(If) you give (Him) a lamb, He will give you back a (whole) flock (of sheep): verily the Lord is the fosterer of every (good) quality.
بره‌ای بدهی رمه بازت دهد ** پرورنده‌ی هر صفت خود رب بود
Will you entrust the lamb to the wolf? (Nay), do not tell the wolf and Joseph to travel in company with each other.
بره پیش گرگ امانت می‌نهی ** گرگ و یوسف را مفرما همرهی
If the wolf show foxiness towards you (fawn upon you), beware, do not believe (him), for no goodness comes from him.
گرگ اگر با تو نماید روبهی ** هین مکن باور که ناید زو بهی
If a churl show sympathy towards you, (yet) in the end he will inflict blows upon you because of his churlishness.
جاهل ار با تو نماید هم‌دلی ** عاقبت زحمت زند از جاهلی
Ille duo instrumenta habet et androgynus est: amborum effectus sine dubio apparet. [He has two organs and is a hermaphrodite: the operation of both is obvious, without doubt.]1425
او دو آلت دارد و خنثی بود ** فعل هر دو بی‌گمان پیدا شود
Penem oculis feminarum subtrahit ut sese earum sororem faciat. [He hides (his) penis from women in order to make himself (seem like) their sister.]
او ذکر را از زنان پنهان کند ** تا که خود را خواهر ایشان کند
Vulvam ne viri videant manu obtegit, ut sese de genere virorum faciat. [He hides (his) vulva from men with (his) hand in order to make himself (seem like) the (same) gender as the men.]
شله از مردان به کف پنهان کند ** تا که خود را جنس آن مردان کند
Dixit Deus, “Ex ejus cunno occulto scissuram in naso ejus faciemus, [God said, “Because of that hidden vulva of his, We will make a slit on his nose,]
گفت یزدان زان کس مکتوم او ** شله‌ای سازیم بر خرطوم او
In order that Our seers may not be entrapped by the artfulness of that ogler.”
تا که بینایان ما زان ذو دلال ** در نیایند از فن او در جوال
The gist (of the matter) is that masculinity does not come from every male: beware of the ignorant man if you are wise.1430
حاصل آنک از هر ذکر ناید نری ** هین ز جاهل ترس اگر دانش‌وری