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  • There was a man, a householder, who had a very sneering, dirty, and rapacious wife.
  • بود مردی کدخدا او را زنی  ** سخت طناز و پلید و ره‌زنی 
  • Whatever (food) he brought (home), his wife would consume it, and the man was forced to keep silence. 3410
  • هرچه آوردی تلف کردیش زن  ** مرد مضطر بود اندر تن زدن 
  • (One day) that family man brought home, for a guest, (some) meat (which he had procured) with infinite pains.
  • بهر مهمان گوشت آورد آن معیل  ** سوی خانه با دو صد جهد طویل 
  • His wife ate it up with kabáb and wine: (when) the man came in, she put him off with useless words.
  • زن بخوردش با کباب و با شراب  ** مرد آمد گفت دفع ناصواب 
  • The man said to her, “Where is the meat? The guest has arrived: one must set nice food before a guest.”
  • مرد گفتش گوشت کو مهمان رسید  ** پیش مهمان لوت می‌باید کشید 
  • “This cat has eaten the meat,” she replied: “hey, go and buy some more meat if you can!”
  • گفت زن این گربه خورد آن گوشت را  ** گوشت دیگر خر اگر باشد هلا 
  • He said (to the servant), “O Aybak, fetch the balance: I will weigh the cat. 3415
  • گفت ای ایبک ترازو را بیار  ** گربه را من بر کشم اندر عیار 
  • He weighed her. The cat was half a mann. Then the man said, “O deceitful wife,
  • بر کشیدش بود گربه نیم من  ** پس بگفت آن مرد کای محتال زن 
  • The meat was half a mann and one sitír over; the cat is just half a mann, my lady.
  • گوشت نیم من بود و افزون یک ستیر  ** هست گربه نیم‌من هم ای ستیر 
  • If this is the cat, then where is the meat? Or, if this is the meat, where is the cat? Search (for her)!”
  • این اگر گربه‌ست پس آن گوشت کو  ** ور بود این گوشت گربه کو بجو