1. And a miser whose harshness pervades his home
As if I were lodged in the corner of some notebook

2. He hosted me, the truest host I've known
Wealthy, yet living a pauper's life

3. With meat of a goat as dry as timber
Recently bereft of grazing and kisses

4. As if the greatest part of its dryness is wood
Cast in a bag from the emaciation of its hide

5. And black musty khoshkanaj
As if it were a piece of buffalo horn

6. Ancient, from the remains of its mother's hump
Preserved throughout its lifetime like Satan

7. So I passed the worst night in the stables of deprivation
And married the evil of marriages therein