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difpos'd himfelf to fatisfie him, in a ftiort time, how well he could make his advantage 

 of the Le&ure he had read him. He acknowlcdg'd,that he had often thought of what 

 he had reprefented to him, and that he had a way of livelihood in his head, which he 

 hop'd would take very well. Some daics pafs'd away, ere the Grand Seignor made 

 the leaft mention of Hunting •■> but at laft, he grows impatient, he leaves the Seraglio, 

 and had the good fortune to kill a Hare with a Gun, the firft he had ever deftroy'd 

 that way. He immediately (ends it to the Mottfti, witli order to tell him, That he has 

 follow'd his advice, and that having learnt the Profeifion of a Huntfman, he has com- 

 manded that firft piece of his Game mould be brought to him, which he was willing 

 to feli, that he might fubfift by the Mony it (hould produce : That he fail not to give 

 Twenty Purfes to him who brings it i and that as to his own Perfon, he knew well 

 enough what he ought to fend him. 



The Moufti conceal'd his furprizal as well as he could , and received the Hare 

 with great teftimonies of his refentments and joy, of the honour, which his Highnefs 

 had done him •> and having beftow'd, according to his own order, Twenty Purfes up- 

 on the Bearer of the Hare, fends Sixty more to the Grand Seignor himfelf i learning, 



at his own coft, and that to the value of Fourfcore thoufand Crowns, that men (hould 

 not be over-forward to give their Sovereigns thofe adveftifements, which they defirc 

 not of them. 



To finilh the Pourtraiture of Sultan-Mahomet > he is further chargeable with a de- 

 fed of conftancy, in his humour, and a roughncfs of deportment towards his people, 

 who are thereupon apt to have the lefs afFedfion for him. And whereas he is indefa- 

 tigable in his Hunting-Exercifes, and fpends whole daies therein, even in the fevereft 

 part of the Winter-Seafon, it happen'd, one day, as he was returning home, from the 

 Sport of running down a Stag,that his Grand Falconer took the boldnefs toreprefent to 

 him the inconvenience of expofing his Slaves fo much in the Ice and Snow, by which 

 means there had dy'd about Thirty of them the Night before, and the reft were in a 

 fair way to follow them. The Prince, not mov'd at all with that Remoniirance,made 

 this Reply to the grand Falconer, That, if the Weather prov'd very hard, they mould 

 have a care of his Dogs, and allow them cloathing, and other accommodations, left 

 the rigour of the Sealbn might take off any one of them*, making not the leaft men- 

 tion o£ or provifion for the men, whom he facrific'd to his Divertifement. That 

 rough repartee having been fpread among the people, has begot fuch animofity in them 

 againft this Prince, that there's no quciHon made of his being feniible thereof, and that 

 it is, in fome meafure, the caufe of his keeping fo much at a ditfancc, from the Metro- 

 polis of his Empire, where he does not think himfelf fecure. 



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