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lord_n	christian_a	day_n	sabbath_n	12,184	5	9.9778	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35840	Polish manuscripts, or, The secret history of the reign of John Sobieski the III, of that name, K. of Poland containing a particular account of the siege of Vienna ... with the letters that passed on that occasion betwixt the Emperor, King of Poland, Pope, Elector of Brandenburg, Duke of Lorrain, Republick of Venice ... : the whole intermix'd with an account of the author's travels thro' Germany, Poland, Hungary, &c. .../ translated from the French original, wrote by M. Dalerac ...; Anecdotes de Pologne. English	Dalairac, M. (François-Paulin)	1700 (1700)	Wing D127; ESTC R5247	177,325	306

Provided a City has Bread 't is reckon'd a very good City and when a Turk enters into Discourse of any foreign Country the first Question he asks is Whether it has any Bread and if he commends any Country of their own Empire 't is for that Quality Honey makes likewise one of the richest Repasts which they eat with Butter mixt with it or else spred upon Bread cold This they learnt from the Jewish Tradition Mahomet having retain'd a great many of their Customs as well as Names and inserted a great many Passages out of the Bible in his Alcoran particularly this Butyrum Mel comedes ut scias reprobare malum eligere bonum Since I am fall'n into these Digressions it will not be amiss to add what I observ'd concerning their Funeral Rites at the Bassa's Funeral As to the Essential Part of them they are much the same for all sorts of People For among the Turks they make no Distinction or Subordination of Quality Birth or Profession They are all Equal excepting their Offices which only make the Distinction so that the Sons of a Bassa and the Grooms of his Stables when he is dead are upon the same Level They eat all together without any Difference the Footman with his Master and both with the Tradesman and nothing seems below them since as they are rais'd out of nothing to the highest Posts so they fall back again from these Dignities into their Primitive Nothing Persons plac'd in an Office are the only distinguish'd Men among them and the Respect and Veneration which is paid to those Officers cannot be equall'd by any other Nation However Death equals them with the rest and their Funerals do but very little exceed those of Private Persons in in Magnificence Just as the Bassa died his Relations and Friends that were about him set up a great Cry as taking their last Farewel of him In Turky they do not weep for the Dead nor shew any other Demonstration of Sorrow Afterwards a Charcoal Fire was kindled in the midst of his Palace-Yard on which they put a Kettle full of Water and wash'd the Body as it was laid out upon a Table After this they rub'd it over with Yellow Wax and last of all wrap'd it up with Cloth Swaths as they do the Egyptian Mummies The Coffin in which he was laid was cover'd over with Red Stuff and the Deceas'd habited in his usual Dress At first upon going out of the House the Corps was carry'd on the Shoulders of Four Persons of Quality but in marching every one who met the Procession offer'd themselves to carry the Coffin a little way and were again reliev'd by the next that came for the Turks make a piece of Devotion of this Custom The Relations Friends and Domesticks of the Bassa follow'd the Bier whilst the Priests of the Mosques the Scholars and others design'd for the Religious Order of the Mussulmen went before chanting forth of Prayers till they came to the Church-Yard which is without the Walls where upon a Stone rais'd like a Pyramid near the Tomb is set down the Quality of the Deceas'd by certain Figures of the Sabre the Turbant and such like This in general is the Funeral Solemnity of the Turks after which they all return to the House of the Deceas'd as usual without any token of Sorrow being entirely resign'd to the Orders of Providence which is esteem'd by them as the Irresistible Fate which the Heathen own'd This renders them more steady in Adversity less proud in Prosperity and more patient in Misery and Slavery which they bear with a dry Eye and after an Heroical manner It is not always the Effect of a great Courage but often a Blind Refignation to Providence There are but few Nations who have a stronger Belief of and greater Aw for God than the Turks They have his Name almost always in their Mouths 't is their Signal of Battle they have a particular Standard which they call The Standard of God and marches at the Head of the Armies This Standard is Red set off with a Border in small Squares inclosing several Plumes or Festoons with Crescents In the midst is a Sabre with two Blades and a Double-guard upon one single Hilt plac'd like a pair of Compasses and all full of Writing which is a sort of Mysterious Talisman in their Religion On the Top is a large Crescent turn'd downwards spotted all over with Arabick Characters inclosing a Sun betwixt its Two Horns as do the other Eight which are plac'd Four and Four on each side of the large Crescent The spaces between are garnish'd with other Figures and the whole contains Sentences or Phrases to the Praise of the Living God There are other Standards which are wholly plain of a Red Silk and a Green Fringe That which is call'd Mahomet's Standard is Green and has a Red Fringe the Chief of which in the Tents of the Grand Visier is all full of writing without any other Figure or Finery Whether they go out or come in or enter into any Discourse they begin and end with Alla. When one among 'em relates any extraordinary Story he who hears it asks him by way of Admiration Alla Seversen that is Do you love God As if he should say Is it certainly true In short this Sacred Name is made use of with Reverence in all the Discourses and Actions of the Turks Five Times a Day they have set Prayers each Mosque having some appointed to give notice of the Hour of Prayer by certain Form which they sing out aloud upon a Balcony plac'd for that purpose round a Tower and thus they call upon the Faithful to take them off from their Worldly Concerns They begin by turning towards the Rising-Sun and afterwards turn about as the Sun does chanting forth the Greatness and Power of the Most High On Friday which is their Sunday made choice of on purpose to distinguish it from the Christian Lord's Day and the Jewish Sabbath the Ministers of the Mosques use some Extraordinary Ceremonies Three of 'em get upon the top of the Tower singing forth other Prayers beside the usual Invocation of each Day which is offer'd up only by a single Person The most Religious go to Prayers at the Mosque others say 'em at Home and others neither at Home nor at the Mosque for there are Atheists and Formalists in all Religions In the Bassa's House there is a Chaous appointed to give Notice to all the Domesticks by crying before their Chamber-Doors To Prayers Gentlemen to Prayers and the Chief of them go into the Bassa's Room and there put up their Petitions jointly with him with a loud Voice but on Fridays he goes solemnly to the Mosque in a Green Vest their Prophet's beloved Colour there to offer up the Second Prayer which is between Ten and Eleven in the Morning The Bassa of Newhausel who succeeded Alé my first Master never fail'd that Duty and distributed large Alms