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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14028	The policy of the Turkish empire. The first booke	Fletcher, Giles, 1549?-1611, attributed name.	1597 (1597)	STC 24335; ESTC S118698	98,012	170

THE POLICY OF The Turkish Empire The first Booke LONDON Printed by Iohn Windet for W.S. and are to be soulde at Powles Wharfe at the signe of the Crosse Keyes 1597 To the thrice Honourable and most worthie Lord George Baron of Hunsdon Lord Chamberlaine of the Queenes house Captaine of her Maiesties Gentlemen Pensioners gouernour of the Ile of Wight Knight of the Honorable order of the Garter and of her Highnesse nost honorable priuie Counsell RIght Honourable The remembrance of your forepassed fauors And a desire to make knowne my honest thankefulnes hath encouraged me to present you Lordeship with a collection of Turkish Histories Discouering the policie of the Ottoman Empire both in the state of their Religion and in the manner of their ciuill Gouernment and marshall Discipline The which my labour though it may seeme an Idle worke and farre vnworthie of so Honorable a Patron Yet as the pure and fine Gold being artificially layed vpon Copper or some such base mettall doth make it seeme ritch and glorious gracing the basenesse of the stuffe with the excellencie and ritchnesse of her colour So the least aspect of fauour and good countenaunce from your Lordship towards the gracing of this work may make others to haue it in some regard and estimate though of it selfe it bee reputed worthlesse and of no accompt Howsoeuer it bee my hope is that your Lordship will accept of it as a signe of my good affection And in that respect vouchsafe it your good liking For as a certaine cunning Geometrician in the games of Olimpus by the view of the proportion and bignesse of Hercules foote did giue a coniecture of the quantitie stature of his whole body So by the consideration of my well willing minde in so meane a matter your Lordship may measure the redinesse of my heart and most inward affections Which being wholly deuoted to doe you seruice doe tie me to be euer both an assured follower of your Lordship and a vowed Orator for the continuaunce and encrease of your most happie fortunes vnder the which I rest euer to be commaunded To the Reader MAnie men doe wonder at the great power and puissaunce of the Turkes And they thinke it strange how this nation being a people most rude and barbarous and their beginning most base vile and ignominious coulde attaine within the compasse of so few yeares to the excessiue height of their present greatnes Which their admiration as it semeth proceedeeh onely of ignoraunce Because they know not the manner nor the meanes by which they haue so sodenly preuailed in their Conquests For such as are acquainted with the Histories of the Turkish affaires and doe aduisedly looke into the order and course of their proceedinges doe well perceiue that the chiefest cause of their sodaine and fearefull puissaunce hath beene the excellencie of their Martial discipline ioyned with a singular desire and resolution to aduaunce and enlarge both the bounds of their Empire and the profession of their Religion The which was alwaies accompanied with such notable Policie and prudence that the singularitie of their vertue and good gouernment hath made their Armes alwaies fearefull and fortunate and consequently hath caused the greatnesse of their estate And yet as their vertue hath made them way to their excessiue fortune so is this one thing worthely to be wondered at How so rare vertue could be found in so brutish and barbarous a nation rather then how they could attaine to so great conquests dominions Considering therefore both the wonderfull puissance of their Empire And Conferring it with the basenesse and obscuritie of their beginning as also with the barbarousnesse of their disposition To the intent this strange vnion and coniunction of so rare vertues with so notable Barbarisme might be the better discouered I supposed it would bee a matter neither vnpleasing nor vnprofitable in some sort to make known that order of Policie Discipline and gouernment by which the Turkes haue purchased so goodly and glorious an Empire making themselues Lords and masters of a great part of the world In so much as the furie of their Armes hath not onely by this meanes swallowed vp infinite and those most mightie nations in the East But the terrour of their name doth euen now make the kings and Princes of the West with the weake and dismembred reliques of their kingdomes and estates to tremble and quake through the feare of their victorious forces This was hit that first drew me to Collect into English the summe of the Turks Religion The manners life and customes of that people in generall The order fashions and Maiestie of their Emperours Court and person And the manner of their Ciuill policie and Martiall discipline For by discouering the nature and state of their religion and their immoderate zeale in affecting it by shewing their inueterate hatred against Christians christianitie by making knowne their Barbarous customes and most cruell disposition by obseruing their politique and aduised course of proceedings in all their affaires both Ciuill and Militarie we shall easily discerne That the whole Policie of the Turkish estate both for their religion life and customes as also for their ciuil gouernment and Martiall discipline And that all their actions Counsailes studies labours and endeuours haue beene euer framed and directed and wholy bent and intended to the enlarging and amplifying of their Empire and Religion with the dayly accesse of new and continuall conquests by the ruine and subuersion of all such kingdomes prouinces estates and professions as are any way estraunged from them either in name nation or religion Seeing then the discouerie of these things doth represent vnto you matter of so good consequence both for pleasure to delite and of knowledge for your profit Let not my honest endeuours subiected to the diuersitie and vncertantie of your iudgements be recompenced with vnfriendly acceptaunce It may be exception will be taken both against the forme of this worke for the rudenesse of the stile and against the matter for the imperfection of it because the one is homlie and nothing curious and the other doth seeme to promise more in shew and apparaunce then it doth yeelde in proofe and performaunce But how so euer it be faultie in the penning yet for the imperfection thereof it is not without excuse For though I do now present you onely with one part of that Policie which the title of this Booke doth promise to impart vnto you Yet seeing the other part is but delayed for a season some needful respects causing it for a while to be concealed My hope is that in the meane time neither the imperfection of the matter shall draw it into reproofe nor the basenesse of the phrase shall turne it to disgrace Wherein if the successe be answerable to my hope and if I finde this my first attempt to bee fortunate by the friendly acceptation of this discouerie of the Turkes religion You shal shortly see it seconded