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  • که گهی می‌گفت ای خاتون من  ** که مبادا باشد این دستان و فن 
  • Now and again he would say, “O my mistress, (I am afraid) lest this may be a deception and trick.”

  • خواجه جمعیت بکرد و دعوتی  ** که همی‌سازم فرج را وصلتی 
  • The Khwája gave a party and a feast, saying (to his guests), “I am making a match for Faraj,”

  • تا جماعت عشوه می‌دادند و گان  ** که ای فرج بادت مبارک اتصال  300
  • So that the company chaffed and quizzed (him) and said, “May your marriage be blessed, O Faraj!”

  • تا یقین‌تر شد فرج را آن سخن  ** علت از وی رفت کل از بیخ و بن 
  • With the result that the promise seemed to Faraj more sure, and his illness vanished entirely and radically.

  • بعد از آن اندر شب گردک به فن  ** امردی را بست حنی هم‌چو زن 
  • Afterwards, on the wedding-night, he (the Khwája) artfully dyed (the hands and feet of) a youth with henna, like (those of) a woman.

  • پر نگارش کرد ساعد چون عروس  ** پس نمودش ماکیان دادش خروس 
  • He decorated his fore-arms like (those of) a bride: then he displayed to him (Faraj) a hen, but (actually) he gave him a cock;

  • مقنعه و حله‌ی عروسان نکو  ** کنگ امرد را بپوشانید او 
  • (For) he dressed the sturdy youth in the veil and robes of beautiful brides.

  • شمع را هنگام خلوت زود کشت  ** ماند هندو با چنان کنگ درشت  305
  • Quo tempore mos est sponsam cum conjuge in thalamo relinquere, (paterfamilias) candelam statim exstinxit: manebat Indus coram tali adulescente robusto et aspero. [He (the Khwája) immediately extinguished the candle (at) the time of (conjugal) privacy: the Hindu was left (alone) with such a rough and strong-bodied (young) man.]

  • هندوک فریاد می‌کرد و فغان  ** از برون نشنید کس از دف‌زنان 
  • Indulus clamorem et ululatum tollebat, (sed) tympanistarum causa nemo extra (thalamum) audiebat. [The little Hindú was screaming and crying out, (but) no one heard from without (the bedchamber) because of (the noise of) the tambourine-players.]

  • ضرب دف و کف و نعره‌ی مرد و زن  ** کرد پنهان نعره‌ی آن نعره‌زن 
  • Tympana pulsata, manus complosae, virorum et feminarum clamores clamorem illius (pueri) clamitantis celabant. [The pounding of tambourines, (clapping of) hands, and the loud shouts of men and women masked the screams of that screamer.]