Rumi's Masnavi - If thou hadst haggled in the sale more (excessively than thou didst), I would have given the whole of my property and riches;

If thou hadst haggled in the sale more (excessively than thou didst), I would have given the whole of my property and riches;

And if thou hadst (then) increased thy demands, I would have borrowed a skirtful of gold in my anxiety (to purchase him).

Thou gavest (him) up easily because thou gottest (him) cheap: thou didst not see the pearl, thou didst not split the casket. 1045

Thy folly gave (me) a sealed casket: thou wilt soon see what a swindle has befallen thee.

Thou hast given away a casket full of rubies and, like the negro, thou art rejoicing in thy blackness of face (disastrous plight).

In the end thou wilt utter many a ‘woe is me!’ Does any one, forsooth, sell (his) fortune and felicity?

Fortune came (to thee) in the garb of a slave, (but) thy unlucky eye saw only the surface.

He showed unto thee his slavery (alone): thy wicked nature practiced cunning and deceit with him. 1050

(Now), O driveller, take idolatrously this (slave) whose secret thoughts are black though his body is white.

This one for thee, that one for me: we (both) have profited. Hark, unto you (your) religion and unto me (my) religion, O Jew.”