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6
276-285

  • 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 
  • She is my master's child, and I am heart-sick: is it not a shame that she should go elsewhere (as a bride)?”
  • خواجه‌زاده‌ی ما و ما خسته‌جگر  ** حیف نبود که رود جای دگر 
  • The mistress, (impelled) by the anger that rose in her, was about to strike him and hurl him down from the roof, 280
  • خواست آن خاتون ز خشمی که آمدش  ** که زند وز بام زیر اندازدش 
  • Saying (to herself), “Who is he, a whoreson Hindú, that he should desire a Khwája's daughter?”
  • کو که باشد هندوی مادرغری  ** که طمع دارد به خواجه دختری 
  • (But) she said, “Patience is best,” and restrained herself; (afterwards) she said to the Khwája, “Listen to this wonderful thing!
  • گفت صبر اولی بود خود را گرفت  ** گفت با خواجه که بشنو این شگفت 
  • Such a wretched slave a traitor! (And) we thought he could be trusted!”
  • این چنین گراء کی خاین بود  ** ما گمان برده که هست او معتمد 
  • How the Khwája bade the girl's mother be patient, saying, “Don't scold the slave: without scolding him I will make him abandon this desire in such a way that neither will the spit be burnt nor the meat be left uncooked.
  • صبر فرمودن خواجه مادر دختر را کی غلام را زجر مکن من او را بی‌زجر ازین طمع باز آرم کی نه سیخ سوزد نه کباب خام ماند 
  • “Have patience,” said the Khwája: “tell him, ‘We will break off (the match) with him (the prospective bridegroom) and give her to you,’
  • گفت خواجه صبر کن با او بگو  ** که ازو ببریم و بدهیمش به تو 
  • That perchance I may banish this (hope) from his mind: watch and see how I will thwart him. 285
  • تا مگر این از دلش بیرون کنم  ** تو تماشا کن که دفعش چون کنم