1. The pretenders attacked me, though their company was pure Arabs.
I said to them as they barked together against me, but I did not bark back:

2. Are you of them, so I reject you,
And attribute you to their attributes openly?

3. Or else praise my opinion, for I
Remove from you the ugly son.

4. And it is enough of a charge against good people
That you blame a brother for an invalid's crime.