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A31023	Mirza a tragedie, really acted in Persia, in the last age : illustrated with historicall annotations / the author, R.B., Esq.	Baron, Robert, b. 1630.	1647 (1647)	Wing B891; ESTC R17210	172,168	287

thousand of years laid him a baking in the Sun untill he was pleased to breath life into him Then commanded he all the Angels to fall down and worship Adam which all did but Sathan then an Angel of light saying he was created of a more excellent nature fire and man of durt then God cursed and cast out Sathan who has ever since continued an Enemy to man How did the Angels fall for not reverencing of man when they were fallen before man was made and envying his standing tempted him to his fall and how could man lay a baking some thousand of yeares in the Sun when the Sun was made but two dayes before man Gen. 1. The Alcoran failes in point of History and Time l. 3. c. 1. where it mistakes Mary the Prophetesse for the B. Virg●n Mary making Mary the sister of Moses Mother of our Saviour when there were above 1500. years between them The reason of this mistake might be Mahomets ignorance in Antiquities and Chronology finding in Arabic Moses his Father called Hembram by which name Joachim our Ladies Father is also called But by what infallible Spirit was this Scripturist led that could admit to grosse a mistake Another errour in Time and Reason is l. 3. c. 3. Where he affirms that God sent the Alforcan which is the same with the Alcoran as Andreas Maurus proves unto Moses and Aaron for a light and admonition to the just and yet l. 1. c. 2. He sayes God inspired the Thora the Gospel and the Alforcan or Alcoran unto Mahomet how can this agree with the former or with what followes in the Book called Sunè or way of Mahomet viz. That David read all the Alcoran whilst they saddled his Mule unlesse Moses David and Mahomet had been contempora●ies and yet again in above 300. places in his Alcoran he sayes that God gave the Athorata or five Books to Moses the Gospel to Jesus Christ the Azabor or P●alter to David and the Alcoran to Mahomet He also faulters in the time wherein he was composing of his Alcoran in one place telling us he was twenty yeares about it in another place he sayes that it was revealed to him in one night in the City of Mecca by the Angel Gabriel so frequent a●e contradictions with him though neither of these assertions are absolutely true for he was 23 yeares composing of it ten y●ars at the City of Mecca eleven at Almedina and two in the cave of Mecca He dyed in the 63d year of his age and he began to call himself a Prophet and to compile his Alcoran in his fourtiteh year But how could David if the Alcoran had been made in his time have read it all over in the time that his Mule was saddled when as Andreas Maurus reports when the Caliph because of the multiplicity of papers that Mahomet left summoned all the Doctors to Damascus and out of them chose six to Epitomize all his Books of the Alcoran and Sune each of those six composed one Book and the rest of his writ●ngs were thrown into the River even so many Books and bundles of Papers as loaded 200 Camels For Mahomet because he was illiterate and could not write kept a Secretary who wrote the Chapters of the Alcoran for him giving out that God sent them by the Angel as occasion required These he kept in a Chest and that he might alter expugne or add at pleasure what served his turn he would never have collected and reduced into Books as they were by his Son in law Hozman after his death King and Caliph who made the foresaid Epitome at which time the Papers being sought for many were found in his house having lain behind Chests so spoiled with damp and eaten with Mice as nothing could be made of them A goodly Scripture when the power that inspired it could not preserve it from Mice or if nothing Materiall was lost the Author was guilty of superfluity and so of vanity The Moores took scandall as well they might at those revocations and alterations of above 150 Verses of the Alcoran annulled by others called ●evocatory Verses If they were inspired by God it was unjust they should be abolished by a man That Mahomet made his Religion serv● his occasion appears by this Baheira a King of the Jacobit● presented unto Mahomet one Marine a young beautifu● Jewesse with whom the old Leacher was taken in Adulter by two of his wives whom Andreas Maurus calls Axa an● Hafeza they re●uked him having done an Act unwo●thy 〈◊〉 a Prophet or holy man He promised to abandon her if the ● would passe by this one slip and keep his credit but bein● by them surprized the second time with her they went f●om him to their Fathers houses as repudiated wives upon the publishing of it the Moors murmured the Pagans jeered and Mahomet was disgraced and troubled his wives Fathers being potent men so he had no way but to have recourse to his old remedy for all sores the Alcoran wherein he razed out of th● 6. Ch. of the light in the 3d. Book that verse that commanded that married persons taken in Adultery should be stoned called the ver Lapidation composed a new Ch. the content● wherof are that it is lawful for all Mussulmen or true believe●s to lie with their slaves that their wives ought not to repine at it and that Mahomet did not sin in his late Act knowing thi● Law would come but his wives sinned in publishing what he did in secret and that God warned them to return to him So he cleared himself repaired his credit pleased his sect by this Licentious liberty and got his wiv●s again who returned well satisfied and very penitent and now might hee use his young slave by the Law Th●s Chapter is called the Chapte● of Prohibition l. 4. because his wives would have prohibited him his freedom Most insatiable he was in this point and made particular Laws for himself as that he might repudiate any of his wives at pleasure and none might marry them which kept them in obedience but he might take any ones repudiated wife or any that profered her self or admitted of his sollicitation and whereas others might marry two or three or four at most hee might have as many wives as hee pleased The Book Assamiel or the Book of the good customs of Mahomet praising him and speaking of his virile strength saith that in one hour he lay with all his wives which were 11. The Book Azar saith he married fifteen wives and had 11. together besides four who proffered themselves by Vertue of the foresaid Law Caelius reports hee had forty wives yet took he away his servant Zeideus his wife and whose else he pleased saying it was fit he should do so that the greater number of Prophets and holy men might issue from him A life worthy or such a Prophet and author of ●uch a Religion a good Religion sure when hee affirmes the Divells were

onely it wants nothing for Luxuriousnesse or State however enlarged by the Ottomans was first erected by Justinus and called Sophia of his Empresse so Agathius Next the Ottoman Mausoleas require regard built of white Marble The seven Towers called antiently Janicula now the Arsinal The Seraglioes The Hippodrom for exhibiting of Horseraces are remarkable of the antiquities the chif are the Emperour Valentinians Aquaeduct The Column of wreathed Brasse The ruinated Co●osse The Historicall Pillar in the Aurathasar or market of women far surpassing both Traians and that of Antoninus at Rome the workman having so proportioned the figure that the highest and lowest appear of on● bigness Constantines Pillar and the reliques of his Palace now made a stable of wild beasts The many others are perished so little regard the Greeks their own Antiquities nor can they satisfie the inquirer of the History of their own calamities So supinely negligent are they or perhaps so wise as of passed evils to endeavour a forgetfulness The Turkes now call this City Stambul The ordinary houses are low and mean of Sun-dryed brick as has been said the possessions being not hereditary they care not for sumptuousnesse as also being oft subject to fires whereof a most horrible one befell in the daies of Leo and another not long after in the reign of Basilicus when amongst other infinite losses that famous Library perished containing 120000 volumes where in the inward skin of a Dragon Homers Iliads and Odysses were written a losse beyond that of Pallas's Statue Another hapned on October 14. An. 1607. in wh●ch 3000. houses were consumed Nor is it a wonder the Citizens not daring to quench the fire that burneth their own houses or pull down some to preserve the remainder an office that belongs to the Aga and his Janizaries who nothing quick in their assistance do often for spite or pillage beat down such houses as are farthest from danger So that the mischief is not onely wished for the booty but prolonged and not seldom they themselves begin it by setting the Jewes houses on fire So that the Citizens made wearie by the example build rather under then above ground for the safeguard of their goods furnishing themselves with arched Vaults which are not to be violated by the flame A great part of the City is taken up in Gardens and Orchards as Gaunt in Flanders so that it shews from the Sea or adjoyning Mountains like a City in a wood The streets are for the most part exceeding narrow and filled with dead walls belonging to great m●ns Seraglioes It hath been much infested with Earthquakes and though the air is pretty serene yet that boystrous Tramontan from the black Sea most violently rages here bringing often with it such stormes of snow that in September the Trees then flourishing are so overcharged therewith that their branches break accompanied with bitter frosts The plague for the most part miserably infecteth this City brought more by the concourse of strangers then the badnesse of the clime and encreased by the negligence of the Mahometans who slight and shun it not but putting their fingers to their foreheads say their destiny is written there so they boldly frequent infected Persons and converse with them promiscuously The populousnesse of this City we may guesse at by what Lipsius relates out of Benjamin a Iew his discourse of Europe viz. That the customes due to the Emperor out of the victualls and Merchandise sold at Constantinople onely did amount to 20000. Crowns a day this argues them either great eaters though I know it being a maritime Town much is exported or their number must be more then Botero accounts sc. 700000. soules Which though a multitude yet is no whit admirable considering its compasse when we know there are far more in Paris though that beautifull City is three miles lesse in circumference then Constantinople There were counted in Paris long since 500000. Citizens besides stranges and soldiers and those were no few that could maintain it against 100000. men led by the Dukes of Berry Burgundy and Bretagne but si●ce the number is much increased so that the Commentator upon Du Bartas will have the inhabitants to be divers millions Yet enjoyeth she health with her pleasure and prosperity seldom feeling pestilence never s●rcity so that in the better part of a years residence there I never heard of one person dead or sick of the plague a besom that sweeps Constantinople of her people To these adde a Scepter of a Mahometan Tyrant with the insolencie of slaves and then O new Rome how are thy thus balanced profits and delights to be valued saith our excellent Sandys to whose exquisite Relation I refer you for a more exact and ample description of Constantinople or Bizantium And though after him he is so copious authentique and transcendent in all he did I need name none other you may also see others that helped me in this and do faithfully describe Constantinople as Sir Walter Rawleigh Heylin D' Iuigne Eusebius Boterus Merc. Bellon Onuper Causin c. 21 Has cut an Asinego asunder c. This is the usuall triall of the Persian Shamsheers or Cemiters which are crooked like a crescent of so good mettall that they prefer them before any other and so sharp as any Rasor The hilts are without ward most have them of steel some of Gold the poor of wood The Scabbards in solemnities they beset with stones of value Herbert 22 Some Magus The Magi among the Persians were those Philosophers that held the place of Priests and sacrificers reputed so cunning as they attributed more then naturall knowledge unto them in expounding of dreams and presaging of good or evill events There were some of this order in all nations The Greeks called them onely Philosophers The Indians Brachmanes and Gymnosophists the Gauls and Britons amongst whom they had their chief seats in Anglesy in Wales Druids Bardes and Semnotheans The Aegyptian Priests The Italians Augurs and Aruspices The Jews Prophets and Cabalists from their Caballa or book of Doctrine and Traditions which the Rabbines say was together with the Law of Moses delivered to the Hebrews The Babylonians and Assyrians called their Southsayers Chaldeans as our vulgar do all they account cunning women Gypsies or Aegyptians not that they all were of that Country but because Belo●hus Frisc. 5. Monarch of Chaldea was the Author of divination by the flying of birds called Auspicium to these I might adde the Scottish weirds and many more But to leave the names of the Professors and say somthing of the art its self of Southsaying there were four kinds among the Romans Ovid alludes to them in this Distic Hoc mihi non ovium fibrae tonitrusve sinistri Linguave servata pennave dixit avis Trist l. 1. Eleg. 8. Nor left hand thunder taught me this nor sight Of a sheeps Entrailes nor Birds noise or slight 1. Auspicium the Auspices quasi Avispices ab aves aspiciendo foretold