
  • We by cunning will cause his vows to collapse, (for) we are the enemy of reason and of the splendid covenant (with God).