1. If you are a friend accustomed to pride, no gentle heart will bear it
However much you receive from me, in truth, your lack is baseness and acceptance

2. I am not one who turns away when we meet, frowning like an angry man when he speaks
Nor a murmurer like a she-camel, her sending forth long and her bleating two days then ceasing

3. Nor am I like a coward who hears people's defeat of him, while under loud noise there is a besieger and surrounding foe