(For) she used to send secret messages to the (unbelieving) folk, saying, “Preserve your religion from (being corrupted by) these erring men!”
قوم را پیغام کردی از نهان ** که نگه دارید دین زین گمرهان
How the cadi went to the house of Júhí's wife, and how Júhí knocked angrily at the door, and how the cadi took refuge in a chest, etc.
رفتن قاضی به خانه‌ی زن جوحی و حلقه زدن جوحی به خشم بر در و گریختن قاضی در صندوقی الی آخره
The guile of woman is infinite. The sagacious cadi went at night to the wife ut cum ea coiret. [The guile of woman is infinite. The sagacious cadi went at night to the wife (of Júhí) for sexual intercourse.]4475
مکر زن پایان ندارد رفت شب ** قاضی زیرک سوی زن بهر دب
The wife set two (lighted) candles and the dessert for his entertainment. “(I can do) without this drink,” said he: “I am intoxicated (with love).”
زن دو شمع و نقل مجلس راست کرد ** گفت ما مستیم بی این آب‌خورد
At that moment Júhí came and knocked at the door: the cadi looked for a place into which he could slink for refuge.
اندر آن دم جوحی آمد در بزد ** جست قاضی مهربی تا در خزد
He saw no hiding-place but a chest: in his fright the man went into the chest.
غیر صندوقی ندید او خلوتی ** رفت در صندوق از خوف آن فتی
(Then) Júhí came in and said (to his wife), “O spouse, O thou who art my plague (both) in spring and autumn,
اندر آمد جوحی و گفت ای حریف ** اتی وبالم در ربیع و در خریف
What do I possess that is not sacrificed to thee: (why, then, is it) that thou art always crying out at me?4480
من چه دارم که فداات نیست آن ** که ز من فریاد داری هر زمان
Thou hast let loose thy tongue at my dry crusts: now thou callest me ‘pauper,’ now ‘cuckold.’
بر لب خشکم گشادستی زبان ** گاه مفلس خوانیم گه قلتبان
If, my dear, I suffer from these two maladies, one (the latter) comes from thee and the other from God.
این دو علت گر بود ای جان مرا ** آن یکی از تست و دیگر از خدا
What do I possess but that chest, which is a source of suspicion and a ground for (evil) surmise?
من چه دارم غیر آن صندوق که آن ** هست مایه‌ی تهمت و پایه‌ی گمان