Storia do Mogor 63.4.9

63.4.9

One day he came with this array into the royal square, where there was a crowd of mendicants called 'Bequed' (Be-qaid, 'emancipated'). When they beheld the king, they cried with loud voices: 'Oh! you eat by yourself and drink without sharing with us.' On hearing this, the king descended from his elephant and sat himself down in the midst of them, eating and drinking, accompanied by music and mirth. The faqirs, who had already been drinking, began to give every one of them his criticism on the manner in which he ought to govern. Having listened patiently until they had finished talking, he fell a-weeping, and sent them on their way.