ور مکاس افزودیی من ز اهتمام ** دامنی زر کردمی از غیر وام

And if thou hadst (then) increased thy demands, I would have borrowed a skirtful of gold in my anxiety (to purchase him).

سهل دادی زانک ارزان یافتی ** در ندیدی حقه را نشکافتی 1045

Thou gavest (him) up easily because thou gottest (him) cheap: thou didst not see the pearl, thou didst not split the casket.

حقه سربسته جهل تو بداد ** زود بینی که چه غبنت اوفتاد

Thy folly gave (me) a sealed casket: thou wilt soon see what a swindle has befallen thee.

حقه‌ی پر لعل را دادی به باد ** هم‌چو زنگی در سیه‌رویی تو شاد

Thou hast given away a casket full of rubies and, like the negro, thou art rejoicing in thy blackness of face (disastrous plight).

عاقبت وا حسرتا گویی بسی ** بخت ودولت را فروشد خود کسی

In the end thou wilt utter many a ‘woe is me!’ Does any one, forsooth, sell (his) fortune and felicity?

بخت با جامه‌ی غلامانه رسید ** چشم بدبختت به جز ظاهر ندید

Fortune came (to thee) in the garb of a slave, (but) thy unlucky eye saw only the surface.

او نمودت بندگی خویشتن ** خوی زشتت کرد با او مکر و فن 1050

He showed unto thee his slavery (alone): thy wicked nature practiced cunning and deceit with him.

این سیه‌اسرار تن‌اسپید را ** بت‌پرستانه بگیر ای ژاژخا

(Now), O driveller, take idolatrously this (slave) whose secret thoughts are black though his body is white.

این ترا و آن مرا بردیم سود ** هین لکم دین ولی دین ای جهود

This one for thee, that one for me: we (both) have profited. Hark, unto you (your) religion and unto me (my) religion, O Jew.”

خود سزای بت‌پرستان این بود ** جلش اطلس اسپ او چوبین بود

Truly this is meet for idolaters: his (the idolater's) horse-cloth is (of) satin (while) his horse is made of wood.