beside Mâ—r. Pretty ignorance thou goest but before Wee soon will follow thee In the mean time There shalt thou meet thy Uncle and great Grandsire They will make much of thee and shew thee all The glories there the green and fragrant fields Ripe fruits that ne'r decay Soft melting songs And Carolls of the Golden-feather'd birds Shall lull thee asleep then shalt thou wake agen To see the Nymphs and Virgins dance about The silver Rivers they shall take thee in And make thee Mistris of their sprightly Revells Fat Would I were there if you would follow but I 'l not be there without your company Mir. I 'l follow thee sweet heart when I have got Revenge enough upon the doting Tyrant Mean while ONEMESISâ— see I obey thee in secret Act thou my shaking hands and be my Goddesse Go thou before me and prepare my way Iff. O Heavens Sof O Gods what fury 's this He takes Fatyma by the neck breakes it and swings her about The Princesse Soffie and Iffida in vain hang about him to save the child Nym. My Lord my Lord 't is FATYMA you kill Mir. I therefore kill her because FATYMA She could not die more innocent nor I Get better vengeance on the Tyrants head Lie thee there till another comes Fat O O He throws her down She dies Nym. Ah me sweet babe is all the world turn'd Monster Sof Ah! my dear Sister Mir. SOFFIE come hither No Nym. Fly dear SOFFIE Iff. Fly fly my Lord Mir. Come hitheâ— or be wretched The Princesse and Iffida fall a clâ—fing of Fatyma till seâ—ing the Prince groap after Soffie too they rise hold him till Soffie escape Nym. O my Lord Why will you wrong your vertue thus to murder These pieces of your selfe Mir. Because the Tyrant Loves them and lov'd he me I 'd kill my self too But since he doth not I will live to spighâ— him The'world too little to satiate my revenge Sof Page Guard ope ope O ope the doors and save me FARRABAN PAGE Guard To them RUn down sir run that way Hoâ—ror and Furies To Soffie Mir. Take you all dogs wher 's SOFFIE Far. Escap'd From your wild rage Mir. My curse shall overtake him Far. We'd best bind him Pag. Hold gently gently sir. Nym. Ah! the sweet soul is fled fled She chafes Fatyma again never never O never to return Iff. Ah. sweetest Mistris Mir. Then carry her to my Father as my Presenâ— 'T wil make my peace with him he 'l love me now For doing this Act 't is so like his own Far. 'T will make all good men Pag. Pray sir speak not to him Mir. Look down look down great Uncles Ghost and see Where ABBAS Jewell lies 32 the sight will give thee A riper joy then thou dist feele when thy Dread hand struck off CARAEMIT's proud head 'T is I that must revenge my self and you Come Page attend me to my Dungeon There will I boast my parcell Vengeance And study more and ruine th' whole Creation But I will make the Tyrant hang himself Far. Good Heavens how rage Bears men out of themselves Nym. Bring in the precious body IFFIDA I cannot yet bewail her fate nor mine Too great for words is my vast misery Small Griefes make men lament Great stupify SOFFIE METHICULI O My good good Lord the saddest accident My Father has kill'd with his own hands my Sister The Castle is all in an uproar at it In which I escap'd else he had kill'd me too Met. Thank Heaven you have so come my Lord this is No place for talk quick let us hast away Sof Fast as you please my honour'd Lord whither EMANGOLY VASCO He muffles Soffi in his Cloak and carries him away WHat horrours seize me that the world should thus Be all abandon'd to the furies envy Sure this is but to cheat us Vas. No my Lord Though CLOE told it with such confidence The horror was not able to perswade me Till first I ran to OMAY'S Garden House There the Conspirators are all to meet The house preparing and the entertainment Ema Dire discoveries VASCO this you 'l swear And with your blood maintain Vas. I will sir. Ema Come then Though banished I 'l venture to the King And break his hasty order for his good How happy art thou to discover this Thou shalt be Persia's Genius she shall pay Devotions to thee and how blest am I To be an instrument to save my Country O Heaven how bounteous art thou to mankind When we rush on to ruine mad and blind Thou cast's a bit upon our furious hast To curb us for our good and from our wast Preserve us 'gainst our wills Whence is it whence That the world stands but from thy providence Truth-loving JOVE Thou wilt not suffer wrong However great to go unpunisht long Or although long to us and to sense past All hope yet full-paid vengeance comes at last Thy certain Justice ever ready stands And though she ' has leaden feet she ' has Iron hands CHORUS A Passion stronger then the rest No more call love Since dire revenge in a wrong'd breast More strong doth prove She breaks all bands for her desire Blood is her food She treads down all things in her ire Though just or good Ore love it selfe she triumpht hath Oft having forc't Fierce hands in the dear bloud to bath Which they lov'd most The fierce Odrysian Queen to take Revenge upon Her husband for her sisters sake Butcher'd her son As to the wood a Tygresse wild A Fawn doth trail She drag'd to a close room the child Where nought avail His tears his banishments or both To calm her blood Revenge stood by gnashing her teeth Expecting food O rage of women though the boy T' her bosom clung She him nor turn'd her face away Stab'd as he hung He kis't she stab'd O dire reward His kisses got The pavements blusht with blood besmear'd Though she did not This proves not she her sister priz'd Before her Boy But that all are by rage despis'd For cruell joy And that revenge might ore men too Her Triumphs see We have a Father late did doe As much as she A Father by his held in thrall His daughter kill'd 'Cause her the Grandsire above all Things precious held Since his revenge could reach no more O rages sway The Jewell of this soul he tore From him away Carelesse so him himself to strike Hope flatter'd so What that to PROGNE's this the like T' his Sire would doe Go innocent Princesse Martyr go Of Rage and Fate And in thy checker'd Grove below Embrace thy Mate ITYS and FATYMA there shall cling Into a pair Him sweetest birds shall ever sing And MUSES her Impute not thou the crime O JOVE And breach of Lawes To th' Actor but to them that gave The cruell cause Act. V. FATYMA's Funerall passes over the Stage Six Virgins â—earers ABBAS MAHOMET ALLY-BEG BELTAZAR FLORADELLA OLYMPA EARINA c. Chief Mourners A Funerall
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 iâ— it to give them up to believe lies and Doctrine of Devills foâ— that they accounted Christ crucified to be but foolishnesse Thiâ— Legend of lies they say was written upon the skin of thâ— Ram that Abraham sacrificed an absurd Tradition for neither could that skin hold it nor was that Ram flead or if hâ— had how could their Prophet so many years after have rodâ— 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 Anâ— 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 â— 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 Luxuâ—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 â—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 bâ—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 tâ—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
Dart by Molpadia in memory whereof the Pillar which is joyned to the Temple of the Olympian ground was set up in her honour However it 's certain the war was ended by agreement for a place adjoyning to the Temple of Theseus bears record of it being called Orcomosium because the peace was there by solemn Oath concluded and the sacrifice also doth truly verifie it which they made to the Amazons before the feast of Theseus time out of mind That of the Poets that the Amazones made war with Theseus to revenge the injury he did to their Queen Antiopa in refusing her to marry Phaedra seems but fiction though indeed after the death of his Amazonian Queen he married Phaedra whose violent lust was the ruine of his noble Sonne by his Heroine Lady to wonder expressed by Seneca in his excellent Tragedy Entituled Hippolitus What ever was the cause of the War it was so well managed as it seemed not the enterprise of a Woman so Plutarch Others Epitomizing the story of the Amazones say they were a Race of warlike women in Cappadocia managing couragious Horses expert themselves and instructing their Daughters in military exercises and became so famous and formidable that in the end it drew on the courage of Hercules together with the desire of Hippolita's rich Belt to assail them and that Hippolita and Manalippe sisters to the Queen Antiope challenged Hercules and Theseus to single Combat and were at last to their eternall credits hardly vanquished Hercules say they slew Antiope and took Hippolyta prisoner whom he gave to Theseus his companion as the reward of his merit in that service In this War he so weakned their forces as they became a prey to their Neighbours who after a while extinguished in those parts both their name and Nation Penthesilea with the remainder flying her Country assisted Priamus in the warrs of Troy for the innate hatred which her nation bore to the Greeks of which Virgil. Ducit Amazonidum lunatis agmina peltis Penthesilea furens mediisque in millibus ardet Aurea subnectens exertae cingula mammae Bellatrix audetque viris concurrere Virgo Aeneid 1. Penthesilea on the numerous Bands Rusht with her Crescent-shielded Amazons A golden Bend swathing her seared Breast Bold maid that durst with armed men conteâ—t She was there slain by Achilles or by Pyrrhus his son Pliny reports that she was the first that invented the Battellaxâ— Plutarch saies part of the Amazones did inhabit on the side of the Mountain Caucasus that looketh towards the Hyrcanian Sea And Plato affirms that there was a Nation of Amazons in his time in Sarmatia Asiatica at the foot of Caucasus from whence it should seem their Queen Thalestria came into Hircania unto Alexander that she might have a Daughter by him who participating of both their spirits might conquer and deserve the world But Strabo doubts by the uncertainty of Authors though in the story of no Nation do Historians punctually agâ—ee and the unlikelinesse thereof that there ever were any such women And Palephates writes that the Amazones were a People couragious and hardy who wore linnen shashes on theâ—r heads and gowns to their heeles as now the Turkes do suffering no hair to grow on their faces and therefore in contumely were by their Enemies called women This opinion may be made yet more probâ—ble by that of Plutarch in vit Pomp. viz. that in the battell that Pompey fought with the Albanians by the River Abas there were certain Amazones on the barbarous Generall Cosis his side who came from the Mountains that run along the River Thermodon for after the Victory the Româ—ns spoiling the dead found Targets and Buskins of the Amazons but not one womans body Goropius a late Author conceives them to be the wives and sons of the Sarmatians who invaded Asia together with their Husbands and after planted in Cimbria which he endeavours to prove by ceâ—tain Dutch Etymologies This conceit some will have arise from what others write viz. that they were called Sauromatides from their feeding much upon Lizards in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Francis Lopez and Vlrichus Schimdel find them in the Rivâ—r Orellana in America called thereof the River of Amazones and Edward Lopez affirms that there are of these in Monomotapa in Africa ninteen degrees Southward of the line the strongest guard of that Emperour as the East Indian Portugalls acknowledge Some of the antients place Amazones in Lybia among whom were the Gorgons under their Queen Medusa subdued by Perseus Cael. l. 6. cap. 12. Silius Ital. l. 2. The Moderns send us to the Islands of Japan next to the Taupinamboaus to find women that burn their right breasts not to hinder their combating Possidonius agrees with Strabo l. 4. Geogra in making mention of a certain Iland of the Ocean near to the River Loir which some think to be Noirmoustier near Poictou where were women that permitted no men amongst them but went by Troopes to acccompany with the Samnite Gauls and after conception returned to their I le So D' Juigne 5. Phineus Harpyes Phineus the son of Agenor some make King of Phoenicia some of Thrace some of Paphlagonia but most of Arcadia he having pulled out the eyes of Crambus and Orythus his Sons by Cleopatra otherwise called Harpalyce his first wife daughter to Boreas and Orythia at the instigation of their Step-mother Idaea the daughter of Dardanus King of Scythia was himself stâ—uck blind by the divine Vengeance for his unnaturall cruelty the ravenous Harpyes being sent to devour his food and contaminate his Table but the Argonautes in their Journey to Colchos being curteously entertained by Phineus a Prince of their blood and â—lliance he having likewise informed them concerning their voyage and given them a Pilot sent the Calaisâ—nd â—nd Zetes the winged Issue of Boreas now reconciled for the â—njury done to his innocent Nephewes to chase them away who pursuing them as far as the Strophades two small Ilands â—n the Ionian Sea now called Strivalii were there commanded by Iris to doe no further violence to the Doggs of Jupiter whereupon they desisted and the Ilands of their return were named Strophades a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Conversio being before called Plotes So the Fable of which Virgil. Strophades Graio stant nomine dictae Insulae Ionio in magno quas dira Celaeno Harpyaeque colunt aliae Phineïa postquam Clausa domus mensasque metu liquere priores Tristius haud illis monstrum nec saevior uila Pestis ira Deûm stygiis sese extulit undis Virginei volucrum vultus faedissima ventris Proluvies uncaeque manus pallida semper Ora fame Aeneid l. 3. Isles I' th' Ionian Sea in Greek Call'd Strophades did dire Celaeno seek And th' other Harpyes when they 'd frighted flown Phineus barr'd gates and Table once well known No Monster 's worse then they a fiercer Plague The wrath of Gods ne'r rous'd from Stygian Lake They 're
a more honourable attribute then this to ascribe to the Queen of Gods the Cow of all beasts having the fairest eye fullest of spirits and of their true colour too black which hue they ever preferr'd in womens eyes and hair Anaceron bids the Painâ—er draw his Mistresse so Ode 38. 39. with hair black and shining dark arched eye browes circular and almost meeting and Eyes black and sprightly And Ovid Loves chief Priest his judgement is Est etiam in fusco grata colore Venus Amor. l. 2. Eleg. 4. The Nut-brown beauties ever taking were And again Leda fuit nigra conspicienda coma ibid. Leda was lovely shaddow'd with black hair The Turkish and Persian Ladies dresse themselves still as after these patterns they put between the eye-lids and the Eye a certain black Powder with a fine long pensil made of a minerall brought from the Kingdom of Fez and called Alcohole which by the not disgracefully staining of the lids doth better set forth the whitenesse of the eye and though it troubles for a time yet it comforteth the sight and repelleth ill humours Into the same hue but likely they naturally are so do they die their eyebreis and eyebrowes the latter by Art made high half circular and to meet if naturallly they do not so do they the hair of their heads as a foyl that maketh the white seem whiter and more becoming their other perfections So Mr. Sandys Tra. l. 1. 10 An Iron Cage c. Bajazet fourth King of the Turkes having possessed himself of the greatest paâ—t of Thrace subdued much of Greece with the Country of Phocis and twice though in vain besieged Constantinople An. Dom. 1397. having an Army of 500000. men encountred with Tamberlanâ— whose force consisted of 800000. Tartarians or as some write more viz. 400000. horse and 600000. foot near unto Mount Stella in Bythinia a place destined for Conquest to strangers Pompey having there vanquished Mithridates Bajazet with the losse of 200000. of his People was overthrown and being brought before Tamberlane was by him asked what he would have done with him if it had been his fortune to have faln into his hands He answered he would have inclosed him in a Cage of Iron and so in Triumph have carried him up and down his Kingdom Tamberlane commanded the same to be done to him professing that he used not that rigour against him as a Prince but rather to punish him as a proud ambitious Tyrant polluted with the blood of his own Brother Jacup Bajazet late one of the greatest of Princes now the scorn of Fortune and a by-word to the world shackled in fetter and chains of gold and as some dangerous wild beast coop'd up in an Iron Cage made open like a grate that he might be seen on every side and so carried up and down through Asia to be of his own Subjects scorned and derided and to his further disgrace being upon festivall daies used by his gâ—eatest â—nâ—my as a footstool to tread upon when he mounted his Horse and at other times scornfully fed like a dog with câ—uâ—s fallen from his Table having for two years with gâ—eat impatience lingeâ—d out this most miserable thâ—aldom finding no better means to end his loathed life he did violently beat out his bâ—ains against the barrs of the Grate wherein he was inclosed An. 1399. Yet of his death are divers other reports some say that he dyed of an ague proceeding of sorrow and grief others that he poisoned hâ—mself The Turks affirm that he was set at Liberty by Tamberlane being by him beforehand poysoned whereof he dyed three daies after his inlaâ—gement but the fiâ—st is the most generally received opinion concerâ—ing his death His dead body at the request of his Son Mahomet was by Tamberlane sent to Asprapolis from whence it was afterwards conveyed to Prusa and there lieth buried in a Chappell near unto the great Mahometan Tâ—mple without the City Eastward by his beloved wife Despina and his eldest Son Erthogrul and haâ—d by in a little Chappell lieth his crime his brother Jacup whom he in the beginning of his reign murdered Turc Hist. c. 11 My treachery to the English it alledges That helpt me to take Oâ—mus c. Ormus is an I le within the Gulfe of Persia about twelve miles from the Continent in old time known by the name of Geru before that Ogiris some say from the famous Theban of that name It s circuit is but small about fifteen miles neither doth it procreate any thing note-worthy salt excepted of which the Rocks are participant and the silver shining sands promise sulphur but however barâ—en it s much famed for a safe haâ—bour and for that it standeth conveniently for the traffick of India Persia and Arabia so that the customes onely afford the King thereof who is a Mahometâ—n no lesse then 140000 Xeraffes yearly a Xeraffis is as much as a French Crown or 6. s. sterling Some will have appertaining to the Crown of it a part of Arabia foelix and all that part of Persia that is environed with the Rivers of Tabo Tissindo and Druto together with the Iland of Bolsaria not far fom it and divers other Iles in the Gulf. An. 1506. it became tributary to the Portugals still permitting the King but as their Liege-man who first fortified it and built a City of the name of the Iland about the bignesse of Exeter with some Monasteries and a fair Market-place though now little but the Castle retains that former beauty which gave occasion to that universall saying of the Arabians Si terrarum orbis quaqua patet annulus esset Illius Ormusium gemma decusque foret If quaint Art could into a Ring compile The world the Diamond should be Ormus I le Abbas King of Persia finding himself bearded by the Portugall commanded Emangoly Duke of Shiras to assault the I le who with 15000. men wan it sackt and depopulated the City but not without the help of some English Merchants ships commanded by the Captains serving the East India company Captain Weddal Blyth and Woodcock Their Articles with the Persian Duke were to have the lives of the Christans therein at their dispose some Cannons and half the spoil and accordingly when the City was enter'd after a brave and tedious resistance forced to yield by Plague Fluxes and Famine every house of quality Magazen and Monastery was sealed up with the signers of the Duke and Merchants By which good oâ—der the Company might have been enrichâ—d with 2000000. l. sterling though but their share had it not been prevented by a base Saylers covetousnesse who regardlesse of the danger of his life or the Christians credit stole into a sealed Monastery committed sacriledge upon the Silver Lampes Chalices Church-stuffe Crucifixes c. and came forth laden with so big a pack as discovered his theft whâ—ch being led to the Duke he confess'd and was right handsomly corrected but the greatest redounded hereby to the
English for hereby the Persians took advantage to repine before the Duke that they sat idle whilst the English purloined away their hopes The Duke glad of the occasion bad them be their own carvers which they soon were so liberally as they left nothing for the second commer the confident English all this while carrousing aboard their ships and bragging of their Victories and hopes Onely Captain Woodcock had good luck and bad lighting upon a Frigot laden with Treasure which he made his owne prize worth 1000000. of Rials but soon after hard by the Swally Road without the Barr he lost the Whale his own ship swallowed by the sands and then his life by sorrow The poor City is now disrobed of all her bravery the Persians each moneth conveighing her ribbs of wood and stone to aggrandize Gombroon not three leagues distant out of whose ruines she begins to triumph Ormus has no fresh water but what the clouds weep over her in compassion of her desolation that is preserved in urnes or earthen Jarrs for drink and to cool sleeping places The priviledges which the English enjoy for their service at Ormus are they have a Staple at the new Port Town Gombroon or Bander as the Natives call it their houses and the Dutch Merchants being apparent from the rest by their Ensignes flying a top their Tarrasses In Ianuary here yearly arrive English and Dutch ships from India and here the English are not onely Custome free themselves but their Agents receive Custom of all strangers in recompence of their service at Ormus D't Juigne Heylen Herbert 12 The Costermonger ALLY-BEG The birth-place of this great Persian Favourite Mahomet Ally-beg was Parthia called so from Parah to fructifie and near Spawhawn his parentage so worshipfull that he knew no farther then his Father a man both mean and poor Mahomet had no stomach for the warrs and having a large bulk to maintain and no Camelion his education being simple he became Costermonger and by that made an hard shift for a poor living till in a happy hour the King then in the Hippodrom in Spawhawn in a good humour took notice of him viewed him lik't him and preferr'd him so as in a short time he became sole Favourite and was feared and for that honoured every where among the Persians for so shall it still be done to him whom King honours Nor was their Prince Duke Sultan or other but in an awfull complement sent him yearly some wealthy present to cherish his favour to the great increase of his possessions though in their hearts they despised him and undervalued the King for preferring him as ever in such cases it happened unto Princes but most eminently unto Lewis the 11. the French King who advanced Cottier from a mender of stockings to be Lord Chancellor of France Herbert Peacham c. 13 The Caspian Sea This Sea is so called from the Caspii a people of Scythia whose Southern Coast it washes it s also called the Hircanian Sea of bounding Hircania and Maridi Baccu of the City Baccu Therbestan and Mari di Sala and many other names it takes of the places it washes It hath on the North Media on the West and South the Turks Empire and the Mascovites on the East Persia the Moors and Arabians therefore call it Bohar Corsum i. e. the inclosed Sea It is absolutely the biggest of all them which have no commerce wiâ—h the Ocean being near 3000. miles in compasse from North to South 700. from East to West 600 the form ovall Some say it hath a subterranean Commerce with the Euxine Sea as the flood Zioberis was by Alexander found to have with Rhodago At this Caspian Sea Plutarch makes Alexander astonished deeming it not lesse then the Sea of Pontus though much calmer it alwaies keeping at one height without Ebbe or reflux yet could he not imagine whence it had it sourse but thought it some eruptive Torrent from the lake of Meotis Over this Sea did Prince MIRZA oft make navall expeditions into his Enemies Countries ever returning with wealthy booties and not seldom leaving Garrisons behind him D' Juigne Heylen Herbert c. 14 Driven the Mogul into his Candahor Candahor and much of Arachosia now Cabull once Alexandria for distinons sake Arachosiae belongâ—d to the Mogul till MIRZA first distressed him in them then drave him out Herbert c. 15 Made Balsora c. See the 19. Note upon the Third Act. 16 And bounded th' Tartar with the Hircanian Ocean By regaining what ever he had gotten upon the continent of Persia even to the Hircanian Sea which is the same with the Caspian Sea of which before 17 I I that check't Cycala's insulting Progresse c. Cycala Bassa was a renegado Christian son of a Christian Gentleman of Messina in Sicily and his wife Lucrece both perfect enemies to Mahumetism In the Christian quarrell the Father sacrificed his life but the son through an unhappy ambition became Turk and was circumcised by the perswasion of Ozman Baffa Great Generall against the Persian for Amurath the third Cycala's aim was to succeed his Patron Ozman in that charge however al Amuraths reign hee never was put upon any valuable employment Mahomet the third put him in the head of a Regiment at Karesta in Bulgaria after the famous siege of Buda in Hungary After this he insinuates far into the favour of Achmat son and successor to Mahomet presumptuously promising to ruine and utterly swallow up the Persian being constituted Generall he made many unfortunate attempts against King ABBAS and his Son but I overpasse as many of his defeats by them given to come to that most memorable in or about the year 1604. when he like a violent Torrent with 80000 men resolved to overwhelm Persia first powred himself upon the Georgians a Christian People so called say some of their Patron and first Converter Saint George Bishop of Cappadocia and Patron of England others will have their Province which is a part of the greater Armenia named Georgia from the Georgi its antient inhabitants The people say they received the Gospell in the time of Constantine the great consenting in most Doctrinall Points with the Grecians but not acknowledging the Patriarch of Constantinople having a Patriarch of their own who is for the most part resident in his Monastery on Mount Sinai in Palestine and hath under his jurisdiction 18. Bishops Their Religion was since much reformed by Lodovic Gangier of the society of Jesus and some otheâ—s who in charity departed from Pera near Constantinople crost the black Sea and landed in Mengrellia with intent to rectifie what was erroneous in their Religion and were to that end curteously entertained by Thâ—ebis Prine of Georgia for though the Province be under the Persian it enjoyes its Prince of the antient race and he his Nobility but tributary to King Abbas Cycala found a stout opposition from the Georgians alone to whose aid our MIRZA the admired Prince of