- It does not abide with every unskilled tiro: (it is) like a peacock (which does not stay) in the house of a peasant.
- او نپاید پیش هر نااوستا ** همچو طاوسی به خانهی روستا
- How the King found his falcon in the house of a decrepit old woman.
- یافتن پادشاه باز را به خانهی کمپیر زن
- Religion is not (like) the falcon that fled from the King to the old crone who was sifting flour
- دین نه آن باز است کاو از شه گریخت ** سوی آن کمپیر کاو میآرد بیخت
- That she might cook tutmáj for her children. (When) she saw the beautiful well-born falcon,
- تا که تتماجی پزد اولاد را ** دید آن باز خوش خوش زاد را
- She tied its little foot and clipped its wings; she cut its talons and fed it with straw. 325
- پایکش بست و پرش کوتاه کرد ** ناخنش ببرید و قوتش کاه کرد
- “Unworthy folk,” said she, “have not kept thee in (good) trim: thy wings are overgrown and thy talons have become long.
- گفت نااهلان نکردندت به ساز ** پر فزود از حد و ناخن شد دراز
- Every unworthy one's hand makes thee ill: come to thy mother that she may take care of thee.”
- دست هر نااهل بیمارت کند ** سوی مادر آ که تیمارت کند
- Know, O friend, that such is the affection of the fool: the fool ever walks crookedly on the way.
- مهر جاهل را چنین دان ای رفیق ** کژ رود جاهل همیشه در طریق
- The King's day became late (far-spent) in searching (for the falcon): he went (at last) to the old woman and the tent (where she lived).
- روز شه در جستجو بیگاه شد ** سوی آن کمپیر و آن خرگاه شد
- Suddenly he espied the falcon amidst smoke and dust: the King wept sorely over it and made lament. 330
- دید ناگه باز را در دود و گرد ** شه بر او بگریست زار و نوحه کرد
- He said, “Albeit this is the retribution for thy deed, in that thou art not firm in keeping faith with me,
- گفت هر چند این جز ای کار تست ** که نباشی در وفای ما درست