“Hark, wife,” he replied, “come down from the tree, for thy head is turned and thou hast become very dotish.”
گفت ای زن هین فرود آ از درخت ** که سرت گشت و خرف گشتی تو سخت
When she came down, her husband went up: (then) the woman drew her paramour into her arms.
چون فرود آمد بر آمد شوهرش ** زن کشید آن مول را اندر برش
Maritus dixit, “O scortum, iste quis est qui velut simia super te venit?” [(Her) husband said, “Who is that one, O whore, who has come to be on top of you like an ape?”]
گفت شوهر کیست آن ای روسپی ** که به بالای تو آمد چون کپی
“Nay,” said the wife, “there is no one here but me. Hark, thy head is turned: don't talk nonsense.”
گفت زن نه نیست اینجا غیر من ** هین سرت برگشته شد هرزه متن
He repeated the charge against his wife. “This,” said the wife, “is from the pear-tree.3555
او مکرر کرد بر زن آن سخن ** گفت زن این هست از امرودبن
From the top of the pear-tree I was seeing just as falsely as you, O cuckold.
از سر امرودبن من هم‌چنان ** کژ همی دیدم که تو ای قلتبان
Hark, come down, that you may see there is nothing: all this illusion is caused by a pear-tree.”
هین فرود آ تا ببینی هیچ نیست ** این همه تخییل از امروبنیست
Jesting is teaching: listen to it in earnest, do not thou be in pawn to (taken up with) its appearance of jest.
هزل تعلیمست آن را جد شنو ** تو مشو بر ظاهر هزلش گرو
To jesters every earnest matter is a jest; to the wise (all) jests are earnest.
هر جدی هزلست پیش هازلان ** هزلها جدست پیش عاقلان
Lazy folk seek the pear-tree, but ’tis a good (long) way to that pear-tree.3560
کاهلان امرودبن جویند لیک ** تا بدان امرودبن راهیست نیک