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1409-1418

  • The wise man gets happiness from the present life, not sorrow, (while) the ignorant are left in disappointment and regret.
  • نعمت از دنیا خورد عاقل نه غم  ** جاهلان محروم مانده در ندم 
  • When the trap-cord (of sensuality) falls on their throats, it becomes unlawful (forbidden) to them all to eat the grain. 1410
  • چون در افتد در گلوشان حبل دام  ** دانه خوردن گشت بر جمله حرام 
  • How should the bird in the trap eat (enjoy) the grain? The grain in the trap is like poison (to him), if he feed (on it).
  • مرغ اندر دام دانه کی خورد  ** دانه چون زهرست در دام ار چرد 
  • (Only) the heedless bird will eat grain from the trap, as these common folk do in the trap of the present world.
  • مرغ غافل می‌خورد دانه ز دام  ** هم‌چو اندر دام دنیا این عوام 
  • Again, the knowing and prudent birds have debarred themselves from the grain;
  • باز مرغان خبیر هوشمند  ** کرده‌اند از دانه خود را خشک‌بند 
  • For the grain in the trap is poisonous food: blind is the bird that desires the grain in the trap.
  • که اندرون دام دانه زهرباست  ** کور آن مرغی که در فخ دانه خواست 
  • The Owner of the trap cut off the heads of the foolish ones, and conducted the clever ones to the (exalted) assembly-places; 1415
  • صاحب دام ابلهان را سر برید  ** وآن ظریفان را به مجلسها کشید 
  • For in the former (only) the flesh is serviceable, but in the clever ones (their) song and warble soft and low.
  • که از آنها گوشت می‌آید به کار  ** وز ظریفان بانگ و ناله‌ی زیر و زار 
  • Deinde venit ancilla perque rimam januae heram videt sub asino mortuam. [Then, the maidservant arrived. Through a crack in the door, she saw the lady dead under the ass.]
  • پس کنیزک آمد از اشکاف در  ** دید خاتون را به مرده زیر خر 
  • “O hera stulta,” inquit, “hoc (facinus ineptum) quid fuit, etsi ea quae perita est technam tibi ostenderat? [She said, “O foolish lady, what was this (foolish deed), even if your teacher showed you a plan (of the method)?]
  • گفت ای خاتون احمق این چه بود  ** گر ترا استاد خود نقشی نمود