1. Do not befriend one who is ascetic, though he may wear ascetic garb,
And if you fight, then fight like a warrior against your foe.

2. A youth serving me drink, I said "My life is yours," he just smiled.
So with my eyes I thanked him, he bashfully turned from me and laughed.

3. I said it not meaning it, only to embarrass him,
Had I repeated it, he would have wept.

4. A noble girl we bought for a dirham,
From the womb of a blackened, branded Abyssinian, not freeborn.

5. Her stumps for hands are like severed limbs,
Expecting neither firewood nor work from them.

6. When mixed with water and blended,
The blending produced for her a pearl necklace.