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  • Don't talk nonsense in thy presumption and pretension: begone, don't speak from pride and arrogance.
  • How long (wilt thou utter) pompous and artificial phrases? Look at thine own acts and feelings and be ashamed!
  • Pride is ugly, and in beggars (all the) more ugly: (it is like) wet clothes after a cold snowy day.
  • How long (this) pretension and palaver and bluster, O thou whose house is (frail) as the house of the spider?
  • When hast thou illumined thy soul by contentment? Of contentment thou hast learned (only) the name. 2320
  • The Prophet said, ‘What is contentment? A treasure.’ Thou canst not distinguish the gain from the pain.
  • This contentment is the soul's treasure: do not thou boast (of possessing it), O (thou who art) grief and pain to my soul.
  • Don't call me thy mate, don't flap so much. I am the mate of justice, I am not the mate of fraud.
  • How art thou walking (consorting) with amír and bey, when thou art slitting the veins of (killing for food) the locust in the air?
  • Thou art contending with dogs for the sake of this bone, thou art wailing like an empty-bellied reed-pipe. 2325
  • Don't look at me dully (coldly) with contempt, lest I tell (others) what is in thy veins (disclose thy hidden faults).
  • Thou hast deemed thy understanding superior to mine, (but) how hast thou (truly) seen me, who am deficient in understanding?
  • Don't spring upon me like a reckless wolf! Oh, better be without understanding (mad) than (suffer) the disgrace of (having) thy understanding.
  • Since thy understanding is a shackle for mankind, it is not understanding: it is a snake and scorpion.
  • May God be the enemy of thy iniquity and deceit! May thy (superior) talent and understanding fall short of (fail to injure) us! 2330
  • Thou art both the snake and the charmer—oh, this is wonderful! Thou art (both) the snake-catcher and the snake, O thou disgrace to the Arabs!
  • If the crow knew its ugliness, from grief and sorrow it would melt like snow.
  • The charmer chants (a spell) as an enemy (does); he is (casting) a spell upon the snake and the snake is (casting) a spell upon him.
  • If his trap were not (devised by him as) a spell for the snake (a means of catching it), how would he become a prey to the snake's spell?
  • The charmer, from greed of getting and making (money), is not conscious of the snake's spell at the time. 2335
  • The snake says, ‘O charmer, beware, beware! Thou hast beheld thine own spell (and its effect upon me): now behold mine!
  • Thou beguilest me with the Name of God in order that thou mayst expose me to shame and confusion.
  • The Name of God enthralled me, not thy contrivance: thou madest the Name of God a trap: woe to thee!
  • The Name of God will take vengeance from thee on my behalf: I commit my soul and body to the Name of God.
  • Either it will sever the vein of thy life by my stroke, or it will bring thee into a prison as (it has brought) me.’” 2340