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  • میر بیرون جست دبوسی بدست  ** نیم شب آمد به زاهد نیم‌مست 
  • The Amír dashed out, with a mace in his hand: at midnight he came, half intoxicated, to the ascetic.

  • خواست کشتن مرد زاهد را ز خشم  ** مرد زاهد گشت پنهان زیر پشم 
  • In his rage he wished to kill the ascetic, (but) the ascetic hid beneath (some) wool.

  • مرد زاهد می‌شنید از میر آن  ** زیر پشم آن رسن‌تابان نهان 
  • The ascetic, hidden under the wool belonging to certain rope-makers, heard that (threat) from the Amír.

  • گفت در رو گفتن زشتی مرد  ** آینه تاند که رو را سخت کرد  3505
  • He said (to himself), “(Only) the mirror that has made its face hard can tell a man to his face that he is ugly.

  • روی باید آینه‌وار آهنین  ** تات گوید روی زشت خود ببین 
  • It needs a steel face, like a mirror, to say to thee, ‘Behold thy ugly face.’”

  • حکایت مات کردن دلقک سید شاه ترمد را 
  • Story of Dalqak's checkmating the Sayyid, the Sháh of Tirmid.

  • شاه با دلقک همی شطرنج باخت  ** مات کردش زود خشم شه بتاخت 
  • The Sháh was playing chess with Dalqak: he (Dalqak) checkmated him: immediately the Sháh's anger burst out.

  • گفت شه شه و آن شه کبرآورش  ** یک یک از شطرنج می‌زد بر سرش 
  • He (Dalqak) cried, “Checkmate, checkmate!” and the haughty monarch threw the chessmen, one by one, at his head,

  • که بگیر اینک شهت ای قلتبان  ** صبر کرد آن دلقک و گفت الامان 
  • Saying, “Take (it)! Here is ‘checkmate’ for you, O scoundrel.” Dalqak restrained himself and (only) said, “Mercy!”

  • دست دیگر باختن فرمود میر  ** او چنان لرزان که عور از زمهریر  3510
  • The Prince commanded him to play a second game: he (Dalqak) was trembling like a naked man in bitter cold.

  • باخت دست دیگر و شه مات شد  ** وقت شه شه گفتن و میقات شد 
  • He played the second game, and the Sháh was defeated: (when) the time and moment for saying “checkmate, checkmate” arrived,