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  • The little slave, who was in the house, immediately became ill and weak and poorly.
  • پس غلام خرد که اندر خانه بود  ** گشت بیمار و ضعیف و زار زود 
  • He was wasting away like one suffering from phthisis: no physician could recognise his ailment. 270
  • هم‌چو بیمار دقی او می‌گداخت  ** علت او را طبیبی کم شناخت 
  • Reason declared that the malady had its source in his heart (and that) medicine for the body is useless for heart-ache.
  • عقل می‌گفتی که رنجش از دلست  ** داروی تن در غم دل باطلست 
  • The little slave breathed no word of his (real) state and did not tell what was the cause of the pangs in his breast.
  • آن غلامک دم نزد از حال خویش  ** کز چه می‌آید برو در سینه نیش 
  • One night the husband said to his wife, “Ask him privately what is the matter with him.
  • گفت خاتون را شبی شوهر که تو  ** باز پرسش در خلا از حال او 
  • You are in the place of a mother to him: maybe he will disclose his trouble to you.”
  • تو به جای مادری او را بود  ** که غم خود پیش تو پیدا کند 
  • When the mistress heard these words, next day she went to the slave. 275
  • چونک خاتون در گوش این کلام  ** روز دیگر رفت نزدیک غلام 
  • Then the dame combed his head very fondly with many endearments and signs of friendliness.
  • پس سرش را شانه می‌کرد آن ستی  ** با دو صد مهر و دلال و آشتی 
  • In the fashion of fond mothers she soothed him until he began to explain,
  • آنچنان که مادران مهربان  ** نرم کردش تا در آمد در بیان 
  • Saying, “I did not expect this from you—that you would give your daughter to a cross-grained stranger.
  • که مرا اومید از تو این نبود  ** که دهی دختر به بیگانه‌ی عنود