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1360-1384

  • Take the gist of what is to the purpose. When the discreet old woman had sent her (the maid) away, 1360
  • آنچ مقصودست مغز آن بگیر  ** چون براهش کرد آن زال ستیر 

  • Propter ebrietatem libidinis gaudebat: she shut the door, saying meanwhile, [She was happy from the intoxication of (her) lust: she shut the door, saying meanwhile,]
  • بود از مستی شهوت شادمان  ** در فرو بست و همی‌گفت آن زمان 

  • “I have secured privacy, I will shout in thanksgiving: I am delivered from the four dángs and the two dángs.”
  • یافتم خلوت زنم از شکر بانگ  ** رسته‌ام از چار دانگ و از دو دانگ 

  • Gaudio hircus (prurigo) feminae quae in igne libidinis asini inquieta erat mille factus est. [From joy, the woman’s goat (of lust) had become a thousand (-fold); (she became) restless in the sparks of the ass’s lust.]
  • از طرب گشته بزان زن هزار  ** در شرار شهوت خر بی‌قرار 

  • Qualis hircus est ille quem tanta libido ludibrium fecit? Stultum deludi non est mirabile. [What goat (was) that?—for lust took her goat (made a fool of her). The taking of a fool’s goat is not (something) amazing.]
  • چه بزان که آن شهوت او را بز گرفت  ** بز گرفتن گیج را نبود شگفت 

  • Lustful desire makes the heart deaf and blind, so that an ass seems like Joseph, fire (like) light. 1365
  • میل شهوت کر کند دل را و کور  ** تا نماید خر چو یوسف نار نور 

  • Oh, many a one intoxicated with fire and seeking fire deems himself absolute light.
  • ای بسا سرمست نار و نارجو  ** خویشتن را نور مطلق داند او 

  • (He is lost) unless a (chosen) servant of God, or the pull of God (Himself), lead him into the (right) way and turn over his leaf,
  • جز مگر بنده‌ی خدا یا جذب حق  ** با رهش آرد بگرداند ورق 

  • So that he may know that the fiery phantom (which he mistook for light) in the Path is but a loan (unreal).
  • تا بداند که آن خیال ناریه  ** در طریقت نیست الا عاریه 

  • (Sensual) cupidity causes foul things to appear fair: among the banes of the Way there is none like lust, none worse.
  • زشتها را خوب بنماید شره  ** نیست چون شهوت بتر ز آفتاب ره 

  • It has disgraced a hundred thousand good names, it has stupefied (besotted) a hundred thousand clever men. 1370
  • صد هزاران نام خوش را کرد ننگ  ** صد هزاران زیرکان را کرد دنگ 

  • Since it caused an ass to appear (like) Joseph of Egypt, how (in what aspect) will that (miscreant) Jew cause a Joseph to appear?
  • چون خری را یوسف مصری نمود  ** یوسفی را چون نماید آن جهود 

  • Its spell made dung seem honey to you: what, forsooth, will it make honey seem at the time of contest?
  • بر تو سرگین را فسونش شهد کرد  ** شهد را خود چون کند وقت نبرد 

  • Lust arises from eating and drinking: diminish your food, or marry and (so) flee from wickedness.
  • شهوت از خوردن بود کم کن ز خور  ** یا نکاحی کن گریزان شو ز شر 

  • When you have eaten and drunk (too much), it leads to things forbidden: there must necessarily be some outgoing of income.
  • چون بخوردی می‌کشد سوی حرم  ** دخل را خرجی بباید لاجرم 

  • Marriage, then, is like (the exorcism), “There is neither power nor (strength except in God),” lest the Devil cast you into temptation. 1375
  • پس نکاح آمد چو لاحول و لا  ** تا که دیوت نفکند اندر بلا 

  • Since you are fond of eating and drinking, ask a woman (in marriage) at once; else the cat comes and carries off the fat sheep's tail.
  • چون حریص خوردنی زن خواه زود  ** ورنه آمد گربه و دنبه ربود 

  • Quickly put a heavy load on the shying ass before he puts (you) down.
  • بار سنگی بر خری که می‌جهد  ** زود بر نه پیش از آن کو بر نهد 

  • (If) you do not know the effect of fire, hold aloof (from it): do not approach the fire with such (little) knowledge (as you have).
  • فعل آتش را نمی‌دانی تو برد  ** گرد آتش با چنین دانش مگرد 

  • If you have no knowledge of the cooking-pot and the fire, neither the pot nor the soup will be spared by the flames.
  • علم دیگ و آتش ار نبود ترا  ** از شرر نه دیگ ماند نه ابا 

  • Water must be there and skill too, in order that the (contents of the) pot may be safely cooked in boiling. 1380
  • آب حاضر باید و فرهنگ نیز  ** تا پزد آب دیگ سالم در ازیز 

  • If you are ignorant of the science of the ironsmith, your beard and hair will be burned when you pass by that place (the forge).
  • چون ندانی دانش آهنگری  ** ریش و مو سوزد چو آنجا بگذری 

  • Femina januam clausit asinumque animo gaudente attraxit: necessario poenam gustavit. [The woman shut the (stable) door and drew the ass (to her) joyfully; necessarily, she tasted the penalty (for her shameful behavior).]
  • در فرو بست آن زن و خر را کشید  ** شادمانه لاجرم کیفر چشید 

  • In medium stabulum eum trahendo duxit: sub asino decubuit supina [Pulling, she brought it into the middle of the stable: she lay down on (her) back under the male ass]
  • در میان خانه آوردش کشان  ** خفت اندر زیر آن نر خر ستان 

  • In eadem sella quam viderat ab ancilla (adhibitam), ut ista meretrix quoque voto potiretur. [On the same chair that she saw (used) by the maidservant in order to attain her desire; that whore (did) also.]
  • هم بر آن کرسی که دید او از کنیز  ** تا رسد در کام خود آن قحبه نیز