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A51901	The seventh volume of letters writ by a Turkish spy who lived five and forty years undiscover'd at Paris : giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople of the most remarkable transactions of Europe, and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France) continued from the year 1642 to the year 1682 / written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, and from thence into English, by the translator of the first volume.	Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.; Bradshaw, William, fl. 1700.; Midgley, Robert, 1655?-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing M565DC; ESTC R35023	159,469	386

sure stream with fiercest Venoms rather than with Human Blood The Poyson of Dragons and Asps is under his Tongue and the Gall of Crocodiles within his Lips His Lungs breath nothing but Infernal Smokes the Spirit Negidher times the Systole and Diastole of his Heart and his whole Body is a Den of Fiends as Foul and Black as those which guard the Throne of the Great Prince of Darkness I cou'd have easily forgiven his sly malicious Attempts upon my Life and Honour his Interloping Tricks and Plots his Calumnies and Slanders with all the Train of his Perfidious Actions But that he shou'd abuse the Vertuous Fatima Daughter to our Uncle Vseph is an Injury I cann't put up or pardon That Innocent Lady ne'er deserv'd such Cruel Unmanly Usage at his Hands The Dregs of a Thousand bitter Curses be his Portion to drink in Hell unless he repent of this prodigious Baseness and make Honourable Satisfaction Thou wilt wonder perhaps what is Solyman's Crime that fills me with such Implacable Resentments Know then that Fatima's Husband being call'd to the Grand Signior's Service in the Wars of Dalmatia and for that Reason forc'd to tarry from her above these Fourteen Moons she entrusted Solyman with an Affair of grand Importance a Matter which concern'd her Life Honour and Welfare in the World It seems she had a Quarrel with an old Grecian Hag who sought to prostitute her to the Great Cadi of Smyrna where she lives This Grandee had by a strange Accident seen Fatima in a Bath frequented onely by Women of Quality However through some neglect of the Servants he was not spy'd himself but went away deeply in Love That Passion thou know'st makes every Body restless that is tormented with it He knew not how to ease himself but by communicating his thoughts to the fore-mention'd Grecian Widow whom he had often made the Confident of his Amours The thorow-pac'd Bawd soon promis'd him Relief and that she wou'd accomplish his Desires However she fail'd and found her self mistaken when she came to tempt the Inviolate Chastity of Fatima For all her glittering Promises her softest Rhetorick cou'd ne'er corrupt a Heart establish'd firm in Vertue Mad at her Repulse she studies how to be reveng'd conceiving it not impossible to bring her Designs about by Violence since Fair Perswasions wou'd not do She frames a Formal Accusation against Fatima before the Cadi taxing her with Witchcraft and other Crimes upon Oath The Cadi having learn'd his Lesson wou'd not hear the Cause in open Divan but pretending Indisposition of Body caus'd her to be brought before him in his private Bed chamber The Greek had ready by her several suborn'd Witnesses to depose most horrid Things against the Innocent Woman When the Cadi professing an intire Respect to Fatima's Husband seem'd to take Pity on her Circumstances and wav'd the farther Prosecution of the Cause till another Time keeping Fatima Prisoner in the mean while in his own Palace All this was manag'd so privately that no Body in the Town took Notice of it save an Acquaintance or Two of the Grecian Widow and Solyman our worthy Cousin who happen'd to be at Smyrna in this very Juncture among his other Rambles Persons in Trouble are willing to fly for Refuge to any Friend desiring their Assistance Fatima all in Tears at such an unexpected Change of her Condition had Leisure and Opportunity to speak to Solyman conjuring him to go to certain Intimate Friends of our Family living in Aleppo and tell them her Circumstances Instead of this the Faithless Villain goes to her Husband's Friends at Tripoli telling them the most shameful and scandalous Things of Fatima his Malice cou'd invent and that by her lewd Courses she had well-nigh ruin'd her Husband producing at the same Time forged Bills and Letters as from him whereby he rais'd a Thousand Zequins with which the perjur'd Villain 's gone no Body knows whither to make his broken Fortunes once again and lay a Foundation for new Cheats Whilst the poor injur'd Fatima is forc'd to bear the Reproach and Infamy of Things whereof she ne'er was guilty But Time I hope will clear her Innocence and bring that Cursed Vagabond to Shame I counsell'd him indeed long ago to travel and see the various Regions of the Earth But I ne'er advis'd him to load his Soul in such long Voyages with the Guilt of base Ingratitude barbarous Malice Perfidy and other Vices of the blackest Hue. The smaller Frailties Stains and Blemishes of Human Life are too great a Burden for a generous Heart to bear without Complaints and Sighs He that has but a Spark of Vertue in him blushes for every Peccadillo he commits If tempted by good Company or in Hopes to banish Melancholy Thoughts he indulge himself a larger Draught of Wine than what is Ordinary and so insensibly boil up his Blood to Irregular Heights and Superfluities he 's all this while no Body's Foe but his own He plots no Mischief against his Friend Relation Harmless Neighbour or Acquaintance All the Enmity he shews is to himself and in his Cups he is not aware of that For which Reason afterwards to expiate the Criminal Advances he made to self-Murder he willingly scums off the grosser Ebullition of his heated Veins in penitent weeping A Flood of Tears runs from his Eyes like generous Libations at the Foot of the Altar to pacify the Wrath of God whilst the lighter Part evaporates in pious Sighs and Vows Thus his Pollution vanishes like Smoak and he is soon made Clean again And so in other Vices 't is the same with Men dispos'd to Vertue They endeavour to root out the Evil Habits they 're accustom'd to They try all Ways and Stratagems to reform themselves But wicked Men by Inclination sin on without Remorse They never study to retrench the Evils they commit Ever propense to Vice they chuse its ways and court the Opportunities of doing Impious Things They 're natively Unjust and cannot live at Ease without premeditated Crimes It is their Element to be projecting Mischief And such a one is Solyman our Cousin God inspire him with more Grateful Sentiments towards his Friends more Natural and Affectionate to those of his Blood and a more just Deportment to all Men Or else may he be like Cain who for murdering his Brother was condemn'd to be a Vagabond on Earth and like Zeuli Bazar the Persian who falsely accus'd Hosain the Prophet and for that Reason was troubled with a Palsy in his Head as long as he liv'd Paris 15th of the 10th Moon of the Year 1667. LETTER XV. To the Mufti 's Vicar I Sent an Account to the Port of the Death of the late Rumbeg or Pope who is the Great Patriarch of the Nazarenes Now the Cardinals have chosen another to succeed him whom they call Clement IX A Man of a great Character for Learning and Piety and one from whom the Franks expect Glorious Things to be done for the

Publick Good of Christendom These Popes seem to inherit the Authority and Honour of the Ancient Pontifex Maximus or High-Priest of the Romans in the Time of Paganism Nay they assume a far more Ample and Uncontroulable Power For those Gentile Prelates always submitted to the Imperial Authority from which they receiv'd Protection and Maintenance But these Christian Fathers acknowledge no Superiour on Earth Kings and Emperours do Homage to them and perform the meanest Services as to hold the Bason whilst the Pope washes his hands to hold the Stirrop whilst he mounts or alights from off his Mule Sometimes Great Princes lead his Horse by the Bridle whilst 〈◊〉 another Season they carry him on their Shoulders 'T is Recorded that Eumenes King 〈◊〉 Pergamus came to Rome and pulling off his Turbant humbly laid it on the Ground before the Senate confessing he receiv'd his Liberty from them And Prusias King of Bithynia us'd to style himself the Roman Senate's Slave and bow down to the Earth before them But this is nothing to the Reverence which Greatest Monarchs pay the Pope when crawling on their Hands and Knees they kiss the Sandal on his Foot He can make and depose Kings at Pleasure absolve Subjects from their Allegiance bind and remit Sins open and shut the Gates of Paradise Purgatory and Hell or at least he endeavours to make the World believe so He has Seventy Cardinals for his Assistants and Counsellors all equal to Princes A Hundred and Thirty Archbishops under his Obedience A Thousand and Seventeen Bishops A Hundred and Forty Four Thousand Monasteries and Religious Houses Three Hundred Thousand Parishes obeying his Will and yielding Homage to him So that if he were resolv'd to carry on some lasting War he need only lay an Impost of Six Crowns a Year on every Monastery and Fifty Two on every Parish and it would amount to Sixteen Millions of Crowns yearly Income And if out of every Monastery he chose out Ten Men he wou'd have an Army of Fourteen Hundred and Forty Thousand Men Which is more than any Potentate in the World can do beside Thou wilt say 't is a Wonder then he does not put this in Practice and so wage War with the Grand Signior who has fleec'd him of so many flourishing Countries formerly under his Obedience O Sacred Oracle of the Mussulmans God has tied up his Hand he cannot do it These are but Empty Speculations Impracticable Projects Phantastick Chimaera's The mighty Train of his Archbishops Bishops Parish-Priests with Jesuits Monks and Friars though never so willing to obey his Orders in such a Case yet cannot stir a Foot without the Leave of their Respective Sovereigns For they are dispers'd through divers Kingdoms States and Principalities where they are subject to the Laws and Government in Force So that unless he cou'd unite the Hearts of all the Christian Princes one with another and with his own to undertake so grand an Expedition it is impossible ever to effect his Will Each Nation has an Interest of its own to pursue which makes 'em deaf to such Proposals as may embarass if not ruine them No Peter of the Desart rambling up and down from Court to Court with his Religious Harangue will e'er again prevail to raise another Crusade That Zeal is out of Fashion now in Christendom Kings in these later Ages have not half the Attach and Veneration for the Pope they had in former Times When Pope Boniface VIII claim'd a Temporal Jurisdiction in France Philip the Fair being then King sent him this short Answer Let thy Great Sottishness know That in Temporals we are subject to none but God alone And a French Embassador at Rome speaking something boldly to the Pope the Prelate reproach'd him That his Father was burnt for a Heretick whereupon the Embassador gave him such a Box o' th' Ear that he fell down as dead But it was a tart Message indeed which the Eastern Bishops sent to Pope John III. who claim'd an Universal Authority over all the Churches in the World For said they We firmly believe thy Absolute Authority over thy own Subjects but we who are not subject to thee cannot bear thy Pride nor are we able to satiate thy Avarice The Devil be with thee and God with us In a Word All Denmark Swedeland Norway Holland England Scotland Geneva Ireland half the Empire and half Suisserland are fallen off from their Obedience to the Pope within these Two Hundred Years And those Kingdoms and States which yet continue under the Yoke are ready to shake it off at every Turn when they are never so little gaul'd and vex'd France Spain and Venice often huff the Pope into Compliance with their Demands Nor dares he to resist but winks and puts up all like an old decrepid Father for whom his Sons are grown too strong Holy Successor of the Prophet and Messengers of God Thou art th' Infallible Interpreter of the Law and Judge of Equity yet dost not arrogate a Power above thy Commission The Grana Signior honours thy Wisdom and Sanctity And thou obey'st with humble Submission the Imperial Edicts He is thy Lord and thou his Guide and Tutor in the Way to Paradise May God encrease thy Illuminations with thy Years and inspire me and all the True Faithful with sincere Loyalty to our Sovereign and devout Obedience to thee without the least Alloy of Treachery or Superstition Paris 2d of the 11th Moon of the Year 1667. LETTER XVI To Nathan Ben Saddi a Jew at Vienna NOW thou seest I am a truer Prophet than thy New Messias that Impostor Sabbati Sevi And yet though I 'm so in Effect I do not aspire at the Title I claim no Character above that of a Mortal who has not quite forfeited his Sence and Reason However if thou wilt yet retain some Veneration for his Person shew it by imitating his Example and embrace the Mussulman Faith as he has done At least he Outwardly professes it and had the Honour to do so first in Presence of the Sultan I know not whether thou hast heard of this or no. Thy Brethren perhaps may be unwilling to disperse the News of a Conversion bringing so much Infamy to all Your Race 'T is possible they are asham'd to own or publish to the World the Tidings of their own Egregious Folly in giving up their Faith to such a Cheat as this A Cheat as one wou'd think grown stale and fetid enough to make a man that had the smallest Grain of Sence recoil considering how oft your Fathers have been bubbl'd before by such Upstart Messiasses such Spucious Prophets as this I commend the Wit of Sabbati Sevi in that he would not stand the Brunt of the Grand Signiors Archers or by a vain Presumption hope for Miracles from Heaven to skreen his Naked Body from a Show'r of Fatal Shafts Had he been so rash I should esteem him the Greatest Miracle of Stupidity that e'er was extant on the Earth