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  • The select party remained busy (enjoying themselves) till the day was gone and a third of the night had passed.
  • مشتغل ماندند قوم منتجب  ** روز رفت و شد زمانه ثلث شب 

  • The two (brothers) did not leave that house for celibates: they lay down to sleep there for fear of (meeting) the night-patrol. 3845
  • زان عزب‌خانه نرفتند آن دو کس  ** هم بخفتند آن سو از بیم عسس 

  • The youth had four hairs on his chin, but his face was like the full-moon (in beauty).
  • کوسه را بد بر زنخدان چار مو  ** لیک هم‌چون ماه بدرش بود رو 

  • The beardless boy was ugly in appearance: post culum tamen viginti lateres posuit. [The beardless boy was ugly in appearance: yet he placed twenty bricks behind (his) buttocks.]
  • کودک امرد به صورت بود زشت  ** هم نهاد اندر پس کون بیست خشت 

  • Paedicator quidam noctu in frequentia hominum adrepsit: lateres amovit vir libidinosus. [A pederast crept through a crowd (of sleepers) at night; the lustful man moved the bricks.]
  • لوطیی دب برد شب در انبهی  ** خشتها را نقل کرد آن مشتهی 

  • Cum manum ei injiceret exsiluit puer: “eho,” inquit, “tu quis homo es, O canis cultor?” [When his hand touched him, he jumped up from his place: “hey,” he asked, “who are you, O worshipper of dogs?”]
  • دست چون بر وی زد او از جا بجست  ** گفت هی تو کیستی ای سگ‌پرست 

  • Respondit: “Cur hos triginta lateres congessisti?” “Tu,” inquit, “cur triginta lateris sustulisti? [He replied, “Why did you heap up these thirty bricks?” “Why,” he asked, “did you take off the thirty bricks?] 3850
  • گفت این سی خشت چون انباشتی  ** گفت تو سی خشت چون بر داشتی 

  • I am a sick boy and because of my weakness I took precautions and made here a place to lie down.”
  • کودک بیمارم و از ضعف خود  ** کردم اینجا احتیاط و مرتقد 

  • He replied, “If you are ill with a fever, why didn't you go to the hospital
  • گفت اگر داری ز رنجوری تفی  ** چون نرفتی جانب دار الشفا 

  • Or to the house of a kindly physician, in order that he might relieve you of your malady?”
  • یا به خانه‌ی یک طبیبی مشفقی  ** که گشادی از سقامت مغلقی 

  • “Why,” said he, “where can I go? for wherever I go, persecuted (as I am),
  • گفت آخر من کجا دانم شدن  ** که بهرجا می‌روم من ممتحن 

  • Some foul ungodly miscreant like you springs up before me like a wild beast. 3855
  • چون تو زندیقی پلیدی ملحدی  ** می بر آرد سر به پیشم چون ددی 

  • The dervish-convent, which is the best place—not (even) there do I find safety for one moment.
  • خانقاهی که بود بهتر مکان  ** من ندیدم یک دمی در وی امان 

  • A handful of (greedy) pottage-eaters direct their looks at me: oculi semine impleti dum pressant manibus testiculos; [A handful of (greedy) pottage-eaters direct their looks at me: (their) eyes full of sperm (while their) hands (are) squeezing their testicles;]
  • رو به من آرند مشتی حمزه‌خوار  ** چشم‌ها پر نطفه کف خایه‌فشار 

  • And even he that has regard for decorum steals covert glances et penem fricat. [And even he that has regard for decorum steals covert glances (while) rubbing (his) penis.]
  • وانک ناموسیست خود از زیر زیر  ** غمزه دزدد می‌دهد مالش به کیر 

  • Since the convent is (like) this, what must the public market be like? A herd of asses and boorish devils!
  • خانقه چون این بود بازار عام  ** چون بود خر گله و دیوان خام 

  • What has an ass to do with decorum and piety? How should an ass know (anything about) reverence and fear and hope? 3860
  • خر کجا ناموس و تقوی از کجا  ** خر چه داند خشیت و خوف و رجا 

  • (Real) intelligence consists in being safe (from temptation) and in the desire to act justly towards (every) woman and towards (every) man; but where is (such) intelligence (to be found)?
  • عقل باشد آمنی و عدل‌جو  ** بر زن و بر مرد اما عقل کو 

  • And if I run away and go to the women, I should fall into tribulation like Joseph.
  • ور گریزم من روم سوی زنان  ** هم‌چو یوسف افتم اندر افتتان 

  • Joseph suffered imprisonment and torment at the hands of a woman: I should be divided amongst fifty gibbets.
  • یوسف از زن یافت زندان و فشار  ** من شوم توزیع بر پنجاه دار 

  • Those women in their foolishness would attach themselves to me, and (then) their nearest and dearest (relatives by blood or marriage) would seek my life.
  • آن زنان از جاهلی بر من تنند  ** اولیاشان قصد جان من کنند 

  • I have no means of escape either from men or women: what can I do, since I belong neither to these nor to those?” 3865
  • نه ز مردان چاره دارم نه از زنان  ** چون کنم که نی ازینم نه از آن 

  • After (making) that (complaint) the boy looked at the youth and said, “He is quit of trouble by reason of the two (or three) hairs (on his chin).
  • بعد از آن کودک به کوسه بنگریست  ** گفت او با آن دو مو از غم بریست 

  • He is independent of the bricks and of quarrelling over the bricks and of a wicked young ruffian like you who would sell (prostitute) his own mother.
  • فارغست از خشت و از پیکار خشت  ** وز چو تو مادرفروش کنک زشت 

  • Three or four hairs on the chin as a notice are better than triginta lateres circa culum.” [Three or four hairs on the chin as a notice are better than thirty bricks around the buttocks.”]
  • بر زنخ سه چار مو بهر نمون  ** بهتر از سی خشت گرداگرد کون