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.Impoftor words it 5 for which he affures them, befides aili- 
ftance from Heaven to help them to get the viiStory over 
their enemies, and that God imll pardon their f^s and hrmg them tn 
faradtje. Thus fpirited with zeal, a Turk lays about him with 
fury, when he is a fighting, and feems ambitious of dying to 
gain the deHghts of Paradife, at leatt indifferent whether he 
dyes or hves. 
ThO' Turks are as to their temper ferious, or rather inch- 
ning to morofity, feldom laughing, which is accounted an 
argument of great vanity and hghtnefs. They perform the 
exercifes, which they ufe in the way of diverfion," as Ihooting 
and hunting, with a great deal of gravity, as if they defigned 
them more for health then for pleafure ; and this too but 
feldome. The better and richer fort, who have nothing to 
do,fitting all day at home,lolling upon a Sofa or rais'd place in 
their rooms, and taking Tobacco, which their flaves fill and 
light for them : and if they retire in the Summer or Autumn, 
for a week or fortnight to fome convenient fountain in a wood 
v/ith their women, it is chiefly to enjoy the refrelhments of 
the cool air.' In the times of triumph indeed for fome great 
fuccefs obtained againft the ChriHians^ when the fhops are o- 
pen for three nights together,and hung with hghts, as well as 
the fpires of the Mofchs in curious figures, they are guilty 
of extravagant mirth, running up and down the ftreets in 
companies, and fometimes finging and dancing after their 
rude way; but this fit being over, theyfoon return to their 
former melancholy. In the Cotfee-houfes where they ufe 
to refort to tiple, there is ufually one hired by the owners 
to read either an idle book of tales, which they admire as 
wit, or filthy obfcene ftories, v/itli which they feem wonder- 
fully affedred and pleafed, few of them being able to read. 
Thefe are the fchools, which they frequent for their informa- 
tion,tho intimesofwar,v/hen things went ill with them,their 
difcourfes would be of the ill Government3 and theGrand Sig- 
ner himfelf and his chief minifters could not efcape their cen- 
fures, which manifeftly tending to fedition, and to the height- 
nipg of their difcontents by their mutoal complaints, and 
by this free venting of their greivances during the war at 
Landia^ the wife Vizir feeing tlie evil confequences that would 
follow, if fuch meetings and difcourfes were any longer tole- 
rated, commanded, that ail the pubhck CofFee-houfes fliould 
be fluit up in Cofifiammfe and feveral other great Cities of the 
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