- Now the fancy of recreation, now of the shop; now the fancy of knowledge, and now of house and home.
- گه خیال فرجه و گاهی دکان ** گه خیال علم و گاهی خان و مان
- Beware! say at once “God help me!” again and again, not with tongue alone but from your very soul.
- هان بگو لاحولها اندر زمان ** از زبان تنها نه بلک از عین جان
- The end of the story of the insolvent.
- تتمه قصه مفلس
- The Cadi said, “Show plainly that you are insolvent.” “Here are the prisoners,” he replied, “as thy witnesses.”
- گفت قاضی مفلسی را وانما ** گفت اینک اهل زندانت گوا
- “They,” said the Cadi, “are suspect, because they are fleeing from you and weeping blood (on account of your ill-treatment of them);
- گفت ایشان متهم باشند چون ** میگریزند از تو میگریند خون
- Also, they are suing to be delivered from you: by reason of this self-interest the testimony they give is worthless.” 645
- از تو میخواهند هم تا وارهند ** زین غرض باطل گواهی میدهند
- All the people belonging to the court of justice said, “We bear witness both to his (moral) degeneracy and his insolvency.”
- جمله اهل محکمه گفتند ما ** هم بر ادبار و بر افلاسش گوا
- Every one whom the Cadi questioned about his condition said, “My lord, wash thy hands of this insolvent.”
- هر که را پرسید قاضی حال او ** گفت مولا دست ازین مفلس بشو
- The Cadi said, “March him round the city for all to see, (and cry), ‘This man is an insolvent and a great rogue.’
- گفت قاضی کش بگردانید فاش ** گرد شهر این مفلس است و بس قلاش
- Make proclamations concerning him, street by street; beat the drum (as an advertisement) of his insolvency everywhere in open view.
- کو به کو او را مناداها زنید ** طبل افلاسش عیان هر جا زنید
- Let no one sell to him on credit, let no one lend him a farthing. 650
- هیچ کس نسیه بنفروشد بدو ** قرض ندهد هیچ کس او را تسو