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over, they foon return to their former Me-^ 

 laricholly- In the * CofFee-Houfes where they 

 ufe to refbrt to Tipple, there is ufually one 

 hired by the Owners to read either an idle 

 Book of Tales, which they admire as Wit, 

 or filthy obfcene Stories, with which they 

 feem wonderfully affefted and pleafed, few 

 of them being able to Read- Thefe are the 

 Schools, which they frequent for their In- 

 formation, thoVin times of War, when things % 

 went ill with them, their Difcourfes would 

 , be of the ill Government^ and the Grand 

 - Signior himfelf and his chief Minifters could 

 not efcape their Cenfures, which manifeftly 

 tending to Sedition, and to the heightning 

 of their Difcontents by their mutual Com- 

 plaints, and by this free venting of their 

 Greivances during the War at Candia^ the 

 Wife Vizir feeing the evil Gonfequences that 

 would follow, if fuch Meetings and Difcour- 

 fes were any longer tolerated. Commanded^ 

 that all the publick Ccffee-houfes fliould be 

 Ihut up in Conjt amino fie and feveral other great 

 Cities of the Empire, where the Malecon- 

 tents ufed to rendezvouz themfelves, and 

 find fault upon every ill Succefs and Mifcar- 

 riage with the adminiftration of Affairs. 



The cuftom of the Turks to falute the Em- 

 peror OF the Fiz^ir Bajfa\ with loud Accla- 

 mations and Wilhes of Health and long Life, 

 when they appear firft in their Houfes or any 

 publick Place, is derived from the Greeks^ who 

 took it from the Romans. This was dooie by 

 them in a kind of Singing Tone^ whence . 

 Lriitir^ndus JBifllop of Cremona tells us, that 



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