1. O you fault-finder, O son of a scurrilous mother,
Did you feel safe from my extravagance and my transgressions?

2. By the sanctity of the pup in your lap, he
Has a right over adultery.

3. Your invocation against a dog more disgraced
Than your invocation against the poets.

4. Strange is the satirist who exposes his honor
While his mother's shame remains veiled forever.

5. Let his poetry die if it equals mine,
And let him die of rage - he is not my equal!

6. How can my claws miss in a country
Where my hands are extended and my skies vast?

7. Like a torrent before and behind me are the senile and the feeble,
And the donkeys of ignoble men.

8. Destruction take my paternal uncles
Who were ennobled by favors - they were my forefathers!