_ 285 _ confirmed to Shah Tahmasp what he had been told by him Arabmuhammad, and he immediately ordered that Sultan Bayazit be imprisoned. When Shah Tahmasp’s sister saw that he had been imprisoned, she feared that some injury might be inflicted on him because of the great love she now had for him. She arranged to give poison to Shah Tahmasp. She soon set to work, and gave it to him in wine for Shah Tahmasp was so devoted to her that he neither ate nor drank but by her hand, and this brought him to the brink of death. The King of Gilan sent him a physician, who, with many medicines he administered to him, cured and healed him after he been sick for a long time. When he was well and properly informed of the truth, he soon killed his sister, having lost all the love he bore her. He forbade wine in all his domain on pain of the most severe punishments, saying that it appeared to him that he was destined to be killed by wine. When the Turk heard of these events, he sent to tell Shah Tahmasp that he should send his son to him alive or dead. Shah Tahmasp replied that he could not send him alive because of the treachery he had perpetrated upon him, but that neither would he kill him he dared not,
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