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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	daughter_n	die_v	son_n	4,427	5	5.0076	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42320	An account of a late voyage to Athens containing the estate both ancient and modern of that famous city, and of the present empire of the Turks, the life of the now Sultan Mahomet the IV, with the Ministry of the Grand Vizier Coprogli Achmet Pacha : also the most remarkable passages in the Turkish camp at the siege of Candia and divers other particularities of the affairs of the port / by Monsieur de La Gvillatiere, a French gentleman ; now Englished.; Athènes ancienne et nouvelle et l'estat présent de l'empire des Turcs. English	Guillet de Saint-Georges, Georges, 1625-1705.	1676 (1676)	Wing G2218; ESTC R13895	179,653	425

Father is living Mahomet was alwayes in the Arms of the fair Odaliques and she who caressed him most be would be sure to be withal They would make him talk a thousand smart things sometimes against one sometimes against another as quarrels arose among them and their jealousie would seldom suffer them to be long without with this custom of pra●ing freely among the Women the Boy got a habit of speaking sharp things Ibrahim being one day walking in the Garden of the Seraglio caused two of those Mutes called Bizchami to dance before him those Bizchami must be Negro's and Eunuchs or they cannot be admitted into that private apartment It is a custom when the Sultan has been pleased with any divertisement to present those who entertained him and all persons at that time about the Sultan do constantly do it Ibrahim the Keslar-Agasi and the Odaliques presented the Mutes immediately which being neglected by the young Prince though to that purpose one of the Odaliques had thrust some pieces of Gold into his hand Ibrahim was angry and turning to him demanded why he did not present the Mutes as other people had done because said the young Prince very briskly I am not so much a fool as other people the sharpness of his answer put Ibrahim into a passion in the heat of which forgetting the Ring upon his finger he struck him with his hand so hard upon his face that his Diamond cut the skin and left a scar that is to be seen at this day The Keslar-Agasi carried away the Child immediately with the blood running about his face and roaring as loud as if he had been killed The passion of the Emperour being over and he much troubled at what he had done ran after the Child and in such hast that not minding where he went he tumbled into a Fountain that was in his way which accident doubling the confusion the Odaliques that were thronging after the Child came back and pulled the Sultan out of the water The Sultan Mahomet is of a tender and delicate complexion but he manages it very ill The Malecontents who are very numerous in that Country call him in derision the Hunts-man or Aviegi He takes great delight in the noise of Canon and has them often shot off only for his entertainment He shoots very well both with the Bow and the Musket He is very couragious and extreamly desirous to be in person with his Army whatever the Christians publish to the contrary imagining that his great affection to hunting and his propensity to the pleasures of Women makes him apprehensive of the hazards of War Would his Council have permitted it he had been long since in Candia such was his zeal to be in the Army that he threatned oftentimes to steal to them in disguise and when being a hunting he was at any time lost and failed to return at his accustomed hours the whole Court was afraid he had given them the slip But besides that his being in the field would have eclipsed the Glory of the Vizer and rendered him of less importance to his affairs the absence of the Sultan and the dangers to which he would have been exposed would have enhaunced the courage of the Malecontents and such who having been instrumental in the murther of his Father were afraid of his revenge and did ardently desire his death The Turks will tell you wonders of his Wit But every Nation cryes up the vivacity of their Prince This is most certain he had for his Tutor a person called Vani Effendi one that passes for so worthy and so learned a Man that if any one pretends to extraordinary Judgement or Sagacity in any thing the Turks by way of Irony will tell him Yes you are wiser and understand more than Vani Effendi Among all the Brothers of the Sultan the Peoples eyes are fixt most strongly upon Soliman whose Mother being dead has procured him the compassion of the Army more than any of the rest and by consequence exposed him more to the jealousie of the Sultan who had like to have stabbed him with his dagger at Adrianople in the year 1666. some months before the Grand Vizer went for Candia where he has continued ever since The particulars you shall have hereafter Since that accident the Janizaries have taken a greater care of the lives of Soliman and his Brothers and by an action as couragious as prudent have put them under the tuition of the Sultaness Validè the Mother of Mahomet but with caution that she be responsible for them though they do well understand that she would sacrifice them all to the interest of the Sultan And indeed nothing can be more strange than to see the Sheep committed to the custody of the Wolf This Sultaness is a Lady of great Magnanimity and Spirit In the beginning of her Sons Reign she caused the old Validè widow to Achmet to be strangled That old Lady was an ambitious Woman who to keep her self in the Supreme Conduct of Affairs fomented the division betwixt the Spahi and the Janizaries who were the death of her Son Ibrahim The Sultan Mahomet has had two Sons besides Daughters his eldest Son died and was a Child of great hopes The Mother of the young Prince is dead also and much lamented by all the Officers of the Seraglio for her extraordinary bounty She was exceedingly beautiful but her Countrey and Extraction were never known she was taken and brought away by the Tartars when she was but four years old and in a short time sold to a Bassa who designed her immediately for the pleasures of the Emperour and brought her up accordingly 'T is true the Tartars are obliged by express order from the Grand Signior to ke●● an exact Register of what Slaves they take either of one Sex or the other of their age their names and their Country thereby to justifie that they have brought away none of the Grand Signiors Subjects which before that Order they did frequently do These Tories bring to Constantinople sometimes thirty sometimes forty of these poor Girles all of an age but of different Countries being arrived there their first business is to renounce their Christianity and take upon them the Mahumetan Religion after which the Tartar gives in his Register and receives his discharge from the Cadi But their Register is not regarded when they are gone and by consequence the Countrey Pedigree and all other circumstances of their Slaves quickly forgotten so as it is but seldom known from whence their great beauties come By consent of all Travellers there is no Countrey in the World produces so fine Women as Circassia a Countrey in Asia upon the Mer major betwixt the lesser Tartars and Gourgiston It is death for a Christian to buy a Circassian Slave the Turks reserving them for themselves but when they are brought into the Seraglio and grow eminent for their Beauty their friends will quickly find out the place of their Nativity and