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  • چون نمی‌توانست آوازی فراشت  ** غمزه‌ی تنهای زن سودی نداشت 
  • Since she durst not raise (utter) a sound, the wife's ogling looks alone were of no avail.
  • گفت قاضی رو تو خصمت را بیار  ** تا دهم کار ترا با او قرار 
  • “Go,” said the cadi, “and fetch the defendant, that I may settle thy quarrel with him.”
  • جوحی آمد قاضیش نشناخت زود  ** کو به وقت لقیه در صندوق بود  4560
  • (When) Júhí arrived, the cadi did not recognise him at once, for at (their first) meeting he was in the chest.
  • زو شنیده بود آواز از برون  ** در شری و بیع و در نقص و فزون 
  • He had (only) heard his voice outside, during the buying and selling and chaffering.
  • گفت نفقه‌ی زن چرا ندهی تمام  ** گفت از جان شرع را هستم غلام 
  • He said (to Júhí), “Why won't you give your wife all the money she needs for expenses?” He replied, “I am devoted with (heart and) soul to the religious law,
  • لیک اگر میرم ندارم من کفن  ** مفلس این لعبم و شش پنج زن 
  • But if I die I do not possess (enough to pay for) the shroud: I am bankrupt in this game, I have gambled everything away.”
  • زین سخن قاضی مگر بشناختش  ** یاد آورد آن دغل وان باختش 
  • From (hearing) these words the cadi, as it happened, recognised him and called to mind his roguery and the trick he had played.
  • گفت آن شش پنج با من باختی  ** پار اندر شش درم انداختی  4565
  • “You played that game with me,” he said: “last year you put me out of action.
  • نوبت من رفت امسال آن قمار  ** با دگر کس باز دست از من بدار 
  • My turn is past: this year try that gamble on some one else and keep your hands off me!”
  • از شش و از پنج عارف گشت فرد  ** محترز گشتست زین شش پنج نرد 
  • The knower of God has been isolated from the six (directions) and the five (senses): (necessarily, therefore), he has become on his guard against the sixes and fives of the backgammon (played by the World and the Devil).