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  • گفت شه با ساقیش ای نیک‌پی  ** چه خموشی ده به طبعش آر هی 
  • The king said to his cup-bearer, “O well-conducted (youth), why art thou silent? Give (it him) and put him in good humour.”

  • هست پنهان حاکمی بر هر خرد  ** هرکه را خواهد به فن از سر برد  3935
  • Over every mind there is a hidden Ruler, (who) cunningly diverts from his purpose whomsoever He will.

  • آفتاب مشرق و تنویر او  ** چون اسیران بسته در زنجیر او 
  • The sun in the East and his radiance are bound like captives in His chain.

  • چرخ را چرخ اندر آرد در زمن  ** چون بخواند در دماغش نیم فن 
  • He causes the (celestial) sphere to revolve immediately when He chants half of a cunning spell in its brain.

  • عقل کو عقل دگر را سخره کرد  ** مهره زو دارد ویست استاد نرد 
  • The mind which dominates another mind has (obtains) the dice (of victory) from Him: He is the Master-player.

  • چند سیلی بر سرش زد گفت گیر  ** در کشید از بیم سیلی آن زحیر 
  • He (the cup-bearer) gave him (the jurist) several cuffs on the head, saying, “Take (the cup)!” The tormented man drained it in dread of (receiving further) blows.

  • مست گشت و شاد و خندان شد چو باغ  ** در ندیمی و مضاحک رفت و لاغ  3940
  • He became tipsy and merry and smiling (gay) as a garden: he began to act like a boon-companion and tell ridiculous stories and make jokes.

  • شیرگیر و خوش شد انگشتک بزد  ** سوی مبرز رفت تا میزک کند 
  • He became pot-valiant and jolly and snapped his fingers: in latrinam ivit ut mingeret. [He became pot-valiant and jolly and snapped his fingers: he went to the latrine in order to urinate.]

  • یک کنیزک بود در مبرز چو ماه  ** سخت زیبا و ز قرناقان شاه 
  • Erat in latrina puella lunae similis, venustissima, una de regis ancillis. [A maiden as (lovely as) the (full) moon was in the latrine, very beautiful and one of the maidservants of the king.]

  • چون بدید او را دهانش باز ماند  ** عقل رفت و تن ستم‌پرداز ماند 
  • When he espied her, his mouth gaped in amazement, his reason fled and his body was ready for violence.