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  • Go, renounce sensuality in order that the (spiritual) scent may be thine and that the sweet ambergris-seeking organ of smell may be thine. 905
  • رو هوا بگذار تا بویت شود  ** وان مشام خوش عبرجویت شود 
  • Thy brain (organ of smell) is corrupted by sensual indulgence: to thy (olfactory) sense musk and ambergris are unsalable.
  • از هوارانی دماغت فاسدست  ** مشک و عنبر پیش مغزت کاسدست 
  • This discourse hath no bound, and (meanwhile) our gazelle is running to and fro in flight in the stable.
  • حد ندارد این سخن و آهوی ما  ** می‌گریزد اندر آخر جابجا 
  • The remainder of the Story of the gazelle in the donkey-stable.
  • بقیه‌ی قصه‌ی آهو و آخر خران 
  • During (many) days the sweet-navelled male gazelle was in torment in the donkey-stable,
  • روزها آن آهوی خوش‌ناف نر  ** در شکنجه بود در اصطبل خر 
  • Like a fish wriggling in the death-agony from (being kept on) dry ground, (or like) dung and musk tortured (by being kept) in the same box.
  • مضطرب در نزع چون ماهی ز خشک  ** در یکی حقه معذب پشک و مشک 
  • One donkey would say to his neighbour, “Ha! this wild fellow has the nature of kings and princes. Hush!” 910
  • یک خرش گفتی که ها این بوالوحوش  ** طبع شاهان دارد و میران خموش 
  • And the other would mock, saying, “By (constant) ebb and flow he has gained a pearl: how should he sell cheaply?”
  • وآن دگر تسخر زدی کز جر و مد  ** گوهر آوردست کی ارزان دهد 
  • And another donkey would say, “With this fastidiousness (of his), let him recline on the imperial throne!”
  • وآن خری گفتی که با این نازکی  ** بر سریر شاه شو گو متکی 
  • A certain donkey became ill with indigestion and was unable to eat; therefore he gave the gazelle a formal invitation (to dine).
  • آن خری شد تخمه وز خوردن بماند  ** پس برسم دعوت آهو را بخواند 
  • He (the gazelle) shook his head, (as though to say), “Nay, begone, O such-and such: I have no appetite, I am unwell.”
  • سر چنین کرد او که نه رو ای فلان  ** اشتهاام نیست هستم ناتوان