- When the wife saw that he was fierce and unmanageable, she began to weep: tears in sooth are a woman's lure.
- زن چو دید او را که تند و توسن است ** گشت گریان گریه خود دام زن است
- She said, “When did I imagine such (words) from thee? I hoped of thee something different.” 2395
- گفت از تو کی چنین پنداشتم ** از تو من اومید دیگر داشتم
- The wife approached by the way of self-naughting (self-abasement). “I am thy dust,” said she, “not (worthy to be) thy lady-wife.
- زن در آمد از طریق نیستی ** گفت من خاک شمایم نه ستی
- Body and soul and all I am is thine: the entire authority and command belongs to thee.
- جسم و جان و هر چه هستم آن تست ** حکم و فرمان جملگی فرمان تست
- If because of poverty my heart has lost patience, it is not for my own sake, but for thine.
- گر ز درویشی دلم از صبر جست ** بهر خویشم نیست آن بهر تو است
- Thou hast been my remedy in afflictions: I am unwilling that thou shouldst be penniless.
- تو مرا در دردها بودی دوا ** من نمی‌‌خواهم که باشی بی‌‌نوا
- By thy soul, this is not for my own sake: this wailing and moaning of mine is on account of thee. 2400
- جان تو کز بهر خویشم نیست این ** از برای تستم این ناله و حنین
- (I swear) by God that at every moment my self would fain die for thy self before thee.
- خویش من و الله که بهر خویش تو ** هر نفس خواهد که میرد پیش تو
- Would that thy soul, to which my soul is devoted, were aware of my soul's inmost thoughts!
- کاش جانت کش روان من فدی ** از ضمیر جان من واقف بدی
- Inasmuch as thou hast such (an ill) opinion of me, I am grown weary both of soul and of body.
- چون تو با من این چنین بودی به ظن ** هم ز جان بیزار گشتم هم ز تن