- The naked man said, “I am afraid they will cut off (something) from the length of my skirt.”
- آن برهنه گفت ترسان زین منم ** که ببرند از درازی دامنم
- The blind man said, “Look, they have come near! Arise and let us flee before (we suffer) blows and chains.” 2615
- کور گفت اینک به نزدیک آمدند ** خیز بگریزیم پیش از زخم و بند
- “Yes,” says the deaf man, “the noise is getting nearer. Come on, my friends!”
- کر همیگوید که آری مشغله ** میشود نزدیکتر یاران هله
- The naked man said, “Alas, from covetousness they will cut off my skirt, and I am unprotected.”
- آن برهنه گفت آوه دامنم ** از طمع برند و من ناآمنم
- They (the three) left the city and came forth and in their flight entered a village.
- شهر را هشتند و بیرون آمدند ** در هزیمت در دهی اندر شدند
- In that village they found a fat fowl, but not a mite of flesh on it: (’twas) abject—
- اندر آن ده مرغ فربه یافتند ** لیک ذرهی گوشت بر وی نه نژند
- A dried-up dead fowl, and its bones through being pecked at by crows had become bare like threads. 2620
- مرغ مردهی خشک وز زخم کلاغ ** استخوانها زار گشته چون پناغ
- They were eating thereof as a lion (eats) of his prey: each of them (became) surfeited, like an elephant, with eating it.
- زان همیخوردند چون از صید شیر ** هر یکی از خوردنش چون پیل سیر
- All the three ate thereof and grew exceedingly fat: they became like three very great and big elephants,
- هر سه زان خوردند و بس فربه شدند ** چون سه پیل بس بزرگ و مه شدند
- In such wise that each young man, because of fatness, was too stout to be contained in the world.
- آنچنان کز فربهی هر یک جوان ** در نگنجیدی ز زفتی در جهان