Storia do Mogor 281.1.7

281.1.7

Not only did he not reward them as he had promised, but he caused several of them to be poisoned, quite light-heartedly, on mere suspicion, just for fear they might betray him as they had done their former sovereign. He acted in the same way after the conquest of other kingdoms, Hindu and Mahomedan. Several persons belonging to them had blindly confided in him by reason of the promises that he made, and the rewards and honours they hoped to obtain from him. In the end they found themselves looked on as traitors. They had forgotten that the Mogul promises much and gives little. In spite of this being well enough known, he still goes on engaging, and then deceiving, a number of people by such-like false promises. Thus has he always lived, and does still live, like a hypocrite — that is to say, good and holy to look at, but in reality an ill-doer and devil.