Storia do Mogor 203.2.4

203.2.4

In the midst of so much idleness, enjoyment, and grandeur, they cannot fail to get their minds loaded with the impurity of many vices. For they never reflect on death, and through all the palaces such a thing is never mentioned, nor anything to bring it before the eyes or mind. When these ladies chance to fall ill, they are carried away to a very pretty set of rooms in the palace, which they style the bimār-khānah, or house for the sick. There they are nursed and tended with all possible exactitude, and they only come forth either well or dead. When the latter is the case, the king seizes all the wealth of the defunct. If the patient is one esteemed by the monarch, he goes to see her at the beginning of her illness, and if she does not recover promptly, he does not go back to her again, but he sends from time to time a slave to ask after the state of her health.