Chap. V. of Monfîeur Taverniel 2 



his difpleafure at his difcourfe. For the Naz.ar conjectur'd that the King was 

 talking to fafer-Kan about the incurfions which the Vsbeck^ Tartars often made 

 from Mejhed fide. As for the Franks three of the five were gone hume to 

 fleep, Sain, Lagis, and Bernard'. Mar as and Varin ftay'd behind in the Room. 

 Put Marais being of a humor that when he was drunk he could not hold his 

 tongue, and having heard what the Naz.ar (aid, he likewife took upon him 

 to tell the King, that if the King wanted a General, there was none fitter to 

 make a General than fafer-Kan, and prefently began a long repetition of his 

 praifès. The King commanded him to hold his tongue, which he did for awhile, 

 but then falling again into his former impertinencies, the King commanded him 

 to be dragg'd out of the Room by the feet, and that they mould rip up his 

 belly. Thereupon Marais was feiz'd upon by the Meter, who having a great kind- 

 nels for the Franks, and knowing that the King had a fingular love for Ma- 

 rdis, delay'd the execution of the Kings command, pulling his Cloathes orf very 

 flowly ; and finding that the King did not rife to go into his Haram, which is 

 the fign of no pardon to be given, he caus'd him to be dragg'd as near the 

 peribn of the King as he could, thereby to try whether the King would have 

 compaffion on him or no ; while certain Lords took the boldnels to implore 

 the Kings mercy in his behalf. At laft when the King faw him dragg'd along, 

 he commanded the Officers to let him go, and withal! order'd him to put on 

 his Cloathes again, and refume his place. 



The King of Per]ïa?s eldeft Son comes very raw to the Throne ; and his firft 

 divertifement is to make fhort journeys into the Provinces, thereby by little 

 and little to gain the knowledg of fuch things as concern him. Above all things 

 he never fails to vifit the principal Church of the Armenians at Zulpba. That 

 which makes him fo curious, is his defire to lee the Armenian women, who 

 are very handfom ; being alfo further incited thereto by the Sultamffes, who are 

 glad of any recreation. And then he has a Couronk^ through all Zulpha, at 

 what time all the men muft retire to Ifpahan, or to their Friends at a diftance. 

 Sha-Abbas the fécond went feveral times in that manner to Zulpha ; and one 

 day among the reft, upon the report of the beauty of the Wife of the Ke- 

 lonter Gorgia Safras , Son of Kelonter Gorgia JVa&ar , the King having leen 

 her, lik'd her very well, and defiVd her to go along with the Sultaneffes, who 

 cârryM her into the Haram, where fhe continu'd fifteen days, and then retdrn'd 

 home with a fair Neck-Lace of Pearls, which the King gave her when fhe went 

 away. 



To fay the truth of Sha-Abbas the fécond, he was a man too much given 

 to drirvk, and too much govern'd by his paffion ; otherwife he was a lover of 

 juftice, and very magnificent and generous to Strangers, 



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