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  • بود مردی پیش ازین نامش نصوح  ** بد ز دلاکی زن او را فتوح 
  • There was aforetime a man named Nasúh: he earned his livelihood by shampooing women.

  • بود روی او چو رخسار زنان  ** مردی خود را همی‌کرد او نهان 
  • His face resembled a female countenance: he was disguising his manliness.

  • او به حمام زنان دلاک بود  ** در دغا و حیله بس چالاک بود  2230
  • He was a shampooer in the women's bath, and very active in (contriving) fraud and deceit.

  • سالها می‌کرد دلاکی و کس  ** بو نبرد از حال و سر آن هوس 
  • For (many) years he went on shampooing, and no one suspected the (real) nature and secret of his fondness (for that employment).

  • زانک آواز و رخش زن‌وار بود  ** لیک شهوت کامل و بیدار بود 
  • (’Twas) because, (though) his voice and countenance were woman-like, yet his lust was at full strength and wide-awake.

  • چادر و سربند پوشیده و نقاب  ** مرد شهوانی و در غره‌ی شباب 
  • He wore the chádar and snood and veil, (but he was) a man lustful and in the prime of youth.

  • دختران خسروان را زین طریق  ** خوش همی‌مالید و می‌شست آن عشیق 
  • In this fashion that enamoured man was massaging and washing the daughters of emperors,

  • توبه‌ها می‌کرد و پا در می‌کشید  ** نفس کافر توبه‌اش را می‌درید  2235
  • (And though) he often resolved on repentance and was turning his back (on sin), the miscreant carnal soul would always tear his repentance to pieces.

  • رفت پیش عارفی آن زشت‌کار  ** گفت ما را در دعایی یاد دار 
  • That evil-doer (Nasúh) went to a gnostic and said, “Remember me in a prayer.”

  • سر او دانست آن آزادمرد  ** لیک چون حلم خدا پیدا نکرد 
  • The holy man knew his secret but, (acting) like the forbearance of God, he did not divulge it;