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come from Jerufalem, through vile Turkifh governments, 
and hot, unwholefome climates, to fee a river and a bog, 
no part of which you can carry away were it ever fo valua- 
ble, and of which you have in your own country a thou- 
fand larger, better, and cleaner, and you take it ilk when I 
difcourage you from the purfuit of this fancy, in which you 
are likely to perifh, without your friends at home ever hear- 
ing when or where the accident happened. While I, on 
the other hand, the mother of kings who have fat upon 
the throne of this country more than thirty years, have for 
my only with, night and day, that, after giving up every 
thing in the world, I could be conveyed to the church of 
the Holy Sepulchre in Jerufalem, and beg alms for my fub- 
fiftence all my life after, if I could only be buried in the 
ftreet within fight of the gate of that temple where our 
bleffed Saviour once lay.” This was faid in the moft me- 
lancholy tone poffible, an unufual gloom hanging upon her 
countenance. Her defiring me, however, to ftay at Kofcam,. 
till 1 knew whether the king and Michael would return or 
not, confidering the large army they were to lead to the 
field, and the feebitenefs of the fo-often defeated Fafil, made 
me from that inftant apprehend that there was fomething 
behind with which I was yet unacquainted. 
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Go tp, and orders for cattle and provifions while at Em- 
fras, followed this converfation with the queen; this, in- 
deed, had never failed at other times, which, by Ayto Aylo’s 
advice, I never more refufed. Here I cannot help obferving 
the different manner in which three people did the fame 
thing. When I received gold from Michael, it was openly 
from his hand to mine, without compliment, as he paid the 
reft of the king’s fervants. When I received it from the 
king, 
