The Memoirs of Bābur 925.7.6

925.7.6

(_June 8th_) On Tuesday Shāh Beg's Shāh Ḥasan asked for permission to go away for a wine-party. He carried off to his house Khwāja Muḥ. `Alī and some of the household-begs. In my presence were Yūnas-i-`alī and Gadāī T̤aghāī. I was still abstaining from wine. Said I, "Not at all in this way is it (_hech andāq būlmāī dūr_) that I will sit sober and the party drink wine, I stay sane, full of water, and that set (_būlāk_) of people get drunk; come you and drink in my presence! I will amuse myself a little by watching what intercourse between the sober and the drunk is like."[1464] The party was held in a smallish tent in which I sometimes sat, in the Plane-tree garden south-east of the Picture-hall. Later on Ghiyāṣ the house-buffoon (_kīdī_) arrived; several times for fun he was ordered kept out, but at last he made a great disturbance and his buffooneries found him a way in. We invited Tardī Muḥammad _Qībchāq_ also and Mullā _kitāb-dār_ (librarian). The following quatrain, written impromptu, was sent to Shāh Ḥasan and those gathered in his [Sidenote: Fol. 237.] house:— In your beautiful flower-bed of banquetting friends, Our fashion it is not to be; If there be ease (_ḥuzūr_) in that gathering of yours, Thank God! there is here no un-ease [_bī ḥuzūr_].[1465] It was sent by Ibrāhīm _chuhra_. Between the two Prayers (_i.e._ afternoon) the party broke up drunk.