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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

trample on it in Disdain spreading their Armies far and wide and boasting that their Empires have no Bounds each do's but hasten to be shut up himself within a little obscure and putrid Hole not much surpassing the Limits of a Mole-Hill Great Bassa Let not the Honours and Dignities thou possessest make thee forget the Miseries to which thou art liable each Hour But remember thou art a Man Paris the 6th of the 11th Moon of the Year 1669. LETTER XIII To the Kaimacham HEre is arriv'd a Muta-faraca call'd Solyman Ismael with Expresses from the Grand Signior 'T was no small Refreshment to see his publick Entry which appear'd like a little Epitome of the Mussulman Grandeur and Magnificence The Young Rabble were as curious to be Spectators of this Eastern Cavalcade as the Romans were fond of beholding the Secular Plays which were exhibited but once in an Age. Nay People of all Ranks Ages and Qualities fill'd the Streets the Windows and Battlements of their Houses Some because they never saw such a fight before others despairing that they should live long enough to be Witnesses of such another Yet with all their Curiosity none but the Ministers of State are able to dive into the least Secret of his Instructions These willing communicate the Titles which the Great Arbiter of the Earth gives the French King That so not only his Subjects but Neighbouring Nations may conceive the profounder Veneration for him without penetrating the Measures he takes This is an Artifice common to all States to turn the best Side outermost only the Hollanders excepted who in the Days of their Revolt from the King of Spain cou'd not so much as put a good Face on a bad Matter But were forc'd to expose their Poverty and Nakedness as well as suffer under it addressing themselves to Elizabeth then Queen of England in the Character of The Poor Distressed States of Holland and so begging her Assistance However Solyman has faithfully imparted to me his Affairs as I have reason to believe He 's too well born and bred possesses more Reason and Wit than to amuse the Old Man in the Cassock so they call me here in the Streets who know me not by any other Character so Private is Mahmut in Paris at this Hour notwithstanding all his publick Sufferings I esteem Ismael as one fit to represent the Grand Signior's Person among better People than Infidels Yet I tell thee the French are the most refin'd of all the Western Giafers Ismael understands the Force of the Civil Laws which he learn'd from Justinian's Code and other Books For he is perfect in Greek and Latin and has bestow'd some Years in reading their Book both Prints and Manuscripts He makes a very Personable Figure being Tall Full-body'd Well-shap'd and not of an ugly Face which is enough to be said of a Man design'd for Business and not only for Love He 's never in danger of falling under Cato's Censure who seeing Two Embassadors sent from Rome to a Foreign State one of which had his Head so little that it could hardly be distinguish'd from that of an Owl and the other such a Cripple that he cou'd not walk without a Cripple that he cou'd not walk without Stilts cry'd out Here 's an Embassy which has neither Head nor Tail And then our Muta-faraca is rich He supports the Charges of his Commission with extraordinary Munificence His House is already become the Sanctuary of all the distress'd Levantines whether Greeks Armenians or Followers of the Prophet and he speaks French as readily as a Native Yet he Dissembles his Expertness in that Language to keep up the State and Reservedness of the Ottoman Empire which disdains to condescend to any other Speech than Turkish or Arabick Besides he has the Advantage by thus artificially shutting his Ears that he can at one time both hear and be deaf understand and be ignorant of whatsoever is said by the Spies of the French King And this is no small Gift in a Man of his Character and Trust For he had need of an Angel or a Devil at 's Elbow that thinks to over-reach this Court. Above all I believe our Solyman will never be guilty of the Error committed by the Embassadors sent from Tenedos to one of the Roman Emperors I 'm sure he is not yet For those Gentlemen had seen the Death of the Emperor's Son Eleven Moons and Fourteen Days as the Story says before they knew 't was their Duty to make an Address of Condolence Or at least before they call'd it to mind for they were drown'd in the Roman Luxury So that when they came to perform that Devoir the Emperor cou'd not forbear to Scoff at them in these Terms I much lament said he the Fate of the Renowned Hector your Country-Man and Champion whom Achilles the Grecian kill'd above a Thousand Years agoe I speak this in a particular Regard to Solyman's Deportment here For when he first came to this Court he found them all in Mourning for the Death of the King's Aunt the late Queen of England and of other High Personages particularly those that were slain in the late Action at Candia whereof I have already given an Account to the Sublime Port in another Letter Without Instructions he very demurely accosted the King and told him There cou'd be no Dunalma in the Ottoman Empire for the late Success at Candia so long as the French Court were Mourners This was a sensible Touch to those that understood it and from that Moment the Grandees and Ministers of State have made a Difference in their Entertainment of this Ingenious Muta-faraca and that which they us'd to give to the Chiauses formerly sent from the Port. I can assure thee he is at the same time very Blunt and very Elegant in his Discourse There 's Fire in every word he utters to warm and refresh if they take it at a due Distance but if they approach too near he scorches their Spirits and puts them into a Choler they dare not shew They consume inwardly in their own Despight yet cannot help themselves Doubtless the King of France is the Greatest Monarch the most Powerful and Victorious Prince in Christendom the only Invincible Emperor of the Western Franks Yet he veils to our Majestick Sovereign Lord of the whole Earth And our Eunuch will not part with a Tittle of his Master's Honour or give any Advantage by an Easiness worthy of Blame in a case that may be turn'd to a Precedent He is very happy in his Repartees as thou wilt perceive by the Answer he gave to a French Lord yesterday when he ask'd him Whether he thought it not a Violation of the Civil Law for Embassadors to be Imprison'd as they often are at the Ottoman Port No says Solyman it is not where the Embassador is guilty of Treason or Crimen laesae Majestatis But if it were you French men have the least Reason to accuse us of it since we

who every Moon us'd to Fast for Seven or Eight Days together So a famous German Maid was diligently observ'd and watch'd whilst she pass'd away full Seven Years Time without Meat Drink Sleep or Excrements France also boasts of another Virgin who fasted above Three Years together Such Abstinences as these are not to be put to the Account of Vertue in regard they were not the Effects of Humane Choice but the Decrees of Fate So wou'd our Abstinence be deprav'd if we shou'd only practise it as the old Gentiles did who forbore to kill or eat some certain Beasts because they held them consecrated to their Gods As the Dog to Diana the Tyger to Bacchus the Horse to Neptune the Woolf to Mars the Eagle to Jupiter the Peacock to Juno the Swan to Apollo the Dove to Venus the Owl to Minerva Nor need we abstain on the Account of the Soul's Transmigration for so we ought to forbear the Vegetable Products of the Earth as well as Animals since the Soul is Indifferent to all Bodies in its separate State But our Reason in this Point ought to take its Rise from the Fundamental Law of Nature the Original Justice of the World which teaches us Not to do that to another which we wou'd not have another do to us Now since 't is evident That no Man wou'd willingly become the Food of Beasts therefore by the same Rule he ought not to prey on them Next to this Foundation of our Abstinence we ought to build our Aims at the Perfection of our Nature which cannot be acquir'd but by Degrees We must endeavour to abate the Aliment of our Concupiscences by exhaling the superfluous and grosser Vapours of our Blood in Sacred Fasts and Oraisons Then we shou'd refresh our fainting Bodies with Food affording little Nourishment and Pleasure That so our vain Affections Appetites and Lusts may gradually die Whilst the pure Mind revives and being free from the gross Vapours arising from too much and too fatning Meats and Drinks the Films which darken'd her Sight fall off and she can better now discern the Naked Forms of Things by her own simple Intuition than before she cou'd through all the borrow'd Spectacles and other Opticks of Book-Philosophy Also she will more easily raise her self to the Contemplation and Science of Divine Eternal Things He therefore that in Earnest will apply himself to the Study of accomplish'd Sanctity must first by Fasting exhaust the Marrow from his Bones the Fatness from his Flesh the Wild and Rampant Spirits from his Nerves and then he must purge the Words and Actions of his Life from Vice When this is done the Soul becoming a pure Tabula Rasa is fit for the Impressions of Celestial Vertue Those who labour under acute Diseases run great Hazard of their Lives according to Hippocrates unless their Diet be accommodated with proportionate Regard to the Quality and Time of the Critical Fits or Paroxisms But those who are entangl'd with Vice do labour under far more dangerous Distempers than such as afflict the Body Wherefore the Prophet our Holy Law-giver like a Wise Physician appointed certain Seasons of the Year for Sacred Abstinences Fastings Pilgrimages Vigils and other Holy Exercises especially the Mighty Fast and Vigil of Ramezan wherein tho' it be not forbid to eat of Flesh after the Stars appear at Night yet none but loose and indevout Believers take that Liberty whereas the better Sort content themselves with an Ascetick Diet. The Hebrews fasted with Unleaven'd Bread and a little Salad the Christians also taste no Flesh on their prohibited Days And shall the Mussulmans be greater Libertines than these Infidels O Hebatolla how radiant is the Lustre of a Lamp when shining through a clean and fine defaecate Chrystal So does the Soul display the Rays of her Immortal Vertue round about when she inhabits in a well purifi'd chaste and almost pervious Body VVherefore it is absolutely necessary for him to attenuate his Body with perpetual Temperance and Abstinence who consecrates himself to Vertue and Devotion He will not be ensnar'd or catch'd by any Baits of Luxury or Voluptuousness not yet affrighted from his constant sober Course of Life by any Pain or thwarting Accident No Frowns or Menaces shall divert him from his Noble Purpose But he will so nourish his Body all his Life that it shall never be Surfeited or over-fill'd with Meats And such is the Magick of this Sacred Vertue That it can never be hurt much less subverted by all the Machinations of Evil Daemons or the Malicious Attempts of Men. But it proceeds from Strength to Strength and fights the Combat valiantly till having overcome at last it Triumphs for ever and receives the Palm the Crown and Chaplet of Divine Reward in Paradise Holy President pray that I may practise what I so admire and not be self-condemn'd for living contrary to my Knowledge For God neither loves a double Tongue or Heart neither delights he in Feet or Hands that are swift and nimble to do Mischief Paris 13th of the 4th Moon of the Year 1669. LETTER VIII To Hamet Reis Effendi Principal Secretary of the Ottoman Empire NOw the Christians are in a general Consternation for Candy The Pope has sent Letters to all the Princes that are in his Communion inviting and pressing them to succour that Distress'd Island Levies are making every where and the King of France who seeks all Occasions of Glory appears the most forward of any to assist the Republick in this Fatal Juncture The Duke of Beaufort and the Chevalier de Vendosm are appointed to lead the Forces design'd for that Service They are gone to Toulon in Order to embarque The Pope has sent the Duke of Beaufort a Breve declaring him General of the Troops Ecclesiastick that are to serve in Candy and for his greater Encouragement he has sent him the Pontifical Standard In the mean while there is a Triple League concluded between the Emperour the King of Spain the King of England the King of Swedeland and the States of Holland There is great Joy in Portugal for the Birth of the Infanta who is call'd Elizabetha-Maria-Louisa She was Born the 6th of the 1st Moon and on the 18th the Empress of Germany was also deliver'd of a Daughter These Western Queens are very pregnant Not a Year passes without the Birth or Baptism of some Royal Infant This is all the News at present but to oblige thee I will say something of Italy which is esteem'd the Garden of Europe Nay Constantine Paleologus Emperor of Greece was wont to say Vnless I had been assur'd by very Learned and Holy Men that Paradise was seated in Asia I shou'd have sworn that Italy had been the Place It is most certain Italy is a delectable Country abounding in Riches and Pleasures The Eye is not satisfi'd with seeing the infinite Variety of Beauties which grace this happy Region Such is the lovely Intermixture of Hills and Valleys Groves and