Come my friends, said he, and I will advise you, 



I will lay hand on the scyiniter and destroy the xelig'ion of the prophet. 



Place your full confidence in me if you v/otsid please God ; 



For. I am your God, even I myself: regard me as the Prophet, I am ia mi 



respect deficient : 

 Regard me as Mehedi, I am in. no respect defective : 

 I am the true and sufficient guide: hold this for certain, 



Ba'yezi'd had announced to his followers, that he would levy an army" 

 and march into ^ Hi Ji dust an y to overthrow the emperor Acbar ; and such 

 was his vanity, and arrogance^ that he already began to partition out the 

 different provinces of the empire, among his followers. One of these, to 

 whom he consigned D^A/z/, had the insolence to refuse it, alledging that it 

 lay almost desolate. He did not however confine himself to empty vauntSj 

 but began to levy men with great activity, and to collect horses from every 

 quarter. In pursuance of this design, he issued a proclamation, requiring 

 all who possessed horses to bring them, and deliver them over to him 

 ^Yithout delay; and declaring that he would pay the owners double prices, 

 as soon as he had conquered the emperor Acbar, and possessed himself 

 of they^ediXihoi Hindustan. This order, however extravagant, he caused 





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