"For they have said, 'Ten darwlshes can sleep under one blanket, but two kings cannot find room in one clime.'
If a man of God eat half a loaf, He gives the other to a darwish ; Let a king grip the rule of a clime, He dreams of another to grip." '
Baql Beg urged further that Khusrau Shah's retainers and followers would be coming in that day or the next to take service with the Padshah {i.e. Babur); that there were such sedition-mongers with them as the sons of Ayub Begchik, besides other who had been the stirrers and spurs to disloyalty amongst their Mlrzas,2 and that if, at this point, Jahanglr Mlrza were dismissed, on good and friendly terms, for Khurasan, it would remove a source of later repentance. Urge it as he would, however, I did not accept his suggestion, because it is against my nature to do an injury to my brethren, older or younger,3 or to any kinsman soever, even when something untoward has happened. Though formerly between Jahanglr Mlrza and me, resentments and recriminations had occurred about our rule and retainers, yet there was nothing whatever then to arouse anger against him ; he had come out of that country {i.e. Farghana) with me and was behaving like a blood-relation and a servant. But in the end it was just as Baql Beg predicted ; those tempters to disloyalty, that is to say, Ayub's Yusuf and Ayub's Bihlfll, left me for Jahanglr Mlrza, took up a hostile and mutinous position, parted him from me, and conveyed him into Khurasan.
(d. Co-operation invited against S\ Jbdq Khan.)
In those days came letters from SI. Husain Mlrza, long and far-fetched letters which are still in my possession and in that of others, written to Badl'u'z-zamSn Mlrza, myself, Khusrau Shah and Zu'n-niin Beg, all to the same purport, as follows : "When the three brothers, SI. Mahmud Mlrza, SI. Ahmad Mlrza, and Aulugh Beg Mlrza, joined together and advanced
1 Gulistan cap. i, story 3. Part of this quotation is used again on f. 183.
2 Mahmud's sons under whom Baql had served-
3 Uncles of all degrees are included as elder brethren, cousins of all degrees, as younger ones.
