“Come on in God's name,” said he, “let me see where he is! Go thou in front, if thou art speaking truth,
گفت بسم الله بیا تا او کجاست ** پیش در شو گر همی‌‌گویی تو راست
That I may give him and a hundred like him the punishment they deserve, or if this is a lie, that I may give thy deserts to thee.”
تا سزای او و صد چون او دهم ** ور دروغ است این سزای تو دهم
The hare set out on the way, (going) in front like a guide, that he might lead him towards his snare,
اندر آمد چون قلاووزی به پیش ** تا برد او را به سوی دام خویش
Towards the well which he had designated: he had made the deep well a snare for his (the lion's) life.
سوی چاهی کاو نشانش کرده بود ** چاه مغ را دام جانش کرده بود
(Thus) were these twain going till (they arrived) near the well. Look, you, (this was) a hare (deceitful) as a (pool of) water (hidden) under straw.1185
می‌‌شدند این هر دو تا نزدیک چاه ** اینت خرگوشی چو آبی زیر کاه
The water bears a blade of straw (down) to the plain: how, I wonder, will the water bear away a mountain?
آب کاهی را به هامون می‌‌برد ** آب کوهی را عجب چون می‌‌برد
The snare of his (the hare's) guile was a noose for the lion: a marvellous hare (he), who was carrying off a lion (as his prey)!
دام مکر او کمند شیر بود ** طرفه خرگوشی که شیری می‌‌ربود
A Moses kills Pharaoh, with his army and mighty host, by means of (a sea like) the river Nile.
موسیی فرعون را با رود نیل ** می‌‌کشد با لشکر و جمع ثقیل
A single gnat with half a wing cleaves intrepidly the suture of Nimrod's skull.
پشه‌‌ای نمرود را با نیم پر ** می‌‌شکافد بی‌‌محابا درز سر
Behold the state of him who hearkened to the words of his enemy, and the retribution of him who became the friend of the envious one—1190
حال آن کاو قول دشمن را شنود ** بین جزای آن که شد یار حسود