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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

two Trees comming at his command to shade him when in the fields in a hot day he had occasion to untruffe and infinite other of his contradictions and repugnances I might remember as that of King Alexanders Journey from the East to the West where he daily saw the Sun set in a hot Fountain which oppugneth Philosophy as the journey doth History c. But with these I have tired my self and I am sure the Reader much more Yet give me leave to remember one of his absurdities more though none of the least viz. That at doomes-day he shall turn himself into a great Ram and all Mussulmen into Fleas they shall hide themselves in his spacious fleeces and thus burthened shall he travell till hee comes where he can skip into Paradise there he assumes his proper glory and gives them new shapes new strength Wine brave women c. as you may read at large in the eighth note upon the Fourth Act and this absurd fooler is generally credited by his whole Sect so just with God i● it to give them up to believe lies and Doctrine of Devills fo● that they accounted Christ crucified to be but foolishnesse Thi● Legend of lies they say was written upon the skin of th● Ram that Abraham sacrificed an absurd Tradition for neither could that skin hold it nor was that Ram flead or if h● had how could their Prophet so many years after have rod● upon him to Heaven and Hell c. It is held by the Mahumetans in no lesse veneration then the old Testament by the Jewes and the New by us Christians They never touch it with unwasht hands and a capitall crime it is in the reading thereof to mistake a letter or displace the accent They kisse it Embrace it and swear by it calling it the book of Glory and director unto Paradise It is written in Arabic Rhime without due proportion of Numbers and must neither be written nor read by them in any other Language It containeth according to Hozmans reformation four books the first Book has five Chapters the second twelve the third 19. and the fourth 175. in all 211. Mahomet the second is also said to have altered it much he and many others seeking to reconcile those repugnances wherewith it so abounds even in the Positive Doctrine which inclines me to Andreas Maurus his opinion that they were ignorant Persons that helped Mahomet to compose it Sergius had more knowledge then to have err'd so grossely whether it was that Sergius that was Patriarch of Constantinople and author of the Monothelites Heresie as some contend I determine not or whether hee was onely a banished Hereticall Monk from thence An● yet the coherence betwixt Mahomet and the antient Heretiques of all whose puddle streams Sergius had drank deep and it s like the poor Cutlers were free leads me to think him his Tutor I will onely briefly give you a touch of the harmony betwixt their Discords and leave you to judge who composed the Lesson Mahomet denies the Trinity with Sabellius He said it was ridiculous to think that Christ was God and therefore with Arrius and Eunomius he calls him a Creature and with Carpocrates a holy Prophet He maintain'd with Cedron that it was impossible that God should have ● Son because he had no wife He denyed with the Manichees that Christ was crucified but saith he one was crucified in his place who was very like him with the Originists he will have the Devills to be saved at the end of the world with the Anthropomorphites he will have God to have the form and members of a man with Cerinthus he places the chiefest felicity of man in carnall pleasures with Ebion he doth admit of Circumcision In imitation of Menander he calls himselfe the Saviour of the world with Nicolas of Antioch he taught and practised Luxu●y Yet with the Eucratitae he forbids the use of wine c. yet like his predecessors he baited his hooks speciously enough in some places commanding upright dealing amity Reverence to Parents Charity to hate contention and Murder c. and speaks reverently of our Saviour and B. Lady and indeed of all in some ●laces excluding no Religions out of his Paradise hee is so kind Moses he saies shall bring the Jewes Christ the Christians and he his Mahumetans but the chief place glory must be theirs theirs the b●st Gold sweetest Rivers and most beatifull Damozels and good reason he should be master in his own house But I have swell'd this note to a rambling Treatise and have yet much adoe to take my pen off yet I will force my self to it and refer you that would know more of the Alcoran to Cardinall Nicolas de Cusa his examination of the Alcoran Lod. Vives l. 4. de veritat Relig. Christ. Ricoldus in his computation of the Lawes of Mahomet Barthol Hungarius Johannes de terra Cremata and Guil. Postells in their books against the Mahumetans Saracens c. Sandys Herbert D'Juigne Johannes Andreas Maurus his confutation of Mahomets sect and the Alcoran its self t●anslated out of the Arabic into Latin by Theod. Bibliander for the late published English Translation I cannot commend its faithfulnesse I had almost forgotten though quoted above Baudier his History de la Religion des Turcs c. 17 To make all Lands and Goods hereditary c. The Turks and Persians content themselves with very mean low buildings few above two stories high some of rough stone some of timber some of Sun-dryed brick the Marble being used onely about the Princes Palaces and the Mosques though the Countries in some places are plentifully stored with it especally about Persepolis the people rather choosing to hoard their wealth then by making a magnificent show to tempt their Princes to take it from them or at best from their Children when they die for no Possessions are hereditary but all at the wil of the Emperour so absolute is his Tyranny and the peoples slavery Sandys c. 18 Tomaynes A Toman is a Persian coine worth 3 l. 6 s. sterl Herbert 19 Balsora A Town where Tygris and Euphrates empty themselves into the gulph of Persia. This Town is famous for the birth of Elhesin-Ibnu-Abilhasen the greatest Doctor of Antiquity he taught the Persians and Arabs 80 years after Mahomets death Herbert 20 Bizantium A Maritime City of Thrace the seat of the Turkish Empire Eusebius saith it was built by Pausanias King of Sparta 663 years before the incarnation of our Saviour others will have Pausanias onely to re-edifie this City then called Bizantium of Biza the founder and taken by assault but a little before from the Persians since which it still increased in fame but by nothing more then by the two famous sieges she endured both times holding out three years once taken once not the last was in the time of her 31 Emperour Leo Isauricus about the year of our Lord 718 when Caliph Zulciman besieged her and after three years

till they 're hatcht Mah. Kings fears are proof enough they that wil give Them cause to fear give cause enough to strike A Treason is a kind of Hectique feaver In the beginning it is most easily cur'd But hardly known But in the course of time Not having been in the beginning known To know it becomes easy hard to cure Bel. But he is modest Flo. So are Whores at first Coynesse is the best Lure Be● Blaming his friends For doubling of his merit and chides himself For suffering of his acts so to be guilded Lest they might any way eclipse your splendour Abb. Hee 's Politick Seen nets are easily 'voided And dangers threatned once are half prevented The curst dog bites before he barks and Thunder Strikes ere it speaks Treason still shuns the Sun Tha● female Vertue Modesty can't harbour In such a masculine spirit even that He makes a bait to catch the vulgar with It gets him a respect He 's not to learn That honour like a shadow and love too Shuns the pursuer follows him that flies it Mah. Why if he means no Rape upon the State Doth he so fortifie himself in 's Party Binding all men of action unto him With all th' obligements of a Polititian Abb. He that will make a Faction means to use it Mah. He studies every particular Gen●us And taketh every one in his own height Th' ambitious he makes his with honours Titles And high commands saying worth loses lustre Like Gems in Quarries if it be not set To publique view like Diamonds well mounted The covetous he ties with chains of Gold To his own purposes extolling bounty As th' most conspicuous vertue of a Prince And gainfullest saying Vertue else will freeze If it be not kept active with Reward Valours best Nurse Those that are discontented And such are sure ones he gains by favour And silken promises The multitude He stroaks with Popularity and they Like true dogs fawn and crouch as much to him Though upon service he 's austere enough Exacting each mans duty out of Action He courts the common souldiers by their names Lies with them on the Guard fares as they fare And calls them all his fellows sees them serv'd In time of want ere he himself will take The least refreshment Abb. What soules will not these Strong arts allure if he meant war with IOVE To storm even Heaven and mak 't a Colony Flo. What Heaven a Province Mah. Noble Forts he builds And Cittadells as if he meant to compasse The Kingdom with a trench and into these He put 's his Confidents Huge hoords of wheat Munition Provision stuffe his Garrisons When no Foe threats the Confines If these charms Of Affability these knots of strength And preparations signifie but care And Arts of wisdom which need ' wake no thought Of Jealousie and require no prevention Let 's cast no Ramparts 'gainst the swelling Sea But tamely think the peaceful NEPTUNE meanes Us no invasion but will sit content I' th' old Boundaries of his watry Empire Cherish the speckled snake and let him twine About your leg alas poor loving worm It onely comes to kisse your foot and means To dart no poisonous sting into your flesh Bel. Has he no filiall love no noble nature Can 't be that to him to whom every Vertue Seems in this dearth of Pietie to run For Patronage Paternall duty should Be or a stranger or a slighted Exile Mah He is ambitious and Ambition knowes No Kindred 't was a maxim practised By IOVE himself upon his Father SATURN Abb. No no my Lords that somthing must be done Is not the question but what and how Bel. Weaken him in his friends call them from places Of trust and put in others or make them yours Abb. No they are preingag'd and will not come But to great baits So to reclaim them would Cost much to ruine them add more to us ' For all Rebellions throughly suppress'd Make Kings more Kings and Subjects still more Subject Bel. Then call him from his strength lure him to Court And drown him here in pleasures and delights 'T will soften and enervate his great mind There 's little fear of Carpet Kinghts rough beards And hairy men have still the working heads Mah. And such is he Abb. That were to crosse his Genius And force his Nature backward he is made For hardned steel and not a masquing sute No Musick please him but the bellowing Drum No exercise but tossing of a Pike So stout a nature never will recoil Bel. Confine him to some Iland with a set Of beardlesse Eunuchs and soft Punks about him Prohibiting all martiall company Flo. Pictures and Beauties are alike to him His soul 's so full of 's NYMPHADORA'S love As throw him into ' an Ocean of Beauties The vessel 's full and can take no more in Bel. A brave truth from an Enemy aside Abb. Confine him That were to spur a fiery headstrong steed And have no reines to hold him or to ' wake A sleeping Lion Persons of his rank If once disgrac'd must not be left a tongue To tell it with or hand to act Revenge No nor a heart to think it He that strikes At mighty Enemies must do it throughly Say my beloved MAHOMET must not Kings That fear great subjects growth and gathering strength Or wink at all and conquer them with kindnesse Or if they wil take notice leave no need Of second blowes but at the first cut off At once the fear they have and cause of future Who finds a Serpent couch'd and at one blow Parts not his heart shall never fetch another Mah. The Oracles are reviv'd and speak in Abbas But how much more then pitty is it that So high a valour Affabilitie Vertues of brightest lustre with the Persian And all the endowments of a Princely mind Should like good seed in ground too fat grow rank And make him fit to feel the sickle which Gladly I would disswade were not the tree More worthy then a wanton branch or th' head Then any corrupted limb though ne'r so handsom Abb. Ah my good Lords the bowells of a Father Have yearn'd in me and no small strift I had To gain a Conquest of my fond affection And bend my will to part with him as with A gangreen'd member to secure the whole But I have won the field of foolish pitty And swom 17 by the eight refulgent Orbs his death Flo. The young wolfes death can never come too soon For he that spares the wolves destroyes the sheep Bel. But think my honour'd Lord will not the soul Of every subject bleed in his each wound The pledge of their succeeding happinesse The crown of their best hopes hope of their Crown And who will spare to damn for Tyranny Pardon the speech I act the Princes friend A deed so without Justice proof or conscience Mah. Not all the steel forg'd into swords and spears Nor all the Iron form'd to battering Rammes Have ruin'd