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ژغژغ آن عقل و مغزت را برد ** صد هزاران عقل را یک نشمرد
- Their rattling robs you of understanding and brain and does not reckon myriads of understandings (even) as one.
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یار تو خرجین تست و کیسه‌ات ** گر تو رامینی مجو جز ویسه‌ات
- (In travelling) your bag and your purse are your friend, (do not care for anything else): if you are Rámín, seek none but your Wísa.
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ویسه و معشوق تو هم ذات تست ** وین برونیها همه آفات تست
- ’Tis your essential self that is your Wísa and beloved, and all these external things are banes to you.
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حزم آن باشد که چون دعوت کنند ** تو نگویی مست و خواهان منند 230
- Prudence is this, that when they (worldlings) invite you, you should not say, “They are enamoured and fond of me.”
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دعوت ایشان صفیر مرغ دان ** که کند صیاد در مکمن نهان
- Know that their invitation is (like) the bird's whistle which the fowler gives (while) concealed in (his) place of ambush:
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مرغ مرده پیش بنهاده که این ** می‌کند این بانگ و آواز و حنین
- He has put forward a dead bird, (pretending) that this (bird) is making this plaintive noise and cry.
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مرغ پندارد که جنس اوست او ** جمع آید بر دردشان پوست او
- The birds think he is one of their kind: they gather round, and he rends their skins—
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جز مگر مرغی که حزمش داد حق ** تا نگردد گیج آن دانه و ملق
- Except, no doubt, the bird on which God has bestowed prudence, so that it may not be fooled by that bait and enticement.
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هست بی حزمی پشیمانی یقین ** بشنو این افسانه را در شرح این 235
- Imprudence is assuredly (attended by) repentance. Hear the following story in explanation of this.
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فریفتن روستایی شهری را و بدعوت خواندن بلابه و الحاح بسیار
- How the countryman deceived the townsman and invited him with humble entreaties and great importunity.
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ای برادر بود اندر ما مضی ** شهریی با روستایی آشنا
- In the past, O brother, there was a townsman (who was) intimate with a countryman.