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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05751	The history of the imperiall estate of the grand seigneurs their habitations, liues, titles ... gouernment and tyranny. Translated out of French by E.G. S.A.; Histoire generalle du serrail, et de la cour du Grand Seigneur, Empereur des Turcs. English	Baudier, Michel, 1589?-1645.; Baudier, Michel, 1589?-1645. Histoire de la cour du roy de la Chine. aut; Grimeston, Edward.	1635 (1635)	STC 1593; ESTC S101093	139,442	200

beautie and the allurement of graces are destinated to the filthinesse of his abominable pleasures The Bashaes bring them from remote Prouinces and present them vnto him This disorder is so inueterate in the Serrail as of twenty Emperours which haue carried the Turkish Scepter you shall hardly find two that were free from this vice Achmat the last which died abandoned it a little before his death by the wise aduice of the M●f● and his Sonne Amurath the Fourth who raignes at this present 1626. is yet so young as bee may be easily diuerted from this excesse and framed to vertue eschewing the Rockes where his Predecessours haue suffered shipwracke What doth it auaile such great and redoubted Monarchs to be the glorious vanquishers of so many Nations if they themselues be captiues to vices The Prince is the Physicion of the State but how can hee cure it if hee himselfe bee sicke Hee is the heart but what meanes is there to giue it life if it hath weaknesse and faintings Hee is the eye and how can he see and lead others if it be troubled and darkened with passions Euery Prince that loues his Throne his Scepter and his Estate must flie vice and cherish wisdome For a wise Prince is the assurance of those and the support of his people CHAP. XI Of the Grand Seigneurs Women of their Lodging their Liues their Gouernment and their Fortune THe precedent Chapter hath related the fire of the Grand Seigneurs Loues this will shew you in particular the manners and life of all those which cause it Faire women are to vnstaid spirits flames which burne a farre off Those of the Serrail which make the greatest shew by the lustee of their graces are most commonly strangers taken in the warre or rauished by force But bred vp with an incredible care to make them learne Ciuilitie to play of some Instruments of Musique to Sing and to worke with their Needles most decent for Maids of Qualitie These good parts added to their naturall perfection make them the more commendable They are for the most part Christians but their disaster causing the beauty of their bodies to serue the dishonest pleasures of Turkes prostitute their soules to the false worship of their Law They are no sooner come into the Serrail whither some Basha sends them as a Present to the Sultan and sometimes the great Cham of Tartaria but they cause them to make profession of the Turkish Faith by lifting vp the second finger of the hand in signe that they beleeue but one God only in one only Person and they speake this word Mehemet There are old women which haue the charge to instruct them in the rest of the Turkish beliefe And thus the Princes Serrail is furnished with women They are of two sorts the one haue had his company and are women and the others are yet Virgins The women lodge a part and more a● large they are better serued and haue greater libertie in the royall Pallace The Virgins eate by troupes in the common resectory they retire by day into Chambers vnder the guard and gouernment of old women who gouerne them by tens to labour in some workes and in the night they lie like religious women but not very chast in long Dorters where their Beds are made of soft Mattresses and Couerings for the Women in Turkey as wel as the Men lie clothed and are ranckt of either side there is a passage in the midst and many Lamps burning in the night time And euery ten Maids haue one of the Gouernesses lie by them They which know not the Turkish Tongue goe to learne it in Schooles appointed to that end in the same Serrail These see not the Prince but when they first arriue and conuerse not with him but when he will make vse of them They are furnished with all things necessary for their Entertainment with that abundance which is found continually in the Sultans Serrail The Eunuches which bring them their meate obserue the same order which wee haue described in the Sultans seruice But the Queene who is Mother to the Prince Successour to the Empire is serued in her Quarter where she is stately lodged by her owne Officers Her vessell is not of Gold like the Emperours but of excellent porcelane artificially wrought In her Lodging are the most sumptous Feasts of the Womens Serrail where as many Sultana's meet to shew themselues 〈◊〉 the Emperour who is of the Party to giu● the disordered appetites of all his senses in their company There he● makes a dangerous triall that Beauty wounds deeper then a Dare and the respect which all these women yeeld him carrying themselues towards him with a singular Modesty and a sweet pleasing exempts him from making that troublesome experience that a bad Wife is the shipwracke of her Husband the tempest of the House a trouble-rest a slauery of Life a Quotidian Euill a voluntary Combat a Chargeable warre a Sauage Beast which we nourish a Lionesse wee imbrace a Rocke adorned a malicious Beast and finally necessary Euill The Ladies the Subiects of the Sultans delights liue deliciously neare vnto him Their Serrail containes so great a space as there are within it foure and twenty great Courts most of them paued with polished Marble beautified with their Fountaines inuironed with stones and baths very commodiously where these Nymphes wash themselues and plunge their fires but doe not quench them A stately Mosquee serues in the same place for the exercise of their deuotion The number of the Chambers and goodly Halls are fourescore adorned with precious moueables the Planchers are gilt the walls are painted in flowres of rare Art The floore is couered with rich Persian Carpets of Gold and Silke with a great number of Cushions of Tinsell the Bedsteeds are of Iuory or of Aloes wood and of great pieces of Corall whereof one of them cost in the time of Amurath the Second nintie thousand Sultanins or three hundred and sixtie thousand Liuers They are garnished with rich stuffes of Cloth of Gold The Gardens in great number are the places where as Nature assisted by Art sets forth the beauties of the Spring The Bird-cages and Fountaines adorne them and the Alleys by their shadows defends the beauties of the Sultana's from the heat of the Sunne Seeing that in this stately Pallace the most powerfull Monarches of the Earth serue the beauties of these Sultana's it is fitting that others should serue their persons So they haue many women that doe that office Some are Moores others are white But the Men that serue them are blacke Eunuches from whom they haue taken all They were only mutilated of the inferiour parts which serue for generation But Solyman the Second who ended his Raigne when as Charles the Ninth gouerned France seeing a Gelding leape vpon a Mare he iudged thereby that the Eunuches which kept his women might busie their lasciuious passions and then he caused all to be cut off