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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.”
  • 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.
  • 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—
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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,
  • 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.
  • با چنین گبزی و هفت اندام زفت ** از شکاف در برون جستند و رفت
  • Notwithstanding such bigness and seven stout limbs, they sprang forth through a chink in the door and departed.
  • راه مرگ خلق ناپیدا رهیست ** در نظر ناید که آن بی‌جا رهیست 2625
  • The way of creaturely death is an invisible way: it comes not into sight, for it is a way without locality.
  • نک پیاپی کاروانها مقتفی ** زین شکاف در که هست آن مختفی
  • Lo, the caravans are following one after another through this chink which is hidden (from view) in the door.