About this time I heard disagreeable accounts of Sheikh Bayezīd’s* proceedings. I sent Sultan Ali Tūrk to arrange a truce of twenty days with him.

Aug. 30.

On Friday, the 2nd of Zilhijeh, I began to read the texts, which were to be repeated forty-one times.* At this same period I composed the verses,

(Tūrki)—

Let me celebrate thine eyes, thine eyebrows, thy converse, thy love, Let me celebrate thy cheeks, thy hair, and thy kindness to me—*

in five hundred and four measures, and collected them in a book.* At this time I again fell sick,* and was ill for Sept. 26. nine days. On Thursday, the 29th of Zilhijeh, I set out on horseback to visit Koel and Sambal.*