گفت ای قصاص در شهر شما ** کیست استاتر درین مکر و دغا

And said, ‘O story-teller, in your city who is the greatest expert in this (kind of) deceit and fraud?’

دعوی کردن ترک و گرو بستن او کی درزی از من چیزی نتواند بردن

[How the Turk boasted and wagered that the tailor would not be able to steal anything from him.]

گفت خیاطیست نامش پور شش ** اندرین چستی و دزدی خلق‌کش

He replied, ‘There is a tailor named Pír-i Shush who beats (all other) folk in light-fingeredness and thievery.’

گفت من ضامن که با صد اضطراب ** او نیارد برد پیشم رشته‌تاب

‘I warrant,’ said he (the Turk), ‘that (even) with a hundred efforts he will not be able to take away a coil of thread in my presence.’

پس بگفتندش که از تو چست‌تر ** مات او گشتند در دعوی مپر 1675

Then they told him, ‘Cleverer persons than you have been checkmated by him: do not soar (too high) in your pretensions.

رو به عقل خود چنین غره مباش ** که شوی یاوه تو در تزویرهاش

Go to, be not so deluded by your intelligence, else you will be lost in his wiles.’

گرم‌تر شد ترک و بست آنجا گرو ** که نیارد برد نی کهنه نی نو

The Turk became (still) hotter and made a wager there (and then) that he (the tailor) would not be able to rob (him of anything) either old or new.

مطمعانش گرم‌تر کردند زود ** او گرو بست و رهان را بر گشود

Those who flattered his hopes made him hotter (than before): immediately he wagered and declared the stakes,

که گرو این مرکب تازی من ** بدهم ار دزدد قماشم او به فن

Saying, ‘I will pay this Arab horse of mine as a forfeit if he artfully steals my stuff;

ور نتواند برد اسپی از شما ** وا ستانم بهر رهن مبتدا 1680

And if he cannot rob (me) I shall receive a horse from you (as an equivalent) for the first stake.’

ترک را آن شب نبرد از غصه خواب ** با خیال دزد می‌کرد او حراب

Because of his anxiety sleep did not overcome the Turk (all) that night: he was fighting with the phantom of the thief.