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آن برهنه گفت ترسان زین منم ** که ببرند از درازی دامنم
- The naked man said, “I am afraid they will cut off (something) from the length of my skirt.”
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کور گفت اینک به نزدیک آمدند ** خیز بگریزیم پیش از زخم و بند 2615
- The blind man said, “Look, they have come near! Arise and let us flee before (we suffer) blows and chains.”
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کر همی‌گوید که آری مشغله ** می‌شود نزدیکتر یاران هله
- “Yes,” says the deaf man, “the noise is getting nearer. Come on, my friends!”
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آن برهنه گفت آوه دامنم ** از طمع برند و من ناآمنم
- The naked man said, “Alas, from covetousness they will cut off my skirt, and I am unprotected.”
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شهر را هشتند و بیرون آمدند ** در هزیمت در دهی اندر شدند
- They (the three) left the city and came forth and in their flight entered a village.
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اندر آن ده مرغ فربه یافتند ** لیک ذره‌ی گوشت بر وی نه نژند
- In that village they found a fat fowl, but not a mite of flesh on it: (’twas) abject—
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مرغ مرده‌ی خشک وز زخم کلاغ ** استخوانها زار گشته چون پناغ 2620
- A dried-up dead fowl, and its bones through being pecked at by crows had become bare like threads.
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زان همی‌خوردند چون از صید شیر ** هر یکی از خوردنش چون پیل سیر
- They were eating thereof as a lion (eats) of his prey: each of them (became) surfeited, like an elephant, with eating it.
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هر سه زان خوردند و بس فربه شدند ** چون سه پیل بس بزرگ و مه شدند
- All the three ate thereof and grew exceedingly fat: they became like three very great and big elephants,
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آنچنان کز فربهی هر یک جوان ** در نگنجیدی ز زفتی در جهان
- In such wise that each young man, because of fatness, was too stout to be contained in the world.