Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 4.13.8

4.13.8

or if a remembrance of our past services should render our execution unwelcome, please to divest us of our offices, and to dismiss us altogether from your service, that we may be at leisure to take a journey to the house of God, in order to heap honours upon our heads by visiting the tomb of the Prince of men (our glorious Ancestor, on whom be peace for ever!) or if your Majesty chooses to draw some further services from us, and to keep us near your sacred person, vouchsafe, great sire, to dismiss your suspicions, and cease to listen to the suggestions of a set of covetous, envious, designing tale-tellers, that are perpetually aiming at the lives of such faithful servants as we, without once minding how much blood we have spent in the Imperial cause. Be reconciled, great sire, to these your two approved servants, and cease to harbour sentiments equally repugnant to that sense of gratitude, so natural to generous minds, and to the stability of an agreement consecrated by the most tremendous oaths."