XXI. BAYĀẒĪ.

He lived in Agra after the fashion of humble men and the style of bygone days. This opening couplet of a qaṣidah is his:—

“Whoever enjoys the fruits of union with that jasmine-
bodied cypress
Owes it to his good fortune. It is his good fortune that
enjoys the fruit.”

On the discussion raised by Kāhī and Ghazālī* he wrote the following quatrain:—

Kāhī and Ghazālī, those two drunken fools,
Have put hand to pen to belittle Jāmī* and Navā'ī.*
There has been nobody like them in the world,
For Kāhī* is nought but straw and Ghazālī* is nought but
a dog.”