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253-262

  • He who says, “I have collected riches”—what is (the meaning of) it? It means, “I have brought in all this filth.”
  • آنک گوید مال گرد آورده‌ام ** چیست یعنی چرک چندین برده‌ام
  • Albeit this saying is exceedingly disgraceful, there are boasts on this account amongst the stokers.
  • این سخن گرچه که رسوایی‌فزاست ** در میان تونیان زین فخرهاست
  • (One of them says), “Thou hast carried (only) six baskets ere nightfall; I have carried twenty baskets without trouble.” 255
  • که تو شش سله کشیدی تا به شب ** من کشیدم بیست سله بی کرب
  • He that was born in the stove and never saw purity, the smell of musk produces a painful effect upon him.
  • آنک در تون زاد و پاکی را ندید ** بوی مشک آرد برو رنجی پدید
  • Story of the tanner who fainted and sickened on smelling otto and musk in the bazaar of the perfumers.
  • قصه‌ی آن دباغ کی در بازار عطاران از بوی عطر و مشک بیهوش و رنجور شد
  • A certain man fell senseless and curled up as soon as he came into the bazaar of the perfumers.
  • آن یکی افتاد بیهوش و خمید ** چونک در بازار عطاران رسید
  • The scent of the perfume (floating) from the goodly perfumers smote him, so that his head reeled and he fell on the spot.
  • بوی عطرش زد ز عطاران راد ** تا بگردیدش سر و بر جا فتاد
  • He fell unconscious, like a carcase, at noontide in the middle of the thoroughfare.
  • هم‌چو مردار اوفتاد او بی‌خبر ** نیم روز اندر میان ره‌گذر
  • Thereupon the people gathered over him, all crying Lá hawl and applying remedies. 260
  • جمع آمد خلق بر وی آن زمان ** جملگان لاحول‌گو درمان کنان
  • One was putting his hand on his (the tanner's) heart, while another sprinkled rose-water upon him;
  • آن یکی کف بر دل او می براند ** وز گلاب آن دیگری بر وی فشاند
  • (For) he did not know that from (smelling) rose-water in the meadow (the bazaar) that calamity had overtaken him.
  • او نمی‌دانست کاندر مرتعه ** از گلاب آمد ورا آن واقعه