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1673-1682

  • گفت خیاطیست نامش پور شش  ** اندرین چستی و دزدی خلق‌کش 
  • He replied, ‘There is a tailor named Pír-i Shush who beats (all other) folk in light-fingeredness and thievery.’

  • گفت من ضامن که با صد اضطراب  ** او نیارد برد پیشم رشته‌تاب 
  • ‘I warrant,’ said he (the Turk), ‘that (even) with a hundred efforts he will not be able to take away a coil of thread in my presence.’

  • پس بگفتندش که از تو چست‌تر  ** مات او گشتند در دعوی مپر  1675
  • Then they told him, ‘Cleverer persons than you have been checkmated by him: do not soar (too high) in your pretensions.

  • رو به عقل خود چنین غره مباش  ** که شوی یاوه تو در تزویرهاش 
  • Go to, be not so deluded by your intelligence, else you will be lost in his wiles.’

  • گرم‌تر شد ترک و بست آنجا گرو  ** که نیارد برد نی کهنه نی نو 
  • The Turk became (still) hotter and made a wager there (and then) that he (the tailor) would not be able to rob (him of anything) either old or new.

  • مطمعانش گرم‌تر کردند زود  ** او گرو بست و رهان را بر گشود 
  • Those who flattered his hopes made him hotter (than before): immediately he wagered and declared the stakes,

  • که گرو این مرکب تازی من  ** بدهم ار دزدد قماشم او به فن 
  • Saying, ‘I will pay this Arab horse of mine as a forfeit if he artfully steals my stuff;

  • ور نتواند برد اسپی از شما  ** وا ستانم بهر رهن مبتدا  1680
  • And if he cannot rob (me) I shall receive a horse from you (as an equivalent) for the first stake.’

  • ترک را آن شب نبرد از غصه خواب  ** با خیال دزد می‌کرد او حراب 
  • Because of his anxiety sleep did not overcome the Turk (all) that night: he was fighting with the phantom of the thief.

  • بامدادان اطلسی زد در بغل  ** شد به بازار و دکان آن دغل 
  • In the morning he put a piece of satin under his arm, went to the bazaar, and (entered) the shop of that cunning rogue.