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satisfaceret in tribus quas tune excogitabat, conditionibus : 

 quarum prima erat si multum humanitatis, minus reverentiae, 

 nihil submissionis sibi exhibuerit; altera, si quid sibi, tune 

 admodum famelico, vescendum obtulerit insoliti quod per vitam 

 nunquam comedisset ; tertia, si quid stupendi visendum osten- 

 derit. His prsemunitus, religiosum adoritur; qui a discipulis, 

 adesse orbis domitorem,audiens; nihil mutato vultu, nee inter- 

 missa, quae oculos distinebat, lectione, introduci eum jubet; & 

 intranti assurgens, locoq. cedens, sessum ut ad sinistram capiat 

 familiariter rogat ; est enim ea sedes in hac gente honoratior. 

 Turn blandis verbis salutato, de victoria gratulatur ; earn non 

 humanis viribus, sed Dei beneficio & Providentiae tribuendam, 

 gravi Laconismo monens ; ut csetera taceam. Obtutu longo 

 Imperator senis gravitatem miratus, tandem, quod esuriret, 

 jentaeulum ab eodem poscit. Scheik desiderio satisfacturus, 

 lac et caseum promi e penu jubet, cum eremita aliud cibi 

 genus non haberet. Obsonium cum heros acri appetitu 

 manducasset, Deum testatur nunquam se satiatum cibo gra- 

 tioris succi, & loci sterilitatem contemplatus, quaerit, ubi sua 

 pascua, ubi pecora habeat. Ad quae Scheik, jugum indigitans 

 montium, vides illic fruticeta, inquit, haec pascua sunt : vide- 

 bis etiam pecora; & vibrato in altum candido linteo, assue- 

 factas hoc signo capricervas, ex summis culminibus in Timuri 

 conspectum provocat, ibi mulgenda praebentes ubera, more 

 mansueti pecoris. Quo viso, heros, conditionum recordatus, 

 eremitam vere pium & Dei 0. M. amicum agnoscit, prioris 

 quoq. poenitens odii, quod in caput ejus juraverat, si impOF- 

 torem deprehenderet, nunc reverenter habet & ab eo se 

 prius discessurum negat donee Scheik a se documentum 

 petiisset conciliatae gratiae." Kcempfer, Amcenitates Exoticve, 

 Fascic. 1. 



This interview, but without these particulars, is mentioned 

 by D'Herbelot, article Scheik Safi or Sefi : how milk and 

 cheese could be a new species of food to a Tartar prince I do 

 not understand ; that it was uncommonly excellent we are to 

 conclude from Tamerlane's asseveration. 



In London I examined Dobson's translation of ' Paradise 

 Lost,' and find he has named Sin Ate, and Death Hades. The 

 Hades of the Greeks is I think a different person from 

 Milton's Death. Should not you have followed Mr. Warton's 

 advice and used the name Thanatos ? The difference of these 



