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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	believe_v	love_n	truth_n	1,575	5	6.0356	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47670	Abra-Mulè, or, A true history of the dethronement of Mahomet IV written in French by M. Le Noble ; made English by J.P.; Abra-Mulè. English	Le Noble, Eustache, 1643-1711.; J. P.	1696 (1696)	Wing L1051; ESTC R13238	66,106	144

most worthy to be known The greatest part have attributed 'em only to the misfortunes of the Ottoman Arms and to this Principle of the Musselmen's belief that when Adversity attends a Man 't is an infallible sign of the Wrath of God and of the contempt of their Prophet and consequently that it is lawful to Sacrifice to the Publick Good the Prince whom they believe to be the subject of that Coelestial Anger But though it must not be deni'd but that the unlucky Conjunctures contributed very much to the Deposal of the Sultan by reason of the pretences with which they were supply'd nevertheless the Truth is that Love was the secret cause and that that same Love only made use of a pretence which had its rise from thence However before we enter into the particulars of this same extraordinary Story it will be necessary for the better understanding of it to give the Publick a general Idea of the Ottoman Family at that time Ibrahim Emperor of the Turks a Prince cruel even to Barbarism was Strangl'd upon a Revolt of his Janizaries and Dying left three Sons Mahomet between Nine and Ten Years of Age who succeeded him under the Regency of the Sultaness his Mother Soliman about a year Younger and Achmet who was not then above Four or Five Years Old all three Born of different Sultanesses Some there are who have asserted that Mahomet was not an Ottaman That the Sultaness only fain'd her self with Child that she might procure to her self the Title of Asseki or Sultaness Mother of the First-born Prince That he was the Child of a Jewish Woman that was brought to Bed in a Chamber near the Sultanesse's that the Infant was carry'd to her in a Basket of Flowers and afterwards set up and own'd by Her for a Child born of her own Body The Author of the Ottoman Mirror publishes this Story But it is neither credible nor to be imagin'd that a project of this Nature should be put in practice within the Serraglio and if there had been the least Suspition for a ground of this Fable Sol●man who dethron'd him would never have spar'd his life nor the life of the Prince his Son who at this day wears the Ottoman Diadem That which might have been the occasion of this Fiction might be this perhaps that the Sultaness never had any other Children that she was at continual Odds with Mahomet when he raign'd by himself and for that she Protected the other two Princes against the Violences of her Son every time that he went about to attempt their lives Mahomet for Stature was somewhat Taller then the ordinary Height well Proportion'd black Hair little Eyes but Quick more ill Favour'd then Comely nimble in all the Exercises of the Body Valiant Courtly Profuse Magnificent passionate in his Amours a lover of Hunting even to Excess an extraordinary discerner of Merit but Rash Obstinate Ingratefull and one that suffer'd himself to be very much govern'd by the Ministers of the Serraglio Soliman was very Tall Straight Majestick inclining to Fat a pleasing Countenance large and black Eyes with a lively and fair Complextion his Nose and Mouth admirably Shap'd the turn of his Countenance somewhat Oval his Hands white and Fleshy He was Nimble at all Exercises that requir'd no great labour he was naturally Melancholly and full of Dissimulation he spoke little and whether it were out of Policy or by Inclination he devoted himself to the study of the Alcoran which he unfolded like a Doctor He was Generous Crafty and Bold with a Heart most tenderly enclining to Love but he was one who had an admirable Gift at concealing a secret As for Achmet in regard he has no share in this History 't is needless to say any thing of him only that Nature had deform'd his Body and that he retain'd something of his Fathers Stupidity but nothing of his Cruelty The Janizaries in the fury of their Sedition set Mahomet upon the Throne and engag'd him to give Order for putting his Father to Death And for the Sultaness his Mother she was one of the most beautiful Women in the World a Circassion but of mean Birth and one who from a Slave had mounted to the highest degree of Female Glory by means of a genius most sublime and capable of governing a great Empire To fix her self in her Authority she thought it behov'd her to advance to the Dignity of Grand Visir such a person as should be beholding to her for his Fortune and Preferment and knowing the Capacity the Courage and the Wit of Basha Cuproli who then lay loaden with Irons at the bottom of a Dungeon she obtain'd his Release confer'd with him in Private drew from him what Protestations and Assurances she pleas'd her self and at the same time deliver'd to him the Seal of the Empire and set him at the head of the Council and the Ministry His Government was Prosperous and Prudent his Fidelity inviolable his Services advantageous and laden with Honours and Victories by a strange fortune without example in the Ottoman Empire he had two Sons and two Sons in Law that succeeded him in his Employment His Father was a French Renegado born in Champagne near Chalons in a Village call'd Cuperli from whence he took his Name being a Serjeant in a Foot Company and which he left to his Posterity A certain Murder which he committed enforc'd him to fly his Country and the Bark to which he betook himself being taken by the Turkish Corsairs he thought it more convenient to wear a Turbant then to see himself chain'd to the Oar and being a handsom person he was soon enroll'd among the Janisaries among whom having rais'd himself by his Valour to signal Employments he obtain'd a Timar or a proportion of Lands for Life and spun so fair a Thread for himself that by degrees he arriv'd to the highest place of the Empire This is the truth both of the Original and Name of the Cuproli's and whatever is aver'd to the contrary is meer Fiction The cruel Polities of the Ottomans was the reason that formerly the Sultans always sacrific'd the Blood of their Brothers to the security of their Government But the first Counsel which Cuproli gave the Sultaness Validè that is to say Mother was carefully to preserve the two Princes Soliman and Achmet not only to prevent the Extinction of the Ottoman Blood but out of a secret Aim which the Visir had to make a Bulwark for his own safety both of the one and the other and to have in his hands wherewith all to keep his Master in continual aw in case that when he came to Rule by himself he might be induc'd by some intreague of the Serraglio to deprive him of the chief Ministry Thus it came to pass that those two Princes were beholding to Cuproli for their lives who by a marvellous Dexterity of Wit being desirous to mannage at a distance the several Humours both of Mahomet and