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  • گر نبندی دست او دست تو بست  ** گر تو پایش نشکنی پایت شکست 
  • Unless you bind his hand, he will bind yours; unless you break his leg, he will break yours.

  • تو عدو را می دهی و نی‌شکر  ** بهر چه گو زهر خند و خاک خور 
  • You give the enemy wine and sugar-cane—for what reason? Bid him laugh venomously and eat earth.”

  • زد ز غیرت بر سبو سنگ و شکست  ** او سبو انداخت و از زاهد بجست 
  • In his indignation he (the ascetic) hurled a stone at the jug and broke it: he (the slave) let the jug fall and sprang away from the ascetic.

  • رفت پیش میر و گفتش باده کو  ** ماجرا را گفت یک یک پیش او 
  • He went to the Amír, who said to him, “Where is the wine?” He (the slave) related in his presence all that had happened, point by point.

  • رفتن امیر خشم‌آلود برای گوشمال زاهد 
  • How the enraged Amír set out to punish the ascetic.

  • میر چون آتش شد و برجست راست  ** گفت بنما خانه‌ی زاهد کجاست  3495
  • The Amír became like fire and jumped straight up. “Show me,” he cried, “where the ascetic's house is,

  • تا بدین گرز گران کوبم سرش  ** آن سر بی‌دانش مادرغرش 
  • That I may pound his head with this heavy club—his ignorant whoreson head.

  • او چه داند امر معروف از سگی  ** طالب معروفی است و شهرگی 
  • What should he know about enjoining (others) to do right? He is currishly seeking notoriety and fame,

  • تا بدین سالوس خود را جا کند  ** تا به چیزی خویشتن پیدا کند 
  • In order that by means of this hypocrisy he may make a position for himself and somehow make himself conspicuous;

  • کو ندارد خود هنر الا همان  ** که تسلس می‌کند با این و آن 
  • For in truth he has no talent save this alone, that he plays the hypocrite to all and sundry.

  • او اگر دیوانه است و فتنه‌کاو  ** داروی دیوانه باشد کیر گاو  3500
  • If he is mad and bent on mischief, the cure for a madman is an ox-hide whip, [If he is mad and bent on mischief, the cure for a madman is a whip (made from) an ox’s penis,]

  • تا که شیطان از سرش بیرون رود  ** بی‌لت خربندگان خر چون رود 
  • So that the devil may go forth from his head: how should an ass go (forward) without the ass-drivers' blows?”

  • میر بیرون جست دبوسی بدست  ** نیم شب آمد به زاهد نیم‌مست 
  • The Amír dashed out, with a mace in his hand: at midnight he came, half intoxicated, to the ascetic.

  • خواست کشتن مرد زاهد را ز خشم  ** مرد زاهد گشت پنهان زیر پشم 
  • In his rage he wished to kill the ascetic, (but) the ascetic hid beneath (some) wool.

  • مرد زاهد می‌شنید از میر آن  ** زیر پشم آن رسن‌تابان نهان 
  • The ascetic, hidden under the wool belonging to certain rope-makers, heard that (threat) from the Amír.

  • گفت در رو گفتن زشتی مرد  ** آینه تاند که رو را سخت کرد  3505
  • He said (to himself), “(Only) the mirror that has made its face hard can tell a man to his face that he is ugly.

  • روی باید آینه‌وار آهنین  ** تات گوید روی زشت خود ببین 
  • It needs a steel face, like a mirror, to say to thee, ‘Behold thy ugly face.’”

  • حکایت مات کردن دلقک سید شاه ترمد را 
  • Story of Dalqak's checkmating the Sayyid, the Sháh of Tirmid.

  • شاه با دلقک همی شطرنج باخت  ** مات کردش زود خشم شه بتاخت 
  • The Sháh was playing chess with Dalqak: he (Dalqak) checkmated him: immediately the Sháh's anger burst out.

  • گفت شه شه و آن شه کبرآورش  ** یک یک از شطرنج می‌زد بر سرش 
  • He (Dalqak) cried, “Checkmate, checkmate!” and the haughty monarch threw the chessmen, one by one, at his head,

  • که بگیر اینک شهت ای قلتبان  ** صبر کرد آن دلقک و گفت الامان 
  • Saying, “Take (it)! Here is ‘checkmate’ for you, O scoundrel.” Dalqak restrained himself and (only) said, “Mercy!”

  • دست دیگر باختن فرمود میر  ** او چنان لرزان که عور از زمهریر  3510
  • The Prince commanded him to play a second game: he (Dalqak) was trembling like a naked man in bitter cold.

  • باخت دست دیگر و شه مات شد  ** وقت شه شه گفتن و میقات شد 
  • He played the second game, and the Sháh was defeated: (when) the time and moment for saying “checkmate, checkmate” arrived,

  • بر جهید آن دلقک و در کنج رفت  ** شش نمد بر خود فکند از بیم تفت 
  • Dalqak jumped up and ran into a corner and in his fear hastily flung six rugs over himself.

  • زیر بالشها و زیر شش نمد  ** خفت پنهان تا ز زخم شه رهد 
  • (There) he lay hidden beneath (several) cushions and six rugs, that he might escape from the Sháh's blows.

  • گفت شه هی هی چه کردی چیست این  ** گفت شه شه شه شه ای شاه گزین 
  • The Sháh exclaimed, “Hi, hi! what have you done? What is this?” He replied, “Checkmate, checkmate, checkmate, checkmate, O excellent Sháh!

  • کی توان حق گفت جز زیر لحاف  ** با تو ای خشم‌آور آتش‌سجاف  3515
  • How can one tell the truth to thee except under cover, O wrathful man who art wrapped in fire,