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  • So that he might impute the murder to the mosque and, since the mosque has a bad name, might escape.’
  • تا بهانه‌ی قتل بر مسجد نهد ** چونک بدنامست مسجد او جهد

  • Do not lay any suspicion upon us, O man of valiant spirit, for we are not secure from the craft of (our) enemies.
  • تهمتی بر ما منه ای سخت‌جان ** که نه‌ایم آمن ز مکر دشمنان

  • Come now, depart! Do not be foolhardy, do not cherish vain desire, for it is impossible to measure (the planet) Saturn by the ell. 4085
  • هین برو جلدی مکن سودا مپز ** که نتان پیمود کیوان را بگز

  • Many like thee have prated of (their) luck, (and in the end) they have torn out their beards, one by one, piecemeal.
  • چون تو بسیاران بلافیده ز بخت ** ریش خود بر کنده یک یک لخت لخت

  • Hey, begone ! Cut short this palaver ! Do not cast thyself and us into woe!"
  • هین برو کوتاه کن این قیل و قال ** خویش و ما را در میفکن در وبال

  • How the guest answered them and adduced the parable of the guardian of the cornfield who, by making a noise with the tomtom, sought to drive away from the cornfield a camel on whose back they were beating the big kettle-drum of (Sultan) Mahmúd.
  • جواب گفتن مهمان ایشان را و مثل آوردن بدفع کردن حارس کشت به بانگ دف از کشت شتری را کی کوس محمودی بر پشت او زدندی

  • He said, “O friends, I am not one of the devils, that (the strength of) my sinews should fail at a single lá hawl.
  • گفت ای یاران از آن دیوان نیم ** که ز لا حولی ضعیف آید پیم

  • A boy, who was the guardian of a cornfield, used to beat a tomtom in order to keep off the birds,
  • کودکی کو حارس کشتی بدی ** طبلکی در دفع مرغان می‌زدی

  • So that the birds, at (the sound of) the tomtom, were scared away from the field, and the field became safe from evil birds. 4090
  • تا رمیدی مرغ زان طبلک ز کشت ** کشت از مرغان بد بی خوف گشت

  • When the Sultan, the noble King Mahmúd, pitched a great tent in that neighbourhood as he passed on the way
  • چونک سلطان شاه محمود کریم ** برگذر زد آن طرف خیمه‌ی عظیم

  • With an army like the stars of heaven (in number), numerous and victorious, one that pierces the ranks (of the enemy) and takes possession of empire—
  • با سپاهی همچو استاره‌ی اثیر ** انبه و پیروز و صفدر ملک‌گیر