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fcem to be affeded with ry thme mightily. Though I fup- 
pofe it is upon a more politick accompt, that they are lo 
averfe, as to the tranflating it into their vulgar language, 
not out of refpe(3; to the facrednefs of the original only, 
whofe full commanding expreffions they think cannot be 
tranilated without a great diminution to the fenfe j but 
to keep it in greater veneration among the people, who 
might be apt to flight and difefteem it, fhould it become 
thus common among them. Tt is enough, that the Priefts 
and learned men explain the difficult paffages of it to the 
people, and write Commentaries for the ufe of the more 
curious and inqaifitive. The Perjians on the contrary 
think it no difparagement to the Arabich^, or profanation 
of the fenfe to tranflate this curfed book into their own 
language, and copies are frequent among them. 
The Grand Signors women are ufually the choiceft beau- 
ties of the Chrifiian fpoiles, prefented by the Bajfa's or 
Tartars, The prefent Sultana, the mother of the young 
V rince Mujiapha, is a Candiotj the Valide or Emperors 
mother, a JRuffian^ the daughter of a poor Prieft, who with 
her relations were feized upon by the Tartars in an incur- 
fion, which they made into the Mufcovites Country, She 
being received into the Seraglio, by her beautiful com- 
plexion andrcunning behaviour, gain'd the heart and the 
afFe^ion of Sultan Ibrahim. ( a man wholly addid:ed to 
foft pleafures, and who feldome cared to be long abfent 
from the womens appartment, but chofe to fpend his time 
among them ) Having the good fortune to be the mother 
of the Prince Mahomet, the eldefl: fon of his father, who 
now reigns, She had all the honors that could poffibly be 
done her , and was the beloved Ha^aki or chief Con- 
cubine. During this height of fplendor and glory, the 
Court removing from Conftantinople to Adrianople, difl:ant 
about an hundred and twenty miles, as (he was pailing 
in great ftate attended with her Guards , through the 
ftreets of the City, in a Coach much like our carriage 
A3 wagon$, 
