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مرد زرگر را بخوان ز ان شهر دور ** با زر و خلعت بده او را غرور
- Summon the goldsmith from that far country; beguile him with gold and robes of honour.”
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فرستادن پادشاه رسولان به سمرقند به آوردن زرگر
- How the king sent messengers to Samarcand to fetch the goldsmith.
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شه فرستاد آن طرف یک دو رسول ** حاذقان و کافیان بس عدول 185
- The king sent thither one or two messengers, clever men and competent and very just.
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تا سمرقند آمدند آن دو امیر ** پیش آن زرگر ز شاهنشه بشیر
- Those two Amírs came to Samarcand and went to the goldsmith, bearing the good news from the king.
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کای لطیف استاد کامل معرفت ** فاش اندر شهرها از تو صفت
- Saying, “O fine master, perfect in knowledge, thou whose quality (of perfection in thy craft) is famous in (all) the lands,
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نک فلان شه از برای زرگری ** اختیارت کرد زیرا مهتری
- Lo, such-and-such a king hath chosen thee for (thy skill in) the goldsmith's craft, because thou art eminent.
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اینک این خلعت بگیر و زر و سیم ** چون بیایی خاص باشی و ندیم
- Look now, receive this robe of honour and gold and silver; when thou comest (to the king), thou wilt be a favourite and boon-companion.”
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مرد مال و خلعت بسیار دید ** غره شد از شهر و فرزندان برید 190
- The man saw the much wealth and the many robes: he was beguiled, he parted from his town and children.
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اندر آمد شادمان در راه مرد ** بی‌‌خبر کان شاه قصد جانش کرد
- Blithely the man came into the road, unaware that the king had formed a design against his life.
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اسب تازی بر نشست و شاد تاخت ** خونبهای خویش را خلعت شناخت
- He mounted an Arab horse and sped on joyously: (what really was) the price of his blood he deemed a robe of honour.
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ای شده اندر سفر با صد رضا ** خود به پای خویش تا سوء القضا
- O (fool), who with a hundred consents thyself with thine own foot didst enter on the journey to the fated ill!