1. If you wish to win favor,

    And dress in Fūwah finery,

  2. And become a man of wealth,

    Then be an uncouth Nabataean.

  3. But if it pleases you to suffer,

    And to become despised,

  4. Then be a man of mighty lineage,

    And, on top of that, a grammarian.

Sol 5.6