سندبادنامه 236.7

236.7

9 داستان زن صاحب جمال با مرد بقال دستور گفت : چنین شنیذه ام از ثقات روات ، کی در مواضی ایام 5دهقانی وذه است صاین ومتدین ومتورع ومتقی . زنی داشت بر عادت ابنای روز گار ، در متابعت شهوت ونهمت گام فراختر بهاذی ، واستتباع لهو ولعب از لوازم روزگار خوذ شمردی . روزی آن دهقان اورا قراضهٔ‌ی داذ ، تا پرنج خرذ . زن بازار شذ ، ونزدیک بقالی رفت ، زر سقال داذ ، بغمزه وکرشمه گفت : بدین زر برنج ده !

The Story of the Beautiful Woman and the Grocer
The minister said: 'I have heard from trustworthy transmitters that in times past,
there was a peasant who was chaste, religious, abstinent, and pious. He had a wife who, after the custom
of worldly people, took wider strides in the pursuit of desire and craving, and counted the pursuit
of amusement and frivolity among the necessities of her life. One day that peasant gave her
a scrap of money to buy rice. The woman went to the bazaar and came to a grocer;
she gave the coin to the grocer, and with an amorous wink and coquetry said: 'Give me rice for this coin!'