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619-628

  • “Make of your souls a shield against my taking (you) captive, though (in truth) ye are my captives even now.”
  • از گرفت من ز جان اسپر کنید ** گرچه اکنون هم گرفتار منید
  • The bird tempted by the bait is (still) on the roof: with wings outspread, it is (nevertheless) imprisoned in the trap. 620
  • مرغ فتنه دانه بر بامست او ** پر گشاده بسته‌ی دامست او
  • Inasmuch as with (all) its soul it has given its heart to (has become enamoured of) the bait, deem it caught, (though apparently it is still) uncaught.
  • چون به دانه داد او دل را به جان ** ناگرفته مر ورا بگرفته دان
  • Deem the looks which it is directing to the bait to be the knot that it is tying on its legs.
  • آن نظرها که به دانه می‌کند ** آن گره دان کو به پا برمی‌زند
  • The bait says, “If thou art stealing thy looks (away from me) I am stealing from thee patience and constancy.
  • دانه گوید گر تو می‌دزدی نظر ** من همی دزدم ز تو صبر و مقر
  • When those looks have drawn thee after me, then thou wilt know that I am not inattentive to thee.”
  • چون کشیدت آن نظر اندر پیم ** پس بدانی کز تو من غافل نیم
  • Story of the druggist whose balance-weight was clay for washing the head; and how a customer, who was a clay-eater, stole some of that clay covertly and secretly, whilst sugar was being weighed.
  • قصه‌ی عطاری کی سنگ ترازوی او گل سرشوی بود و دزدیدن مشتری گل خوار از آن گل هنگام سنجیدن شکر دزدیده و پنهان
  • A certain clay-eater went to a druggist to buy (a quantity of) fine hard sugar-loaf. 625
  • پیش عطاری یکی گل‌خوار رفت ** تا خرد ابلوج قند خاص زفت
  • Now, at the druggist's, (who was) a crafty vigilant man, in place of the balance-weight there was clay.
  • پس بر عطار طرار دودل ** موضع سنگ ترازو بود گل
  • He said, “If you want to buy sugar, my balance-weight is clay.”
  • گفت گل سنگ ترازوی منست ** گر ترا میل شکر بخریدنست
  • He (the customer) said, “I am requiring sugar for an urgent affair: let the balance-weight be whatever you wish.”
  • گفت هستم در مهمی قندجو ** سنگ میزان هر چه خواهی باش گو