Hekayat 31 from Chapter 2 of Golestan of Saadi

I grew weary of the company of my friends in Damascus, so I ventured into the wilderness of Jerusalem and found solace among the animals.

Until I was captured by the Franks and made to work in the trenches of Tripoli with the Jews.

One of the chiefs of Aleppo, who had a prior acquaintance with me, passed by, recognized me, and said: “What is this state you are in?!”

I replied: "What can I say?:

I fled from people to the mountains and the plains

For I was not devoted to God among men

Imagine my state now

That I must endure in the stable of the ignoble

It is better to be in chains among friends

Than in a garden with strangers."

He took pity on my condition and for ten dinars, freed me from captivity, took me to Aleppo, and married me to his daughter with a dowry of a hundred dinars.

Some time passed. She was ill-tempered, quarrelsome, and disobedient; she began to speak harshly and made my life miserable.

An ill-tempered wife in the house of a good man

Is like hell in this world

Beware of a bad companion, beware!

And protect us, our Lord, from the torment of the fire

One day, she said with a tone of reproach: “Are you not the one my father bought back from the Franks?”

I replied: “Yes! I am the one he bought back for ten dinars from the Franks and handed over to you for a hundred dinars.”

I heard that a great man saved a sheep

From the jaws and claws of a wolf

At night, he placed a knife to its throat

The soul of the sheep lamented:

"You saved me from the clutches of the wolf

Only to see that you yourself are the wolf."