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Frontispiece
Vol.II.
MOGUL TALES,
O R,
•The DREAMS of Men Awake:.
BEING
Stories told to divert the Grief of the
SULTANA'S of GUZARAT, for the
fuppofed Death of the SULTAN.
Guewslette
Written in French by the celebrated Mr. GUEL
LETEE, Author of The Chineſe Tales, &c.
Now firft Translated into English.
In two VOLUMES, adorned with proper Cuts, neatly
Engraven on Copper Plates.
The SECOND EDITION.
VOL. II.
In pleafing Tales, the artful Sage can give
Rules, bow in Happiness and Eafe to live:
Can fhew what Good can moſt attract the Mind,
And how our Woes we from our Vices find;
Delighting, yet inftructing thus our Youth,
Who catch at Fable-How to gather Truth.
LONDO N:
Printed for THOMAS HOPE, Succeffor to the late-
Mr. Edmund Comyns, from the South Gate of the
Royal Exchange, to the Sign of the Bible and
Anchor oppoſite to the North Gate at the Corner
of Bartholomew-Lane in Threadneedle-Street.
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CONTENTS
For the Second VOLUME..
XXXIX. EVENING.
I
The Hiftory of Zem-Alzaman Prince of Kafgar,
and of Zendehroud Princeſs of Samarcand. page
XL. EVENING.
The Hiftory of Zem-Alzaman Prince of Kafgar,
and of Zendehroud Princeſs of Samarcand, con-
tinued
1
XLI. EVENING..
The Hiftory of Zem-Alzaman Prince of Kaſgar,
and of Zendehroud Princefs of Samarcand, con-
•
cluded
The Adventures of Katife and Margeon-
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XLII. EVENING.
The Adventures of Katife and Margeon con-
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tinued-
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16.
XLIII. EVEN
CONTENTS.
XLIÍÈ. -- EV ȘNING.
The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
continued
XLIV. EVENING.
The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
continued
XLV. EVENING.
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The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
continued
XLVI.. EVENING.
The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
continued
XLVII. EVENING.
The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
continued
XLVIII. EVENING.
The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
continued-
XLIX. EVENING.
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3-
34
37
42
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The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
continued
L. EVENING.
The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
continued
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47
49
LI. EVEŇ-
CONTENT S.
LI. EVENING.
The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
continued
LII. EVENING.
The History of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
! continued.
a
LIN. EVENING.
52
54
The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
continued
LIV. EVENING.
The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
continued
LV. EVENING.
The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
continued
LVI EVENING.
59
63
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67
The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon "
continued.
LVII. EVENING.
The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
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continued
77
LVIII. EVEN-
CONTENTS.
LVII EVEN ANG.
The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
~continued
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LIX EVEN ING.
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The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
continued.
LX. EVEN ING.
The History of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
continued
LXI. EVENING.
The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon-
continued
LXII. EVENING.
The Hiftory of the Adventures of Katife and Margeon
concluded-
LXIM EYEW ING.
85.
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102'
The Hiftory of Megnoun and Leileh
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LXIV. EVENING.
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The Hiftory of Maffoud the Son of Soffar
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LXV. EVEN
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CONTENT S.
LXV. EVENING.
The Hiftory of Maffoud, the Son of Soffar, continued '
LXVI. EVENING.
121
The Hiftory of Maffoud, the Son of Soffar, continued
•129
The Hiftory of Abderaim, recited by Mouiad,134
LXVII. EVENING.
The Hiftory of the Sultana Goul-Saba ↑ 3 5
LXVIII. EVENING.
135
The Hiftory of the Sultana Goul-Saba, concluded-141
LXIX. EVENING.
The Hiſtory of Abderaim, recited by Monaid, continuid
LXX. EVENING;
145
The History of Abderaim, recounted by Mouaid, conti-
nued-
. LXXI. EVENING.
147
The Hiftory of Abderaim, recounted by Mouaid, conti-
nued.
150
LXXII. EVEN-
CONTE N T S.
LXXII. EVENING.
The Hiftory of Abderaim,, recounted by Mouaid, conti
nued-
LXXIII, EVENING.
154
The Hiftory of Abderaim, recounted by Mouaid, conti-
nued
LXXIV. EVENING.
156
The Hiftory of Abderaim, recounted by Mouaid, conti-
nued-
161
LXXV. EVENING.
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The Hiftory of Abderaim, recounted by Mouaid, conti-
nued
167
LXXVI. EVENING.
The Hiftory of Abdèraim, recounted by Moudid conti-
nued-
Ĉ..
LXXVII. EVENING.
173
The Hiftory of Abderaim, recounted by Mouaid, conti-
nued
178
LXXVIII.^. EKENING.
The Hiftory of Abderaim; recounted by Mouaid, conclu-
ded-
183
LXXIX. EVEN--
CONTENTS.
LXXIX. EVENING.
The Hiftory of Abderaim, recounted by Himself 190
LXXX. EVENING.
The Hiftory of Abderaim, recounted by Himself— 198
LXXXI.
EVENING.
The Hiftory of Abderaim, recounted by Himself 201
LXXXII. EVENING.
The Hiftory of Abderaim, recounted by Himself, con-
cluded
206
The Hiftory of the Princess Zarat-Alriadh, recounted by
Abderaim
LXXXIII. EVENING.
209
The Hiftory of Zarat-Alriadh, recounted by Abderaim
LXXXIV. EVENING.
211
The Hiftory of Zarat-Alriadh, recounted by Abderaim
LXXXV. EVENING.
216
The Hiftory of Zarat-Alriadh, recounted by Abderaim,
concluded-
- 219
LXXXVI.
CONTENTS
LXXXVI. EVENING.
The Hiftory of Ogug, and the five Sultana's, continued
LXXXVII. EVENING.
223
The Hiflory of Ogug, and the five Sultana's, continued
LXXXVIII. EVEN IN G.
225
The Hiftory of Ogug, and the five Sultana's, continued
LXXXIX. EVENING.
229
The Hiftory of Ogug, and the five Sultana's, concluded.
THE
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THE
SULTANA'S
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GUZARAT, &c.
VOL. II.
XXXIX. E VENIN G.
The History of ZEM-ALZAMAN, Prince of
KASGAR, and of ZENDEHROUD, Prin-
cefs of SAMARCAND.
S
UCH were the People that attacked us
when we were buried in Sleep, and be-
lieved ourſelves in abfolute Security; the
Princefs of Kafgar who was with her
Woman in a Tent pitched in the middle
of our Camp, no fooner heard the Alarm,
but the put on the Habit of a Man, which by way of
Precaution, the kept continually in her Wardrobe. She
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then
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then mounted her Horfe, and encouraged thofe a-
bout her to defend themfelves vigorioufly; herſelf
performing Acts of Valour, which would ſcarce be
credible were I to repeat them; but finding that the
fhould at laſt be over born by Numbers, the refolved
to trust her Safety to the Fleetnefs of her Horſe, to
which giving the Reigns, the Creature ran fo fwiftly,
that it was impoffible for me to keep up with her;
however I endeavoured to purſue the fame Track, the
Moon fhining exceeding bright, till four Arabs crof-
ed my Road, from whofe Attack I had much ado to
defend myſelf; their Companions finding no farther
Refiftance from our Escort, which were either all
cut in Pisces or fled, fell immediately to pillaging our
Camp. That was not however what Agem fought
for, the Fame of Zendebroud's Beauty having reached
his Ear, and having Intelligence that fhe was on her
Return to her Spouſe, he made this Expedition.on
purpoſe to feize her, and to make her the favourite
Suliana in his travelling Serial; in order to this he had
given Directions that his People fhould enter the Tent
of that Princess, with all the refpect imaginable, and
that they ſhould fhew all poffible Regard to thoſe of
her Sex who were about her.
THEY very punctually executed his Orders, tho'
they happened to come too late, for Zendehroud as I
have told you, had luckily fled out of their Reach,
and thereby eſcaped the Brutallity of this Robber.
For my Part, I was extreamly griev'd that I had not
been able to follow the Princefs, but as I had Reaſon
to think ſhe would take the Road to Tonqueftan, I
made all the hafte thither I could, and having ac-
quainted the firft Governor on the Frontiers, with
the unlucky Accident that had befallen us, he imme-
diately detached a Body of four thousand Horfe in
queft of Agem, in order to deliver the Princeſs, in
cafe the had been fo unlucky as to have fallen into
his Hands.
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I went along with thefe Troops, in order to con-
duct them to the Place where we had been attacked,
and where on our Arrival we found the Arabs gone,
and only the Dead and dying ftriped naked, who were
unable to inform us which way thofe Vagrants march-
ed off; but the worst part of the News which we
learned was, that a Rumour was difperfed, that the
Princefs was fallen into the Hands of Agem. The
very Thoughts of which, and the piercing Grief
which it would give my Mafter, fill'd me with fo
lively a Refentment, that inflead of being the Meffen-
ger of fo bad News, I determined with my felf if it
were poffible to revenge the Lofs; to this Purpoſe,
diſpatched Couriers on every Side, we gained at laft
Intelligence that the Arabs were marching to the
Plains of Fargana a Town of Mavaralnahar, on the
Frontiers of the Kingdom of Kalgar. We immedi-
ately purſued them with the utmoft Diligence, and ha-
ving come up with them, we engaged; and after a
moft obftinate and bloody Combat, cut them all in
Pieces. Our Chief having given Orders they ſhould
take Agem, if it were poffible alive, but it was impof..
fible for us to execute his Orders, for that Monſter
finding himſelf prefs'd, retired into his Tent, where
he had not remained many Minutes before he came out
again, with the Head of a Woman in his Hand,
whofe Face was totally disfigured with ſeveral Blows
of a Sabre, at throwing it out at our Feet, he cry'd
out, There is what you look after, now go carry to your
Mafter the Head of Zendehroud, and tell him that
Agem was never born to be his Slave. He had ſcarcè
pronounced thefe Words, before he threw himſelf head-
long on his Sword, which coming out of his Back
fully performed what he defired, and gave a Paffage to
his impure Soul, to quit that Body which had been its
Companion in fo many Villanies."
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WE fet a difmal Cry at the Sight of this abomina-
ble Fact, and running in all Hafte into his Tent, we
there found weltering in their Blood fix of his Wives,
whofe Heads he had cut off, that they might not fall
alive into our Hands. Amongst the Women I diftin-
guifhed with inexpreffible Grief the Corps of Zende-
hroud, whofe Habit was remarkable, and enriched
with feveral Stones, which I knew at firſt Sight; and
now I had Leifure, I began to imagine that I difcern'd
every Feature of that unfortunate Princefs, in the
mangled Head which that Villain had thrown to us;
but in the midſt of theſe Cogitations, one of the
'Women who was not quite dead put us out of all
doubt, fhe told us, that the Princefs of Kalgar had
refifted the Violence offered to her by that Monſter,
to the very Moment that we furrounded his Troops,
and that as foon as he perceived it impracticable for
him to make his Efcape, he rushed into his Tent, cut
off the Heads of his Wives, and of Zendehroud, and
gave all the reft of the Women about them mortal
Wounds.
I procured upon the Spot a little Chariot, into
which I put the Body of the Princefs, and having
fent it to Cojanda, a City of Mavaralnabar, at the
Foot of the Mountains I there paid my laſt Devoirs
to her, with all the Magnificence that was poffible.
As foon as this melancholly Ceremony was over, I
took the Road to Kafgar, in which I had not pro-
ceeded above four Leagues, before I perceived a
Body of Horſe approaching me, at whofe Head I
could diſcover the Prince Zem-Alzaman; I imme-
diately difmounted, ran to meet him, and prefented
myſelf on my Knees at his Stirrup; but as I was a-
bout to open my Mouth to acquaint him with the
cruel Fate of the Princefs, Grief ftruck me dumb;
the Prince was alarmed at my Silence, and that pro-
Found Sorrow which he diſcovered in my Counte-
nance:
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nance: However, he commanded me to ſpeak, and I
no fooner opened the Caufe of my Affliction, but
turning pale and fighing, he was on the very point
of falling from his own Horfe, had he not been fup-
ported by two Officers, who rode on each Side of
him; it was more than an Hour befor he could be
brought to himſelf, and when revived, he uttered
fuch touching Complaints, that they drew Tears
from the Eyes of all that were about him; to this
Grief fucceeded a Fury, as terrible in which he was
a thouſand times on the Point of killing himſelf, if
he had not been hindred by holding his Arms. And
have I loft cry'd he for ever my Dear Zende hroud,
have I loft her through the Rage of a Barbarian, on
whom I cannot be revenged fince he exifts no more.
Oh! Heaven, why durft thou perfecute me, with fo
much Fury? Hitherto I have been the Butt of your
Vengeance without murmuring, hoping that one Day
your Arrows would be exhaufted. Nay, I thought
that Day come when the Princefs of Kafgar, became
fenfible of my Innocence, and now you have ravifhed
from me this incomparable Princeſs, and that by an
Adventure the moft cruel. Oh! Holy Prophct, what
a Refignation is there due to the Decrees of Heaven ;
yes, it is my Duty I muſt ſubmit without murmuring,
'tis to no Purpoſe Zende hroud is dead! Zendehroud is
dead! fhe is no more. Cruel Agem! execrable Mon-
fler! What could that adorable Princeſs have done
to you, to deſerve fuch inhuman Ufage? Ah! 'tis
impoffible that I fhould furvive her; then he gave
Orders for our going on to Cojanda, where we arri-
ved in two Hours, then his Affliction gathered new
Strength, he thought to have died at the Sight of the
bloody robe of his Wife, which he peremptorily com-
manded fhould be brought him, and having wet it
with a ſhower of Tears, he commanded a moſt beau-
tiful Monument to be erected to the Memory of
that incomparable Lady. That very Day he dif
charged all his Servants, referving me only to accom-
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pany
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pany him in thofe Travels wherein he determined to
wear out his Grief.
AFTER having for this Purpofe wandered up
and down for a confiderable Time, we came at laft,
into the Neighbourhood of Candahar. About a quarter
of a League from the Town, we found a little Mofque,
and near it a Burying Ground, it grew late, and the
Prince defirous to footh his Melancholly among the
Tombs, determined to remain there all Night. As I
had found it to no Purpoſe to diffuade him from
fuch kind of Diffolutions, I now no longer attempt-
ed it, but while he fearched out a Place to reft in, I
went to look for fome Place, where I might put the
Horfes up fafe, at the Corner of the Wall I efpied a
little Tenement, which I took for granted, belonged
to the Iman of the Mofque, thither I went immedi-
ately, and when I came, I found I was not miſta-
ken; and tho' the Iman was not at Home, but gone
to Candahar, upon fome Occafion or other, yet the
old Man who took care of his Affairs, treated me
with much Civility; and not only took the Horfes
into the Yard, which was all I defired of him, but
gave them alfo Provender, nor would be perfuaded
to receive any Gratuity for his Favours. After I had
told him that I was obliged to return to my Mafter,
who had taken it in his Head to lye all Night among
the Tombs, I departed to go and find the Prince, he
was ſtanding not far from the Place where I left him,
but looked on me, with fuch an Air of Terror, and
Diftraction, that I was mightily amazed, and grieved
thereat. I could not fpeak to him, nor he to me;
at laft recovering himſelf a little, Roud-Bari (faid
he to me) if I were capable of being affrighted, it
muſt have been with a Sight which preſented itſelf
while you were gone with the Horfes. Out of
yonder Tomb, I beheld an old Man arife; you be-
wail (faid he) the Princefs of Samarcand, and you
are every Day entreating the Prophet, that he would
put
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put an End to your Sorrows. Your Prayers are heard
go to Cambaye, in that City they fhall there be finifh-
ed, and you once more united to Zendehroud. At the
fame time the old Man difappeared; and tho' his
fudden Appearance confounded me, yet in his Decla-
ration, that at Cambaye my Sufferings, with a hated
Life are to take an End; my Soul received as much
Comfort, as it poffible in the State I am in. Come
then let us fet forward for Guzarate, and when that
Event, which he has predicted comes to pafs, return
you to Kafgar, and give an Account of it to Fraydoun.
For my Fart I was fo much aftoniled and afflicted,
that I could not refrain from Tears.
Ah! my
Friend (faid he) to me, if you really Love me, you
would not weep, fince the Deſtiny that attends me
at Cambaye, will put an End to Miferies, a thouſand
times more cruel than Death itfelf. The Prince re-
pofed himſelf a little that Night, but for my Part, I
fcarce flept a wink; we mounted our Horfes by break
of Day, and after traverſing the Kingdoms of Haja-
kan, Buckar, Tata, and Soret, we came at laft to
Guzarat, and arriving Yesterday at Cambaye, we went
to lodge at a Caravanfera, we were from thence,
without knowing how tranfported hither; where in-
ftead of being comforted with the noble Proſpects he
beholds, his Melancholly feems to be increafed from
the Apprehenfion that it is not likely to become his
Tomb.
DURING the whole time of this Recital, Zem-
Alzaman was plunged into fo deep a Melancholly,
that it raiſed the moſt tender Pity imaginable in the
Breafts of all the Sultanas, they were at the very
Point of bursting into Tears, when Cothrob addreffed
himſelf in the following Terms to the Prince of Kaf
gar.
*
"You have my Lord, for a long Time expe-
rienced the Bitterneſs of a very unfortunate Life,
yet be not caſt down, the Prophet will keep his
"Word, and put an end to your Sorrows before this
Day
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"Day be paft, according to all that was promifed
"you by the venerable Perfon from the Tomb".
The Iman no fooner finished this Diſcourſe, but two
Slaves came to the Door of the Salon, and beckoned
out the Porters who attended.
IN a few Minutes the Porters returned, and
brought with them a young Man about twenty Years
of Age; his Afpect the moit charming that can be
imagined, as he was in a profound Sleep, procured
by the Liquor we have formerly fpoken of, he did
not awaken till after he was fet down in the Hall,
then opening his Eyes, he gazed round about him,
looking on the Grandeur, and Magnificence of the
Palace with Amaze, and was the more furpriſed at
the profound Silence which every Body kept round
him, in fo much, that for a Time he was afraid to
ſpeak. At last, is it in this inchanted Place, (faid he)
with a Voice the most pleafing that ever was heard ?
Is it here, that I am to find a Period to my Griefs?
Is it in this moſt pompous Palace that I am to meet
all I Love? Great Prophet continued he, ceaſe to afflict
the afflicted, whofe Faults have been fo long repent-
ed; pardon the Errors of a too paffionate Temper,
which have been already expiated by a Train of Suf-
ferings; reſtore that Tranquility to my Breast, of
which I have fo great need, or take away that Life
which is but a Burthen without it.
THE Young Man had no fooner finiſhed his Pray-
er to Mohamed, but the Prince of Kafgar, ftruck with
the Sound of his Voice, turned his Eyes towards the
Perfon, and at the fame Inftant fell into the Arms of
Roud-Bar; crying as he fell, behold the Accompliſh-
ment of the Prophecy I had at Candahar; now, now,
I die.
IF all the Affembly were aſtoniſhed at ſo odd and
unlooked for an Event, they were more furpriſed
when
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when they beheld the young Stranger, quit the Slaves
who fupported him, and run and throw himſelf on
the Neck of Zem-Alzaman with extream Tenderneſs ;
crying out at the fame Time, Have I, Oh! my dear
Prince found you once again.
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XL. EVENING.
The Hiftory of ZEM-ALZAMAN, Prince of
KASGAR, and of ZENDEHROUD, Prin-
cefs of SAMARCAND.
ARESSES fo warm and affectio-
nate, join'd to a Voice fo well known,
and fo Dear, quickly roufed the
Prince of Kafgar from his Swoon,
When he recovered, he fet up, but
looked like a Perſon who had loft
his Senſes, ſtaring without Motion
or Speech, fuppofing all he faw, the Effect of a
Dream; but when after fometime the full Ufe of his
Senfes were returned. Oh! Heaven (cry'd he) is
then this Scene real, and is it poffible, that I fhould
hold the Princeſs of Samarcand in my Arms? Can it
be Zendehroud, my Dear Spoufe that I Embrace ?
Great Prophet, if all that I behold is a Dream, grant
that I may never wake, but enjoy inſtead of Paradife,
the Company of my incomparable Princefs, in lieu of
thofe Hours thou haft promifed to the Faithful. My
dear Lord (faid Zendebroud) letting fall a Torrent of
Tears, be affured that it is no Illufion. After the
perfidious gem had furprifed my Efcort, I put on the
Habit of a Man, in order to fave myfelf by Flight,
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and
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and gave Orders to a Georgian Woman, who was pret-
ty near my Size, to put on my Cloaths, and to perfo-
nate me, when they ſhould be taken, and I ſuppoſe it
is fome Accident which has befallen that unhappy
Woman, that has occafioned your believing I was dead,
or at leaſt, a Prifoner. Ah! cry'd Zem-Alzaman, you
judge but too rightly, for that unfortunate Georgian
falling into the Hands of that Monſter Agem, and re-
fifting his Brutal Attempts with inimitable Conftancy,
he put the poor Girl to Death, and afterwards deftroyed
himſelf, to avoid thoſe Torments which he rightly
conjectured would befall him, in Cafe he fell alive into
the Hands of thofe Troops Roud-Bari had brought to
your Succour; deceived by theſe ftrong Appearances
this faithful Companion of my Travels, believed you
the Victim of Agem's Fury. Your Habit, your Size,
and the disfigured Head of the Georgian, were cer-
tainly fufficient Grounds for him to believe, as he did,
that you fell into the Hands of that Barbarians Soldiers,
and that afterwards you had taken your own Habit,
and been facrificed by the brutal Cruelty of that Mon-
fter, among his Wives, all of whom out of Jealoufy,
he at the fame time put to Death.
EVEN.
MOGUL TALES. T1
FROGE FREE
XLI. EVENING.
The History of ZEM-ALZAMAN, Princes
of KASGAR, and of ZENDEHRoud,
Princess of SAMARCAND..
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T would be to no Purpoſe, lovely
Princefs, to enter into a long Detail
of the many Griefs I fuffered on the:
News of your unfortunate Adven-
ture: Let it fuffice, that I tell you
from the Moment I heard it, I gave
my felf up to an uninterrupted flow of Sorrow and
"Affliction of Mind. I endeavoured all I could to:
"ſhorten a Life which was now become infupportable:
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to me, and I was on the very Point of finking under
"theſe Evils, when I was told in a Vifion as I ap-
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prehended, that at Cambaye I fhould meet with you:
"again. It never came into my Head to give this
"Prediction a favourable Interpretation, but confider-
ing the then State of my Affairs, I concluded that
"in this Place I by fome Means or other fhould meet
"my Death, the only End I expected to my Suffer-
ings, and by this Means alfo I hoped to be reunited:
to my Zendebroud:
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66.
"LET us forget all thefe Misfortunes my Dear
"Spouſe (anſwered the Princefs tenderly). for as the
great Prophet has reſtored us to each other in this-
"Manner at laft, we cannot after fo fingular an In-
66. ſtance, doubt of the Continuance of his Favour and
Pros
B. 6,
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MOGUL TALES.
"Protection. I will not for my Part enter into a
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prolix Recital of my Adventures, I wandered at
"Random to avoid falling into the Hands of the ex-
"ecrable Agem, of whofe infamous Practices I had
"heard; and fuch an Horror had I of becoming his
Priſoner, that after killing one of his Arabs who
"overtook me, I put my Horfe to full Speed and al-
"lowed neither him nor my felf the leaft Relaxa-
❝tion, till by the Rapidity of my Flight I had quite
"efcaped all Danger of his purfuing me with Ef-
"fect.
"I arrived at laft at Adercand, a City of Mavaral-
"nahar, on the Frontiers of Thibet, where I had once
an Intention to have made myſelf known to the Go-
vernour, and to have demanded of him Guard to
"eſcort me thro' Turqueftan, in order to have joined
you at Kafgar. But I was diverted from this, by
"meeting at the Gate of Adarcand, the very fame
"Calender, whom as I have heretofore told you, I
"confulted in my Mother's Court. I fancied that
" he would not be able to diſcover me in the Diſguiſe
"I wore, but was miftaken, for he came up to me
"immediately". "Madam (faid he) you have
"felt the Truth of my Predictions in a Train of
"thofe Misfortunes, which the Rafhneſs of a paf-
"fionate Temper draws on thoſe who gave way here-
66 to. Be thankful, however, to the Prophet, who
"has preferved your Life and Honour, and make
"Hafte to Cambaye, if you would fee an End of your
"Sorrows.
at Sa-
I arri-
"I had paid too dearly for my Neglect of this
good Man's Advice, when given to me
"marcand, ever to fall into that Error again. I took
"therefore inſtantly the Road to Cambaye.
"ved in this City about Noon, and went to take up
a Lodging in a Karavanfera, the Keeper
"treated me with abundance of Kindneſs.
whereof
He pre-
"vailed
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"vailed on me by his Civilities, to Sup with him,
"and afterwards finding myſelf extreamly Sleepy, I
"withdrew in order to repofe myſelf. Since that
"Time I cannot fay what has befallen me, nor by
"what Inchantment I have been brought into this
"moft Magnificent Palace; nor fhall I trouble my-
"felf much to think about it, fince here I find the
"Calender's Prophecy actually fulfilled, and am, my
"Dear Prince, reſtored to you".
THE Sultana's liftened very attentively to thi
unravelling of the Adventures of theſe illuftrious Per-
fons, and the Prince of Kafgar, and Zendebroud, hav-
ing thanked them for their interefting themſelves fo
much in their Stories, the Evening concluded with all
imaginable Satisfaction.
ALL the Princes and Princeffes in the Serial
enjoyed the higheft Pleaſure imaginable in this whim-
fical State, except only the Sultan of Ormuz. This
Monarch flattered by the Promiſes of Cothrob, at-
tended their Accomplishments with the utmoft Im-
patience, nor could he avoid terrifying the Anguiſh
of Mind he endured to Cothbeden who happened to be
near him. "How different my Dear Friend (faid
he) is your Condition from mine? You poffefs
at Eafe the fole Object of your Love, while I,
"tho' I long behold the Miſtreſs of my Wiſhes,
"dare not exprefs my Paffion, for her any other
(C
.
Way, than by the Tenderneſs vifible in my Looks.
"I have had, indeed, fome Cauſe to hope that beau-
"tiful Princeſs is not infenfible of my Pains, but
"alas! what are thefe flight Hopes? if quickly the
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happy Moment do not approach, which is to give
me her for a Wife. 1 fhall certainly fink under
"the Violence of my Love". My Lord (an-
"fwered the Prince of Vifapour) we have feen fo
many incontestable Proofs of Cothrobs Veracity,
“that you ought really to be fatisfied in your Mind,
" and
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"and depend on the Performance of whatever he has
promifed. Be chearful my Friend, expect patiently,
"nor doubt, that you fhall very fpeedily find a happy
"Period to all your Sorrows; refign yourſelf, be eafy,.
"and ceafe not to hope".
THIS Difcourfe of Cothbedin having made fome
Impreffion on the Soul of Cazan-Can, that Prince
paffed the Night with more than ordinary Tran-
quility. The next Day at the uſual Hour, repairing
to the Salon, he found all the Company affembled as
formerly. As foon as the Sultana had taken their
Places and every Body was feated, the Porters
brought in a Man about thirty Years of Age, and
placed him on a Sofa. The Stranger was handſome 95
but his Beauty was in fome Meafüre clouded, by the
Sadness in his Countenance, which yet feem to give
way to Surpriſe, as he by Degrees awaked, and per-
ceived himſelf in a ftrange Place, and that too fo
extreamly grand and magnificent.
"Ladies (faid
"he rifing) Pardon my Curiofity, arriving pretty
"late laft Night in Cambaye, I took up my Lodging.
"in a Karavanfera; with an Intent to have employ-
"ed this Day, in looking upon whatſoever was
"'worthy of Notice in the City, Port, &c. which I
"rather chofe to do, that my Thoughts might be
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employed, becauſe having been lately feparated
"from the Delight of my Soul, Solitude ferved on-
ly to fill me with Anguiſh, and every Moment
" which was not in fearching her, augmented my
"Difpair. Be fo charitable, therefore to a Stranger,
cr
as to acquaint me whether I am awake and by what
"ftrange means I am come into this Land of Inchant-
❝ment, or if you are thoſe Phantoms, which in
"the Night inform Mankind by working on their
"Imaginations; tell me, does my Dear Margeon,.
(i. e. Globe of Light,) ftill furvive, and in what
Region of the Earth may I find her". The Sulta-
na's were ready to laugh out at the Serioufneſs,
with.
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"L
with which the Man pronounced theſe Words; but
Cothrob turning towards him, returned this Anſwer.
"The Perfon you feek is no lefs concerned than
"yourſelf at this Separation, fhe, has with indefati-
gable Pains, fearched the Sea-Ports for News of
you; but 'tis here that both your Hopes muſt be
fatisfied, what I have faid is enough to convince
you, that what you fee is not a Dream, and that
"the Perfons you behold, are of that Race of Beings
"who were created to retrieve the Woes of the
"Unhappy. As you are of that Number, delay not
"the giving us an exact detail of your Adventures;
"for tho' we are ignorant of nothing that has befal-
len you, yet we always require a Recital from the
"intereſted Perfon's Mouth, and according to the
"Sincerity of thoſe Recitals, are more or lefs difpofed
"to ferve them”.
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"PUISSANT Genius (anfwered the Stranger)
"the flattering Hopes you give me, are fufficient to
fpur me to any thing, and to prevent my having
any Referve, the latter Part of my Difcourfe has
"alfo its Weight with me, and therefore to deferve
your Favour, I will inftantly enter on a faithful
Account of my Actions.
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The
16 MOGUL TALE S.
The Adventures of KATIFE and
MARGE ON.
M
Y Name is Katife, my Father, who has
been dead thele twelve Years, was an
Officer of the King of Aden, of five
Children which he had, three of my Bro-
thers dyed, my only Sifter was with her
Nurfe ftolen away, at four Years of Age,
fo that I alone remained to be the Comfort of my Mo-
ther, who as fhe was a Woman of good Senſe and Spi-
rit, took Care herſelf to form my Genius, and to give
my Mind a right Turn. At twenty Years of Age I
addicted myſelf to Arms, and I flatter myself that I
ſpeak but Truth, in ſaying I gained fome Reputation
by my Behaviour in a War our King had lately engaged
in, againſt one of his Enemies.
We had for a Neighbour a young charming Widow,
whofe Praiſes I heard continually from my Mother, who
was her Intimate; and by degrees I grew enamoured,
from the very Fame of her Beauty. I tried every
Way I could adviſe to gain Admittance to her, but in
vain, fo difficult was this Lady of Accefs. At laſt,
when I began to defpair, Chance gave me an Oppor-
tunity, which I did not flip.
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MOGUL TAL ES. 17
XLII. EVENING.
N
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
I
T happened one Day that as I was paf-
fing by a great burying Place, which lies
without the Gates of Aden, I met by
chance a Companion of mine, when
we were Boys, whofe Name was
Mafch-Moud: As it was a very long
Time fince we had feen each other, we embraced
with great Tenderneſs, and I was juſt going to enter
into a Converfation with him, when on a fudden, he
threw his Cloak over his Face, and catching hold of ·
my Hand, ran with an unaccountable Swiftnefs thro'
feveral Streets, telling me laughing, that he had a
Reaſon for what he did. I, tho' furpriz'd quitted
him not, and after we had in this manner run thro'
a Space of two hundred Paces, he at laft pull'd off
his Cloak. "You asked me juft now (faid he) of
"what Profeffion I was, do you not know then"
No truly (anſwered I)" I am (continued he) a Phy
fician, and I have a ftrange Averfion to fuch un-
lucky Places as that I found you at. Whenever I
pafs by them, I do it in a hurry, for fear fome of
"the Deceafed fhould start up, and lay hold of me,
"in order to call me to an Account for my Ignorance,
"which has fent many of them to fleep; and from
"the fame Spirit of Precaution, I whip my Cloak over
my Face, that thofe Gentlemen may not immedi-
"ately know me."
I
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MOGUL TALES.
I could not forbear laughing heartily at what my
Friend the Phyfician faid, and as I had a Mind to
difcourfe with him, I begg'd him to dine with me.
He agreed, we went where a good Woman kept an
Ordinary, and after having fed heartily, we diverted
ourfelves with the Repetition of what had happened
in our Youth, and telling other merry Tales, which
naturally led us to talk of thofe Beauties which now
reigned in Aden, whether Maids or Widows; amongſt
the reſt, I forgot not to mention Margeon, and launch
out exceffively in her Praife; magnifying not her
Charms only, but the excellent Qualities of her Mind..
"And who are you telling all this to? (cried Maſch-
"Moud) Do you think you know her better than I,
"who am her Brother-in-Law, as well as her Phy-
"fician? It is not above fix Months ago that I ef-
<<
pofed her Sifter, who lives in the Houfe with her,
"and who is no way inferior to her in Beauty, her
"Name is Darajan, and as I am confident, I poffefs
entirely the Heart of that admirable Woman, who
gives me Hourly new Marks of her Tenderneſs: I
"actually eſteem myfelf one of the happiest Men upon
"Earth.
I was almoſt out of my Wits with Joy at hearing
this,
"Is it true then (faid I) my dear, dear Friend,
"that this lovely Widow is as beautiful as fhe is re-
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ported to be? Yes, yes, (anſwered Maſch-Moud) 'tis
"certainly fo, nothing can be more exquifitely per-
“fect, than that admirable Woman, and what is
"ftill more fingular, tho' fhe is called a Widow, fhe
is in Truth a Virgin; her Huſband, who lived but
three Months after their Marriage, never having
"confumated it. The Reafon of this was, becauſe
of a certain Diſeaſe ſhe had, which tho' I have em-
ployed all my Skill to Cure, is, for all that too ſtub-
"born to be conquered, tho' I called into my Aid,
the Eldeſt and moſt famous Doctors in this City,
and which continues fo ftill.”
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AND what ftrange Diſeaſe my Friend (faid I)
might this be? It was (anſwered he) a moſt malignant
Ulcer in the right Arm? An Ulcer! cried I, tranf-
ported with Joy, I am pofitive I can cure it perfect-
ly; but then I muft fee the Patient. You muſt be
a dexterous Fellow indeed (replied Mofch-Moud) if
you can effect fuch a Cure. Certain, am I, that if
Mehemed Ben Zekeira, i. e. that famous Oriental Phy-.
fician we call Razi, were now in the World, he would
not venture to attempt it, of fo fixed and radical a
Kind is this peftiferous Boil, though he was the great-
est Man of his Faculty, and penetrated all the Secrets
of Nature; yet, as he had a ftrong Regard for his
Reputation, he would not have fo roundly undertaken,
even a far lefs difficult Thing than this. Prithee,
faid I, never ſtand making the Compariſon between
fo eminent a Phyfician, and a Man who knows no-
thing of the Matter. I pretend not even to the Ele-
ments of that Science, yet will I undertake to effect
this Cure, and not be worſe than my Word. But I
do not pretend to do this without expecting a Gra-
tuity; look ye, I am paffionately in Love with her,
and if I cure her, I fhall infift on her marrying me.
Oh! cry'd my Friend, as to that Article, I can't tell
what to ſay, the fine Widow has I affure you, a
moft riveted Averfion for Marriage. I am not to be
told that, added I, my Mother has told me as much,
but I am not all furprized; her Huſband was
Old, Lame, and Ugly, Qualities, not at all agreeing
with her Youth and Beauty; but trouble not your-
felf on that Head, I fancy I fhall fucceed well e-
nough; perhaps there was a little Artifice uſed about
that Ulcer, on purpofe to prevent her being given up
to the Embraces of an impotent old Man, for whom,
queftionleſs, ſhe had a natural Repugnance. Where-
as, in my Cafe, I have Youth, Nature has not uſed
me ill in my Perfon, and you know we Soldiers have
a knack of making Love in a way feldom diſagreeable
to
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to the Fair Ones. With theſe Advantages, I flatter
myſelf that Margeon will not have Rigour enough to
reject me and my Medicine, of which the Effects are
indubitable. But that I
may convince you I am no
Quack, nor make you expect more than I can do,
give me leave to tell you a Story.
LARG
OVE
XLII.
EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
A
N Officer of my Acquaintance, who
has a little Houfe a few Leagues from
hence, was a great Lover of Hunting,
and had three Dogs admirably well
managed. I was laft Year for feveral
Months at this Habitation of his; but
when I first came down, he was very much Cha-
grin'd at a Misfortune which had befallen one of
thoſe favourite Animals. The poor Dog had an un-
toward falt Humour about him, which had turned in
Time into fo corrofive a Nature, that it had in a
Manner turned his whole Body into an Ulcer, the
moſt nauſeous and virulent which could be imagined.
His Mafter had done all that was in his Power to get
the Creature relieved, but in vain, the Plague was
incurable, and the Dog feemed on his laft Legs.
Touched with the moſt fincere Pity for the miferable
Animal, I took him out with me one Day to walk in
the Fields; for faid I to myſelf, Nature having been
remarkably kind to the Beafts in Qualities the in-
veft them with, it may be, the poor Dog will himſelf
find out fomewhat which may do him good. The
Creature
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Creature feemed chearful while in the Fields, but
did not, as I expected, look about for, or bite at any
Herbs at laft, fpying a natural Bafon in a Rock, full
of fine cool Spring water, I bethought myſelf of carry-
ing him to drink at it, the Dog feeming too a little
hot, and tired. As foon as we reached the Place, the
Beaft entered the Baſon, and drank very heartily, after
which, continuing as in a Bath up to the Neck for
about an Hour, he came out very much refreſhed. I
was by no means amazed at the Thing, becauſe I
knew very well, that the hot acrid Blood muſt render
fuch a waſhing agreeable; but I was foon convinced
there was more in it by the Skippings and Careffes of
the Dog, which plainly fhewed he was very much in-
vigorated by this Practice, But the next Day my
dumb Patient did indeed confound me, when taking
hold of my Cloaths, he made various Motions to fhew
me he wanted to go to the Water. I did what he
requeſted, he went in again, and having done this
every Day for about three Weeks, the Creature grew
well, found and ftrong as ever he had been, to the
no fmall Satisfaction of his Mafter. You have now
in a few Words, my dear Maſch-Moud, heard my Me-
thod of Cure. I am very well fatisfied, that the
Water of this Spring, without other help will com-
pleat this Cure. When 'tis done, I promiſe you to
fhew it you, and I affure you, it will be for your
"Advantage; all I expect of you, that you will cry up
me, and my Medicine, to this lovely Widow, then
introduce me, and leave me to do the reft.
WHATEVER Faith Mafch-Moud had in my fo much
commended Water, or whatever Credit he gave to
my Relation, he refolved to put the Thing to a fair
Trial. He did therefore all I had defired; he com-
mended me in a high Strain to his Sifter-in-Law, and
at laft introduced me to her, as the only Perfon from
whom fhe could expect Relief.
Nor
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NOTWITHSTANDING Margeon had fuffered very
feverely from her Illness, and that it had particularly
affected her Complection, yet I must own was quite
amazed at her Beauty, having never beheld any thing
fo perfect. I proceeded, however, to my Bufinefs; I
examined her Arm, which was indeed, in a deplora-
ble Condition; I reafon'd a little on the Nature of
her Distemper; I promiſed her to do my beft; I gave
her hopes of a ſpeedy Cure, which I began by fome
gentle Purges, which´having ſtirr'd the Humours, I
next put her into my intended Courfe of Drinking
the Waters, which I conveyed to her every Day,
going in the Night to the Fountain to fetch them.
In a very fhort Time, Margeon found fo great an
Amendment in herfelf, that he could not help tefti-
fying the greateſt Satisfaction. I was over-joy'd at
this happy Iffue of our Contrivances. It will not be
long, faid I at the next Vifit, fair Lady, before you
are perfectly recover'd, and when once you are re-
ſtored to Health, I make no queftion, but you will
very foon change your State of Life, that in which
you now live, cannot but be uneafy to you, and you
can never think of paffing the Bloom of Life fingle:
Deign then Charmer, to accept the tender of a moft
fincere Heart, fee in your Phyfician, a Lover the
moft Paffionate that can be, and one who will always
eſteem it the higheft Felicity of his Life, that he
Adores you.
MARGEON was fo much ftruck at this unex-
pected Difcourfe, that for fome Moments the re-
mained filent, but in them fhe put on an Air, ſo
haughty, and full of Anger, that I could not help
trembling like a Criminal condemn'd to Death. Pe-
netrated to the very Soul with Grief at the Sight,
I threw myfelf at her Feet. "Madam (cry'd I) before
you vent your Anger on your unhappy Slave, who
"cannot fincerely repent his Audacity, fince he fees
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MOGUL TALES.
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،
you ſo well recover'd from your Illneſs hear me. I
"am not what I feem, I am no Phyſician, tho' I am
"fo lucky to poffefs the Secret of reftoring you to
"perfect Health. You fee at your Feet, fair One, a
"Cavalier, who has in fome Meaſure gained Applauſe
"in the Wars. Nay, I have the Advantage farther,
"to be the Son of your intimate Acquaintance, fince
"I am the Child of your Neighbour Serag, taught by
"her Report, I have long admired your Perfections,
"and been your Lover for many Months, tho' it is
"fo lately that I have had the Happineſs to ſee you ;
"and however rigorous you may be in your Decrees
against me, I fwear by the Head of our illuftrious
"Sultan, that I will never ceafe to be your Lover,
"and to adore you with a Paffion the moft humble
"and the moft fincere. I will ufe my utmost Efforts
to conquer your Averfion, and root out the Dif-
"like you have taken to all our Sex; and confider-
"ing the Gentleness of Margeon's amiable Nature, I
66 am fatisfied that you will not be cruel enough to
"doom to Death a Man who lives only to admire
you".
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WHILE I pronounced thefe laft Words, I let
fall a Shower of Tears, which tenderly affected the
Soul of Margeon. "Sir, (at length faid fhe with a
"little Emotion) the Service you have done me de-
"mands from me fome Excufe for this Prefumption
"you have used, efpecially in daring to approach me
"thus in Difguife, but fince you have taken the Ad-
vantage of my Recovery, in a fmall Meaſure to
"make this Propofal, 'tis evident that your Propofal
"is down right Mercenary; otherwiſe you would
certainly have delayed it 'till my Recovery was
accompliſh'd, and then you need not have doubted
"that I would have refuſed you my Hand. If thele
"Sir, are your Pretenfions, and you fancy that by
"them, I muſt be introduced into a new State, you
are moſt certainly miſtaken. No, I wou'd chufe
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MOGUL TALES.
" rather the deplorable Condition in which you found
me, than to fubmit in hopes of a Cure; this is the
true Situation of my Heart. I will inform you far-
"ther, that 'till this Time I never loved, no not my
"Huſband that is deceaſed, if I may fay, that a
"Man was my Hufband, who never had any more
"Converfation with me, than you have. I muſt tell
you moreover, that I fee nothing in you hitherto,
to which I have any diflike, that Margeon is not
"ingrateful, that he has a juft Senfe of the Services
you have done her, and that in Caſe you continue
them, 'tis not impoffible, but that as Obdurate as
my Heart has been, it may be ſoftned”.
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I was ſo aſtoniſhed at the Anſwer of Margeon, and
at her Manner of thinking, that for fome Time I
flood like a Piece of Marble, unable to move; at
laft recollecting myſelf as well as I was able, I made
a fhift to anſwer in the following Terms.
" "Tis
"extreamly well, Madam, what you demand will af
<
furedly convince you of the abfolute Difintereſted-
"nefs of my Paffion. You require that I ſhould
"free you abfolutely from a Difeafe declared incu-
"rable, by the very beft Phyficians in Aden, and
"that I fhould do it without expecting any thing in
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return to the Paffion I have diſcloſed; 'tis enough
"I fubmit to the Terms you prefcribe, and I hope
"all my Care and Affiduities will fo far prevail, as
to deftroy that rigorous Difpofition, you have
"hitherto preferved". You do well, Sir (anfwered
the lovely Widow) but remember I promiſe nothing,
nor will it be your best way to claim any thing upon
the Cure.
I continued to make her drink the Water every
Day, and not only fo, but alſo Bath in it, and the
Lady, by thefe Applications every Hour, grew
ftronger and fronger; her Colour returned; her
Conftitution mended; the Ulcer difappeared totally
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by Degrees, and when her Health was eſtabliſhed, I
infifted Maſch-Moud to take to himſelf all the Honour
of fo extraordinary a Feat, which was of infinite
Service to him in his Profeffion.
c
THE Joy which Margeon diſcovered in her Looks,
on a Reſtoration to her wonted Eafe, after fuffering
for three Years together the fharpeſt Pains in the
World, gave her Eyes, the finest in the IJniverfe, a
yet more piercing Luftre, infomuch, that I could not
pay my Vifits to her, without feeling hourly a more
vehement Fondnefs for her. Some time I remained
filent under my Uneafinefs: At laft, " Madam (ſaid
"I to her one Day) as you have now no longer need
"of my Attendance, I ſhould efteem it the utmoſt
Happineſs of my Life, nay, the full Reward of
my Service, if my Viſits are not troubleſome, tho'
as frequent as before.” "Tis with Repugnance
(anſwered that amiable Perfon) I refuſe you any
Thing, to whom I am very fenfible I owe the high-
eft Obligation; but be fo prudent as to forbear them.
Hitherto you have come with my Brother-in-Law as
a Phyſician, but now when 'tis publickly known I'm
cur'd, that Reafon ceafes. My Slaves would fufpect
ſomewhat if they faw you as often as ufual, confider
that Sir.Happy Slaves, cry'd I, they are always
bleffed with your Prefence, while I am going into
Banifhment, How happy are they? How wretched I?
-Happineſs is quite on your Side Sir, (faid Margeon)
and I am not fo great a Fool, as to believe you would
change your Condition with them. Come, come Sir,
I fhall one Day fee.- -Hold Madam, (cry'd I, inter-
rupting her) Hold, What would you ingratefully fay
to the Prejudice of me and my Paffion? Can you
doubt the Sincerity of what I tell you? Try me,
prove me, there is nothing I would refufe to gain
your Favour. Ha! is it really fo, replied Margeon,
is your Conftancy not to be ſhocked? let me fee then.
You fhall go thro' two long and rough Trials, and if
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you prefevere, I declare I will become your Wife.
Name them, Name them Madam, added I, nothing
can be to hard for me to undertake, or to perform,
That is (returns fhe) the Language of every Lover;
but how much, Friend, are their Tones alter'd when
they become Hufbands, are you not ſenſible of that
there is the Point Sir, there is the Point. How
quickly do they become Tyrants? How foon do they
reat us like Slaves? and not content to break thro' all
the Vows they make of eternal Love, and never-
tading Conftancy; how very easily do they renew
fheir Perjuries to the next new Face, and inſtead of
tndulging, treat us with the Severity of a haughty
iJaylor.
Look ye Sir, thefe are the Accounts which I
have had from all the fine Women in Aden, and 'tis from
this univerfal Complaint, I have conceived fo uni-
verfal a Contempt, from my very Heart, towards
Mankind. All who know them, fpeak thus of them,
and therefore I with Reafon look upon them as equal-
ly guilty. With Juftice I am apprehenfive of falling
under the fame Calamity. Befides, I am of a Soul
fuperior to my Sex, and Miſtreſs as I am of my For-
tune, fhould I plunge myſelf into Sorrows, 'twould
be intollerable Folly. I am then beyond Perſuaſion
determined never to eſpouſe a Man whom I do not
thoroughly know, in order to which, I refolve to put
him to fuch Trials as would make you ftart to hear.
Ah Madam! (cry'd I) how much do you deceive
yourſelf, explain thofe Conditions on which you may
be obtained, and here I folemnly fwear, I will un-
dertake them, if they are but within a Mortal's Power
to fulfil. 'Tis very well, replied Margeon, if you in-
fift on it Sir, I will explain what I have been juſt now
faying, and quench your Flame at once: But let me
inform you of one Thing before I ſpeak.
If you
should fancy my Propofitions irrational and ridicu-
lous, pretend not to argue against them, but reject
them,
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them, or fumbit to this Condition of feeing me no
more; there is yet Time to avoid your having this
alternative.
Prefs me no farther. Alas! my
Charmer, (anfwer'd I) how do you deceive me, juft
now promiſed to acquaint me with my Task, and
when my Expectation was rais'd, and I hopes of
convincing you that my Heart is not like other Men's,
you put me off again. Since you will know them
(returned Margeon) I'll in few Words ftate to you my
Term: In the firſt Place then, I infift upon your be-
coming my Slave, and that in the ftricteft Manner,
that you are fold to me by a Slave-Merchant, that he
receive the Money, that you ceafe from that Mo-
ment being free, and that I may even re-fell you if I
think fit. Nor are you to amufe yourſelf with hopes
that I fhall fhew you particular Favour, and employ
you in the inner Appartments, near my Perfon. No
you ſhall act only as a common Male-Slave, and on
pain of your Life, fhall not diſcover yourſelf to my
Female Attendants, nor if any opportunity offers,
fhall you preſume to mention your Love. This
Courſe of Slavery fhall endure a Year; but in that
Space, I promife you I will employ you only in the
Houſe, and never fend you into the City; yet muſt
you deſcend to the loweit Humility, nor offer to mur-
mur at my Commands, let them be what they will.
You hear what's my firft Demand, are you not ready
to reject it? No Madam, (return'd I briskly) I accept
without the leaſt Fear the Condition you have offer-
ed, and am extreamly pleafed you have afforded me
fuch a Means of expreffing how conftant, as well as
paffionate, that Affection is, with which my Bofom
glows for the incomparable Margeon.
MARGEON heard my Anſwer with Surpriſe, the
Readineſs with which I made it having touched her :
However, the thus continued her Difcourfe. You
have yet heard but one Article of my Agreement.
Let me then (cry'd I) hear the Other. hear thea
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(faid fhe) the Year expired, I will reſtore you to
your Liberty, but from the Moment you are free, I
expect that you ſhould lofe your Tongue, and become
a voluntary Mute. Look you, this will prove a
more difficult Buſineſs than t'other, for you ſhall not
be permitted to ſpeak a Syllable to any Body, nay,
not even to me, tho' I enquire Things of you, com-
mand you to do Things, and afford you other Occa-
fions of Difcourfe; my Injunction is general for all
that, and what you muſt not break through. I muſt
farther enjoin you, neither by Geſture, nor Writing,
to hint to any Perfon the Cauſe of your obftinate Si-
lence. Take juft heed to what I'm faying. I will
certainly do every Thing I can devife to make you break
through the Rule I have given, and if they fucceed,
from the Moment you open your Lips, look on all
your Submiffions, all your Pains, as inftantly anihilated,
and all your Hopes deftroyed.
THO' I confefs (reply'd I) your fecond Command-
ment is much harder than the firft, yet I affure you
Madam it fhall be punctually obferv'd by me, with
all the Precaution the heavy Penalty you have annex-
ed to it requires, and the Hope I have, that after ſuch
a Mark of Obedience, you will be fatisfied, and repay
my Tenderness for you as it deferves. But fair One,
give me leave to ask you what do you imagine Mafch-
Moud will think of my Silence, when he comes to
vifit you, can you fancy that he will not tell you im-
mediately, 'tis I who am in your Houſe, under the
Habit of a Slave? Will not being Mute in his Pre-
fence, be the Way to provoke him to fpread this Story
through all the City, which may in a terrible Man-
ner affect your Character, which is infinitely to me,
dearer than my Life. I am infinitely obliged to you,
faid the charming Widow, for putting me in Mind
of that; but come you fhall write him a Letter, in
which you fhall give an Account, where the Foun-
gain is, with the Waters of which you cured me; I
will
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will undertake to communicate to him your Letter,
and I will ingage him to Silence, by threatning on
the leaſt indifcretion of his Part, to make you publiſh
to the World, a Secret, by which otherwife he muſt
make a vaſt Fortune.
I wrote inftantly a fhort Note to the Phyfician, fig-
nifying exactly where the Fountain was to be found,
and having folded it, put it into the Hands of Mar-
geon, affuring her in the moſt folemn Manner, that I
would as readily enter on the Execution of the Taſk
ſhe had impofed; in fine, that I was perfectly wil-
ling to refign myfelf up to be difpofed of as fhe
pleaſed.
THE Surprize my Widow was in, is not to be ex-
preffed, when fhe faw me fo eager. Is it poffible,
(cry'd fhe) Is it poffible that you will undertake what
I infift on? Come, before you refolve on't, I give
you eight Days to confider, the Time expired, I fhall
expect your Determination; but weigh well what you
are about, my Humours will be intollerable, two
whole Years are to be run thro', and a fingle Moment
may raviſh from you all the Merit of many Months
Obfervance. My Refolution is fixed, Madam (cry'd I)
beyond the Power of Alteration, my Love is fuperior
to all thoſe Obftacles; I will convince you of it to-
Morrow, I'll enter on my Servitude. Do you as you
fay then (added Margeon) nor doubt if you continue to
oblige me, and to practice all the Submiffion I require,
that I will perform my Part of the Covenant, nor
fhall I fear efpoufing a Man who had perſevered, thro'
a Train of irkfome Devoirs, with infuperable Pa-
tience.
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XLIII. EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
LEFT Margeon with a Heart full
of Joy, after having embraced her
Knees, and ran Home as fast as I
could, whither I no footer came,
than I fhut myſelf up, to confider
what Method would be the moſt pro-
per for me to carry on my Defign in.
The next Morning I went to a Slave-Merchant, an
Acquaintance of mine, and told him plainly my In-
tentions. Ah! dear Sir (cry'd he) confider what you
afk? Should the Sultan know that I fold a free Man,
to what a Miſchief ſtand I expoſed. But good Sir,
reflect a little what you expofe yourfelf too, by fuffer-
ing your Love to carry you into a miferable Condition,
putting yourſelf into the Hands of a Woman, who may
for ever deny you Liberty; nay, fell you to another
Mafter, who may immediately carry you out of the
Kingdom. No, no, Friend, on this Occafion I muſt
not obey you
IN vain did the Merchant reafon with me on this
Head, I conftran'd him to take an Acknowledgment,
that it was not by his Means I was expos'd to any Mit-
fortune. I only required of him, that on no Account
he fhould divulge this Story, or my Reafon for do-
ing what I did. Nay, I threatned his Life, in cafe
my Widow's Character fuffered. Things thus ad-
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jufted, I caufed my Beard to be fhaved, and put my-
felf into a Drefs fuitable to my new Employ. My
Merchant went next to Margeon, and told her, that
hearing the wanted a Slave, he had brought One,
whom he hoped fhe could find no Fault with.
My charming Widow imagined that Reflection
would not fail to make me lay afide my Project, and
was quite furprized when the Merchant made this
Propofal to her. However, fhe quickly recovered
herſelf, and defired that he would bring the Slave he
fpoke off. The Man accordingly departed, and re-
turned in a fhort Time with me; to cut my Story
fhort, he fold me to Margeon for fifty Pieces of Gold,
and when he had received the Money, he left me to
enter upon that Slavery which I had fo earnestly de-
fired, and which I conceived could not but be very
pleaſant, becauſe I flattered myfelf that I fould ſtill
be in the Prefence of my lovely Miftrefs; but all my
Schemes were overturned, in the Manner I fhall ex-
plain to you.
No fooner was I entered the Doors but Margeon
began to look upon me with a fevere Eye, Mani (faid
fhe) for that was the Name which the Slave-Mer-
chant had given me, I believe I have made a pretty
good Purchaſe in buying you. I do not doubt but
you will ſerve me faithfully; go to my Houſe in the
Country, take this Letter for the Steward, I have
given him to underſtand in it, that he fhould appoint
you Infpector over the Workmen in the Gardens ;
go, it will not be long before I come thither, and
then I will fee how you have diſcharged that Em-
ployment. How much foever, I was afflicted with
the Severity of this Command, yet refolving to fulfil
what I had undertaken, I kiffed the Hem of her
Garment, and received the Letter, tho' as I retired
I could not help fhedding of Tears, which fhe faw
plainly enough, and then without making any Re-
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monftances, I fet out for the Place to which I was
deftin'd. As I had all my Life been very much ad-
dicted to Gardening, fo no fooner was I fettled in my
Poft, than refolving to oblige Margeon, as much as I
was able, I made the Slaves under my Direction la-
bour affiduouſly on the Plans I had formed, and this
I continued with fo much Succefs, that in a Fort-
night's Time, I had put the Garden into quite ano-
ther Form, and improved it fo much, that I had all
the Reaſon in the World to expect my Miſtreſs would
exprefs the higheft Satisfaction whenever the came to
take a View of it; but much was I furprized, when
coming thither the difapproved all I had done, and
blamed every Alteration I had made, on the worſt
Pretences in the World; fhe commanded me to alter
the whole Scheme of my Work; and tho' I was
fenfibly touched with this apparent Giddineſs of her
Temper, yet I took all imaginable Care to prevent
her obferving it. If I could devine Madam (faid I)
what your Taſte is in Gardening, I would not fail to
accommodate every Thing thereto: It may be fo,
(anfwered the coldly) Try what you can do, I have
no particular Orders for you, but I fhall return in
Ten Days, and I hope by that Time your Efforts to
pleafe me, will have produced fomething worthy of
my Regard.
MARGEON turning her Back upon me, the
very Moment ſhe had faid this, I fell into a fit of
Chagrin, but by Degrees recovering my felf, I rea-
foned thus in my Mind. This cannot be, faid I, the
Caprice of this Woman's Temper, it must be only
one of her Attempts to prove me, and to exercife
my Patience; fhe cannot but have Senfe enough to
perceive that Things are in quite another Condition
fince I became her Gardiner; however, comply I
mult. With theſe Thoughts in my Head, I chang-
ed my whole Undertaking, and put my Parterre into
quite another Model, and in one of the Quarters I
contrived
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contrived to ſhow in Flowers the Cypher of my Mif-
trefs's Name, and adorned it with a Border of Bleed-
ing Hearts. But all this had not the good Luck to
pleaſe her, fo that after having made me deſtroy,
and begin again five or fix Times, without any Rea-
fon in the World, fhe at laſt told me, fhe faw I had
no manner of Genius in Gardening, that therefore ſhe
would fend me back to Aden, and put me upon fome
other Employments, for which I was more capable.
However uneafily I had born the extravagant Whim-
fies of this tyrannic Fair One, it was not without a
fincere Joy that I received this laft Command, which
was to free me from a Place I had never liked, and
where I had enjoyed the Pleaſure of feeing my lovely
Miſtreſs but by Stars. I returned then to the City,
but I found all my Hopes of a milder Servitude, were
as delufive as they had formerly been. I was put on
the meanest Drudgeries, and had not the Slender Sa-
tisfaction of beholding my lovely Margeon above once
a Fortnight, and then, ſhe did not fail to treat me in
the moſt diſagreeable Manner imaginable. It is im-
poffible to exprefs to you, the intollerable Anxiety I
endured during the Courfe of fo difagreeable a Life;
fometimes it drove me into a down-right Difpair, at:
other Times I comforted myſelf with Hopes; and thus
in a continual Fluctuation of uneafy Thoughts, I drug-
ged on a Year; at length it expired, without afford-
ing me one Moments Eafe, or fo much as one kind or
gentle Look from Margeon. My Time being accom-
plifhed, fhe fent for me into her Cabinet, whither. I
went with the utmoſt Fluctuation of Spirits.
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SODOK HEELER
XLIV. EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON:
Y
OU are free, Mani, faid my lovely
Widow, whom I found alone upon
her Sofa, you are free from this Mo-
ment: There is a Writing by which
I make over all my Right in you to
yourfelf; I must acknowledge I did
not apprehend, that you would have made fuch a Sa-
crifice of your Inclinations to my Will, and fo blind
ly have obeyed all the Caprices of a Woman bent to
teize you; your ſteady Submiffion through a whole
Year of Probation, has, I acknowledge, made me
effeem you. But I must tell you at the fame Time,
that there is with me, a great Difference between
Efteem and Love; you have yet another Year of
fuffering to go through, and I am extreamly mistaken,
if it do not prove more uneafy to you than that which
you have paffed; you know that on quitting the Ha-
bit of a Slave you are to become a Mute; and you
know too, that in that Condition, you are neither
by Writing or any other Means, to let fo much as
a fingle Perfon know the caufe of your becoming
Dumb; or to diſcover that it is I who am the Object
of you Wishes; you are likewiſe to remember, that
I on my Part, fhall neglect no Method which may
contribute to make you break through my Inftructi-
ons, every Art I am Miftrefs off, fhall be exerted to
this End; and if I prevail fo far as to make you drop
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a fingle Word, you are from that Moment to aban-
don all Hope of becoming my Hufband, nor are you
to flatter yourſelf that Tears, Prayers, or Intreaties,
will repair that Fault, or incline me to hear of your
Addreffes again; nor are you to fancy, that being
out of my Sight your Actions will be hid from me, no,
I will take care to have an exact Detail of your Con-
duct; nor fhall the flighteft Thing you do remain
untold to me, I will take Care to have you continually
furrounded with Spies retained in my Service, who
fhall bring me an Account, conftantly and continu-
ally of your Behaviour; but in Caſe you get through
all this, I promiſe you, that this Day Twelve-month
I will make you Maſter of my Perfon, but 'till that
Time, I must enjoin you neither to write to me, nor
fo much as appear in my Prefence, and this for Rea-
fons, which Iſhall take another Opportunity to com-
municate.
I heard with extream Attention, all that Margeon
had to ſay to me, and as I had not Leberty to make
her a Reply, I contented myſelf with fignifying to
her by Signs, that I fubmitted willingly to all fhe
faid to me. I then threw myſelf at her Feet, and
embraced her Knees, with the utmoft Ardour; fhe
raiſed me from that Pofture with a moſt obliging
Air, and then approaching me brifkly, the gave me
a Kifs, which tranfported me with fo lively a Joy,
that the flutter of my Spirits had well nigh overcome
my Reaſon, and I was upon the very Point of break-
ing through the Commandment I had received, I
opened my Mouth, my Tongue was ready to utter,
when happily I reflected, and fuffered only fome in-
articulate Sounds to eſcape, imitating fo well the
Noife of a Mute, that it was impoffible for Mar-
geon to avoid laughing. Go (faid fhe) my dear Mani,
you have begun very well, and I perceive that to a
Difpofition like yours, even my harsh Commands are
not impracticable. I would not advife any of my
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Sex, to expose themſelves on the Terms that I have
done, I am afraid, Maugre all my Skill it will be to
no Purpoſe, to combat fo warm a Paflion as yours,
and after the Experience I have had of your Conftancy,
during the Year of your Servitude, I both fear, and
wish, your obtaining that Victory, which muft de-
termine your Sufferings.
MARGEON, as fhe pronounced thefe Words,
offered me a Hand, which in Whiteneſs excelled the
pureft Alabaſter. I readily conceived that this was a
tacit Fermiffion for me to kiss it, I neglected not fo.
pleafing an Opportunity, but preffing it with my Lips
with the most extraordinary Tranfport, I continued
for fome Moment abfolutely incapable of Thought, ſo
much were my Spirits overcome with Bliſs.
ADIEU, my dear Mani (faid fhe) it is the laft Time
I fhall call you by that Name; I doubt not but you
will put it in my Power to reward you fully for all the
agreeable Services, which you rendered me, while you
hore it; go preferve for me all that Efteem which hi-
therto you have fhewn, and doubt not but I fhall find
Means of letting you hear from me, only be upon your-
Guard, and let not any of my Artifices induce you to
break my Command.
I left Margeon full of the moft fprightly Joy that
Man was ever poffeffed with; this lovely Widow faid
I within myfelf, has undoubtedly a moft fincere
Paffion for me, otherwife fhe would not have given
me fuch trong Proofs thereof. I fhall from this Mo-
ment lay afide all Fear, and believe that there is not
in all the World, a Man, Happier than myſelf. It's
true, the Time of my Slavery was spent very uneafi-
ly, but thanks be to Mohammed, thefe tedious Hours
are paſt, and the moft, happy Moments are fucceeded
in their Room; neither ought I to be difpleafed with
thoſe fierce and haughty Humours fhe put on, during
that
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that Troubleſome Year, fince they fell short of that
tyrannical Difpofition, which moft Men fhew to-
wards their Wives. Certainly it was an admirable
Way which the projectured for difcovering my Since-
rity, and which has afforded me the Opportunity of
giving her the moft fignal Proofs of my Fidelity and
Love; far from blaming Margeon for her Cruelty, I
applaud her for her Prudence; happy I, whom she has
chofen to be the object of thefe Tryals, let me not
fail of purfuing my good Fortune, and by my fteady
Adherence to that Mute Condition, wherein by her
Commands I am to continue another Year; let
me provide for her being in a Capacity to Reward
me, both for my laft Years Obedience, and for this,
fo profound a Submiffion is a proper Step to the re-
fpect of fo amiable and deſerving a Perfon; and as I
am fenfible it will gain her Affection, ſo I know too,
it will add too, if that be poffible, to the Affection
have for her.
BYCERNS TORONT
XLV. E VENIN G.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
ULL of thefe Cogitations, I went
immediately to the Slave Merchant,
who had Sold me to Margeon, I fhew-
ed him the Writing, by which fhe
reſtored me to. Liberty, and having
made Signs to him to Equip me with
a Habit fuitable to my prefent Condi-
tion, he was pleaſed at reading the Writing, but dif-
covered an extraordinary Concern, when he perceiv-
ed:
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.
ed I answered not the Queftions he asked me. As
he had the Cloaths by him, which I had laid afide
when he carried me to the Widow, he brought them
out: Here Sir, faid he, are the Robes which you left
with me, and which I have kept as carefully as the
Secret of you Slavery; but for Heaven's fake. tell
me, how came this unhappy Accident of your being
Dumb? I not being in a Condition to make him an
Anfwer, fignifyed as much to him by Signs, and hav-
ing put on my Cloaths, I went to my own Houfe.
As it was a whole Year fince my Mother had ei-
ther feen me, or heard the leaſt News of me, ſhe
was plunged into the moft deep Difpair; fometimes
fhe fancied I had been Killed by fome Rival, at other
Times the thought fome Jealous Hufband had dif-
patch'd me into another World. You may guess
then with how much Joy fhe received me, when by
my Prefence I put an End to all Apprehenfions of
that Kind, fhe fell upon my Neck, and wept over me
with a Tenderneſs the moft fincere. Oh! cry'd fhe,
by what Adventure my Dear Son have you been fo
long with-held from me? or what Reaſons could they
be that hindred you from Writing to me in this Time?
How could you abandon me to fo much Bitterneſs of
Sorrow? Or how could you exprefs fo little Affection
towards a Mother who loves you fo much? While
The was fpeaking, the good old Woman be-dewed me
with Tears. I received thefe Careffes of my Mother
with the utmoft Joy and Satisfaction; but when ſhe
perceived, after her first Tranſports were over, that
I anſwered her not a Word, fhe fell into new Signs
of Grief; crying out, Oh! Heavens, do you anfwer
me not a Word, has my Son by fome unlucky Acci-
dent loft his Tongue? I made Signs to her, that he
would do me a Favour, not to ſpeak any farther upon
that Subject, and when the not comprehending my
Meaning, call'd for Pen and Ink, fuppofing I would
write; I fignified to her, that it was not in my Power
to
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!
to communicate the Caufe of my Dumbness, this In-
creaſed, inſtead of leffening her Aftoniſhment; but
at laſt perceiving that there was no Signs of Sadnefs
in my Face; he became more eafy, and laid afide
thofe extraordinary Signs of Grief, which at first
fhe had fhewn. The oddity of my Behaviour made
fuch a Noife, that all my Relations, and even my
Slaves came flocking about me, and afked fuch a
Multitude of embarraffing Queftions, that if I had
been inclined to anfwer them, it would have a little
puzzled mé; but I continued obftinately Deaf to all
they faid, computing myfelf exactly like a Mate, ftu
dying however to express myſelf as intelligible as poffi-
ble, by Signs and Geftures. They were no lefs fur-
prized than my Mother, and made fuch a Noife a
bout it, that my Adventure became the Publick Talk
of the whole City of Aden, and as upon fuch Occa-
fions every Body is Fond of pronouncing his own
Judgment, and as many had very irregular Fancies,
I had the Pleaſure of Laughing at a Thouſand redi-
culous Conjectures on the Cauſe of my Silence ; but
as the Wonder was not found out, Enquiries about
it did not ceaſe ſo foon as Difcourfes on fuch Subjects
are wont to do; but after thefe Enquiries had laſted
about a Month, they came at length to the Ear of the
Sultan, who as he had fome Knowledge of me, order-
ed that I fhould be brought before him, that he might
come at the Truth.
I must confefs to you that I was extreamly emba
raffed on this Occafion, nor could I well refolve with
myfelf what way to act. I confidered that I had not
the Liberty of Writing, and if I answered not that
Monarchs Demands, I might be in danger even of
Death, and I knew not what to do; however, at laſt
I determined refolutely to perfil in the fame Behavi-
our to him, as I had already hewn to other Per-
fons. Accordingly I was Deaf to the Prayers, the
Orders, and even the Menaces of that Prince, feign-
ing
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ing that I did not underſtand him. Happy for me,
the Sultan did not conftrue my Obstinacy into a Crime,
but endeavouring on the contrary to influence me by
Rewards, to as little Purpoſe as before; he at laft,
as weary of his fruitless Labour, made a Sign to me
to retire.
As I did not doubt but this Story would reach the
Ears of Margeon, I flattered myſelf that he would
not fail of letting me know how well the was pleafed
with my Conduct. I was not deceived in this No-
tion of mine, for the very next Day fhe fent me by a
favourite Slave, an Epiftle, wherein the congratu-
lated me upon the Steadineſs of my Obedience, di-
recting me to fend back the Letter by the Woman
who brought it; I obey'd her Orders punctually; as I
put it into the Woman's Hand, I was amazed to ſee
her change Countenance, and at laſt burst out into
Tears. It is not of a ſudden, ſaid ſhe, that I am be-
come deeply enamoured of you, it was impoffible for
me to look on the brave Katife while he wore the
Habit of Mani, without feeling the utmoft Tender-
nefs for him. My Miſtreſs having taken me into her
Confidence, acquainted me with the fecret Hiftory
of your Slavery, and I from that Hour felt the fharp-
eft Concern for that affiduous Diligence, with which
I beheld you labour, to afford her Satisfaction; with.
the fame Uneafinefs of Mind I faw the ill Treat-
ment fhe gave you, and chagrin'd myſelf continually
at thoſe new Whims her capricious Difpofition daily
furniſhed her with to plague you; and theſe Senti--
ments had fo long, and fo violently affected my
Heart, that I was on the very Point of difcovering
my Pailion, when the gave you your Liberty. With
that Portion of Beauty which Heaven has afforded:
me, I have not been without Hopes of making fome
Impreffion upon your Heart; but I am convinced
from the Manner in which you receive me, that my
Hopes have been in vain; however, I fhall never be-
lieve
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lieve that your Heart has been fo effectually chained
to Margeon, but from certain effential Reafons, tho'
you and ſhe both may endeavour to conceal them;
tho' I don't ſpeak out, I can guess as fharply as ano-
ther, nor fhall I ever be perfuaded, that this ftrange
Silence of yours, is not grounded upon fome very
particular Reaſon which may poffibly affect her. Ho-
nour; fuch Cavaliers as you are very dangerous
Guefts among Women, this I know by Experience,
our Sex is frail, and if I could not defend myſelf
against your Charms, under the Habit of a Slave, I
can never be brought to believe, your Addrefes were
altogether ineffe ual as to my Mifirefs; for why
fhould I think that he has more Virtue than I, ef-
pecially, when the had fuch frequent Opportunities of
feeing you alone, where ever the paffed by Night or
by Day, but I'll fay no more.
XLVI. EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
WAS fo much aſtoniſhed at this
Difcourfe of the Slave, and the in-
jurious Sufpicions which fhe had in-
timated of Margeon, that I found
I had need of all my Reaſon to mo-
derate that Tranfport of Paffion,
with which I was immediately in-
flamed. But as foon as I reflected a little, I found
Cauſe to ſuſpect this one of my Mitreffes Artificers,
and therefore put on an Air of Pleafantnefs, where-
by
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by I intimated to the Wench that I comprehended
her Subtility. She perfectly underfood my meaning.
"No Sir, (cry'd She inftantly) I affare you, I in-
"tend no fuch thing as you imagine, I am inge-
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nuous in what I fay. I reaily and moft fincerely
"Love you. Long did I ftruggle with my Paffion
"for the Slave Mani, while I ſuppoſed him born, as
"Slaves ufually are, of common Parents. But when
"I knew you was a Cavalier, worthy of my Affe&ti-
ons, I could not refrain them. Mingrelia is my
Country, my Father had the Honour to enjoy a
confiderale Poft in the Armies of the Sultan, our
"Monarch. He gave the Name of Aboalaina to her,
you hear fo coldly; but was unfortunately flain
"when I was but eight Years old, in Combat with
"the King of Georgia. My poor Mother who lo-
"ved him moft tenderly, expired with Grief on the
"News; to recompenfe the vaft Loffes our unhappy
"Family had fuftained, my two Sifters and myſelf,
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were put into the Band of five hundred Slaves,
the Conquering Enemy demanded as the Condi-
"tion, without which they would not fo much as
hear of Peace. As for my unfortunate Sifters, I
know not what is become of them, they were but
"in their Infancy, and fcarce able of apprehend-
ing their Misfortune for me, having attained my
tenth Year in Servitude, I was delivered to a Slave
Merchant, who brought me with many of my un-
fortunate Companions to Aden; where luckily for
me, I
I was purchaſed by Margeon, in whofe Service I
never felt a Pain till I found it impoffible for me to
touch your Heart. Treated lefs like a Slave than
a Friend, it was not long before I difcovered that
the lovely Widow I ferved, was a Perfon indued
"with various amiable Qualities, were they not at
"all tarnifhed by an unaccountable Giddicefs in her
"Temper, which is really infupportable. Speaking
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fincerely, I muſt inform you that my Miftrels
“from whom I ftudioully concealed my Affection
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" for Mari, fent me to tempt Katife to break his Si-
"lence. In Obedience to her I came, but tempt
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you now not for her Sake, but my own. Speak
then, fpeak freely, and let me know, that the
"Poffettion of my Heart is set a thing indiferent
"to you. Margem has promifed me Liberty, on Con-
"dition I can induce you to break Silence; do it
" then, and I, when free, may jadily pretend to
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your Heart, provided you difdam not my Perfon.
"You open not your Mouth, Ah! how far do you
carry your Cruelty without Confideration, do roa
not refect, Sir, that one Word of mine defroys
"all your Toils. I have nothing more to do, than
"inform Marges of your having fpoke to me, and
your Hopes were at an End; bat dread nothing
" of this, I would not even parchale my Repos
"by telling a Lie; though I have a frong Motive
to venture on it in this Cafe, face you are fenfible
lopes
my removing from yea all Pobility of gaining
"Marges, I might hear at leaft fome Chance for
obtaining you for myfelf. The Senfe I have of
your Confiances for my Mitreſs charms me, and
"inables me to afford you an Inflance of Generofity
“ almoft equal to your own."
THO the Frankneks which appeared in Asal-
aina's Speech almost cared me of Sufpicions, yet I
could not help a little Uncafines aring from the
Confideration of what the faid. As he knew how to
undo me, it appeared to me abfolutely necefiary for
me not to quarrel with her, or even to let her go 3-
way, at all out of Humour: From thefe Confiders-
tions, I endeavoured by Signs to make her feasible,
that tho' I was mott affectionately attached to her
Mittreſs, yet I was far from dildaining ber, and that
though I could not answer her Pañon, yet I thoald
ever efteem her, and give vible Proofs of it, by
procuring her quick Difmišios from ber Captivity.
SHE
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SHE eafily comprehended what I endeavoured to
communicate, but instead of feeming at all fatisfied
therewith, fhe burst out into a Flood of Tears, 'till
on a ſudden ſtarting from me, with uncommon Agi-
lity. "You ſhall ſee (faid fhe) cruel as you are, how
"I can avenge on my ſelf, that Slight which I have
" received from you". As the pronounced thefe
Words, fhe drew out a Poignard, and with all her
Force, attempted to plunge it in her Breaft, had not I
luckily feized her Arm, and fo prevented the Blow.
So much was I ftartled at this Action, that my
Mouth was opened to call up a Slave of my Mother's,
but happily I was fo much Mafter of myfelf, that I
fhut it again without pronouncing a Word, content-
ing myfelf by the moft flattering Signs to footh as
well as I was able, that Tranfport of Paffion I faw
her in; till at laft I perceived her Spirits quite ex-
haufted, and that Extravagance fhe had lately fhown,
fucceeded by a Swoon. Thus I was again embarrafed,
but remembring fome cordial Waters I had in my
Cloſet, immediately betook myſelf to them, and en-
deavouring to apply them, her Robe flew open, and
diſcovered to me a Bofom whiter than the driven
Snow, and which required a Conftancy, fettled as
mine, to prevent the Beholder's Heart from being
ftruck with Love.
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PATRIGNONESTIRATED
XLVII.
EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
G
REAT Prophet, faid I, within
myfelf, fupport a true Magalas in
the rudest and most fevere Comber
that ever Mortal felt, and then
his Fidelity, that by thy Aid he
may prove victorious, in a Cat
whereon depends the Quiet and Hap-
pineſs of this Life. Having finited this mental
Prayer, whether by the Help of the Prophet, or the
Strength of her own Genius I know not, but Biz-
laina recovered, and as the came eat of her Fit,
gave me convincing Signs, that the Harry of her
Paffion was very much abated. I intreat your Par-
don, Sir (faid fhe) for what has pait, and am very
fenfible of having dishonoured my Sex by my Beba-
viour, I have made a fevere Trial of your Probity,
of which I cannot but retain the Remembarce to
the latest Hour of my Life; far however, from iz-
juring you with my Miftrefs, I will fly home to her
with an exact Recital of your Virmes; may you live
happily with her, with her I fay, who is worthy of
all your Love, notwithstanding the affected Giddi-
nefs of her Difpofition; for me, I deferve nothing of
you but your Pity. Adieu then Sir, and let me
treat you ſometimes to remember that there is 30 m•
fortunate Woman in the World, of all whole Sor-
rows you are the involuntary Cauſe.
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As foon as Aboulaina had finiſhed thefe Words,
fhe took up her Veil and went away, notwithſtanding
I endeavoured to retain her, that the might not be
diſcovered in her Diſorder by her Miſtreſs, who as I
informed you before, lived but a Door off, fo that it
was impoffible for the young Woman to compofe
her Looks in going fo little a Way.
1.
I must own, that after my lovely Widow, the
moft amiable Creature I ever beheld, was this beau-
tiful Mingrelian; nay, I muſt go farther and acknow-
ledge, that if my Heart had not been prepoffeffed in
Favour of the former, I ought in Juftice to have
given her the Preference. If I diftinguiſhed not this
charming Slave, while I lived in the Houſe with her,
it was becauſe in all that time I entered not the inner
Apartment, where Margeon and her Female Slaves
were, above feven or eight times at the moſt, in
which Interviews my Mind were fo wholly taken up
with the Perfections of Margeon, that all other Ob-
jects were perfectly indifferent to me.
IT was fomewhat more than a Fortnight before I
heard any News either of my Widow or Aboulaina,
and I began by that time to feel a thouſand Dif-
quietudes from their Silence; when one Day I re-
ceived a Letter from Margeon, wherein the com-
manded me not to lofe a Moments Time in coming
to her. I readily o' yed the Summons, but judge of
my Amazement, when on entering her Apartment,
I faw her drowned in Tears, fitting on the Bed-fide
of the handfome Slave I mentioned: but Oh! how
much was that Fair-one changed, inftead of that
Fire which glittered in her Eyes, they now looked
dim, and ſcarce performed their Office, the Luitre of
her Complection was loft in a livid Palenefs, and in a
Word, never did Diſeaſe in fo fhort a Space, make
fo horrid a Waſte of Beauty.
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XLII. EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
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1
S foon as ever I entered the Room,
Margeon turned her Eyes on me, with
unwonted Fiercenefs, crying out at the
fame Time. "Come hither Katife,
"and ſurvey the Ruin you have occa-
"fioned. Behold this unhappy Wo-
man, of whoſe Mifery you are the Caufe; con-
template the fad Condition fhe is in, and reflect
on the Sincerity of that Paffion which could pro-
"duce fuch Effects. Know that this dying Woman,
"wretched as fhe is, enjoys, however, the higheſt
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Degrees of my Favour, and is beloved by me, with
an inexpreffible Tenderneſs; there is nothing in the
"World I would not do to fave her; now 'tis on you
"only that this depends, from you alone her Recovery
"is to be demanded, I am fully fenfible of all that
"has hitherto paffed between you, not a Syllable
"faid by either of you, has efcaped my Knowlege,
" and if one the one Hand, I am conftrained to com-
"mend that ſteady Fidelity, and unfhaken Con-
"ftancy, which you have fhewn in rejecting the
"tendered Inclinations of fo beautiful a Creature.
"It is on the other Hand, intirely cancelled, by the
"extraordinary Cruelty, vifible in your Conduct to-
"wards this amiable diftreffed Woman. How could
a Man fuffer the charming Aboulaina to languish
"with-
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"without Pity, whofe Soul had the leaft Senfe of
Compaffion? But 'tis Time you ſhould repair the
"Injuries you have committed. Know then, that
"I do this Moment expect you not only to ſpeak to
"that unfortunate Fair One, in Terms which may
prevent her finking under Deſpair, but alſo that
11 you efpouſe her this Inftant."
FOR my Part, I was ſo much aſtoniſhed at what
Margeon faid, that I ftood like a Stake, unable to
fpeak or ftir. "You may fancy Sir (faid fhe) per-
ceiving that I made her no Anſwer, that I ſay this
meerly to try your Obedience, but I repeat it to
you that I am in earneſt, and that I require you
to execute what I mentioned to you on the Spor,
"and without Delay; fuch as you fee, have been
"the Struggles, with Pain, that this lucklefs Girl
"has indured fince your laft Interview. I am tho-
roughly fatisfied that nothing but your Hand in
Marriage can reftore her; and therefore 'tis a Sa-
"crifice to her Peace, which I will have made; nor
is the Part I take leſs than yours. I love her to
"fuch a Degree, that I am content to ſhare your
"Heart with her. Mind, therefore, what I fay,
re
"
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ſpeak to her, tell her you Love her, and tell her in
fuch a Manner, as may perfuade her that it is true,
"and that you may do it without Scruple. I this
very Moment revoke the Command I laid on you
to be filent a Year, and I infift on your obeying
immediately the laft Orders I gave you, on Pain of
"incurring my Difpleafure for ever."
THE Locks I put on when Margem delivered
thefe lait Words, gave her very well to underſtand
the Situation of Things in my Breaft; fhe perceived
I was not very willing to obey her, and yet was able
to read in my Eyes the extream Pity I had for that
melancholy Object before me; tho' I could not pre-
vail with my felf to cfpoufe her, much lefs to give
her
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her Affurances of my Affection by Words. My fair
Widow was alſo convinced, that nothing could en-
gage me to break Silence, or to utter fo much as
an articulate Sound; my Obftinacy at left wrought
her, or feemed to work into a Paffion fo violectly,
that it drove me to my Wits end. "Perfidious
"Wretch, (cryed the) is your Complaifance by
"obftinate Obedience, ill-placed; you will reeds
"force this unfortunate Damfel to die. Go Morfer,
"be gone out of my Prefence, let my Eyes behold
you no more; I revoke this Inflant whatever Pro-
"mifes I have made you, and instead of entertain-
"ing the leaft Tenderness for you, fhall hencefor
"ward deteft you with an Averfion as implacable,
" as it is juft.
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​XLIX. E VENING.
The Hiftory of the Adventures of
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KATIFE and MARGEON.
COULD not look on my lovely
Widow in this Tracfport of Rage,
without feeling in my Soul the mot
vehement Agitation; a: length un-
able to ſtiffle longer that Torrent of
Paffion which fwelled within my Bo-
fom, I refolved in fome Meafore to
give it vent; in order to this, I went infantly up
clofe to Margeon, and threw myfelf on the Ground at
her Feet, giving her to underfiand by very intelligible
Signs, that as to drawing a Word from me, it was
fimply impoffible, but that in all other Reipects, I
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was totally at her Devotion, and was determined to
do just as fhe commanded me. The quickness of her
Wit, made her immediately comprehend the Sum of
what I intended, and accordingly the anſwered
thus. "Well, I pardon your Obitinacy on the firft
'Twas
Article, provided you comply readily with what
"I propofed on the fecond; go, fome of ye, run as
"falt as you can, and fetch the Iman".
hardly out of her Mouth, 'ere one of her officious
Slaves fled on the Errand, and in a few Minutes re-
turned with the Iman at his Heels; on his Appear.
ance, I could make no Difpute, and fo fignifying my
Affent by a Sign, Aboulaina and I were Man and
Wife in an Inftant, an Accident that filled me with
Confufion.
THE extream Sorrow which appeared in my Coun-
tenance on this Occafion, had a double Effect, Mar-
geon on her Side, conceived it to flow from the
Violence offered to my own Inclinations in Obedience
to her Orders; and poor Aboulaina for her Part, be-
lieved it produced from the deep Senfe I had of her
unhappy Condition. After her thanking her Miſtreſs
most affectionately for procuring her this Satisfacti-
on, ſhe began to bath my Hands with her Tears.
"I am very fenfible, my Lord, (faid fhe) of your
"extraordinary Complaifance for an unfortunate
"Woman, who has but a very few Days to live;
"yet is your Kindnefs not altogether ineffectual,
"though knowing your Paffion for my Miftrefs, I
"concealed my fatal Story from her too long. The
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combating in my Mind, a Love fo vehement as
mine, has gnawed my very Vitals, and rendered
me a Victim of a Flame, which I could not con-
quer. But be it fo, I will not repine at the vaſt
"Price I pay for the Joy I feel. No, I am content,
"I am reconciled even to Death, fince I die your
"Wife; however, the Condefcenfion you have al-
ready fhewn, convinces me, that you will not deny
me
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me, another Pleafure; which is, that you remain
by me till I die; this is a Piece of Tenderneſs I
"must conjure you to fullfil, that I may have the
"Pleafure of dying in the Arms of my Hufband,
"who I flatter my felf when I am gone, will re-
“member with fome Concern, the Lofs of his A-
"boulaina.
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SPEAK not, ah! Speak not of dying, dear
"Maid, cryed Margeon, I will lay my Commands
upon Katifs, to neglect nothing that may comfort
you. (Then turning to me) Believe (ſaid ſhe) that
"in carreffing Aboulaina you do me the utmoft Plea-
fure, and that far from regarding with an Eye of
Jealoufy your mutual Endearments, I' fhall efteem
your Paffion for me not the leaft leffened thereby".
Having faid this, fhe quitted the Room, leaving
me and my Spouſe alone. When ſhe was gone,
Aboulaina addreffed herſelf to me in a tender
Tone. "Give me, my Lord, (faid fhe) at leaſt be-
"fore my Deceaſe, fome Teftimony that I am not
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difagreeable to you, and that you are not fhock'd
at what my Miſtreſs has conftrained you to do.
Nay, that my Love, which hitherto has been un-
"rewarded, is however not diſtaſteful to you". I
had all the Inclination in the World, not to drive
that amiable Perfon to downright Difpair; therefore
taking her Hand between mine, I convey'd it to my
Heart, and having bedewed it with my Tears, I gave
her to underſtand, that as Margeon had authorized
our Affections, I fhould from that Moment divide
my Heart between them. Words cannot exprefs how
much it furprized the unfortunate Aboulaina, quite
tranfported with Joy, hung about me, and then over-
come with the Suddennels of her Change in the
Hurry of her Spirits, the funk down at once in a
Swoon upon my Arm, and remaining abfolutely
without Motion, and her Eyes clofed I apprehended
fhe was dead. Trembling and almoſt Diſtracted, at
fo unhappy a Catastrophe, I ran to find out Margeon,
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and having made her comprehend the Matter, we
returned and brought her a little to herſelf, but
her Syncope's fucceeded one another fo quick, and
her Spirits were fo weakened with long Anguiſh of
Mind, that in Spight of all we could do, the ableft
Phyficians Skill, and all the Remedies which could
be thought on, the expired on the fifth Day from our
Marriage.
L. EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
H
OWEVER unhappy Aboulaina might
be in her Life, yet in her Death, the
received all the Comfort fhe defired;
for according to her Requeft, I remained
continually by her, and held her in my
Arms, even when ſhe breathed her laft.
Margeon who had been an Eye-Witnefs of all that
had paffed between Aboulaina and I, had the higheſt
Reaton to be fatisfied with my Conduct, and to fay
the Truth, fhe expreffed herſelf as fully to that
Purpoſe, as I could have wifhed, and affured me, that
my Obedience, and Circumfpection ſhould receive its
promiſed Reward. Adding, however, fince her Con-
fidant was dead, and on my Account, fhe thought
my Prefence neither neceffary nor convenient, it ra-
ther increafing than alleviating her Concern, fhe
therefore defired I would retire to my own Houſe ;
I confidering the melancholy Spectacle of the poor
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young Woman's dead Body, and the difmal Mourn-
ings which I heard from every Corner, obeyed her
Commands, with lefs Reluctance than otherwife I
fhould have done. After my Return to my own
Dwelling, I for fometime abandoned myſelf to a deep
Melancholly, which grew upon me, from the Con-
fideration of the late Accident, the beautiful Form
of the unhappy Aboulaina, her fweet Difpofition, and
the generous Paffion the had for me, ran continually
in my Mind; but in the Space of two Months, the
Deepness of my Affliction wore off, and I only re-
tained an unuſual Gravity, which made me neglect
fuch Diverfions as I had formerly delighted in, and
addicted my felf wholly to Books. One Evening
therefore, being retired to my Chamber, to meditate
as my Cuftom was, I was furprized with a black
Slave entering my Room, who delivered himſelf haft-
ly in theſe Words. Margeon is at the Point of
"Death, fhe defires to fee you, having fomething to
❝ communicate to you of great Importance.
News ftruck me with fo fudden a Shock, that una-
ble to ſpeak, the Meffenger laid hold on my Arm to
haften me, adding at the fame Time, that there was
not a Moment to be loft.
This
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LI. EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
T.
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HE laft Words of the Slave moved
me ſo much, that I could not forbear.
uttering a great Cry, and turning pale,
loft for fome Moments~ my Senſes;
as foon as I recovered them a little,
I was upon the very point of crying
out, and had already at my Tongues End the moſt
tender Complaints, but I know not how a fudden
Thought check'd my Voice, and made me con-
tent myſelf with Groaning in Silence; however,
the Cry I fet up, brought my Mother and feveral
of my Slaves into the Room, and they failed not
to aſk a Hundred impertinent Queftions; but I
beckoned them to hold their Tongues, and loft
not a Moment in going to Margeon; but how pierc-
ing was my Grief, when I beheld that amiable Per-
fon, ftretched on a Couch, and with all the Teſti-
monies of approaching Death in her Countenance;
her Face was pale and disfigured, and her Head
bound round with bloody Cloaths. Katife (faid
"fhe to me) in a feeble Voice, I am about to
"dye, and that which augments my Grief is that I
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dye without rewarding your faithful Love; our fo-
❝vereign Prophet doubtless enraged at my Behavi-
our towards you, and my attempting to reverſe that
Order, which he eſtabliſhed in his Religion by
making our Sex dependent upon yours, hath pu-
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"nifhed me feverely. One of the Pillars fupporting
"the Gallery towards the Garden, fell down upon
my Head, one of the Slaves perceived it, and call-
"ing for Help, brought me hither, where as foon as
"I recovered my Senfes a little, I ordered you to
"be fent for, that I might take my laſt Farewell of
66 you. You were indeed my dear Katife worthy of
a far more happy Fate, excufe however my Capri-
ces, and receive the final Marks of my Affection
"in theſe Embraces".
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IT is impoffible for Words to express to you,
into what a terrible Condition I was plunged, at
beholding this melancholly Scene, till at laft my
extream Grief at the faint and often interrupted
Speech of Margeon, whofe Hands I all this while
held in mine, and bedewed them with my Tears,
quite overcame my rational Faculties, fo that I funk
into a Swoon at her Feet; how long time I continu-
ed in that Condition, is not poffible for me to fay;
but by Circumftances as far as I am able to gueſs, it
muſt have been a good while. When I came to
myſelf, I found that I had been removed into another
Appartment, and placed on a Bed of black Sattin, my
Miftreffes Slaves ftanding all round, with their
Arms folded, and the Tears running down their
Cheeks. I gueffed that their extream Grief boɔad-
ed me no Good; I ftared upon them for a little
Time, and was juſt a going to ſpeak, when one of
them prevented me, by uttering the following Words.
"We come, Sir, from the Lofs of the best Miftrefs
"in the World, of which we have received a thou-
« fand Proofs; ſee, Sir, the Will ſhe made, where-
by you are become our Mafter, and every thing
"in this Houfe is now at your Diſpoſal.
I
gave
little Heed to the laſt Words of the Slaves,
I was fo cruelly tormented with the Thoughts of my
Loſs, that drawing a Poinard, I was going to have
fheathed
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Theathed it in my Bofom, but the Slaves who were
very attentive to all my Actions, feized my Arms,
and wrefted my Daggar from me, thereby hindring
my Defign, which at that time affected me with fen-
fibie Concern. Live, faid they, My Lord, live, Mar-
geor gave us firia Command to continue watchful about
you, and to binder you from perfeiting any juch Defign
again, our Life. Wonder not then, that in this Particu-
lar we do not obey your Orders, and refuſe to quit you
till we are fatisfied, that in Obedience to our Mif-
treiles Commands, you are content to live. I ac-
fwered not to thefe Difcourfes, but half Suffocated
with my Tears, abandoned myſelf to inconfolable
Deffair, and my Spirits being quite exhausted, I fell
again into a Swoon, out of which I recovered and
relapſed ſeveral Times, in which I knew not any
thing that was dore about me; only I remember that
they forced a little Cordial down my Throat, I after-
wards became more fenfelefs, falling firft into a Slum-
ber, and at laſt into a kind of a lethargick Sleep. It
is impoffible for me to fay how long I remained in
this State; but at last awaking, I was wonderfully
furprized to find myſelf in a moft magnificent Cham-
ber, which was furniſhed and adorned in a manner
wholly new, and extraordinary Birds of the finest
Voices, finging in golden Volaries, who by their me-
lodious Notes, ufhered in the coming Day; but what
amazed me more than all, was, that I perceived Mar-
geon, whofe Charms fhone brighter than the full Moon,
placed by my Side on a Bed, the most glorious that
can be imagined. I gazed round me, fuppofing all
I faw a Dream; hereupon my lovely Widow, whofe
Face was no more difguifed with bloody Cloaths, but
adorned with jet black Hair, befpangled with Dia-
monds, which playing on her Vermillion Cheeks in-
fpired my Heart, with a more raging Paffion, than I
had till this time experienced, and I was on the very
point of offering my Prayers to the Prophet, that this
Dream might never end; when I perceived Mar-
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*
gean to awake. My dear Lord (faid the give
Thanks to Mobanned for thus fignally crowning
your Fidelity; you have pated an eafy Sleep
"through Death, and are arrived at the happy Mar-
"fiors of the faithful Mafter, the Apartment you
" fee is one affigned by the Prophet to a true Be-
"liever, and I, by a fpecial Favour, to be the Hari,
"who is to attend you, having fo long experienced
my Cruelty while alive, I might doubt of your be-
ing pleafed with me for an eternal Companion;
" but I perfuade myfelf of the contrary, and that the
prefent Carefles of a fond Mifrets, will efface from
your Memory the Rigour with which I treated
you at denL
"
SENDOK FREE
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LII. EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
N that Moment, how much foever I
might be furprized, and over-joyed
at the Sight of Marges, and hearing
the kind Things (the faid) I was not
altogether fatisfied with my Condi-
tion. As foon as I had recollected
my Spirits, I began to Reston thus within My felt :
What a Rifque do I run in breaking Silence, my
Time is not finiſhed, the very Moment in which f
open my Lips, perhaps this whole fine Scene may vs-
nifb, and inttead of my beautiful Hauri, I fall fee Mar-
gor deriding my Credulity. This for all I know, mSY
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be a new, and an extraordinary Fetch to betray më
into Speaking. I am determined the fhall never be
able to tax me with Difobedience: If what fhe fays
be true, if I am really in the Paradife of our Pro-
phet, then muſt my Houri be fubfervient to all my
Humours, and whether I anfwer her or not, yet if
I comply with her Endearments, fhe can never be
diſpleaſed.
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·
DURING the few Minutes which were ſpent in
thefe Cogitations, I perceived that lovely Woman
fuſtained an extream tranſport of Mind, which fhook
her Paffions ſo ſtrongly, as to occafion frequent Emo-
tions in her Countenance. At laſt, ſhe broke out in-
to thefe Expreffions. • You hefitate, my Lord, in
anfwering me, beyond Queſtion you no longer Love
me, if you did, you would repay with Ufury the
• Fondness I teftify for you: How deceitful are Ap-
pearances, I thought your Paffion vehement and
fincere, and now, alas! in the very Moment I de-
clare my Love, you are cruel enough to treat me
with cold indifference: Ah! my dear Katife, I
am unable to fuftain this Behaviour, it pierces my
very Heart, and if it were poffible to return to
Life, and to quit the State we are now in, I fhould
moft earneſtly entreat that, Favour of the Prophet;
'be not then fo unkind my dear Spoufe, be not fo
faithlefs; why will you, by your Silence, drive
me to defpair? Why, Ah! why do you make me
thus Languiſh to hear your Voice, and perfiſt in
obeying a Command, which, according to the Na-
ture of Things, can no more oblige you”.
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6.
THESE Words of Margeon, I own, wrought upon
me ftrongly, I was quite at my Wits-end, when at
laft I bethought me of a Means to put this Matter to
a fpeedy Trial, and free myſelf at leaft from Incer
tainties; I refolved to embrace my charming Widow
with the utmoſt amorous Freedom Muffelmen are
permitted
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permitted to uſe with their Houries, which if fhe re-
fifted not, I ſhould be ſure ſhe ſpoke the Truth, and
that I might break my Silence without Danger; while
I was thinking fhe fell into a profound Melancholly,
and feemed to be in the utmoft Grief for my Dif-
dain.
HER tender Glances encouraged me in my At-
tempt, and therefore turning with Ardour to em-
brace her, fhe no fooner read my Defign in my Eyes,.
but instead of continuing her Careffes, the flid down
to the Foot of the Couch, where bursting into a
loud Laugh, and clapping her Hands to make a Noiſe,
her four Slaves, who waited at the Door for that
Purpoſe, immediately entered. "Had not you (faid
"fhe) been at Hand, I had myſelf been the Dupe of
"this Adventure."
As I knew the Faces of the Slaves as foon as they
came into the Room, I was no longer at a Lofs in
comprehending the Cheat, and was therefore one of
the first to laugh at my Eſcape, by fo luckily per-
fifting in my Silence. "You have (faid Margeon)
"behaved very wifely on this Occafion, and have
"eſcaped Shipwreck almoft in Port. For my Part,
"I am not able to comprehend how you obtained a
"Conqueft in this Adventure, which was fo cun-
ningly contrived to entrap you. You have hither-
to been victorious in all Combats, and triumph'd
over every Art of mine, infomuch, that I now al-
"moft defpair of vanquishing you. Go, my dear
Katife, 'tis fit I now bid you adieu, continue to
"Love me as you have done, nor make yourſelf un-
66
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«
eafy during the rest of the Time of your Proba-
"tion; I fuffer in that more than you, fince I am
"fully convinced of pour Merit, while as yet you
"have not any Proofs of mine, or of that faithful
"Paffion I cherish for you in my Heart.' Thefe
laft flattering Words were accompanied with a ten-
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der Embrace, which I need not tell you, illuftrious
Genij, I received with the utmoft Pleaſure, and re-
turned with inexpreffible Delight.
FOR my Part, tranfported with Joy at this Tefti-
mony of her Affection, I returned to my Houfe, re-
flecting with the utmoft Satisfaction, that in less than
four Months Time, my appointed Seafon of Silence
would expire, and yield my beautiful Widow to my
Poffeffion. It would be needlefs to inform you of
the Wiles fhe practifed in order to engage my fpeak-
ing, and of my eſcaping them thro' an obftinate Per-
feverance; let it fuffice that I tell you I paffed my
Time agreeably enough, 'till the Date of my Dumb-
nefs was on the very Point of being finiſhed. Then
the King of Zibith unluckily committing fome Ho-
ftilities on our Frontiers, the Sultan of Aden, my
Mafter, determined with a Refolution worthy of him-
felf, to take an exemplary Vengeance on him for this
Affront. In order to this, he iffued his Orders to
his Generals, to draw the Troops together in a large
Plain, which lay before one of the principal Gates of
the City, and where they might be conveniently
viewed by the King, and march from thence to at-
tack the Enemy. I, as my Duty was, went imme-
diately to join the Body, where I had a Command ;.
ît did not at all trouble me how to receive the Com-
mands of my Superiors, which had regard to my own
Perfon, but I was quite at a Lofs what to do in re-
fpect to the Officers under me, and the common Sol-
diers, who were not very expert in the underſtanding
Signs. But the Sultan very kindly drew me out of
this Plunge; for he no fooner faw me on a Review
he made of his Forces, but he called for me, and
underſtanding that I had not yet recovered the Ufe
of my Speech, he very graciously difpenfed with my
going in my Station, and declaring he knew me to be
a brave Man, he ordered that I ſhould fight by his
Side. I was quite tranfported with Joy at the
Thoughts
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Thoughts of this extraordinary Honour, and in ar-
der to expreſs the juft Senſe I had of his Kindneſs, I
threw myſelf at his Majeſty's Feet, and he who was
the kindeſt Prince in the World, raiſed me up with
the utmoſt Humanity, and teftified his Satisfaction in
my Conduct.
WE began our March the very Day after this Re-
view, and about eight Days after we came up
with the Enemy, who waited for us with a gallant
Army, and gave us Battle with fuch Courage, that a
great Slaughter enfued on both Sides. The Sultan,
my Maſter, having ordered that I ſhould not quit his
Side in the Engagement. I very cautiously adhered
thereto, and loft not Sight of him during the Battle,
in which I had the good Fortune to fave his Life
twice, and his Horfe being killed under him, I had
the Honour to remount him on mine. While I was
doing this, I was forced to defend both him and my-
felf from the Attacks of our Enemies, in doing which
I received a Wound, which grazing on my left Arm,
fell with fuch force into my Hip, that I fell down
under the Horfes Feet. The Sultan, who was fenfi-
ble of my good Service, gave Orders immediately
that I fhould be taken up, and carried into the next
Tent: While they were there examining my Wounds,
which were very Dangerous, the Sultan fo animated
his Troops, that by his Example attacking the Ene-
mies with irrefiftable Valour, they forced them to give
way, and at length gained a compleat Victory, the
Sultan of Zibith being flain upon the Spot.
THE first Care of the King after the Victory, was
to enquire how I did, and as ſoon as he learned that
I was in fuch danger, he came inftantly to the Tent,
embraced me, acknowledged in the kindeft Terms
the Obligation he had to me, and turning to me
as I lay on my Bed. My dear Friend, faid he,
“be it your Care to get cured, and make no Que-
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“ſtion that 'I-ſhall not be wanting in my Expreffions
"of Gratitude of your Loyalty."
I received the Sultan with all the Refpect that I
was capable, and he finding that my Wounds would
not permit me to be carried to Aden, gave Directions
for my having a Sedan, and being conveyed to a neigh-
bouring Town, where I had two Phyficians, and four
Surgeons left with me, and Command given that I
fhould want nothing; which the Governor fo well
obeyed, and the Surgeons performed fo well, that in
eight Days Time I was out of Danger; and in the
Space of two Months, I found myſelf fo well recover'd,
that I was in a Condition to go to Aden, whither the
Sultan was gone before, and where I was very defirous
of following him.
I had all the Reafon in the World to believe that
my Wounds were not indifferent to Margeon, becauſe
fhe fent to the Place where I lay ill, a Slave, charged
not only with a Billet, conceived in Terms the moſt
Tender and Paffionate imaginable, but alfo with a
Purfe, containing Five Hundred Pieces of Gold. I
received the Letter with Tranfports of unfeigned Joy;
but as for the Purfe I abfolutely refuſed it, and put it
again into the Hands of the Slave who brought it.
EVEN.
MOGUL TALES.
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LIII. EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
T
HIS Man remained with me, till fuch
time as he was fatisfied I was out of
Danger, and then he deſired that I
would diſcharge him, and fend by him
a Letter to his Miſtreſs. But as my
Anſwer at firſt was full, and precife
enough, and Margeon had not given
me a Permiffion to write to her, I did not judge it
convenient to comply with his Requelt. I therefore
made him comprehend that it did not fuit me to write,
and fignifyed by Signs and Motions that I hoped in a
Short ſpace to prefent my felf before her, and that in
the mean time I was extreamly pleaſed with that Mark
of her Goodneſs fhe vouchfafed me, and fo I difmifs'd
him:
THE Slave fet out on his Return, and fifteen
Days after, I myſelf tho' not well recovered, was put
into the Sedan provided for me, and carried on the
fhoulders of Men affigned for me by the Governor,
and the Magiftrates in all the Towns, and Villages I
paffed thro', were directed to furnith me with freſh
Men, for the eafy Conveyance of me to Aden. In
fine, I arrived there fafe, and as the Sultau had com-
manded, was immediately conducted to his Palace.
It is impoffible for me to inform you, how very kind-
ly that Monarch received me. "I have my dear
"Friend
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MOGU
MOGUL TALES.
"Friend (faid he) defigned great Things for you,
"tho' you were not prefent, and there is only one
"Obſtacle which ftands in the way, this your ob-
"ftinate Silence which is a cruel Misfortune. I have
"three Siſters of admirable Beauty, of theſe I would
give you your Choice, and make you inftantly my
"Grand Vizier. He who enjoyed that Poft, was
"killed in the laſt Battle, and there is only Zalvon
"who could appear fit to fill his Place; if I had not
"deftined it to be filled by you. He is a Man of
"Parts, he is grown old in State Employs; but I am
very much afraid, were he advanced to that high
"Rank, he would grow obftinate, and by his head-
"ftrong Difpofition injure my People. On this Ac-
"count I do not incline to inveſt him with that Dig-
nity, but to beſtow it on you. Yet in the Con-
"dition you are in, it is impoffible for you to take
(6
upon you the Management of Affairs; come then
"deal ingenuouſly with me, and give me to under-
"ftand by fome intelligible Sign, whether your Si-
"lence be voluntary or not; whether Medicine is.
"capable of affording you Help, and in Cafe it is,.
depend on me you ſhall have all the Affiſtance pof-
"fible from the very beſt Phyficians.
<<
How ſhall I teftify to you the Amazement I was
in, and the Concern I felt at this unexpected Propo-
fition of the Sultan's; a Propofition big with Embar-
rafment, and which I knew not how to excepty or
refufe. Weak as I yet was in my Body, I threw my
felf at his Feet, and embracing his Knees, made me
apprehend that if I had been fo happy as to render
him any Services, I conceived myſelf much over-pay-
ed, by the Honours with which he had overwhelmed
me, and that I did by no Means conceive myſelf
worthy of the Poſt he offered.
THIS Story failed not to take the Air, and in
few Days was buzzed throughout Aden, fo that at
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length it came to the Ears of my amiable Fair One,
who apprehending in his own Thoughts, a great
Danger of my yielding after fuffering fo much, and
fo long for her Caprices, to become the Brother-in-
Law of my King; and the fecond Perfon in Aden,
wrote to me a Billet the moft moving, in the follow-
ing Terms.
I
Am going then, my Lord, to loofe you; and I am
fenfible too, I looſe you through my own Fault, unfor-
tunate Margeon! What will befall you? Is it poffible
for me to furvive this Stroke? Ah! if it be not too late,
Pardon may Starts of Temper, break thro' Engagements
I hereby difpence with. Speak, my dear Katife, fpeak
to the Sultan, fhew him this Billet, relate your Adven-
tures, I am perfuaded they will influence bim by their
Oddness: He will fland amazed at a Lrve fo confiant
as yours, if yet you Love me, nor attempt to force an In-
clination fo gloriouſly above being corrupted. But what
do 1 fay? You are perhaps going to be falje; I will die
e're I believe it.
THIS Epiftle ftrongly affaulted my Conftancy,
and Patience: I fnatched up haitily my Pen, fearing
that my Silence might increafe Margeon's Apprehen-
fions; I wrote as my Paffion dictated a moft tender
Anſwer, filled with all the Affurances I thought ne-
ceffary, to diſpel her Sufpicions. I clofed and fealed
it, and was on the very Point of fending it by a Slave,
when I reflected my Time of Silence was expired with-
in a Month. I therefore tore the Letter into a thou-
fand Pieces, not judging it at all proper to rifque my
repeating the Breach of her firft Orders, which were
fo precife, and fo ftrictly limited..
BUT while both our Hearts, were in this uneafy
Situation, the Sultan who kept his Projects in View,
fent for the chief Phyficians in his Capital, and con-
fulted with them all in relation to my Cafe. As at
firft,
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firft, my Dumbneſs had made fo much Noife, as I
before told you, none of them were ignorant of its
Duration, and therefore never fufpecting my Ceffa-
tion of Speech Voluntary, they pronounced me be-
yond the reach of Art to cure. Mafch-Moud alone,
either being more able than they, or elſe, which I
rather fufpect, giving fome guefs at the true Scurfe
of my Diſeaſe, anfwered thus. "My Lord, Katife
" in all outward Appearances, has been fuddenly
"rendered Speechless, from a Cauſe unknown to all
"but himſelf. Perhaps he has taken on him fome
"Vow of Silence, for a certain ſpace; if ſo, why
"then, 'twou'd be irreligious to attempt making
"him break it, till your Iman has been with him,
"and convinced him how wild, and inconfiderate a
Thing it is, he has taken on him to go thro'. If
"this fucceeds not, I am convinced they will be ufe-
"lefs, and 'tis well in fuch a Cafe, if they do not do
"him Harm, instead of Good. In the laft Place,
"Sir, make it worth the while of every Body, to
❝fet their Wits on work for this Purpofe, by pub-
' liſhing a Reward to him who is fo lucky as to make
"this obftinate Mute fpeak". Thou haft given ex-
cellent Advice, added the Sultan, the Iman ſhall go to
him this Moment, and if it happens, he fucceeds net,
I will then go on to try the other Part of your
Councel.
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LAFRAONG GYORLATES
LIV. EVENING.
The History of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
CCORDING to the Sabar's Or-
ders, an Hour after the Iza come
to my Apartment, and diſcharge him-
felf very hardiomly of his Commi-
on; but, all his Pains, his Eloquence,
and Entreaties were in vais. He
perceiving by my Obftinacy, that Religion had co-
thing to do with my Damboefs, left preaching to
me, and went his Way back to Court. The Sel
tax informed him of his ill Saccess, and perfifing
fteadily in his Refolution of forcing me to fpeas, fome
Way or other, had inftantly recourie to M22-Mar's
other Expedient, and gave Directions to Cryers, evey
Dey to make Proclamation thro' all the public Sarees
in Adee, that the Man who found out a Way to
make me fpeak, fhould have an hundred theifand
Pieces of Gold on the Spot.
A Sam fo exorbitant as this, and which certainly
demonftrated the Affection the Sabay had for me,
drew together all the Mountebanks in the Kingdon,
and even fome Strangers, Numbers of them promited
'ere they faw me, radically to extirpate my Malady ;
but on their Trial were quickly convinced of their
want of Power. One however more bold and rain
than the reff, undertook after all, to cure me with-
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out the Aid of Medicine or Surgery; by whiſpering
a Word-only in my Ear.
I muſt do this Man of Front, the Juftice to fay, he
took the moſt probable Method of making me ſpeak
in the World, had I been a Perfon at all avaricious.
My Lord (whiſpered he) the King has promiſed
an hundred thouſand Pieces of Gold for your
"Cure; I am perfuaded it depends wholly on
36 yourſelf, be wife then, let us part that immenſe
"Sum; I am willing to allow you fifty Thouſand,
"fee, here is a Writing to that Purpoſe, under my
"Hand: Reflect I beseech you on the Opportunity
now in your Power; is it not a Fortune fufficient
" for us both?" I could not help laughing in my
Mind, at the Oddneſs of the Fellow's Whim, and to
make him fome Amends for the Lofs which he fan-
cied he received by my Obftinacy, I made him a Pre-
ſent of a Diamond Ring I had on my Finger, worth
at least one hundred Pieces of Gold; he was tranf-
ported with Joy at the unexpected Gratuity, he made
me a thouſand Returns of Thanks, and very grate-
fully founded my Praiſe thro' Aden.
ZALVON, who from the Rank of a Vizier only,
hoped to rife to the Dignity of Prime Miniſter, meer-
ly thro' the Opinion generally conceived of his A-
bilities, from his long Experience, was quite in Dif-
pair, when he obferved the extream Regard the
Sultan had for me, that he defigned to hold that Poft
vacant, till it was determined whether it was with¡n
the Power of Man to releaſe me from my Dumbneſs.
The Vizier privately did all in his Way to hinder my
Cure, had it been poffible to effect it, and taking the
Advantage of the Sultan's Indifpofition, publiſhed
in his Name, a new Proclamation by the Mouths of
the public Cryers; whereby a double Reward was
promiſed to whoever cur'd me, at the fame Time,
thoſe
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thoſe who undertook, and failed, were condemned to
looſe their Heads.
In fpight of this fevere Sentence, the fond De-
fire of acquiring fuch a Sum at once, urged fix or feven
Perfons of deſperate Circumftances, to attempt it,
and they were fo unlucky as to looſe their Lives for
their inconfiderate Boldneſs.
As I was utterly ignorant of this fecond Proclama.
tion, and the Penalty which this malicious Miniſter
annexed to their failing in their Undertaking, I paffed
my Time in the Apartment affigned me, with a to-
lerable Share of Tranquility, until that Compofure of
Mind was deftroyed by an Accident, the bare Recital
of which makes me ftill troubled.
EIGHT or ten Days had paffed without my be-
ing plagued with the Prefence of thofe Emperics,
when of a fudden one came to inform me, that a
young Man of moft excellent Beauty was coming to
fee me, and had undertaken to cure me by Virtue of
a Taliſman he pretended to have, and for that Pur-
poſe has demanded an Audience of me alone. I made
a Sign that he ſhould be admitted: But Oh! how
violent was my Surprize, when I diſcovered that it
was my beloved Margeon in Diſguiſe. "Ah! Ka-
tife (cry'd fhe) in a Tone, which betray'd a Fear
mingled with Refpect, I put my Honour and my
"Life both in Jeopardy, to obtain this Interview
to know my Doom, as you returned no Anſwer to
my Letter, I was unable to bear the cruel Incer-
tainty which rack'd me; tell me now then thou
perfidious Man, tell me, haft thou not as it is ru-
"moured over all Aden, broke thy Faith to me, and
“taken one of the Sultan's charming Sifters to be thy
"Wife: Ah! is is not fo? Is it not fo?" I made all
the Signs I was able, to convince her of the Falle-
hood of that Story, and to affure her that I was fill
as
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as much as ever devoted to her Service, that for her
Sake I had refifted the noble Offers of the Sultan,
and that I ſhould continue to refuſe them. "O! my
"Katife (cry'd fhe) can this be true, would you
"make me conceive it, would you render me fo hap-
""
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py as to leave no Room to doubt all you intimate.
"Hefitate not, but to confirm it by a Word, fpeak
"this Day to the Sultan of our Affair, tell him that
we are bound to each other by the moſt facred
"Vows, and that they render it impracticable for
you to receive the Honour he defigned you. When
"he is informed of this, and finds that your Contract
"cannot be broken, without incurring the Anger of
"the Prophet, I am convinced he is too juſt a
"Prince, to prefs you farther to a Thing not to be
"done, but with Dishonour. Take, take my
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Hand, my deareft, fweet to me, that your Love
" is not at all diminiſh'd; add farther to that Oath,
"that let what will happen you will never divorce
66 me. Behold me most willing to efpouſe you,
"the Moment you have done this, and ſpoken to
"the Sultan; and till this can be done, I fwear to
you in the moſt folemn Terms, that I releaſe you
" from all the Obligations you are under, and tho'
"there be ten Days yet to come of your Time, I
" will not take any Advantage of your breaking Si-
"lence. Hitherto my Artifices might perplex you,
"and you have had a juft Cauſe to perfift in holding ;
"but the Cafe is quite altered now, and you cannot
"have any Fidelity if you perfift in an Obedience
"fatal to me. Speak, my Life, go immediately to
"the Sultan, at leaſt ſpeak, and deliver me from the
"excruciating Rack I feel. Ah! my Katife, does
"it not depend on this very Moment, on this
"very Particle of Time, that you make me fure of
+
your Love, and of yourſelf, and of the Truth of
"what you pretend; that you have hazarded all
"the Effects of the Sultan's Diſpleaſure, rather than
"not remain faithful to me. Alas! how can this
i..
"be
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"be, when unheedful of my Entreaties you ſtand
"motionleſs and filent.
FLETNA O CINOFIC
LVI. EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
A
S I was, as I told you before, utterly
ignorant of the Penalty, which the
cunningly cruel Vizier had affigned
to fuch as attempted my Cure with-
out Succefs. I endeavoured only to
make Margeon comprehend that I
was by no Means eftranged in my
Affections, and that the fmall Space of ten Days was
too inconfiderable for me to defpair an Exemption
from keeping Silence in them, as I had done in
former Months, that I was inexpreffibly rejoiced to
find my Fidelity had fo gained upon her, that I was
afraid if I ſpoke now, it would be conjectured that
this Scene was laid in order to fecure the Sum
promiſed by the Sultan for my Cure; which what-
ever her Opinion might be, I was refolved to afford
no Handle for, as fcorning to hazard his Favour for
the Sake of attaining an hundred thouſand Pieces of
Gold. Wherefore I was determined to perfiſt as I
had begun, and not to open my Mouth till the fatal
Term originally prefcrib'd me were expired.
I had not made an End of demonſtrating my Inten-
tion to Margeon, when I perceived that the turned
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extreamly pale, and finding me flexible, that fhe
trembled, and fhewed all the Signs of extraordinary
Grief and Terror. At laft, gathering her Senfes
a little, fhe in a broken low Voice, addreffed herſelf
to me thus. "Ah! faithlefs barbarous Man, is this
*the Juftice which you render to a Love fo warm
"and paffionate as mine; is it not it alone which
"dragged me regardless of all Dangers to this Place,
"had I not dreaded your yielding to the Sultan's
"Sollicitations, I had moft patiently expected the
"Termination of the Year. But I fee ingrateful
૬૮ Man, I fee that Ambition ſwallows up all your
"Faculties, you burn with Appetite to become the
"Brother-in-Law of your Mafter, queftionlefs, the
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Lady his Sifter whom he offers you, is extrava-
65 gantly handfome. In her Embraces you will foon
forget the unfortunate Margeon, to whom it ſeems
you are not only indifferent, but even purfue her
"with your Hate. I go Barbarian, I go to loofe
"that Life which refufing my Request you deftine
66 to be loft
; you know well enough what will be the
"Event of your violent perfifting, and you will fee
61 me made a Victim with a Pleaſure. You cannot
regret the Pains and Troubles I have coft you,
"when you revenge yourſelf in fo cruel a Manner
66 upon me. But ah! how harfh, how uneafy fo-
ever they may have been, remember what a Proof
"I give now of my Affection for you, and do not
"doom a wretched fond Woman to Deftruction.
""Tis too plain my Doubts were at firft well ground-
"ed, had I become your Wife two Years ago, in
"fix Months I had been as others are, contemned,
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65
neglected, and male-treated; but my prefent Con-
"dition is ftill worſe, when having feen you fo long
"endure the Pains I enjoined you, and now on the
"Brink of receiving to my Arms a kind, a faithful
"Lover, my Hopes are darkned at once with Dif-
"dain and Death.
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-
"But I am fatisfied, be yourfelf the Spectator
"of my miferable End, you fhall fee me die, re-
"peating with my laſt Breath your Name, who by
"it will be tranfmitted to Pofterity, as the moſt
"execrable and inhuman Wretch; who otherwiſe,
"when your Story had been known, muſt have been
"efteemed the moſt illuftrious Pattern of Fidelity in
"the World."
MARGEON, while fhe was fpeaking, let fall a
Shower of Tears, and fuffered a Storm of Sighs to
interrupt almoſt every Word fhe faid; for my Part
I was over-joy'd to confider, that theſe Agonies were
the laſt Artifice, which in all Probability ſhe would
have them to exert, in order to deceive me, and
though I could not help being very much moved,
even at thofe Sorrows which I thought were put on,
yet I remained firm to my firft Refolution, not to
ſpeak at any Rate, let her fay what fhe would.
Which the perceiving, retired at laft over-charged
with Grief, and left me under an Unquietude which
Words can never exprefs.
I began from that Moment to pretend I was bet-
ter, and walked conftantly in a little Garden behind
my Appartment, ruminating there on a Thouſand
difagreeable Things, and wifhing earnestly for the
happy Time which ſhould reftore me to the Ufe of
Speech; at laft that happy Day, as I thought it came,
and I refolved to fave the Sultan that immenfe Sum,
which I knew he had offered for my Cure, by going
the next Morning and fpeaking to him, before I
opened my Lips to any one elſe.
.
THIS Monarch, as I faid, had been long troubled
with an Indifpofition, which had detained him in his
Bed for a Month before, and to which he was
fined when I went to fee him; the Guards knowing
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me, and the Favour I was in, caufed my Name to be
carried in, whereupon I was immediately introduced
to his Prefence; as foon as I came to the Bed-fide, I
threw myſelf on my Face, and then in the most hum-
ble Manner informed him, that the Day before I had
recovered the Ufe of my Tongue, and was come to
acquaint him with the Nature of my Diſeaſe, and the
true Caufe of my continuing a whole Year filent;
as alſo to return his Majeſty Thanks for the Favours he
had ſhowered down upon a Subject of very common
Abilities, and who had rendered no other Services
than what his Duty required. Afterwards I told the
Sultan, as concifely as I could, the whole of my Af-
fair, which he not only heard with furprizing Com-
plaifance, but alſo in a very obliging Manner tefti-
fied his Approbation of my Conduct, and had the
Goodness to admire exceedingly the Patience I had
fhewn, during my two Years Pennance, from the
Caprices of Murgeon; concluding the Civilities he
paid me after this Manner. Katife (faid he) it is
impoffible, but your Steadineſs in fuffering muft
"have touched the Heart of your beloved Widow,
"and as I defigned you well, fo I will not be the
"leaft Obftacle to your Happiness; but as I perceive
"that in the Situation you are in, it will not be pof-
"fible for you to accept either of my Sifters, without
σε
breaking the Laws of Honour and Religion; I
wave your Compliance, nay more, I affure you
"that your ftrict Adherence to yours Vow, and that
"extraordinary Probity you have fhewn on this Oc-
“cafion, ſhall endear you more than ever to me.
"Another abandoned only to his Ambition, would
"have forgot all Promiſes on the Proſpect of ſuch
"Honours; but you have poftponed all Thoughts of
"Grandeur incompatible with your Virtue, and by
"avoiding the mighty Things I would have done for
you, you have fhewn there is nothing equal to your
Merit; accept then, the Office of Grand Vizier,
difpofe of my Treafure, as you think fit, that my
"People
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"People may enjoy under your Adminiftration, all
"thoſe Benefits which naturally flow from a Pru-
"dence wonderfully Great, and an Integrity never
to be equall'd. In the mean Time, give Mar
geon immediate Notice of what has happened, and
"that it is my Pleaſure ſhe ſhould efpoufe you pub-
"lickly in Three Days, and that I will give the
"moft magnificent Entertainments on that Occafion.
"In the Interim, take you the Care of my Finan-
r ces, I will take upon me the Execution of what is
"propoſed, and I find myſelf ſo much mended by the
Sight and Converſation of a Man whom I eſteem
"the Guardian of my Kingdom, as well as the Pre-
"ferver of my Life, that I doubt not but I fhall ſpeedi-
ly recover a fettled State of Health."
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WHEN I prefented myſelf before the Sultan, I
confefs I was afraid of declining the Marriage of his
Siſter, would have chang'd the Sultan's favourable Sen-
timents for me, and even have endanger'd my Life;
but I was refolv'd to hazard even that for my Paffi-
on for Margeon, rather than not to conclude that Ad-
venture with the fame Fidelity with which it began.
Guess then at my Surprize at the Sultan's unexpected
Kindneſs ; I embraced his Knees in a Tranſport of
Joy, and as foon as I could fpeak, I addreffed myfelf
to him in theſe Words. My dear Lord, the Fa-
vours with which you overwhelm me, furpafs alike
my Defires and my Deferts, your Majefty's Notice
had overpaid any little Services of mine, and the
Rewards you offer quite outweigh them; permit
me therefore to evade this great Office with which
you would load me, and for which I am no Ways
fit, and which would only expofe me to the envy of
thofe who believe themſelves, and perhaps with
Reafor, much more capable to fill it, than him to
whom your Goodneſs would give it."
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MOGUL
It is to no Purpofe reply'd the Sultan, for you to
offer any Excufes on this Head: I know very well
that they flow merely from your Modefty, and I will
put an End to them, by telling you in plain Terms, I
will be obey'd; receive then the Reins of my Govern-
ment, apply all your Care to the making my Subjects
happy, and to allow me to enjoy that Quiet which
hitherto I have never tafted, from the Neceffity I
found myſelf under of continually watching my Prime
Viziers.
:
As I found it impoffible to withstand his Commands
any longer, I therefore fubmitted, and after being de-
clared Grand Vizier, obtained his Permiffion to with-
draw for a little while I immediately, without Lofs
of Time, repair'd to the Houfe of Margeon; but oh!
Heaven, how was I amazed, when her Slaves all in
Tears came round me, and in the moft paffionate
Terms demanded what was become of their Miſtreſs ;
fhe went out (faid they) ten Days ago, drefs'd in the
Habit of a Man, with an Intent, as he told us, to
eſpouſe you; one of us conducted her to the Palace,
and we have never feen her fince, and if we would
give any Credit to the general Report throughout A-
den, he has been put to Death in Purfuance of that
Alternative which the Vizier Zalvon offer'd, and
which was publish'd eight Days before she went,
whereby it was declared, whoever attempted to cure
you, and failed, fhould die for that Prefumption, but
the Perfon who fucceeded fhould have Two Hundred
Thouſand Pieces of Gold.
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BTS!
LVI. EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures
KATIFE and MARGEON.
of
Was ftruck with this fudden, and
this terible News, as with a Clap of
Thunder, and after having for a few
Moments given Vent to my Paffion
in Words, I ran to carry my juft
and heavy Complaints to the Sultan
my Mafter. Ah! my Lord, cry'd
I. (throwing myfelf at his Feet) I have loft utterly
my Dear, Dear Margeon, in the very Moment I fup-
pofed her mine. Then I related to him in a few
Words, the State I found her Slaves in, and what
they had faid, whereupon in a juft Rage at the wick-
ed Cruelty of Zalvon, that Prince ordered one of his
Attendants to go inftantly and apprehend him, and
drag him even to his Royal Prefence.
AH! my good Lord (cry'd out I, as foon as ever
the Words were out of the Sultan's Mouth) give me
Leave to fly, and execute your Commands. Be gone
then my Katife, anſwer'd the Sultan, and when you
return, bring with you the Head of that flagiti-
ous Wretch; his cruel Proclamation was without
my Orders, and from a Severity of Soul which I de-
teft. I will order it to be immediately publiſhed
throughout Aden, that thoſe who have fuffered, died
by his Fault, not mine; and will further direct, that
on Application to my Treaſury by their Relations,
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the Loffes which they have ſuſtained ſhall be made
good out of his Effects.
I ftay'd not for a Repetition of this Order, but
taking with me fifty of the Sultan's Guards, I ran
haftily to the Vizier's, that not a Moment's Time
might be loft or miſpent on this urgent Occafion.
But Oh! what a new Misfortune was there on en-
tering his Houfe, I was inform'd by his Slaves, that
Eight or Ten Days before he had quitted Aden in
the Night, accompanied by two Women only, one
of whom shed abundance of Tears, and feemed in
a prodigious Agony. From the Deſcription of the
Woman and her Sorrows, I was convinc'd it could
be none but my amiable Widow; and as to this, I
was put out of all doubt, when the Black Eunuch of
his Woman told me, that fhe often repeated my
Name. He added, that his Maſter put to Death five
of thoſe who had undertaken my Cure, and failed.in
it; that at the very Inftant the Sword was drawn to
cut off the Head of the Sixth, who was a beautiful
young Man, it was prevented by the Diſcovery of its
being a Woman in Diſguiſe. Zalvon's Soul (faid
the Man) was deeply touched at the Sight, and
that Evening fhe remained in one of the Appart-
ments of the Royal Palace; at Night he cauſed
her to be removed with great Secrecy hither, and
the next Night having diſpatched four trufty Slaves
before he fet out with her, and an old Woman to
⚫ attend her, with 'Intent, as I apprehend, to crofs
the Seas, and retire into the Kingdom of Zoco-
tora."
NOTWITHSTANDING the Joy I felt at the Cer-
tainty of Margeon's being ftill alive, I could not help
falling again into a deep Concern, when I confider'd
that ſhe was now more out of my Power than ever,
and which was worſt of all, in the Hands of Zalvon.
When the firft Tranfports of my Fury were over,
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and Reafon came again in fome Meaſure to take
Place, I fet myſelf to contemplate the State I was in,
and to find out that Courſe which was moft proper
for me to take. Ah! faid I, within myſelf, without
Question, Margeon to avoid Death, has confeffed to
this Villain the whole of our Adventures, and he not
queftioning my Promptnefs to revenge the unhappy
Perfons, whofe Blood he had ſhed on my Account,
determined to avoid a fure and deſerved Fate, by a
fudden and well-contrived Flight. Perfidious Wretch !
how has he contrived to pnniſh me, as well as to
fcandalize his Mafter, by carrying away with him
all that I held dear in this World. Unhappy, mi-
ferable Katife! Why, why didft not thou hearken to
the tender Words, the heaving Sighs, and the fall-
ing Tears of the hapless Margeon? Did fhe not tell
you plainly enough when the went out, all that has
fince paffed, but you would not believe her? Ah! no!
blame not thyfelf alone, and reflect on no Body elſe;
'tis you, and you alone who have given her up to Mi-
fery; to Mifery do I fay, yes, to the utmoſt, the
moſt detefted Miſery; for that baſe Dog could only
fave her Life to violate her Honour; fhocking
Thought, do I furvive it? Juſt Heaven, on which
Side foever I turn me, how horrid is the Scene! No-
thing in this Extremity could determine me to live,
but the Incertainty I am yet under, as to the Fate of
this beloved Woman, and the glowing Defire I feel
to avenge her Wrongs, by ftriking with his deferved
Death, that execrable Traytor Zalvon.
THESE Confiderations, as they reftrained my
Arm, fo they obliged me to return to the Palace. I
gave an Account to the Sultan, that the Vizier was
fled, and that he had carried away with him Mar-
geon; and my Relation was fo moving, that he
could not refrain from Tears. He gave Directions,
however, that immediate Search ſhould be made by
Land and Sea, and the Vizier of the Sea, thereupon
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made Report, that the Veffel, on Board which, ac-
cording to the Black Eunuch's Information, Zalvon
had failed, weighed Anchor eight Days before for
Zacotoro. My dear Katife (cryed the Sultan) take as
many Ships of War as you please, parfue after your
Enemy, and ufe all Dilligence to get him into your
Power; bring with you your Miftrefs, and by your
Prefence reflore me to the Quiet which your Ab-
fence will deprive me of. Fly, fly Katife, that your
Return may be quick.
Mr Zeal you may believe, anſwered up to that
of his Majefty's; I flew according to his Command
to the Port, and went directly on Board the bet
Sailer of four Ships, which Mefri, Vizier of the Sea,
chofe for me; and having a proper Letter from the
Sultan my Mafter, to the King of Zscstera, we in-
ftantly fet fail with the three other Ships, determined
to do our utmoſt for the coming up with the infa-
mous Ravifher of Margecn.
a
WE failed about five Days with a Wind the moſt
favourable we could have wished, but on a fudden
it changed all at once, and in fpite of all we could
do, it obliged us to cross the Indian Sea, and to put
into the noble Haven of Calicut, the Metropolis of
famous Kingdom on the Coaft of Malabar. Thence
we failed again, and I in Defpair believing all lot
by this unlucky Delay, put up continual Vows to
Heaven for Succefs, and thofe Petitions were not un-
heard, altho' they brought me into new Diftrefs and
Dangers. Our Ship was expofed to the Fury of a
new Tempeft, which toft us with Incredible Vehe-
mence, far exceeding what had happened to us be-
fore. In vain our Sailors exerted their utmoft Care
and Strength, the Violence of the Winds threw us
in ſpite of all Endeavours, on the Coaft of 4an, and
in the midſt of our Diſtreſs, not knowing what to
do, we found ourſelves attacked by three Veifels,
Carfairs,
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Cerfairs roaming for Flander. As car Man were an-
equally marched, and extreamly fatigued with the
terrible Labour they had fo long been exposed to, we
cannot ſuffer in your Opinions for fabmitting to the
Enemy, which when we had done, they carried os
immediately into Brava, a Port famous (if the Ex-
preffion may be used) for Etting out fach kind of
Ships.
LVII. EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
I
T is abfolutely impoffible for me to
give you an Idea of that extCIM
Grief which feized me. The Mo
ment I became a Captive, it infant-
ly came into my Head to throw my◄
felf Headlong into the Sea, and I
had done it that Moment, bar fr
the glimmering Hope that our three Verck might
come up, and deliver us e'er we got into Bræci,
However, I firmly refolved to accomplish that dread-
ful Defion, rather than continue for any Time in
Slavery, a Condition which on many Accounts ap-
peared horrid in my Eyes. My Depair hindred a
my giving our Crew frict Orders not to dicover ei-
ther the Quality of myfelf, or of MH, the Vizir of
the Sea; and in the midst of my Mistorcates, 'res
fome Confulation to fee them faithfully remain the Se-
cret, fo that if any Thing offered, our Rank hinder-
ed not our Rankom. At Brava, on a Ditribuzica of
the
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the Booty, I and the Vizier fell to the Share of the
Governor of the Town, who, according to their Cuf-
tom, has the Tenth of the Prifoners. Finding this,
I quitted at once all hope, I began to think ſeriouſly
of executing the Defign I had formed againſt my
Life. As it is common for Perfons under fuch kind
of Sorrows, to fhew fome outward Signs of Diſorder :
Mefri foon perceived that fome fatal Thing was re-
folving in my Breaſt. He therefore it was that took
upon him to examine me a little, and to endeavour by
wife and gentle Counfel, to mitigate my Deſpair, and
to bring me back to Senſe.
SIR, faid he to me, you have indulged too long
"this baneful chagrin, you ought on this Occafion,
"to exert your Courage to the utmoſt, and preferve
yourfelf for the Sake of the charming Margeon,
"who no doubt ftands in need of your Affiftance.
"I dare affure you we'fhall not be long in this un-
happy Situation that we are at prefent; for as
*** there arrives in this Port Veffels from all Nations,
"I fhall find an Opportunity without giving the leaft
"Sufpicion, to make our Captivity known to the
"Sultan of Aden; who you know are truly fenfible,
"Loves you too well, not to employ all poffible means,
to procure our Liberty, and I do not in the leaft
" doubt, but we fhall foon recover your lovely Wi-
❝ dow".
THIS foothing Difcourfe, calmed a little the Vio-
lence of my Grief, and I refolved to refign myſelf
intirely to the Decrees of Providence, and attend pa-.
tiently whatever Event, it thought proper to fend in
my Affairs.
I had been about three Weeks with my new Ma-
fter, and heard with Satisfaction all his Slaves praiſe
him. One Day he ordered me to be called into the
Palace, and as foon as I entered: Mani, faid he
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C
(that as it was the Name I took when I ferved my
dear Widow, fo I made uſe of it again on this Occa-
fion.) My Son is to be married in fifteen Days,
" and I intend to honour the Nuptials with a Play
as I have promiſed the Ladies of the Serial, and to
"his intended Spoufe, who takes Delight in ſuch
"Diverfions.” Sir (replyed I to the Governour,
whofe Name was Almamon) I delighted in Shows all
my Life, there never paffed a Company of Come-
dians through Aden, but I followed them immediate-
ly; if you pleaſe to have a Theatre erected in the
great Hall, your Orders fhall be executed with the
utmoft Expedition. That is exactly what I would
have, anſwered Almamon, I will have you manage
the Affair in this Apartment where we are, in the
beſt manner you can; fhe whom I defign for my
Daughter-in-Law, lives in the Palace, where the
has been brought up from four Years Old. I obſerve
with extream Pleaſure between her and my Son, that
tender Simpathy, which is requifite, to make a happy
Marriage, and I am the better content with this U-
nion, becauſe I know her Family, and am fenfible
ſhe is defcended from honeft Parents, who have been
honoured with very confiderable Employments in their
Country, which they diſcharged with great Juſtice
and Probity. She and my Son are paffionately fond
of theſe Amufements, and for this three or four
Years paft, I have entertained all the Comedians
that have paffed through Brava, for the Diverfion of
my Family; and as I know fome of my Slaves are
capable enough of Acting fuch Farces, I would have
fome pretty Entertainment cook'd up proper for fuch
a time of Rejoicing. This is the first thing I have
to ſay to you my dear Mani, but I have another Se-
eret to communicate to you of much more Confe-
quence, continued the Governour. I have purchaſed
the other Day a Slave named Zobeyas, with whom I
am extreamly in Love, nay to fuch a Degree, that I
know not even the ſtate of my own. Heart with Re-
gard
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gard to her, when I go to fee her, I refolve to dif
cover my Paffion; but the Moment I approach her,
Refpect forces me to painful Silence, but what yet
adds to my Uneafinefs is, that I obferve her always
plunged in a deep Melancholy, fhe keeps her Birth
and Condition an impenetrable Secret, for all the
People who were in the Veffel in which he was caſt
away upon this Coaft, either perifhed in the Water,
or were killed in defending her, againſt the Privateers
of Brava. I fancy that 'tis in your Power to draw me
out of this Difficulty, by finding out fome way to
penetrate thefe Myfteries, and to difpel that gloomy
Melancholly. I will inftantly give you an Opportu-
nity to ſee her, and you will foon be able to find the
true Cauſe of her Affliction; endeavour to perfuade
her, that I am extreamly concerned at her Sorrow,
and that I will do every thing in my Power to eaſe
her Pain. Sir ffaid I to Almamon) I have a true
Senfe of the Honour you do me in this Commiffion,
and ſhall endeavour to perform your Commands with.
the greateſt Diligence imaginable, and will go this
Moment to work for your Satisfaction. I immedi-
ately bent all my Endeavours to embellish the Salon,
I worked for two Days with all the Care I was able,
nor was my Labour loft, fince every thing I had done
was extreamly agreeable to my new Mafter. While
he was praifing my Performances, his Son who was
to be Married, came into the Room where we were,
and with him, the fair Slave, whom Almamon ho-
noured with his Affection ; the young Lord found
the Theatre and the other Preparations exactly to his
Tafte, and feemed very much delighted; but my
Mafter who thought of nothing but that young Lady,
ran to her in an Extafy, and took Pains to divert her,
by explaining as well as he could the meaning of all
thefe fine Things. But how great was my Surprize,
when I beheld in that Slave, my incomparable Mar-
geon. If I was Mafter enough of myfelf continued
Katife, not to diſcover the Joy I felt in that Moment,
at
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at finding my charming Widow, my Sorrow was not
lefs when I reflected, that he was in the Power of
my Maſter, who had fo lately diſcovered to me the
violent Paffion he had for her. But it was not the
fame with my lovely Miſtreſs, fhe ran to me with
open Arms, and embraced me with great Tenderneſs,
fending forth a Cry of Joy, which fufficiently fhewed
the Regard ſhe had for my Perfon, the Sight of this
fo diſquieted the Governor, that he was not able to
ſpeak a Word.
me
LVIII. EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
P
ARDON, my Lord, the firſt Ef-
fects of a Surprife in which Zobeyas
was not Miſtreſs of herſelf, (ſaid the
witty Margeon) I am not at all amaz-
ed at the marvellous Tafte that reigns-
in your Houſe, fince you have in your
Power a Man, who has not only a
particular Genius for fuch Decorations; but it excells
in all manner of pathetic Reprefentations, without be-
ing a Comedian, he has all their Talents: He is my
deceafed Hufband's Brother, who alfo had a great
Propensity to thefe Sort of Pleaſures, we uſed often to
amufe ourſelves after this manner, and play amongſt
ourfelves the moft tender Pieces of the Oriental Poets,
nay we were able to compofe extempory feveral things
in
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in Profe, which they would not have been afhamed
to own as their Invention. Be not aftoniſhed then,
my Lord, if the Sight of this Man, fill'd my Heart
with an immoderate Joy, and if I expreffed it in
Marks a little too lively, for meeting with him in a
manner fo unexpected, it feemed to me, as if my dear
Huſband had been rifen from the Dead. I flatter my-.
felf that you will not diſapprove the Teſtimony I have
juft given him of a perfect Amity.
WHATEVER Surpriſe I felt at the Sight of Mar-
geon, continued Katife, the extream Attention Al
mamon gave to her Diſcourſe, allowed me a Time to
confider, how I was to act my Part, in order to
maintain the Character, and repreſent the Perfon fhe
had made me ; in order to this, I addreffed her in the
following Terms. "Lovely Zobeyas (faid I) the
"unhappy Mani feels no longer the Weight of his
"Chains, fince he fhares them with you, and is bleft
* with ſo good a Maſter. I need not tell you that
"croffing the Sea, on purpoſe to find you out, and
"if poffible to reſtore you to your Friends and Coun-
"try; in this Voyage a Tempeft threw me on the
"Coaft of Brava, and thereby occafioned my Lofs
"of Liberty, an Accident which my dear Sifter
"ought to be confidered, as an Event the moſt lucky
"which could befall us, fince it has brought us into.
"the Power of the moft generous Almamon..
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"OUR noble Lord Loves you, Zobeyas, he ima-
gined that you might have perceived in fome Mea-
"fure his Paffion, by the Tenderneſs and Refpect
"with which he has hitherto treated you; which
" is not common from a Mafter to his Slave, but
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finding that you did not underſtand his Meaning,
"and remained ignorant of the extream Regard he
has for you, he commanded me to inform you of
"his Sentiments, which he flatters himſelf will not
be difagreeable to you". Margeon who from her
firit
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first coming obſerved the Inclination Almamon had
for her, interrupted me immediately, and addreffing
herſelf to the Governour, My Lord, (faid fhe)
• felf,
it was not at all neceffary that Mani fhould be
⚫ made the Interpreter of your Heart. A foft Sym-
pathy, againſt which I was not able to defend my-
made me conceive for you, the greateſt A-
mity I am capable of, from the first Moment I
had the Honour to fee you, which has rendered
my Captivity more fupportable, for unleſs my
Heart had been poffeffed with theſe Sentiments, I
• ſhould not have had Strength to fupport my
Chains; your Bounty my Lord, has indeed ren-
• dered them ſo eaſy, that you have left me nothing
to ask, be affured then my Lord, that I can deny
you nothing that is confiftent with my Honour to
• Grant.
<
•
ALMAMON who had been extreamly uneasy
at his finding Zobeyas and I were fo well acquainted;
was however very much touched at what the lovely
Perfon had juft faid: Madam (replied he) notwith-
• ftanding the Tenderness I have had for you, I
< cannot at this Moment account to my felf for
• the Situation of my Heart; if I was in Love at
the Sight of Zobeyas, I did not in that Moment
• feel thofe tumultuous Tranfports, which are the
• Character of a Paffion of which one ought to be
• afraid, when it feizes our Senfes with too great a
• Violence. On the contrary, I felt in my Soul a
• Calm, which I had never found before on the like
• Occafion. It feemed as if Nature took Pleafure to
engrave in my Heart, Sentiments of the moft pro-
found Refpect, which ftifled thofe Defires, which
your ravishing Beauty is capable of producing: I
am ignorant of the Reafon, but fo it is, I proteft
to you, it gave me a very fenfible Pleaſure to fee,
that the Prefence of Mani made you for fometime
forget your Grief". For you my Friend (faid
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•
Almamon returning to me) Why in the prefent
Conjuncture did you endeavour to hide your Ta-
lents? You are not ignorant that the World is
but one great Theatre, in which we all perform
our Parts, and that the Characters we repreſent
in our Scenes, are only the Copies of true Origi-
nals; the Superftitious, the Cheat, the Lyar, the
Flatterer, the Mifer: Do they not furnish us
• with continual Subjects of Remark? In fine, hu-
man Nature is an inexhauſtable Fund my Dear
Mani, for fuch Entertainments, and without going
out of his own Family, with a little Attention, a
Man may pick up every Day the Plan of a new
Play. Mankind in general, fcarce excepting one,
are more or lefs ridiculous; nay I, who am now
fpeaking to you, may perhaps be more fo than a-
nother; and laugh at others for their Faults, with-
• out being fenfible of my own. Love blinds us all.
• For Example. How is it poffible that a Cadi,
who is a Man of ftrict Probity, and poffeffed of
• all the excellent Qualities that we could wiſh in
Mortal, perceives not that he cafts a Blemish upon
them all, by a haughty Air, and an infupportable
Fiercenefs? Would it not be better if he ap-
proached a little nearer to other Men, and by an
affable Behaviour, render himfelf admired, inſtead
⚫ of being hated, perhaps with Reafon ought he
✦ not to endeavour to gain the Hearts of all thoſe
with whom he has Bufinefs, inſtead of having them
approach him trembling, that even thoſe who gain
* their Caufe, go away from the Tribunal, diffatisfied
with their Judge.
• DOES not that old Musulman, who in his de-
cripid Age, acts the Gallant, give one a juft Oc-
* cafion to laugh, when he is Fool enough to ima-
gine that he in Reality pofleffes the Hearts of the
unhappy Slaves in his Serail; and is it not at the
fame Time intollerably ridiculous, to fee thofe very
* Women
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"Women, who fecretly deteft and loath every Action
" of this old Dotard; notwithſtanding all this, con-
tinually diſputing of his Charms, with the great-
"eft Warmth, and fhowing against each other, all
"thofe Motions of Jealoufy, which naturally attend
"the moft fincere Paffions, whilft they abhor him
"who is the Object.
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"WHO can forbear laughing to fee that young
Empiric carried in a gilt Palanquin, by four and
twenty Slaves, who are relieved every Hour thro'
every Part of the Town, to fhow his Vanity in
"the moſt ridiculous Light, as if he imagined that
"this Farce could make the common People believe,
"that no Body was fo capable as himſelf, to dif-
charge the Poft he enjoys under a great Lord.
Dreffed in the richeſt Silks of the Eaft, he
"thinks it a Difhonour to be faluted in his Equi-
page by a Man on Foot, or ill dreffed; he is
now in Favour with the Great, carries his Head
up to the Clouds, and looks upon Earth with Dif-
"dain; becauſe he is more happy than the Man he
"refuſes to falute to Day; he forgets, that very
"lately he would have been glad to receive a ſmall
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:
Salary from him. This Perfon, who at preſent
changes his Habit three or four Times every Sea-
"fon, has the Affurance not to remember that his
"Winter Robe was to ferve him in the Summer, with
no other Difference, than wearing it cloſe or open
"according as the Weather required.
"AGREE then with me my Friend, and let us
"ridicule the Foibles of Mankind in general, our
"Matter is inexhauſtable, and as our Paffions are
too strong for our Reaſon, and render us blind to
our own Faults, fo they juitly expofe us to the
Railery of others; exert then on this Occafion your
"Genius, and thoſe happy natural Talents, which
Zobeyas has fo much praifed, and I believe it will
"not
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"not be difficult for you to give us inftantly, fome
"little witty Entertainments.
I bowed to the Earth (continued Katife) to let the
Governor underſtand I was ready to obey him, and
waited to hear what Zobeyas would fay; as fhe had
a great deal of Wit, the eafily gueffed that I was
greatly embarraffed, and refolved to make Uſe of
the favourable Difpofition Almamon was in with the
Regard to us, and as the obferved his Credulity as to
every Thing we had told him, fhe addreffed herſelf
to him in the following Manner. My Lord (faid
fhe) our common Afflictions, and the State we
are in, will not permit us to give you at prefent
any Thing diverting, nor to repeat any of thoſe
Speeches which my Hufband, Mani and I, ufed to
play with fome Grace; but Misfortunes have in
a great Meaſure blotted them out of our Memory;
⚫ be pleaſed to excufe us for a little Time, and per-
mit your Slaves to repeat the Parts they have
learnt, and in the Interim we will endeavour to
recollect fome diverting Interlude, which I doubt
not, but we ſhall be able to perform on the Spot.
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LIX, EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
T
HE Governour of Brava approved
all that Margeon propofed, and I was
not a little fatisfied, becauſe this delay
gave me Time to compofe my felf in
fuch a Manner, that I might give no
Umbrage to Almamon. I was foon after
a Spectator with my charming Widow, of a little
Paftoral which was acted by our Maſter's Slaves, it
was intermixt with Dancing and Songs, and all the
Actors performed their Parts tollerably well. When
this Diverfion was finished, Almamon put Margem in
mind of her Promife. I am going to oblige you, my
Lord (faid fhe) then addreffing herſelf to me, call to
your Remembrance my dear Friend, Pardon (faid
fhe, to the Governor) My Lord, thefe Terms of
Tenderneſs, which I was always accuſtomed to treat
my Brother with, during the Life-time of my Huf-
band. Recollect I fay (continued fhe) that tender
Intrigue we fo often acted, I mean the Story of
Mirza, the young Widow, who was fo violently fo-
licited by an Officer of the King of Java's Guards
to Eſpouſe him. She found in Hindbad (that was
the Name of her Lover) all the Merit imaginable,
but as fhe had found great difagreement in her for-
mer Marriage, and as fhe was perfuaded that few
Men have for their Wives all that Attachment and
Complaifance they profeſs in the Time of Courtship,
fhe
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fhe refolved to make him give her two Proofs, the
moft fingular ſhe could invent.
AFTER this Manner, Margeon, under the Names
of Mirza and Hindbad, recounted to the Company all
our Adventures diftinctly, to the laft Vifit fhe made
me in Man's Apparel, in the Palace of the Sultan.
The great Danger her Life was in by my obftinate
Silence, the Neceffity fhe found herſelf under to dif-
cover her Sex to the Vizier, the Love he conceived
for her, their Flight, and in what Manner that un-
worthy Minifter was cut in a hundred Pieces, whilſt
the Veffel wherein fhe was, had the Misfortune to
be attacked by the Corfairs. Mirza (continued fhe)
by fome Adventures that fignify little to relate, after
two Years, met with Hindbad in the Ifle of Ceylan,
fhe could not help difcovering extream Joy at the
Sight of him; but when the began to reflect, that
he was the Cauſe of all her Misfortunes, fhe made
him the fharpeft Reproaches a while after in Terms
like thefe. Margeon play'd her Part the more na-
tural, becauſe ſhe really believed ſhe had juſt Caufe
to complain of me, under the Name of Mirza, the
complained fo movingly of the Obftinacy with which
I kept Silence, and with fo much Force, made me
fenfible of the deplorable State ſhe had been redu-
ced to before that Day, that the drew Tears from all
the Affembly. For me, to whom theſe Reproaches
were defigned, I was fo vehemently agitated, that I
cannot exprefs in how lively and natural a Manner I
juftified myfelf to her, under the Name of Hindbad.
I durft not at that Moment turn my Eyes toward the
Governor, leaſt he ſhould make fome Diſcovery of
my real Sentiments; but went on in my Part, and in
few Words, gave a perfect Picture of my Sufferings
through her Caprices, without ever being rewarded
and I made her very well underſtand, that I knew
nothing of the Vizier's villainous Practice, which was
the Reaſon I did not yield to her Prayers; that all
the Wrong was on her Side, and that I had juſt
Caufe
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Caufe to fear, if I had fpoke to have forfeited her
Esteem, and loft the Reward of all my Pains. I in-
formed her afterwards of every Thing I had done
fince her Departure, the many Ways I had try'd to
deliver her from the baſe Vizier, and that the Joy it
gave me to have found her in the Ifle of Ceylon, to
fee her alive and out of the Power of the Vizier, was
fo great, that I had like to have expir'd at the firſt
Interview; and as I was in a State capable of conduct-
ing her back to Java, I flatter'd myſelf fhe would
there crown my Conſtancy.
•
As Love, moft excellent Ladies, is always Elo-
quent on theſe Sort of Occafions (continu'd Katife) I
acquitted myfelf well of my Part, and painted in my
Turn, under the Name of Hindbad, in the brighteſt
Colours, and moſt natural, all that I had fuffered
for Mirza, during the Two Years of my Trial, the
aftonishing Combats in which I got the Victory, the
violent Griefs I felt for her Lofs, the Fury that my
Soul was animated with against her Raviſher. I im-
printed by Degrees all theſe moving Scenes fo deeply
in the Hearts of my Hearers, that they all pitied me,
and even fhed Tears at the Recital of my Sorrows,
which they look'd upon to be only imaginary, and
burit out into Execrations againſt the Memory of the
perfidious Vizier, they loudly applauded the Con-
clufion of this Scene, which crowned the Patience
and Fidelity of the tender Hindbad, after all the
Croffes he had met with in his Love, and by a happy
Marriage in the Embraces of his Miftrefs, put an
End to all his Pain.
THO' Almamon mightily praiſed the Scene we
had been acting, and though he expreffed a good
deal of Satisfaction at the Reconciliation of Hindbad
and Mirza, yet the Vivacity, and the natural Man-
ner in which we had reprefented the Adventures of
thefe two Lovers, gave him fome Inquietude, and
juftified
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juftified the Manner in which he behaved himfelf to
us afterwards.
He had been too much pleaſed with our Manner
of Playing, not to defire that we fhould perform
fomething at the Feast he was to give for the Mar-
riage of his Son, and having ordered me to manage
the Scenes we were to repreſent, I thought in the
compofing, to introduce one, wherein I might make
my fair Widow underſtand that I hoped foon to de-
liver her from Slavery. Mirza had already made
Overtures, he had found in Brava a rich Factor of
Aden, who, for the Sake of carrying on his Com-
merce with the Inhabitants of this City, had a Veſſel
then in the Port; he confided fo far in this Man, as
to inform him of our Condition; the Factor, feduced
by the Hopes of a great Reward, refolved to run all
Rifques to fet us a Liberty. It was neceffary that I
ſhould inftruct Margeon, that the might before-hand
take proper Meaſures; and as there was no Hopes,
that the Governor would conſent to our Ranfom, I
thought it poffible, by fome fingular Invention to let
her know after what Manner fhe muft conduct her-
felf, in order to eſcape from the Serail of Almamon.
I found the Night that was deftined for the Wed-
ding of our young Lord, would afford me too good
an Opportunity to be neglected. In the Distribution
of the Scenes that I was to play with Margeon, I com-
pofed one, in which, difguifed in the Habit of a
Man, he was to receive a Letter, that diſcovered
the whole Meaning of the Piece; but as I could ne-
ver ſpeak to her, but in the Prefence of the Gover-
nor, fo whilft I was preparing the Scences, I could
do nothing; but was forced to reſerve it, 'till the Day
deffgned for our Departure, and this to me ſeemed
very eaſy, becauſe the Hurry, the Feaft, and the Co-
medy, would put all the Family in, I flattered my-
felf would afford us an Opportunity to eſcape, with-
out any Body's taking Notice of our Actions. I
thought
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thought of nothing now, but how to put in Execu-
tion the Project I had agreed on, with Mirza and
our Factor of Aden.
THE Day of the Ceremony at laft arrived, the
Feaſt was compleat, the Slaves reprefented their Pa-
ftoral to a Wonder, the Interlude compofed of Songs
and Dances, was very well executed, and the Co-
medy acted by Margeon and I, pleaſed the Governor
and his Wives; in a Word, they were all raviſh-
ed with the new Scene; but when under the Pretext
of delivering the Letter, which belonged to the Sub-
ject of the Play, I flipt into the Hand of my lovely
Widow, the Billet which informed her what ſhe muſt
do, when the Diverfion was over, to join me, in or-.
der to take our Flight together. Almamon, who fuf-
pected our Conduct, ftarted up abruptly, and feized
the Billet, and having by this Means, in one Moment,
diſcovered all the Defign, he fell in fo violent a
Paffion, that taking his Sabre in his Hand, he fell
upon me, intending to cut off my Head.
BUT as the Part I had acted, obliged me to be
armed, I had an Opportunity to defend myſelf, tho'
I did not attac Almamon, whom I could have kill'd
if I would, but I only parriod the Stroke he made at
me; he eafily perceived the Care I took not to hurt
him, though in fo delicate an Affair; fo ceafing to
purfue, he put up his Sabre, and ordered his Slaves
to take me, threatening me with the moſt cruel Death
if I did not furrender my Arms.
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LX. EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
A
SI found it impoffible to refift any
longer, but that I must be overcome
by the Numbers who furrounded me,
I laid my Sabre at the Feet of Alma-
mon. You are the Maſter of my Life
(faid I to him) but you are fenfible
I might have been Mafter of yours,
if the Refpect I have for you, had not ſtaid my Hand.
And I am well affured, that when the firft Motions
of your Anger are over, you will do me Juftice, and
whatever Inclination you may have for Zobeyas, you
will not endeavour to divide two Hearts, which have
been fo long united by indiffolvable Bonds, Death
alone can ſeparate us; impoſe upon us what Ranfom
you pleaſe, I will take. Care that it fhall very foon
be paid you with Thanks: But if contrary to all the
Laws of Humanity and Honour, you uſe your de-
ſpotic Power over our Perfons, the Sultan of Aden,
whofe Prime Vizier I am, and who is already ap·
prized of our Situation, will come in Perfon to Re-
venge my Death; and after having put all this City
into Blood and Fire, he will caufe you to expire, in
the moſt dreadful Torments.
ALM AMON, who was before blinded with Fury,
imagined all I had faid, was only the Sequel of the
Fraud, which he thought he had difcovered in the
Letter,
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Letter, and therefore began to load me with the
bafeſt Names in the World. Vile Slave (faid he)
do you join your Menaces to your Imprudence? Ah!
Is it thus that you defign to play upon your Maſter,
and abuſe his Kindness, which has been extended to
you until this Day? Your infolent difcourfe does
not Affright me. I know the Sultan of Aden better
than you do. I Honour him, yet great as he is, I
do not Fear him, becauſe I know him to be Juft.
Tremble then at the Approaches of theſe Torments
I fhall put you to, for your Treafon and Impoſture;
he then gave Orders that I ſhould be taken out of his
Prefence, and confined under a ſtrong Guard until the
next Day.
-
THEY were going to execute his Orders, juft as
Margeon threw herſelf at his Feet: My Lord (faid
fhe) Mani does not impofe upon you, you have in a
great Meafure been fenfible of our Misfortunes from
the Time, that under borrowed Names, we repre-
fented them before you; do not then end cruelly in
your Paffion, a Scene you faw with Pleaſure in a calm-
er Mind, and after having yourſelf wifhed that Ka-
tife, under the Name of Hindbad, might in Tranqui
lity enjoy his Miftrefs, barbaroufly make the mife-
rable Margeon this Day, the innocent Caufe of his
Death.
.PIC
WHAT have the Affairs of Margeon and Katife
to do with thoſe Things which are tranſacted in my
Houfe, faid the Governor brifkly. My Lord, replied
the beautiful Widow, my Name is not Zobeyas. Born
of an unhappy Parent, I had the Misfortune to looſe
him, by the Perfecution of a Perfidious Vizier, to a-
void the cruel Effects of whofe Jealoufy, he was o-
bliged to fly from his Country, about fifteen Years
ago, taking with him a Son, then twelve Years old,
After that fatal Time, my Sifter and I remained with
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a near Relation of my Fathers, where we fuffered the
ftrongeſt Affaults of inconftant Fortune. Ah! my
Lord, continued fhe, all the fad Event we have re-
lated to you under borrowed Names, could never
have happened to the wretched Margeon, if fhe had
not been deprived of the Prefence of her Father.
The unfortunate Abouriam! the unfortunate Abou-
riam! cry'd the Governor, juft Heaven! What was I
going to do? Ah! this then was the Source of my
Tenderness for Zobeyas: Come then my Child, come,
and know your Mafter, your unfortunate Father,
whom the Rage of the Vizier Zalvon forced to depart
from Aden. I not only approve of your Union with
the faithful Katife, who well deferves your Tender-
nefs, and who I hope will forget the ill Treatment I
have juſt now given him; but I must conjure him to
confirm the Marriage of my Son, with the young
Khaled his Sifter, this beautiful Child was taken from
Aden about Ten or Twelve Years ago. I bought her
with her Nurfe, and as foon as I was informed what
Family he was of (for I knew them very well) from
that Moment, I fay, I deftin'd her to this Union with
my Son; Heavens feems to approve my Choice, by
infpiring this charming Couple with the moft lively
and tender Sentiments for each other that can be
imagined.
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IT is impoffible, illuftrious Genij to exprefs the
Exceſs of Pleaſure Margeon felt in that Moment, and
how much Satisfaction this happy. Diſcovery gave me,
we were in an Inftant removed from the moſt violent
Defpair, to the most perfect. Joy, touched with the
Bounty of Heaven. I threw myſelf at the Gover-
nor's Knees, and embraced them with the utmoft
Tenderneſs: Ah! my Lord (faid I) what Thanks can
I render you, when you join me to my adorable Mar-
geon, which is the greateft Happinefs to which I can
afpire. You deſerve her (replied Abouriam, raifing
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me up) by your Conftancy, which is beyond Exam-
ple. I will not defer your Happiness a Moment, the
Iman that is fent for on my Son's Account, fhall Crown
your Loves.
THE Governor's Orders were immediately Exe-
cated, the Iman performed the ufual Ceremonies, and
the reft of the Evening was ſpent, as you may be-
lieve, with extream Joy and Pleafure. Tho' I did not
faid he, bring Margeon and her younger Sifter with me
to Brava, do not imagine that my Tenderness for them
was lefs than for their Brother. I left them in the
Arms of my Sifter, who loved them paffionately, who
though fhe had been twice Married, never had any
Children, and was then a Widow. By her Means it
was that I kept a conftant Correfpondence in Aden,
nor did I diſpair of returning again to my Country.
Zalvon who was chief Favourite to the Grand Vizier
and who aſpired himself to that high Dignity, was
one invincible Obftacle, I had every Thing to fear
from the Effects of his Hate; he laid hold of every
Occaſion to work my Ruin, 'till at laſt he obliged me
to fly from Aden, and nothing but his Death, can
give me juſt Reaſon to hope that I fhall one Day re-
turn to my Country. Ah! my Lord (cry'd Margeon)
Was it the Vizier Zalvon who was your Perfecutor? It
is poffible you may have mentioned him before; but
the Situation I was then in, rendered it not proper
for me to interrupt you. It was that infamous Zal-
von, my Lord, who carried me from Aden. It was
he who would have conducted me to the Isle of Zo-
cotora, and who menaced me in the most terrible
Manner, and try'd the moſt abominable Methods to
make me Confent to his brutal Paffion. But just
Heaven who always protects the Innocent, permit-
ted him not to fucceed. The violent Tempeft threw
us on this Coaft, where the Inhabitants attacked our
Veffel, and foon made themfelves Mafter of it, af-.
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MOGUL TALE S.
ter having given that Perfidious Vizier a Hundred
Wounds, who indeed, on this Occafion, behaved
with great Bravery; but finding himſelf Surrounded
by his Enemies, and finding there was no hope left,
he lifted up his Arm, to make me a Sacrifice to his
barbarous Fury, at which Inſtant one of your brave
Soldiers made his Head fall at my Feet. Zalvon is
Dead, my Lord, and Katife is our Sultan's chief Fa-
vourite, he was Fortunate enough, as we have be-
fore recounted, to fave that Monarch's Life three
Times in one Expedition, and that generous Prince,
touched with a Senfe of his Services, has nominated
him a Prime Vizier. Affured of my Spouſe's being
capable to protect you, return to Aden, the Sultan
will certainly do Juftice to your Innocence, and will
cauſe to be reſtored to you, the Goods which were
Confifcated upon your retiring out of that Kingdom.
1 faw the Tears ſpringing into Abouriams Eyes while
Margeon was giving him this Account. Is Zalvon no
more? (cry'd he tranſported with Joy) Heaven has at
laft puniſhed his Crimes. Ah! my Dear Child, ſee
our Misfortunes have at length an End, I have al-
ways had an ardent Defire to fee my Country, and
my Children again; and this is by far too favourable
an Occafion for me to let flip, I will therefore com-
ply with the Defire of my Daughter, and return with
you unto Aden. My Lord (replied I) do as you have
faid, and be affured of ſharing with me, the Favour
of our Monarch; befides, I fhall have Occafion for
your fage Councils, and your Experience to enable
me to diſcharge the Functions of my Office, and to
put it in my Power, by a wife and gentle Admini-
ftration, to gain the Love and Applaufe of the Peo-
ple.
BEFORE this extraordinary Converfation, which
had not been interrupted, but by the coming of the
Iman, and the Performance of the Ceremony, all the
Spectators
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Spectators were ftruck Motionleſs with Fear, that our
Entertainment fhould in the End prove a real Tra-
gedy; the Eclarifment which followed, turned that
Fright into as violent a Tranfport of Joy. Khaled
was extravagantly pleafed at the recovering in me a
Brother fo long loft, and arrived at fo high a Sta-
tion. Margeon was almoft out of her Wits, at this
happy Revolution, and teftified the higheft Delight
at the Diſcovery of her being the Governor of Brava's
Daughter, both of them loaded me with Careffes, and
I can fafely fay, I never tafted Pleaſures fo Perfect,
and fo Ravishing as thefe.
THE Hour of retiring being come; we were
condused to the Appartment provided for us, and there
with our Wives, we enjoyed the most delicious Mo-
ments of our Lives. Abouriam after having continued
the Feaſt for Eight or Ten Days, on Account of our
Marriages, had us call'd into his Clofet, where he
expreft the earneft Defire he had to return to his Coun-
try. But my dear Children (faid he) however impatient
I may be for that Happineſs, I cannot undertake fuch
an Affair without eminent Danger, fhould it come to
the Ears of the Sultan who Reigns over this Country:
Yet I do not difpair of getting away privately, with-
out any Hazard of my Life. This is the Method I
have refolved on, to bring about my Defign, Meſtri
muft go to the Factor, on board of whofe Veffel, you
had an intent to embark, and which is not yet gone,
and remit to him as much Money as will be neceffary
to fet at Liberty, all thofe Perfons who where taken
with you, I will furniſh the whole Sum that is requir'd
for that Purpoſe, and after I have conveyed by Degrees,
all my Treaſure on board a Ship, which I will caufe
to be well equipped, we will altogether fet out on our
Return to Aden.
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BYGOBODASTRARY
LXI. EVENING.
The History of the Adventures of
KATIFE and MARGEON.
،
W
E were all extreamly rejoiced at the Re-
folution of Abouriam; he loft no Time
in executing what he had projected, and
when all was ready, as he had more than
forty Slaves of different Countries, he
ordered them all into his Prefence about
an Hour before our Departure. My Friends (faid
he to them) I am well contented with your Ser-
vices, and am now going to give you effential
• Marks of it: I must depart for Aden, where
• Affairs of vaft Confequence call me without being
'fure of ever returning to this Place, I am ready
to conduct you thither with
thither with me, if you are willing,
(for from this Moment I declare you are all free.)
there I will furnifh you with Money and Means,
to return to your feveral Countries'. The Slaves
of Abouriam, threw themſelves at the Feet of fo good
a Mafter; but not one Soul of them would ftay
in Brava. We instantly carried all his Riches on
Board the Veffel he had equipped, under Pretence of
crufing, and to which Meftri at the Beginning of the
Night, had conveyed all our Friends well armed,
thus we inftantly fet fail, following the Factors Veffel
for Aden.
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As we had the most favourable Wind we could
have chofe, our Voyage was as happy as poffible, 'till
we came near Zocotora; but in that Point the Wind
changed fuddenly, and we were forced back to Sea
with grea: Violence, and the fame Wind continuing
for more than fifteen Days, put us entirely out of our
Courſe, and we fuffered many Tempefts, without being
in much Danger; yet they gave me much Uneafineſs,
becauſe my dear Margeon, who difcovered by many
Signs, that he was with Child, found herfelf very
much incommoded, but to increaſe our Misfortunes,
being in one very dark Night, which was extreamly
tempeftuous, being obliged to give fome particular Or-
ders, in a Moment as I paffed between the Poup and
the Prow of the Veffel, I was covered with a Wave,
which in Spight of all the Efforts I made to fave my
felf, at last threw me into the Sea.
THE Cry I made in falling alarmed the Seamen,
who caft inftantly feveral Knots of Cords into the
Sea, holding the other Ends in their Hands (which
is the conftant Cuſtom in fuch perilous Cafes) but as
the Darkness during the Tempeft was fo great, that
it was impoffible to diftinguith Objects, they thruft
down the Sides of the Ship many large Planks, by
which Means they hoped I might find Succour. It
was fome Moments after my Fall into the Sea, be-
fore I recovered my Senfes, as foon as I did, I thought
I felt fomething floating by me, I catched faſt hold,
and after having floated upon this Plank for feven or
eight Hours, I was carried to a Shore quite unknown
to me, without any other Damage than being ex-
treamly fatigued, and the violent Affliction I was in,
at the unhappy Situation of my Affairs, not doubt-
ing but my Wife was in the greateſt Agonies, appre-
hending that I was buried in the Sea. I at length
got up to the higheft Land I could fee, and from
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thence had the Satisfaction of perceiving, that the Sea
was now very calm, which gave me Room to hope the
Veffel, wherein my dear Spouſe failed, had efcaped,
and that the Wind which had changed fome Hours be-
fore, would carry them fafe to Aden.
I had about me at that time only 30 Pieces of Gold
and fome Diamonds, which Abouriam had given me.
With this little Stock, after having walked near eight
Hours, I arrived at Dabul very much fatigued.
My firft Enquiry was, whether there was any Ship-
ping bound to the Red-Sea; but being informed that
I fhould find none but at Cambaye, I came to this Ci-
ty, refolving to wait till the firft Veffel that could
tranfport me to Aden, fet fail. How I came to this
Place I know not. The Favour, illuftrious Genii,
you have done me, in hearing from my Mouth, the
Particulars of my Adventures, I am thoroughly fen-
fible of, it can only be heightened by putting an End
to the Affliction of my Spoufe, who believes me cer-
tainly dead; and as your Power is great enough to
perform whatever Good you pleaſe, reftore me to my
Wife, from whom to be feparated is worfe than
Death.
THE Sultanas did not hear the Story of Katife,
and Margeon, without being tenderly touched at their
Misfortunes; on the contrary, they took particular
Notice of the Sincerity of his Paffion, till Cothrob ad-
dreffed himſelf to them in theſe Words.
It is,
not, (faid he) enough to condole in Words only
thefe illuftrious Unfortunates, it must be by Effects
that we make them fenfible of our Power."
turning to Katife, My Lord (continued he) how-
ever deeply touched Margeon is at your Separation,
• fhe ftill has Hopes that you have found Means to
fave yourſelf by thofe Floats. We have taken
* Care to inform her in a Dream, and ſhe is fo well
'per-
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perfuaded of this Truth, that after having fearched
many Ports, ſhe is this Moment arrived here.' Ah!
wife old Man, (cry'd Katife, tranfported with Joy)
is it poffible that I fhall fee again thy admirable
Margeon? A Happineſs like that is beyond my
Hopes. Pardon my Doubt, moft generous Genii, I
⚫ do not diſtruſt your Power, I have ſeen in this deli-
cious Place, enongh to convince me, that nothing is
impoffible to you; but my Grief, at the Abfence
of my charming Spouſe, has a little diſordered my
Underſtanding.?
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YOUR Affections are well placed, (reply'd
• Cothrob) and ſhall be fatisfied. And now, my Lord,,
you are going this Moment to fee this Spoufe, who
is the Object of all your Wiſhes, and who juftly
merits your Tenderness, fhe was, by my Power,
tranſported to this Place with Abouriam, Khaled,
and her Spoufe.' Then the Doors of the Hall be-
ing opened, by Order of the Iman, he faw the charm-
ing Margeon enter, who without taking any Notice
of the Perfons prefent, or the Magnificence of the
Places, ran and threw herfelf into the Arms of Ka--
tife. Dear Light of my Life (faid fhe) have I found
you, after having been fwallowed up by the Sea:
Ah! how cruelly was my Heart rack'd at the for-
← rowful Separation; had it not been for my Father
and your amiable Sifter, I fhould have plunged in
• after you, and not endured to live a fingle Moment..
Great Prophet, you could only furnish them with
Reafons, capable to overcome my Deſpair, and you
have made me fenfible by your Protection, of the
⚫ great Effects of your Bounty. Yes, my dear Spoufe,.
without doubt, it was the Prophet who calm'd the
• Violence of my Grief: It was him who con--
ducted us to this inchanted Place, by Ways en-
tirely to us unknown; what Thanks have I to
render him, for all thefe Benefits, fince it is by
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his Order, that I was brought, with Abouriam
and his Children, to the Karavanferail at Cam-
baye. We arrived there this Morning, and were
⚫ received by the Keeper with all the Politeness ima-
ginable.
•
By the Defcription we gave him of your Per-
fon he told us that you lodged with him about
Twenty Days before, that you paft the Night un-
der the greateft Inquietude imaginable, and all
• that you thought fit to acquaint him with was, that
you intended to wait the Departure of a Veffel
which, in fome Weeks, defigned to fail to the
Red-Sea. But he had Reaſon to believe you had
changed your Sentiments, becauſe the very next
Day you left the Karavanferail, without telling
him your Intentions, and without ſo much as ta-
king his Leave. Afflicted to the laft Degree for
your Departure, I gave myfelf up to Grief, till a
young Man who was in the Chamber, and who
'feemed to be a Jeweller, joined in our Converſation.
• Madam (faid he to me) if you would be truly in-
'form'd in what Place the Perfon is, who gives you
fo much Pain, I will find out in Cambaye an old
• Woman, who will give you entire Satisfaction, not
only in that Point, but in every thing elfe that you
A can defire.
TRANSPORTED with Joy at this agreeable
• Promife, I begged him inftantly to feek after this
old Woman, which he did, and in a very ſhort
Space brought her with him. And after fhe had
• confulted a Book, which was full of Hieroglifick
Figures: You will find your Spoufe (faid the to
me) before the Sun is down, and you will render
him by your Prefence, all the Joy his Heart is ca-
pable of receiving. If I tell you not the Truth,
may our Great Prophet for ever deprive me of the '
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Ufe of Speech. Though there was but little Ap-
pearance that I faw of this Woman's Promifes
coming to paſs, yet the Hope was too flattering not
to touch me extreamly.
Joy fhone in my Eyes, and difplayed itſelf in all
my Actions. We kept the old Woman to eat with
us: Wine infpired her with good Humour, and the
' entertain'd us very agreeably with pleafant Stories
during our Repaft, but I cannot tell you how they
ended, becauſe without our knowing by what Means
it was brought about, we were tranfported to this
charming Place, where I find every thing that was
promifed me by that wonderful Woman.'
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CHARMING Margeon (cry'd out Katife) what
• Thanks ought we to render the Prophet for all the
Favours he has vouchfafed us. Doubtless by his
"Power it was that we were tranfported in a Moment
to the Palace of the Faires, and that thefe Genii well
pleaſed to obey the Orders of our Sovereign Pro-
phet, have without Doubt executed his Will with
• Relation to us. Nor can we in too lively a Manner
exprefs our Acknowledgments to them.' We de-
mand no other thing of thoſe whom we oblige (an-
'fwered Cothrob) it is the Hearts of Mortals that we
examine, we know the Bounty and Goods of yours
' and are well ſatisfied. But as we are not ignorant
' with what Impatience the Sultan of Aden waits for
the Arrival of Katife, and the earneft Defire that
fage Vizier hath to return to his Charge, we will
very foon put you in a proper Method of fatisfying
all your Defires; but after fo many Fatigues, you
muſt have great Occafion for Reft. The Servants
wait to conduct you to your Apartments, where you
⚫ will find every thing prepared that can conduce to-
wards your having a good Night's Repoſe.
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ABOURIAM, his Son, and Khaled, were fo much
afſtoniſhed at what had paffed fince they had come
from the Karavanserail, that they ſtood like Statues.
After having all thanked thefe pretended Genii, they
paſſed on to the Apartments deftined for them,
where they found all Sorts of Refreshments the moſt
delicious in the World; it was impoffible for them to
refufe drinking fomething before they went to Bed,
all the Liquors being mixt, by the Order of Cothrob,
with a little of the Decoction of Bueng. They were
no fooner fallen into a profound Sleep, than Prince
Schirin took the Advantage, and caufed them to be
carried by Slaves particularly appointed for fuch O-
perations, into a Chaloupe, which waited by his Or-
der to put them fafe on Board of Abouriam's Veſſel,
and then the Slaves returned to the Palace. It is eafy
to judge the Surprize thefe five Perfons must be in the
next Morning when they awaked, well perfuaded of
the Reality of all that had happened, they entered
their Veffel, and fent the Chaloupe back again. The
Wind being favourable they made the best of their
Way towards Aden.
•
THE Sultanas of Guzarat were fo much touched
with the Relation of this Hiſtory, that without giv-
ing Attention to what had been faid and done by
Cothrob, they believed that as this great Man had
been informed by the Keeper of the Karavanserail'
of Margeon's Arrival, he had caufed thofe Dreams of
Comfort which fhe had, and which had induced her
to come to Cambaye, otherwife as Katife fell into the
Sea, not very far from the Coaſt of Dabul, ſhe would
rather have fought him in fome Ports near that
Place.
WITH Regard to the Sultan Oguz, he was very
well pleaſed with the Recital of thefe Adventures,
and
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109
and having feveral Times teftify'd to Cothrob the A-
ſtoniſhment he was in, at Katife's being able to refiſt
all the Artifices of Margeon, which ſhe made uſe of to
try his Love. 'My Lord (replied the Iman) it is ex
traordinary for Sultans to be fo tender and delicate
in their Amours, they no fooner form a Defire,
than it is gratified, every Body is proud to ſubmit to
• their Will, and therefore I am not ſurpriz'd at the
Idea you have of Things.
• BUT what intire Satisfaction (continued the Iman)
do you incomparable Lovers enjoy this Day, at
finding their Paffion were reciprocal, and certainly
it muſt be in a private Life, and not on a Throne,
⚫ that the Pleafures of Love are tafted in their na-
tive Purity." Oguz was convinced that the Gran-
deur of a Monarch very much incommoded him in
his Amours, and after having made many Reflections
on the good Fortune of thofe happy Lovers, the Sul-
tan having an Inclination to fleep, Cothrob retired and
left him at Liberty.
THE next Day, the ufual Hour of meeting in the
Hall being come, and the Sultanas and the rest of the
Company being feated, the Ladies in a low Voice,.
afked Schirin, if he had not ordered fome new Stran-
gers to be conducted to the Palace. The Prince, with-
out returning any Anfwer, having made the ufual Sig-
nal, there entered ſeveral Porters, who brought in up-
on Sopha's a Woman about fixty Years old, four very
beautiful Girls, the eldeft not exceeding Eighteen,
and two young Men who could not be more than
Twenty-five, both extreamly well made..
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110 MOGUL TALE S.
LIII. EVENING.
The HISTORY of MEGNOUN
and LEILEH.
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T was very eafy for the Sultanas to
perceive by the Habits of theſe
Strangers, that they were Men and
Women Dancers, from whence they
promifed themſelves a good deal of
Diverfion, which was very much.
augmented by the violent Surprize
they were in when they awaked; never was any thing
more fingular, than the different Attitudes in which
every one of theſe Actors and Actreffes put them-
felves, which formed a Scene fo comical, that the Sul-
tanas, and the reft of the Spectators, could not for
bear Laughing heartily. At laft Schirin began to
fpeak. Ceaſe your Aftonishment (faid he) and af
fume the Gaiety which is natural to People of
your
Profeffion, imagine that in one Night you are tranf
ported from the Place where you were left, to the
• Province of Schadukiam, and that you now are in
the Palace of Ghevher Abad, and that you are de-
• ftined for a certain Time to divert the Periz and the
Perizes, and that your good Fortune depends intire-
ly on your Behaviour here.
•
THESE People, reviv'd with fuch pleafing Pro-
mifes, quickly recover'd their Spirits, which it was
eafy to diſcover by the Tranquility and Joy which
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appeared in their Faces. The old Woman, who
ſeemed to be the Miſtreſs of this little Company, ad-
dreffed herſelf to them in thefe Words. Children
(faid fhe) return Thanks to the Prophet, who has
permitted us to be conducted to this enchanted
• Place, and let us exert our Talents to the utmoft,
that we may in fome Meaſure come up to the I-
dea's, which thefe illuftrious Genii have formed
of us.' Then turning to the Company, would it
pleaſe you (ſaid ſhe) that in their Dances and Songs,
they fhould perform a Tragedy or Comedy? Oh !
let us have fomething Comic, by all Means (anſwer-
ed Goul-Saba) it is moft proper for our Circum-
ftance of Life. Since it is fo, faid the old Woman
to her Company, we muſt preſent theſe Perizes with
the Amours of Megnoun and of Leileh; for notwith-
ſtanding that Story is in itſelf grave, my Actors un-
derſtand well enough how to turn every Thing into
Pleaſantry, and I doubt not but the Performance will
pleaſe you.
THIS Megnoun, you must know, paffionately lo
ved the charming Leileh, he well knew that he durft
not attempt the Chaftity of fo virtuous a Perfon, yet
his Love encreaſed to fo violent a Degree, that he
could have no Reft, nay, he quitted his Profeffion,
that he might think of nothing but this lovely Lady.
In a fhort Time thefe tender Reflections rendered
him fo meagre, that he looked like a perfect Skele-
ton, rather than a Man. Leileh, who often met him,
asked the Caufe of this ſtrange Alteration; but this
filly Lover never had Courage enough to tell her,
till at last he was reduced to the utmoft Extremity of
Danger, and then he wrote a moft moving Letter,
wherein he diſcovered to her, the Beginning and
whole Progrefs of his fatal Paffion, declaring that the
was the fole Caufe of his deplorable State, and the
only Object of his Love; tho' he never durft men-
tion
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tion it to her. This Letter he ordered not to be de
livered to her till after his Death. His Defires were
punctually obey'd, and that beautiful Lady was fo
extreamly concerned at the Misfortunes and Lofs of
fo tender a Lover, that ſhe gave herfelf up entirely
to Grief and Melancholly, which in a fhort Time
put an End to her Life. The Arabian, Turkish, and
Perfian Authors, difcourfe various Ways of this
ftrange Amour, but they all agree, that Megnoun was
a Model of perfect Love, and Leileb the moſt chaſte
and beautiful of her Sex.
BUT for us, who are fully perfuaded that theſe
Sort of Amours are only imaginary, we have not
treated this Subject in a ferious Manner, and as we
cannot think there are in the World either fuch fooliſh
Lovers, or fuch mighty reſerved Ladies, we have not
preferv'd in our Piece fuch Characters as are pictured
to us by the Romance.
No, the Leileh that we reprefent to you, is a Wo-
man of Spirit, fhe quickly perceiv'd the violent Paf-
fion which Megnoun had for her, and found his Mo
defty too great, to fuffer him to make proper Ad-
vances, in all the Converſation fhe had with him,
though ſhe entertain'd him with the utmoft Civility,.
he could never have the Courage to talk to her of
his Love. She lik'd the Man, and in order to in-
ſpire him with more Spirit, fhe declared her Inten--
tions to her favourite Maid, who was herfelf in Love
with a Slave of Megnoun's. This Slave was in much
Efteem with his Mafter, knew all his Foibles, and
often endeavoured to inftruct him how to reveal his
Love, in the moſt tender Manner, but to no Pur-
pofe.
MEGNOUN's Modefty made him a very auk-
ard Scholar. At length, the Servant of this chafte
Lady,
MOGUL TALES. 113
Lady, and Megnoun's Slave, were oblig'd to repre-
fent their Perfons and Behaviour in a fort of diverting
Interlude in their Prefence, till by Degrees they car-
ried the Scene fo far, that Megnoun grew hardy enough
to act after the fame Manner with Leileh, as his Slave
had done with her Maid, and that Lady allowed
him the fame Liberties. This Scene is indeed very
lively, and I advertiſe you before-hand, that my
Actors perform it in a Manner that move the moſt
infenfible. However, it is never done without the
Confent of the Spectators, and to pleaſe the Taste of
thoſe who employ us, we render it more or leſs in-
telligible. Thus, beautiful Perizes, you fee we only
wait to know after what Manner you will be pleaſed
to have it executed.
WITH all the Modefty imaginable (replied Geber-
naz) we would not for the World behold any Thing
that is offenfive to Virtue, let your Actors therefore
take great Care that they ſtrictly obey thefe Orders,
if you hope to oblige us. They fhall obey you in
every Thing, anfwer'd the old Woman, and I am not
in the leaft afraid that you will not be perfectly fatis-
fied with their Performance.
As foon as the Sultanas gave Notice that they
defired the Play fhould begin, the Men and Women
Dancers enter'd, and perform'd all their Parts, relating
to the Story of Megnoun, with a very good Grace, and
he who had perfonated the Slave, did it in ſo pleaſant
a Manner, that all the Company were charm'd, he
managed the Scene which they had commanded fhould
be perfectly modeft, with great Delicacy. Nor did
they lefs admire the Woman-Dancer who play'd the
Maid, for the fimple and natural Way in which fhe
acled her Part, without giving Scandal to the niceſt of
her Sex.
IF
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Ir all the Spectators were pleaſed, Goul-Saba was
much more fo: But whatever Satisfaction fhe found
in the Repreſentation itſelf, fhe felt fomething more
tender, for the Perfon who played the Part of Meg-
noun: He was a Youth of a very graceful Mein;
with very fine curling black Hair, and the fineſt Eyes
that ever were beheld, his Face was beyond Defcrip-
tion; for in every different Part which he performed,
it changed with the Scene, yet in all he appeared to
be extreamly handſome. Goul-Saba was fo ftruck,
that had it not been for Fear of the Reproaches the
knew ſhe muſt meet with from the other Sultanas,
The would have confeffed the Tenderness fhe had for
him, yet fhe could not contain herſelf from ſpeak-
ing to him in the following Manner. Megnoun
(faid fhe) for I know you by no other Name,
"I am fo well fatisfied with your Acting, that I
"will give you a Mark of my Friendship; here,
"take this Ring, and wear it for my Sake." It
was a Jewel of great Value, yet without concern-
ing herself about what the Company might think, the
drew it from her Finger, and prefented it to this
Actor, who received it with Joy, and the most pro-
found Refpect.
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THE Sultanas were furprized at the Prefent Goul-
Saba had juſt made, and the gracious Air with which
fhe gave it, left them no Room to doubt that ſhe had
conceived a violent Paffion for this young Man, and
for fear the fhould enter into any Engagement with
him privately, they thought it would not be improper
to oblige him to give them the Hiftory of his Life and
Adventures. In order to this Gebernaz ſpoke to him
in theſe Words. <<
Megnoun (faid fhe) you ought
to eſteem it the greatest Glory, to have received
"fuch fhining Marks of Protection, from this beau-
“ful Perize, but you muſt underſtand, that this
" Prefent
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"
"Prefent was made you, on the Condition only,
"that you give us a fincere Account of your whole
"Life. Take Care that you derogate not in the
"leaft Point, from Truth, you may be certain if you
do, we ſhall in a Moment difcover the Impoftor,
" and that by fuch a Behaviour, you will incur our
"Indignation." "Illuftrious Perizes, anfwered the
young Man, it is fufficient that you have com-
"manded me. Be aflured, that I fhall conceal none
" of my Adventures, to this prefent Time. I am
"this Moment ready to fatisfy your Defires." Ob-
ferving that the Company kept a profound Silence, he
began in the following Terms.
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LXII. E VENIN G.
The HISTORY of MASSOU D, the
Son of SOFFAR.
M
Y Father was an Arabian Brafier,
fettled in Schiraz, and was known in
that City by no other Name than
Soffar, which was given him for the
Excellence of his Workmanship, be-
cauſe every Thing that came out of
his Hands was perfect in its kind. He
liv'd in the Neighbourhood of a Philofopher, who was
young and very jovial. This Gentleman often employ-
ed him to make Alembecks, and other Veffels uſed in
Chymiſtry. As my Father was obliged to go often to
this Philofopher's, he found Means to get acquainted
with one of his Slaves, whofe Name was Nour, the was
about
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about 30 Years of Age, and very agreeable. This
Girl, after much Courtship, had fo great a Paffion for
him, that her Mafter foon perceived, and found out the
private Commerce fhe had with Soffar.
LXIII. EVENING.
The HISTORY of MASSOU D, the
Son of SOFFA R.
HE Philofopher, as foon as he was
thoroughly convinced of the Weakness
which Nour had been guilty of with
Soffar, fell in a violent Paffion, and ta-
king a Stick, he beat him to fo cruel
a Degree, that he had like to have de-
moliſhed the poor Brafier; when the Height of his
Rage was a little abated, with Regard to Nour, fhe
in a Flood of Tears, threw herſelf at the Feet of the
Philofopher, and ſpoke in fo moving a Manner, that
ſhe obtained Pardon for Soffar. At laft, Nour (faid
he) ſtand up and hear what you have this Day loft,
I have always diftinguiſhed you from my other
Slaves, that you might eaſily have conceived I had
a Paffion for you; I believed that in you I ſhould
have found a reaſonable Perfon, with the Liberty
which I defigned to give you; I alfo defigned to
• have offered you a Place in my Bed, and I eſteemed
you ſo much, that I adjudged you worthy to be my
Wife, but I am happily diſappointed. The Liber-
•
• ties
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•
ties you have given this vile Brafier, convinces me
' of the Meannefs of your Soul, and as I fhquld have
·
been perfectly miferable in the Society of a Perfon
' of your Character, I return Thanks to Heaven for
my Eſcape.' He ordered the Cady and the Iman
to be inſtantly called, and as foon as they were come,
I am going (continued he) to Nour, I am going to
• releaſe you from Slavery, and to marry you to Sof-
far, who has had the Impudence to diſhonour my
Houſe. But I am inclined to believe he will find in
this Marriage, a fufficient Puniſhment for his In-
• folence.
THE Philofopher's Orders were executed on the
Spot. Nour was made free by the Cady, and after-
wards efpoufed to Soffar. The Emotions ſhe had felt
that Day were ſo violent, that it was with great Pair
that he was carried to the Houſe of her Huſband,
where ſhe was delivered of me at ſeven Months. My
Father was fo tranfported with Joy, that he named
me Maſſoud, which fignifies Fortunate, believing no
greater Happineſs could arrive to him than that of my
Birth. But the Difcourfe which I have juſt told you,
that the Philoſopher had with my Mother, threw her
into a deep Melancholly. She was almoſt diſtracted
to think, that ſhe had loft, by her Fault, fuch a ſolid
and happy Eſtabliſhment, and conceived, from that
very Moment an extream Averfion for my Father,
of which I foon after found the Effects. She looked
upon me as the only Obſtacle of her Fortune, for
had I not been the Fruits of her indifcreet Amour, ſhe
could eaſily have concealed her Commerce with Soffar,
and become the Spouſe of the Philofopher, who was
a handſome Man and rich, and much efteemed in
Schiraz.
My Father, who thought his Marriage with
Nour the greateſt Bleffing that could befal him, ſoon
found,
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found, that on the contrary, he was the most un-
happy Man in the World; he had been much mif-
taken in the Temper of his Wife, fcarce a Day paft
in which ſhe did not make him fenfible by Reproach-
es, that his Sollicitations, and her fooliſh Weakneſs
for him, had ruined her Fortune; in fhort. fhe uſed
him fo extreamly ill, that he fell into a deep Melan-
cholly, of which he died. My Mother was not in
the leaſt touched with the Reproaches he made her in
his laft Moments. Nor on her Part fhew'd any Signs
of Sorrow.
THE Philofopher, who had been informed of the
real Cauſe of my Father's Illneſs, was extreamly con-
cerned when he refected, that the Declaration he had
made to Nour, contributed to it. The ill Conduct
with which fhe had behaved to her Huſband, leffened
his Efteem for her; and finding that ſhe neglected me
fo entirely, that ſhe would not give me Nouriſhment,
he had the Goodness to take me from her, and put
me to Nurſe.
My Mother, who had filled her Head with no-
thing but ridiculous Ideas of Grandeur, was extream-
ly furprized a few Months after the Death of Soffah,
to fee, that the Trade of her Shop decreaſed daily.
The Workmen, whom fhe knew not how to govern,
foon left her, and before the End of fix Months, fhe
fell into great Diftrefs, and was obliged to have Re-
courfe to her former Mafter, to whom he went, and
throwing herſelf at his Feet. My Lord (faid fhe,
"almoſt drowned in Tears) fuffer me to return to
"that happy State of Slavery, from which I ought
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never to have departed: Deliver me from the
"dreadful Woes I feel, and pardon the great Fault I
"have committed. Oh! abandon me not to Deſpair,
"but fuffer me to embrace your Knees, from whence
"I will never depart, till I have obtained Pardon
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"and Pity.""Rife up Nour (faid the Philoſopher)
"I will again receive you fince you defire it, not as
a Slave, but with all the Priviledges you uſed to
"have, before I gave you your Liberty; take upon
you again the fame Place and Power, you formerly
"had in my Family; I will entirely forget all your
"Faults, be only more difcreet for the future."
My Mother, with abundance of Tears, kiffed her
Mafter's Hand, and fenfibly touched with this Genero-
fity, redoubled her Care in the Oeconomy of his Houſe;
yet notwithſtanding all the Satisfaction the might have
enjoyed there, fhe was feized with fo black and fatal a
Melancholly, that the furviv'd my Father not above
8 Months.
I was but two Years old when I loft my Mother,
of whofe Death I was in a great Meaſure the innocent
Caufe, for I never had found from her the leaft Sign
of maternal Kindneſs. However the Philofopher con-
tinued his Bounty to me; I was brought up with the
Woman who nurfed me, till I was fix Years old,
and had begun to learn to Write and Read, when my
Mafter removed me from thence to a School, for my
better Inftruction, and when he thought I was perfect
enough, he took me home to his Houfe, where I with
great Diligence rendered him all the Services fuitable
to my Youth,
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WHEN I was about twelve Years of Age, my Maſter
took me into his Cloſet, and ſpoke to me in the fol-
lowing Manner. Maffoud (faid he) though you are
as yet but young; I am fenfible you have Wit above
your Years, and therefore I will reveal to you a Se-
cret, which as yet I never intrufted to any Perfon.
My Father, who was a famous Phyſician, would
• needs depart from Schiraz, where he lived about 18
Years, to go into Egypt, notwithſtanding all I could
fay to perfuade him to the contrary.
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120 MOGUL TALES.
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·
• It is now more than four and twenty Years fince
I have heard any thing from him, I was extreamly
grieved to think of his undertaking fo long and fo
dangerous a Journey; he had no Child but me, and
< therefore before his Departure, he gave me three
Vials full of Liquor, which he affured me were of
• inestimable Value, becauſe they would certainly re-
ftore the Dead to Life. Touching the Lips only
with a few Drops of the firſt, would bring back a-
gain the Soul after it had left the Body. The fecond
• would give them evident Signs of Life; and on the
Application of the third, a Man would be perfect-
ly recovered, and be able to perform all the Functi-
ons as well as ever. Yet he defired that I would not
• make uſe of this Secret, but on the moſt extraordi-
nary Occafion, for fear of offending God, to whom
⚫ belongeth the Power of Life and Death; but admire
his Goodneſs, who had given fuch Power to this ex-
traordinary Medicine, and ufe it with great Reve-
rence. Then taking his Leave of me, he affur'd me,
that if he lived to return, he would inftruct me with
another Secret almoſt as valuable’.
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LAVREGNOVEX DILENTE
LABICHON
LXIV. EVENING.
The History of MASSOUD the Son
of SOFFAR:
A
S fcrupulous as my Father was,
(continued the Philofopher) I have
as yet made no Trial of theſe
Bottles, which you fee are plainly
numbred; but if by any Accident
I ſhould happen to die fuddenly,
forget not that Moment to take
the Key, which you will find in my Pocket, and
before my Body is cold, fail not to give me them,
one after another in their regular Order, pouring
fome of the Liquor of each into my Mouth, you
will know by the Bills which are faftened upon
them, the right Vials; and if the Remedy operates,
as my Father affured me it would, you fhall not fail
of a Recompence, fuitable to fo great a Service. I
liftened to my Maſter's Difcourfe with all the Atten-
tion imaginable (continued Maſſoud) and I had Occa-
fion to put the Inftructions he had given me in Prac-
tice before the Year was out.
i
ONE Day he had fent me on feveral Meffages
into Schiraz, which as foon as I had executed, and
was returning Home, to my great Surprize, I found
ten or twelve People standing round our Door,
and demanding the Reaſon, they told me, that my
Maſter had been taken extreamly ill, at the Houfe of
one of his Friends, who had just brought him Home,
VOL. II.
and
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!
*
and that it was believ'd he had not many Minutes to
live. Struck with this dreadful News, I ran imme-
diately to him, where I found his Friend, and the
Phyſician, who had uſed the utmoſt Art and Skill in
vain, for they affured us, that our dear Maſter was
certainly dead, the whole Houfe was inftantly filled
with Cries and Sorrow. But I thought of nothing
more than how to execute the Orders of the De-
ceaſed, and feizing immediately on the Key, while
all the Slaves were bufy in making Preparations for
the Funeral of their Mafter; I fhut myſelf into
the Room with him, and taking the three Bottles,
I had no fooner put a little of the Liquor out of the
first into his Mouth, than I perceived his Fleſh be-
gan to grow warm, and the paleneſs of Death which
was in his Face, foon changed into a more lively
Colour. Encouraged with this good Succefs, I gave
him the Liquor of the fecond Bottle, with a great
deal of Confidence; but foon after I had done, it
was not without a violent Emotion, that I ſaw him
fit up in his Seat.
As I was in a perfect Trance at the Sight of this
marvellous Operation, it was a good while before I
could recover my Senfes to think of the third Bottle.
But my Mafter impatient to return again to this
World, from which he had been abſent above half
an Hour, cryed with an eager Voice, and fpark-
Hing with Anger, Pour, Pour, the fpeaking frighten-
ed me to fuch a Degree, that thinking it was the De-
vil who animated the Corps, I dropped the Cafe
in which were the three Bottles to the Ground, where
they were broken into a hundred Pieces, and in that
Inftant I ſaw the poor Man, who was more than
half revived, conſtrained to refign himſelf to the Arms
of Death again, without any Hopes of Relief, 'till
the laft Judgment.
WHEN
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123
WHEN I beheld him in this Conditton, a fud-
den Coldneſs feized me all over, and I fell to the
Ground, in a State almoft, as bad as the Philofo-
pher. Some time after the Servants came up, and
knocked at the Door, but finding it was locked on
the Infide, and no Body anſwered, they were forced
to barft it open, and after having ufed Means to re-
cover me, we rendered our laft Services to our Ma-
fter.
I was left without any Provifion (continued Maf-
foud) and knew not where to put my Head, in fhort,
I found myself expofed to the utmoít Mifery; when
by Accident there paffed through Schiraz, a Com-
pany of Dancers, who had for their Chief an old
Woman, who had been eſteemed the best Actreſs in
the Eaft. She found me in a deep Study, fitting upon
a Stone, at the Corner of a Street, and in a Situa-
tion, that made her eafily underſtand the deplorable
State I was in; fhe took Pity on me, and being in-
formed of the Cauſe of my Sorrow, and of the Mi-
fery in which the found me, the propofed to me to
enter myſelf of her Company; the Condition I was
in, permitted me to refufe nothing, fo I accepted of
her offer without any Hefitation, and that good Wo-
man immediately carried me to her Houfe, which was
in the Suburbs of Schiraz, which ſhe had taken for
herſelf and Company.
As I was then fcarce thirteen Years of Age, and
for that Reaſon was not fit to play the Part of a Man,
fhe had no fooner brought me into her Chamber,
than fhe choſe for me the Habit and Head-drefs of
a Woman, and made me put them on; and finding I
looked very handſome in that Difguife, fhe told me
I ſhould act all the amorous Parts, and charged me
to keep the Secret of my Sex from all her Company.
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After having made me repeat fome little Scenes, and
finding my natural Talents would do very well in her
Profeffion, fhe took great Pains to make me perfect ;
when I had been inftructed by her about three
Months, under the Name of Roufchen, which fhe had
given me, fhe thought me capable of performing the
firft Parts, and I anfwered fo well, the good Opinion
ſhe had for me, that all the Lords in Schiraz, and the
other Cities through which we paſt, did not fail to
fend for us to their Houſes, and by the Reputation
we had of being a very compleat Company, our Go-
verneſs gained a great deal of Money.
You are fenfible, illuftrious Perizes, that the
Dancers are diftined to pleaſe the Publick in more
than one Capacity, and a very great Number of
young Gentlemen, who took me for a Woman, made
their Addreffes to me; but the Directreſs of the
Company who would not (for what Reafon I cannot
tell) fuffer me to be known for what I really was,
never failed when we went through the City, to
make me put on a pair of black taffety Drawers, fhe
hindred by that, as fhe thought, the Defigns of all
thoſe who admired me, from making any rude At-
tempts; but as he would, without any juft Reaſon,
conceal my Sex, in the End her Care was the Caufe
of my being feperated from the Company by a very
fingular Adventure.
THE Widow of the Governor of Tauris, (where
we then were, whofe Name was Raoudah, a Lady
of about eight and twenty, was juſt upon marrying
her Daughter, who was fcarce twelve Years old, to a
young Lord in that City, the Wedding was made with
great Magnificence, and you may believe, we were
called to adorn the Feaft, where we performed our
Parts to the general Satisfaction of all preſent ;
there was ſcarce one young Lord in the Compa-
ny,.
MOGUL TALES.
125
ny, that did not regard me with the Eyes of Love,
or had not fome Deſign on my Perfon.
THE Governor's Widow perceived it, and cau-
fing our Directreſs to be called to her, fhe asked, how
long I had been in that Company; about two Years,
Madam, (replied ſhe) and that young Girl would
not enter, but on Condition, that whenever we came
into any City, ſhe ſhould always be allowed to wear
black Drawers; fhe has no Inclination to perform all
the Functions of common Dancers, and I agreed
that ſhe ſhould live in all Things according to her
own Fancy, without any Moleftation.
THE Widow was fenfibly touched with theſe
Sentiments of Virtue, which our Miſtreſs affured her
I had; this Lady made a long and moral Dif-
courſe to her, at which the feemed to be much con-
cerned; but alas! Remonftrances are not long re-
membred by People who have paft all their Days in
that Manner. The good Widow would fain have
made her promiſe to quit her Profeffion, and to be
certain that he would keep her Word, fhe offered
her three Thouſand Pieces of Gold, if ſhe would ſtay
and live with her. Our Directrefs found herſelf
very much embarraffed at this Propofition, which
would be of ill Confequence to her, becauſe ſhe had
no Mind to ſtay in Tauris, therefore ſhe took a Re-
folution upon the Spot to depart the very next Day;
however, the made no Heſitation to commit me into
the Hands, of Raoudah.
I was exceedingly aftoniſhed, when the old Wo-
man cauſed me to be called, and told me, that I now
belonged to the fine Widow, not in the Nature of a
Slave, but as a Girl, to whom he had taken a par-
ticular Fancy, fhe admires your Virtue (faid fhe) and
will have you for a Companion. I made broad Signs
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to the Directreſs, that I knew not how to deliver
myfelf out of the Embarrassment in which he was
going to leave me. She received in my Prefence the
Three Thoufand Pieces of Gold, and as fhe embra-
ced me, to take her final Adieu, play your Part well,
my dear Child, (faid ſhe ſoftly) and lay hold of this
favourable Opportunity to make your Fortune glo-
rious, and without ftaying for an Anfwer, fhe went
away, leaving me with Raoudah.
LXV. EVENING.
The HISTORY of MASSOUD the
Son of SOFFA R.
I
WAS never in all my Life fo much
furprized (continued Maſoud) as when
I found that the Governefs of the
Company had thus difpofed of me, I
knew not which way to look, and if
I did in that Moment break out into
loud Reproaches, it was becauſe the old Woman left
me fo fuddenly, rather than any Fear I was in at
difcovering the whole Adventure; but believing it
was too late to fpeak, now fhe was gone, I gave
my felf up to Melancholly. Raoudah beheld my
Sorrow with all the Goodnefs imaginable. My dear
Child, (faid fhe) kiffing me tenderly, I am touch-
ed with the Goodness of your Heart, your Senti-
ments charm me; but as I feared it would be im-
poffible for you always to refift the Solicitations of ſo
many young Libertines, I thought I did a merito-
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rious
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127
rious Act in taking you out of fo dangerous a Pro-
feffion, into which Neceffity alone had forced you to
enter, and in which, foon or late, your Virtue would
have been over-come. Ceaſe then to be afflicted at
the old Woman's Departure, and be aflured, that
you ſhall find in me a Perfon, who will Love you as
well as your own Mother, and give you all the Fa-
vour and Protection you can defire.
I began by Degrees, to be a little more affured by
the Careffes of this lovely Lady; nevertheleſs, my
Inquietude gave me a certain Air of Timidity and
Fear, with which he was ftill more charmed. She
was of an Age, in which the Paffions are moſt ſtrong
and lively; yet ſhe had renounced all Pleafures, and
made Profeffion of the moſt auftere Virtue.
carried her Kindneſs to fo great a Height, that the
made me eat at her own Table; and when Night
drew on, the ordered a Bed for me, to be carried to
her Chamber, and placed by the Side of her own.
She
I flept but very little that Night, not becauſe I
was near fo charming a Woman; (for my Simplicity
was fo great, that though I had, when I was among
the Dancers, both feen and acted many Parts, where-
in the Paffions were difcovered in the moft lively
Manner, yet I knew nothing of Love) but my only
Fear was, that Raoudah wu Id find out what I really
was, and in the Fury, fuch a Diſcovery would put
her into, fhe might caufe me to be punished for a
Fault, in which I had no Part.
Ar laft, the Morning being come, Roufchen (faid
fhe) my dear Child, you have been for more than
two Years, with a Company of People, who are not
very ftrict Obfervers of our Law, I am perfuaded,
by the rambling Life you were obliged to live with
them, that you were forced to omit one principal
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Point
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MOGUL TALES.
Point of our Religion, which is the Purity of the
Body; this cannot be repaired, but by a legal Ablu-
tion. This is a Rite, which I could with you would
always acquit yourſelf exactly of, and to that Intent,
I will immediately order a Bath to be prepared for
us.
You may judge what a Situation I found myfelf
in at this Difcourfe, I thought I fhould have died
with Fear, and the fair Widow having tenderly afk-
ed what ailed me to be fo much concerned, I threw
myſelf at her Feet, more pale than Death. Madam
(faid I to her) with, a trembling Voice, permit me
never to riſe from before you, unleſs you are pleaſed
to pardon my Temirity. I am not what I appear to
be in your Eyes, and under the Habit of a Girl, you
fee an unfortunate young Man, whom the Governeſs
of the Dancers, out of Caprice, and for her own In-
tereft, has obliged for two Years to act a Part fo in-
decent and contrary to my Sex. She gave me no Op-
portunity to oppofe the Contract fhe made with you,
becauſe I knew nothing of it till the Moment fhe de-
livered me into your Hands. This Madam, is the
Source of my Sorrow, and you might eafily perceive
by my Fears and Inquietudes, that I had no Part in
the Trick ſhe has put upon you.
No Body could be more aftoniſhed than the lovely
Raoudah appeared to be in that Moment, it was a
confiderable Time before he was able to ſpeak; at
laft, all on a fudden, re-affuming her Spirits, and con-
fidering that as it was, her Reputation lay at Stake.
What Rouſchen (faid fhe to me) is it really true, that
you are not a Girl? Ah! without doubt my Heart
preſaged an Event fo extraordinary, tho' I was igno-
rant of the Cauſe which made me entertain fo violent
a Paffion for one of my own Sex. I fee very well at
preſent, that Nature is never miſtaken in us.
It was
the
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129
the lovely Roufchen whom I adored, without knowing
why; but you fhall lofe nothing by the Change, and
I return Thanks to our Prophet for his Bounty, who
has procured me a Lover, more charming than the
God of Love himſelf, and that he permitted it to be
in fo fingular a Manner, that all the City of Tauris
may ſee me in his Arms, without the leaſt Prejudice
to my Virtue.
LXVI. EVENING.
The HISTORY of MASSOUD the Son
of SOFFAR.
M
Y dear Child (faid the Widow) em-
bracing me with the moft lively
Tranſports: My Fate will be too
happy, if you anſwer the Affection L
demand of you, and that Tender-
nefs which I have conceived from
your amiable Perfon: Ah! I fhall
die with Grief, if you are infenfible of the Love L
have for the amiable Roufchen.
I can only tell you (continued Maloud) that the
moving Careffes of one of the moft lovely Women
in the World, brought me to fuch a Pafs, that I
felt in that Moment a violent Fire run through my
Veins. As that which paffed within was new, and
that till that Time I had never felt fuch an Altera-
tion in myfelf, I was in a great Aftoniſhment, out of
which the Bounty of the Widow quickly drew me ;:
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and:
130 MOGUL TALES.
and I became fo dear to her in a few Moments, that
fhe ſwore to me an hundred Times over, that the bad
nothing in the World that ſhe would not Sacrifice for
me, and that ſhe ſhould die of Defpair, if I ceafed
to return the Tenderneſs fhe had for me, with the
fame Vivacity I had juft now done.
IMBOLDEN'D with the Encouragement the beau-
tiful Widow had given me; "Charming Raoudah
(faid I embracing her) fear not, that Love which
you have created in me can never decay, I fhall
"think of nothing, but how I may every Day give
you freſh Proofs of my Gratitude, and I fwear to
you by our Prophet, that you fhall find me in a
"Difciple, whofe only Pleafure will be to improve
by the Leffons he fhall learn from fo lovely a
"Miftrefs."
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RAOUDAH laughed heartily at the Innocence
of my Anſwer, and conducted me to the Bath
which our Religion commands to be obſerved with
great Exactneſs; and as her Slaves were far from
thinking that I was a Boy, they were not at all fur-
prized at my accompanying our Miſtreſs alone to that
Place, nor at the exceffive Favours the daily conferred
upon me.
I led this delicious Life for more than four Months
without any Interruption, till one Day I found Raou-
dab extreamly Melancholly and Referved. What
ails you my lovely Miftrefs? (faid I embracing her)
Ah! Roufchen (anfwered fhe) embracing me with
Tears, I am going to pay dear for the Tenderneſs
with which I have diftinguifhed you from all the
World; fince you have been with me, I find moft
certain Proofs that I have Conceived. What is that ?
(replied I precipitately) do not I tell you (faid the
lovely Widow) that for four Months paft, I have
carried
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carried within me a little Serpent, who is going to
diſcover to the Eyes of all the City of Tauris, the
Weakneſs that I have had for you. And who is
the deteftable Magician, that has put you in this fad
Condition Ah ! that I did but know him.
Notwithstanding the Affliction my Widow was in,.
fhe found my Anfwer fo fingular, that I thought fhe
would have died with Laughing.
SHE explained to me the Subject of her Grief
more plainly, but the found it very difficult to make:
me comprehend, that I was the real Author of all
the Pain the ſuffered. She had a very fine Houfe:
eight Miles from Tauris, to which the refolved to go,
in order to conceal her growing-Shame; taking with
her but two Perfons, one of which was her Nurſe,
and the other the Daughter of that Woman, except.
fome menial Servants to do the Work, which it was
impoffible to be without; thus equipt, we fet out for
this Retirement.
RAOUDAH, being extreamly Ill in the laft
Month of her Pregnancy, grew very peevish, and
did not receive my Careffes as fhe accuſtomed to do,
which gave me great Uneafinefs, though I durft not
ask her the Reafon. The Nurfes Daughter was very
pretty: I uſed to pass away the Time with her very
often, when Raoudah was at her Repofe, and com-
plained to her, of the Alteration I found in my
lovely Miſtreſs. She had the good Nature to pity
my Pain, and offer'd to comfort me, if I would be
very Secret. I understood nothing of the Finenefs,.
but accepted of her voluntary Bounty, and I found.
in that Girl fome Charms, which I had never met
with in my Widow..
As I did not think I was committing any Fault on:
this Occaſion, or imagine that he would be offended:
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at
132
MOGUL TALES.
at it, I did not take all the Precautions neceffary to
hide our Commerce, and Raoudah having one Night
furprized me with that young Girl, could not doubt
of the Freedoms that paffed betwixt us; which put
her into fo great a Rage, that, without giving her-
felf Time to think, fhe drew a Poignard, and ftabb'd
the poor Girl to the Heart.
NEVER was Surprize and Fear equal to mine,
when I faw this unhappy young Creature expire
before my Face, and Raoudah attempting to ſerve
me in the fame Manner. As the Condition ſhe was
in, hindered her having as much Strength and Viva-
city as fhe could have wiſhed, I efcaped the Strokes
by a fwift Flight, and getting into a Wardrobe, I
faftened the Door after me, and prepared to defend
my Life, if ſhe ſhould be fo unjust to attack it. Hap-
pily for me, there was in this Place, where I had
taken Refuge, fome Campaign Cloaths of the de-
ceaſed Governor's, which fitted me exactly; I left
mine in their Place, and fliding down by a Win-
dow into the Garden, I found Means to get out of
the Caftle; as I knew there would be a ftrict Search,
I made off as faft as I was able, and the firſt Village
I arrived at, finding myſelf much tired, I refolved
to pass the Night there.
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·
THE next Day I heard the whole Hiſtory of my
paft Affairs, and was farther informed, that Raoudah,
enraged that I had efcaped her Vengeance, ftabb’ď
herſelf with the fame Poignard, with which fhe had
Murdered the poor Girl, and expired in her Nurfes
Arms. I took great Care that no Body fhould per-
ceive by my Face, that I had any Share in this tra-
gical Adventure, and departed from that Place with
the utmost Expedition, taking the Rout to Hifpahan,
where I had the good Luck to meet the Company in
which I had been before I arrived at Tauris.
OUR
MOGUL TALES.
133
OUR old Directreſs received me with Joy, but
thinking it not proper to let me any longer perfonate
a Woman, I was deftined to perform all the amorous
Parts in which I acquitted my felf fo well, that I
gained univerfal Applaufe; as I now by Experience
underfood the Paffion I acted, I performed to en-
tire Satisfaction of all my Auditors. I had the good
Luck to be applauded by all the great Lords, and
foon became the Idol of many Ladies, whofe Huf-
bands were fo good as to take us Home to their
Houſes to divert them; the Tranfactions which had
paffed while I was with Raoudah, gave me fome Ex-
perience; I was no longer the Fool I had been, when
I firſt entered into her Service; but improved my
Talents, and profited by the Foibles of thofe fair
Perfons, who bestowed their Favours on me: I can
truly fay, there are few Men of my Age, who have
had fo much good Fortune, or lefs Fidelity than I,
becauſe in more than ten Years, in which I have fol-
lowed this Profeffion in different Companies, there has
fcarce a Week paſt in which I have not had a new
Miftrefs.
THUS, beautiful Perizes, I have given you a fin-
cere Account of my Adventures, as you command-
ed me, from whence I hope you will believe, that it
is impoffible for any Body to acquit themfelves in a
more Simple and Natural Manner than I have done.
But if you are curious to hear a Hiftory, which con-
tains Things much more marvellous, the Perfon who
in the Piece we played before you, acted the Part of
my Slave, and who, by the Juftice of his Performance,
merited your Applaufe, is willing to give you a Re-
cital of Things almoſt beyond Belief, yet he declares
by the Faith of his Father, that there is not one
Word added more than is true.
YOUR
134
MOGUL TALES.
YOUR Adventures have given us Pleafure (faid
Gebernaz) by the Singularity, and their agreeable
Manner in which you related them, and we ſhall be
glad to hear thofe of your Companion. The young
Man, who regarded thefe Words, at the Commands of
the Perize, began his Story in the following Terms.
The HISTORY of ABDERAIM, recited
by MOUSAD.
A M the Son of a Man, who ſerved
in the Troops of the Sultan of Can-
dahar, with fufficient Diftinction:
He was called Abderaim; but he re-
counted fuch ſtrange Things which
had happened to him, that few Peo-
ple gave Credit to what he faid, and
for this Reaſon, they gave him the nick Name of
Kedah, i. e. the Lyar. As I was generally prefent
at what he related, I am going to repeat to you the
whole Hiſtory, as I heard it from him, of the Event
which was the Caufe of my Birth.
Ar the taking of a City in Perfia, by the Sultan
of Candahar's Troops, all the Inhabitants were aban-
doned to pillage; 'tis eafy to judge that great Cruel-
ties were committed on fuch an Occafion: As the Ge-
neral of the Army was highly incenfed at the obſti-
nate Defence of that City, moft of the Men were put
to the Sword, and there was none but the Women and
Girls left. Thefe he defended from Violence, in or-
den
MOGUL TALES.
135
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der that the Soldiers might have part of this Booty.
A fort of a Lottery was made, and Tickets diftri-
buted through the feveral Companies, the Number of
thefe Tickets amounted but to ten Thoufand, the
Prizes were four Thouſand Sacks, in each of which
was tied up a Woman or Girl; thefe were to belong
to whatever Soldier drew the Number of each Sack
;
my Father had the good Fortune to win one of them,
he took up his Sack on his Shoulder, and a ſtrict
Charge being given, that they ſhould not be opened,
but in one certain, Place of the City; he with three
more of his Comrades, who had likewife the good
Luck to win Prizes, made all the Expedition they
could with their Burthens, to the Place appointed for.
the Sacks being untied.
LXVII. EVENING.
The HISTORY of the Sultana GOUL-
SABA.
HE Hour for retiring being come,
the Sultanas ordered the Actors and
Dancers to be conducted to an Apart-
ment feperate from the Princes, with
a ftrict Injunction to keep them ftill
in the Belief that they were in the
Palace of the Perizes. Goul-Saba was ·
juſt upon the Point of unravelling all their Projects,
by a violent Paffion fhe had conceived for Masoud, and
which was more augmented by the Recital of his
Adventures; fhe no fooner faw the Princes, and the
Princeles
136 MOGUL TALES.
Princeffes go out of the Hall, but ſhe had no longer
Power to diffemble her Sentiments.
"THE Time approaches (faid fhe to the Sul-
"tanas) in which Oguz permitted us to difpofe of
our Perfons, and I declare to you, that I intend to
"make uſe of my Right, and the Power which he
"has given us.
I love Maffoud, and I will not con-
"ceal it, I avow to you, that I will not fo much as
"endeavour to overcome the violent Paffion I have
“for him".
"OH Heaven! (cry'd Gehernaz in a Fright) think
"well Sultana of the Shame which fuch an Alliance
"will bring upon you; what, from the Arms of the
"Monarch of Guzarat, our Sovereign Lord, our
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Spouſe, can you think of finking into thoſe of a
"vile Brafier, whofe Condition at prefent, is even
"below his Birth, and who, by the Recital of his
"Life, full of Diſorder and Libertinifm, ought to
"have given you a Deteftation for his Perfon.
"Ah! Goul-Saba, corfider once more, and do not
"think of difhonouring yourſelf by fo prepofterous.
a Union.
66.
"You ought, Madam, rather by a wife and
"prudent Conduct, to juftify the Choice which Oguz
"made of you, and the Preference he honoured you
"with for more than fifteen Years. We know, that
66.
66.
our Hearts may be furprized with various Paffions.
❝for an Inftant, but then, Reaſon comes to our Suc--
cour: It is glorious to oppofe thofe Surprizes of the
Senfes, and to go off victorious from the Combat,.
"in which the Vanquished must be covered with
"Shame. Thefe Remonftrances are very fine (re-
plied Goul-Saba brifkly) I know very well they are
"full of good Senfe, but I am not fatisfied with
"fuch Chimeras; it is eafy for you to talk as you
"have now done."
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THE
MOGUL TALES. 137
THE other Sultanas and you were married to the
Sultan in the prime of his Youth, he loved you paf-
fionately, and you paffed away with him more than
twenty Years, in the most delicious manner imagina-
ble. But for me, I found in that Monarch nothing
but anticipated Age and Languishing. And fince he is
now no more, I will frankly own to you, that I never
had for him any thing, but and Indifference, if not
Averfion. Oh! Heaven (cry'd Gebernaz) what then
fignified all thofe Demonftrations of Tenderness, thofe
Inquietudes, thofe Agitations and Tears which you
ſhed in abundance; at that Moment the Angel of
Death had lifted up his Sable, to put an End to the
Days of Oguz. Meer Grimace (replyed Goul-Saba)
I played the Comedy to Perfection. Thus you have
had all the Miftery, and if in his laft Moments, you
faw me Afflicted, my Tears was occafioned by the Fear
I was in, that you would revenge yourfelf on me and
my Son, for that fatiguing Love, which the Sultan
had for me to your Prejudice: The little Commerce
which we had together, had not given me an Oppor-
tunity to know you thoroughly, I had no Knowledge
of your Tempers before the Death of that Prince; but
foon after all my Apprehenfions ceaſed.
THE Prudence of your Conduct, and the Sincerity
of your Hearts, convinced me that my Fears were
groundless. I wish it were in my Power to imitate
your Examples; but the Difference in our Years ren-
ders it impoffible; and the full and entire Liberty I
am going to taste with my Dear Maffoud, gives me
before hand fuch Ideas of Pleaſure, that my Senfes are
raviſhed at the Thought.
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138 MOGUL TALES.
As this ftrange Declaration of Goul-Saba was very
particular by good Fortune, there were none prefent
at it, but the Sultanas, Bathal, the worthy Son of
fuch a Mother, and Cothrob, who perceiving that the
wife Remonftrations of Gebernaz had no Effect, con-
tented himſelf, with only faying to Goul-Saba, that
perhaps before the Time prefcribed by Oguz, was ar-
rived, she might poffibly make more folid Reflections,
on the Engagement the propofed to make; but until
that very Day, he enjoyned her not to discover her
Quality to Mafoud, which fhe promiſed to obferve,
and fo paffed on to her Appartment. Bethal foon fol
lowed her, and the Moment he entered, he threw his
Arms about her Neck, and ſpoke as follows. Charm-
ing Sultana, the Firmness you have juft now ſhown
to follow the Refolution you have taken, gives me
⚫ infinite Pleaſure, becauſe it authorizes the violent
Paffion I have conceived for Ildiz, the youngest of
the Dancers. I believe you more reafonable, if
you efpouſe Maffoud, than to refufe me that beau-
tiful Perfon for my Wife.
GOUL-SABA was greatly aftonished at the Pro-
pofal her Son had made her, and do you really think,
Bathal, (faid fhe) that Ildiz fhall be your Wife? And
why no? (reply'd he) Maffoud who is to be your Huf
band, is in the fame Condition. The Cafe is very
different (answered fhe) I marry Maffoud to gain my
Liberty; but you have no Occafion to efpoufe Ildiz.
That little Creature will think herſelf too much ho-
noured, by your denying to have a favourable Regard
for her, and will be proud to grant whatever you de-
fire. Alas! ſhe is only fit to be a Theatrical Princefs,
and not the Wife of a Prince, who according to the
Will of Oguz, which must be opened in a few Days,
may perhaps, be declared Sultan of Guzarat; and if
not
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MOGUL TALES.
139
not fo, will infallibly poffefs a very confiderable Part
of his Eftate.
WILL you permit me to lay open to you the real
Sentiments of my Heart Lovely Sultana, (reply'd
Bathal) All this Grandieur will only embarafs me,
the Weight is too heavy, I have no Tafte for fuch
Things, I am always uneafy in the Serail, and I vow
to you, it never was in my Power to have for Oguz,
any of thefe Marks of Tenderneſs, which I obferve the
Princeſs Ackfau has for the Sultana Gebernaz her Mo-
ther, and which I feel for you, inſtead of loving I on
the contrary, always regarded him, as the Caufe of
our Slavery. In fhort my dear Mother, I will no lon-
ger conceal my Inclination from you. The Taſte I
have for Mufick, and the violent Paffion I feel for Ildiz,
has made me take a Reſolution to embrace a Profeffion,
fo amufing as theirs, allow me therefore your Permif-
fion to follow that amiable Dancer, fince it is in her
Power alone to render my Life happy.
GOUL-SABA was ftruck with fo great a Surprize,
at the Diſcourſe of her Son, that it ſtopped her Speech,
for fome Moments; at length, fhe cry'd out, Oh!
Nature, Nature, how Powerful art thou, thy Force
is too great to be vanquished, let us therefore fubmit
to thy Dictates; well Bathul, to justify our Senti-
ments, I will recount to you the true Hiftory both of
your Birth, and my own.
Ir is now Time (continued the Sultana) to open
thefe Mifteries, which nothing but the preſent Situa-
tion of our Affairs would have made me regard. I
am neither a Circaffian, nor a Princess, as I made Oguz
believe me to be; the Jewish Merchant who fold me
to him, bought me when I was about ſeven Years
old of my Mother, who was a Dancer in a Company,
belonging to Agra, and who would have found it a
great Difficulty to tell the Name of my Father, So
that
140 MOGUL TALE S.
that ſhe alone had Power to diſpoſe of me. The Jew
finding me to his Tafte, gave her thirty Pieces of Gold
for me, and was well pleaſed with her Bargain.
in
He found in my Perfon and Difpofition, all that
he could wiſh for in a Slave, by whom he propoſed one
Day to make great Profit. Nor did he fpare any Coſt
my Education ; at length when I was grown up, he
was informed, that the Sultan of Guzarat, had ordered
the moſt beautiful Girls in the Eaft, to be fought for,
in order to preſent them to the Princes his Sons, and
thinking that I might afpire to that Honour, he imme-
diately began his Journey towards this Court.
•
EVERY Company of Dancers that paffed through
Cambaye, he hired to teach me to Dance and Sing, and
as foon as Oguz had made known his Intentions to the
Merchants for Slaves, I had alſo a Maſter of Mufick,
with whom I was much pleaſed; he foon found the
Way to my Heart, but the Jew kept in the Houſe an
old, and very fevere Governeſs, who never left us a
Moment; her Prefence gave us great Trouble, but
Cafeur (for that was the Name of the Mufick Maſter}
having made her a Preſent of fome Sweetmeats, in
which he infuſed a fleeping Potion, fhe was mightily
pleafed with them, and eat heartily, but in a ſmall
Time they began to operate, and fhe fell into a found
Sleep, which we knew would last for an Hour. This
was what we wanted, and you may guefs, my dear
Son, as our Hearts were agreed, we did not paſs theſe
precious Moments in Singing, no, we made a better
Ufe of the old Womans Sleep, and by the ſtricteſt Cal-
culation I am able to make, you owe your Birth to
that Leffon of Mufick.
EVEN-
Y
MOGUL TALES. 141
ex
LXVIII. EVENIN G.
The HISTORY of GOUL-SABA:
W
HEN we perceive the old Woman
began to awake, we fet down in
great Order to our Mufick and Sing-
ing, ſo that ſhe did not ſuſpect us in
the leaft. We propoſed to ourſelves
much Pleaſure, by often ufing the
fame Operation, but were diſap-
pointed; for the Jew gave me Notice that I muſt
paſs in Review before the Sultan; I was Thunder-
ftruck at this News, but as I durft not refift his Will,
was forced to follow him to the Serail. I was un-
happily one of the Twelve Slaves which that Mo-
narch chofe; and if I felt an extream Joy, to find
that none of the young Princes had defired to ho-
nour me with Regard, it was but a fhort Continu-
ance, becauſe the Sultan bought us all, and the fame
Day he gave me to underſtand by his Vizier, that he
had deftined me to the Honour of his own Bed
this News threw me almoſt into Defpair, and I was
twenty Times ready to acquaint the Sultan with my
Paffion for Cafour; but fearing his Fury, and the ill
Treatment I ſhould meet with from the Jew, if I was
fent back to him, I defifted.
I thought
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I thought it more adviſeable to declare, that I would
never confent to his Defires, but in the Quality of his
Wife. I perfuaded myfelf that this would be an in-
vincible Obſtacle to his Love, but he furmounted
that Difficulty upon the Spot, for the Iman dreading
his Anger, if he decided not in Favour of his Incli-
nation, betray'd his Religion, by declaring that not-
withſtanding the four Sultanas whom he had eſpouſed,
I might yet become his lawful Wife, and accordingly
he married us immediately. Judge, my dear Son,
what an Embarraffment I found myfelf in, when I
confidered the Condition in which the laft Leffon of
Cafour had put me. The laſt Recourfe I now had
was to Artifice, that I might appear in his Eyes what
in Reality I was not. For more than eight Days I
irritated his Paffion by a Coynefs of Behaviour, which
he attributed to extream Modeſty and Wiſdom; in
fhort, I play'd my Part fo well, that the Sultan be-
came my Dupe, and believed himſelf the happieſt Man
in the World.
I lay-in of you at the End of nine Months, count-
ing from the very Day, in which Cafour gave the
old Governeſs the fleeping Potion. The good Monarch
who was accounted your Father, had all the Faith i-
'maginable, and indulged you to the Day of his Death
with the utmoft Tenderness. It is therefore upon the
Whole, no great Wonder, my dear Bathal, that I
fpringing from a Dancer, fuch as my Mother, and
you from fuch a Muſician as Cafour, ſhould both have
Inclinations fuitable to our Birth. That is to ſay,
that I love Mafoud, and you admire Ildiz; fo that if
you are refolved to renounce your Fortune, I cannot
abfolutely diſapprove your Paffion, and you may be
fure I will authorize and affift you in it to the utmoſt
of my Power.
Is
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Ir Bathal was aſtoniſh'd to find that he was not the
Son of Oguz, that Monarch, who from the Hollow-
Gallery which ran all the Length of the Sultanas A-
partments, had heard all the Converfation Goul-Saba
had with her Son, and was fo much furprized at the
Contents of it, that he had like to have died with
Grief and Rage; but happily for him, Cothrob, who
fore-knew that the Difcovery would be made, was
ftanding by the Side of the Sultan, and gently drew
him from the Gallery, into his own Chamber, where
he thought it proper to let him vent the firft Force of
his Refentments without Interruption.
'What! (cry'd Oguz) is it poffible that I have been
'to fuch a Degree, the Dupe of this ignominious
Creature? No, I could never have believ'd it true,
• if I had not heard it with my own Ears. Ah! per-
fidious Goul Saba (continued he) you fhall not long
• have Reaſon to boaſt of theſe Infults, I will quickly
revenge my injur❜d Honour in fo terrible a Manner,
that you hall ferve for an Example to Pofterity.'
Sir (reply'd Cothrob) the Prophet will not permit
you to puniſh the Sultana with Death; for after all
The is not fo very guilty as your Paffion reprefents
her: Was it in her Power to recall what was paſt ?
She was ignorant of the Honour to which ſhe was
deftin'd, and having been weak enough to yield to
the Purſuits of Cafour, could he have concealed the
• Accident which had happened to her with more
• Addrefs. She was then under an abfolute Neceffity
of deceiving you; and by this you may fee, my
Lord, that the Happineſs of Mortals confifts only
' in Opinion: You have been for more than fifteen
Years happy with Goul-Saba, becauſe you believ'd
her; but when once you began to doubt whether
⚫her Careffes were fincere, you grew very defirous of
being fully convinced. The Prophet has ſuffered you
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to be fo, more for the Juftification of the other Sul-
tanas, and that you might ſee the Sincerity of their
Hearts, than for your own Satisfaction, for it would
• have been much more for your Repoſe to have re-
mained always in Ignorance, but as it is already
done, you ought to take your Affliction patiently,
as you at firft promifed you would do, and regard
the Conduct of that wanton Sultana, with the
• Indifference and Scorn fhe deferves."
You are in the right my dear Friend, (faid
the Sultan) but as it is late, and I have need of
• Repoſe to recover my Spirits, which are exhauſted
by the Converſation I come from hearing, I will
retire to Bed; for though all the Steps of Goul-
Saba, fince I have been fhut up in this Apart-
・ment, and her Indifference for my Death, had
fufficiently prepared me for all Events; yet I could
never have born the Diſcovery fhe made relating
to the Birth of Bathal, if it had not been for your
• wife Council, which enables me to keep my first
• Refolution; I hope I fhall foon recover the Uſe of
my Reaſon, and behave in this Affair, as a Man
abfolutely difinterefted." The Iman having left
the Monarch of Guzarat in theſe good Sentiments,
he paffed the Night in great Tranquility. And the
Sultanas the next Day being feated in the Hall, they
fent Word to Mouaid, that they waited to hear the
reft of the Adventures of Abderiam, which he con-
tinued to relate in theſe Terms.
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MOGUL TALES. 145
LXIX. EVENING.
The Hiftory of ABDERAIM, recited
by MOUIAD.
唐寶
​I
XLEFT off, if I remember right, at
the Moment that my Father, and his
Companions arrived at a little Town,
which was allotted to put up the Pillage
into, and there entring a fmall Ale-
houſe. The three Soldiers, who were
more eager than Abderaim, opened their Sacks, where-
in each of them found a young Girl of extraordi- .
nary Beauty. Abderaim, who expected to have the
fame Succefs, foon untied his, but the Minute
it was opened, the reft were ready to burſt with
Laughter, at feeing an old Woman, of more than
an hundred Years of Age, and who looked like a
Dæmon, rather than a Woman. Never was a Sur-
prize equal to that which my Father was in, he was
ready to die with Rage, and the too coarſe Raillery
of his Comrades, who pretended to go away, tell-
ing him they would not diſturb him when alone, with
fo fine a Perfon, put him into fuch a Fury, that
claping his Hands to his Sabre, he drew it out, and
was just a going to cut the old Woman in an hun-
dred Pieces; but frecollecting himself, he put up his
Sabre into the Scabard.
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"IT is not thy Fault (faid he to her) that I had
not a better Lot. I pardon thee, excuſe the firſt
"Motions of my Paffion, and rejoice in the Liberty
which I offer you. I am not to be happy". "You
"
are more ſo than you imagine (replyed the old Wo-
"man), and to convince you, give me your Hand,
" and I will foon give you manifeft Proofs of my
"Power".
-
My Father prefented his Hand to her, and no
fooner did that Woman ftamp on the Ground with
her Foot, than it inftantly opened, and they entered
with extream Rapidity, but they foon found them-
felves in a ſtately Palace, the Apartments of which
were magnificent beyond Defcription, the Gardens
ftruck the Sight with infinite Pleaſure, and inſtead of
an old Woman, he faw a young Lady perfectly
beautiful, with fo Majeftic an Air, that it ftruck him
with aweful Wonder.
酆
​THOU art furprized, faid fhe, at what thou be-
holdeſt here, but thou wilt ceaſe to be afraid when
thou knowest that I am the famous Margeon Bai
nou, ſo much mentioned in your Romances, for be
ing of that excellent Species of Genij, whofe only
Pleaſure confifts in doing good to Mankind. As I
had taken under my Protection three noble Perfons,
who lived in the City which your Army pillaged,
and was refolved to fave them from the Infolence of
the Soldiers, I tranfported my felf into their Houfe,
and after I had put them into Security, I had a
Mind to divert my felf, and to that End I fuffered
myſelf to be taken and fhut up in a Sack, under the
Form of an old Woman, to fee if the Perfon to whofe
Lot I fhould fall, had any Humanity.
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MOGUL TALES. 147
A
LXX. EVENING.
The Hiftory of ABDERAIM, recounted
by MOUIAD.
Y
OU were happy enough to have the
Sentiments of an honeft Man, for
which I fhall not fail to recompence
you; but in the firft Place, I intend
to fhow you all the Beauties in this
Palace, which formerly belonged to
Rocail Ben-Adam. That great Man was poffefs'd of
the moſt exalted Sciences, and was endowed with fo
lively and pentrating a Spirit, that he feemed to be
rather an Angel than a Man.
SURKHAGE, who was likewife a puiffant Genii,
at that Time commanded abſolutely in all the Region
of Mount-Caf, and as the Fame of Rocail Ben-Adam
had spread all over the Earth, he fent to intreat this
Sage to come and affift him in governing his Eftates,
having a great Occafion for fuch a powerful Man
as he to keep his Subjects in Awe. This illuftrious
Philofopher hearkened to the Prayers of Surkhage,
and came at his Requeft, continuing with him for
many Ages.
BUT at length, whether by divine Relation,
or the Knowledge of that Science which he was
poffeffed, I know not, he forefaw that the Time of
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his
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his Death drew nigh, and told Shurkhage, that as he
was upon the Point of paffing into another Life, he
would leave him fome extraordinary Monument, by
which his Memory might be preferved, and which
might laſt to Pofterity: In order to this, he cauſed ·
this Palace to be built of fo fuperb a Structure, that
nothing in the Univerſe comes near it, and he con-
trived it with ſo much Art, that one may fee a great
Number of Statues of different Forms made by the
Talifmanic Art, which by fecret Springs, perform
every Thing which living Men can do for the Service -
of others. You can only diftinguifh (faid the Fairy)
by their Eyes, which are all fixed and immoveable,
that they are not alive.
SOON after Rocail Ben Adam died, and Shurkhage
conceived fo violent a Grief, that he refolved to
quit his Eftates, to which End, he called a gene-
ral Affembly of the Peris, and put them all under
my Power, and for more than a thouſand Years, I
have governed them peaceably, by exactly following
the Council of that great Man, which I keep in my
Cloſet, written in Letters of Gold, as my moft pre-
cious Treaſure.
THEN Margeon Banou having conducted me into
a very fine Hall, I was furprized to find the three
beautiful Perfons, whom I had fo lately feen in my
Comrades Sacks, and to underſtand that the Moment
they were going to be carried into Slavery, the Fairy
had ſubſtituted in their Places three Apes; who were
playing upon the Trees near that Place, which put
the Soldiers into fo great a Surprize, that they have
not yet recovered.
THIS (continued the Fairy) was the Recompenfe
I made, for the Service which thofe three beautiful
Girls had formerly done me, according to the Cuſtom
of
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of the Faires: I am obliged one Day in every Week
to take the Form of fome Animal, and during that
Time only, we are fubject to all the Infirmities of
Humanity, nay, even to Death. I was about three
Months ago transformed into a Frog, a Clown
having found me by the Side of a very rapid River,
the Violence of whofe Waves, has forced me on
Shore, was juft going to kill me, as thefe three
Sifters came by, who being touched with Compaffion,
begg'd him to do me no hurt; but to obtain that
Favour, he infifted that each of them ſhould give him
a Kifs, and a Piece of Silver. Whatever Repugnance
they had at being approached by fuch a Ruftic, yet
they heffitated not, but agreed to his Demands, and
faved my Life, fo taking me out of his Hands, they
threw me into the River. Ever fince that Time, I
have made it my Buſineſs to do them Good, and I
deſign to eſtabliſh each of them in a Manner which
fhall make them be envied by all the Beauties of the
Eaft.
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LXXI. EVENING.
The Hiftory of ABDERAIM, recounted
by MOUIAD.
M
Y Father after having been conducted
by Margeon Banou, throughout all
the Palace, and admired the various
Rareties, returned into the Hall. She
entertained him with a delicate Re-
paft, at which, all the animated Sta-
tues performed their Services with fo
great Order, that the moſt exact Domeftick in the
World, could not have acquitted themfelves better.
He paffed the Night in a delicious Appartment, and
the next Day the Fairy came to vifit him. Abderaim
(faid the to him) to recompence you for the kind
Manner in which you treated me, I am going to be-
ftow on you a Gift, but you can enjoy it but for the
Space of one Year, to commence from this Day; it is
the Power of taking whenever you pleafe, the Figure
of the three firft Animals that you ſhall meet, when
you go out of this Palace, and under their Forms,
as well as your own, you fhall be invulnerable; du-
ring all this Time you fhall want for nothing, and
by pronouncing my Name, you will find me always
ready to ferve you, in every Thing that is reaſonable.
There is in the Univerfe only one evil Spirit, againſt
whom my Power is weak, and that is Sobetian-Couli ;
this Geni's whole Buſineſs is to do Hurt; and as foon
as
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151
as fhe knows that I protect you, fhe will watch all
Occafions to injure you for a Year, provided that
every Morning when you awake you fay thefe holy
Words. There is only one God, and Mahomet is the
Prophet. Which will drive back the Dæmons to the
very Brink of Hell.
I have nothing more to add, but to ask whether
either of theſe three charining Ladies whom you
faw yeſterday in this Palace, had the Power to in-
ſpire you with Love. My Father found himſelf
much embarraffed at this Queſtion, till the Fairy de-
fired him to explain himſelf freely. Puiffant Margeon
Banou (faid he) we cannot difpofe of our Hearts, as
we would, thoſe lovely Perfons are every Way perfect ;
but as you have ordered me to explain to you my
natural Sentiments, I must confefs that neither of
thofe Ladies have made any Impreffion on me.
I am
forry for it (replied the Fairy) becauſe if you had
chofen any of them, you would have been much
happier, but I will not pretend to perfuade you; fay
to what Part of the World you defire to be tranf-
ported.
ILLUSTRIOUS Margeon Banou (replied my Fa-
ther) fince I am bleffed with your Protection, and
the Gift which you have bestowed upon me, there
is fcarce any Fortune to which I may not afpire, be
pleaſed then to order that I may be conducted into
the Dominions of the Sultan of Carizme. I find
(faid the Fairy) you have heard of the Princefs Zarat-
Alridah his Daughter, is a Miracle of Beauty; well,
I will myſelf conduct you, but take great Care to
obferve, what three Animals you first meet with,
and make good Ufe of the Year, which you have
before you, for after that, I have no Power to pro-
tect you, nor muft you hope from me any farther
Succours,
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152 MOGUL TALES.
Succours, this is the Decree of the Deftinies. After
faying this, the Fairy embraced my Father, and in
an Inftance they traverfed through a great Space of
Earth, with extream Swiftnefs, and after having
brought him out to a Wood, within three Leagues
of the City of Carizme, the vaniſhed.
THE Place where the Earth had opened to let
them out, was juft by a Den of a terrible Lion. Sur-
prized at the Noife which the Beaſt made, he stood
like a Statue, but the Lion who had been more terri-
fied at the opening of the Earth, fled fwiftly. "Tis
well (cryed my Father) I may take this Shape, when
ever I pleaſe.
COMING out of the Wood, and continuing his
Way to the City of Carisme, he perceived a great
Rat come out of a Hole, and in a few Minutes after,
a little fpangled Fly came, which pirked itſelf upon
his Hand. Theſe are, faid he, without doubt the
two other Animals, which Margeon Banou fpoke of
to me.
HOWEVER, in order to try the Experiment, he
transformed himſelf fucceffively into a Lion, a Rat,
and a Fly; after fo doing, he re-affumed his own
Shape, and travelled on towards Carizme, but was
quite furprized to find it blocked up on all Sides, by
an Army of forty Thouſand Men, commanded by the
Sultan of the Noguais Tartars, and being informed by
the Soldiers of the Caufe of this Enmity between
the two Sultans, he found that Hebat Alladh, Mo-
narch of Carizme, had refuſed his Daughter to the
King of Tartars, becauſe for the ferocity of his Tem-
per, he had been Sur-named Nemer, i. e. Tiger, by
his own Subjects; he was fixty-five Years old, and
befides that, fo monftroufly deformed, and ugly, that
it
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it was impoffible to look at him without being fright、
ned.
THEY add, that Nemer upon this Refufal, fell
into fo violent a Rage, that he fwore, he would de-
ftroy the Kingdom, and make Slaves of all the Sub-
jects, both Men and Women; as for the Sultan of
Carizme, and the Princefs his Daughter, he would
with his own Hand cut off both their Heads.
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154 MOGUL TALE S.
BYCORTS TORONT
LXXII. EVENING.
The Hiftory of ABDERA IM, recounted
by MOUIAD.
A
B DERAIM being thoroughly
informed of the unjuft Proceeding
of the Tartar, was fenfibly touch-
ed at the unhappy Fate of Zarat
Alriadh, of whofe extraordinary
Beauty he had had a very advan-
tageous Account; he therefore took
up a Refolution to fuccour her on this preffing Oc-
cafion; but in the firft Place he was willing to judge
of the Merit of that Princeſs.
To effect which, he took the Figure of a Fly,
and paffing without Difficulty through the Enemies
Camp, he went directly to the Palace of the Sultan,
in the Midft of which, without being introduced, he
entered the Chamber, in which Zarat Alriadh lay
afleep.
By the Account my Father gave, there was
never any Thing in Nature fo perfectly Beautiful as
that Princefs; it was near Morning when he entered,
which gave him the greater Opportunity to admire
the numberless Graces of that charming Creature ;
and as all the Palace were at their Repofe, Abderaim
thought he ſhould run no Hazard if he appeared in
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155
his own Form; and calling upon Margeon Banou, he
only beg'd, that he might be cloathed in a proper
Manner, and in an Inftant found himſelf dreffed in
a moft magnificent Habit. Then falling upon his
Knees, by the Princefs's Bed-fide, and having taken
her Hand, which lay out of the Bed, he kiffed it
with fuch violent Tranfports, that the awaked.
.
ONE may judge of the Fright Zarat Alriadh was
in, when the found herſelf in the Arms of a Man,
and especially, a Man whom he had never before
feen. My Father would fain have explained to her
the Reafon of this Vifit; but fhe cried out fo vio-
lently, that her Women and her Eunuchs inftantly
ran in to her Relief; fo that he thought it high
Time to take again the Form of a Fly, and place
himſelf behind the Head of the Princefs's Bed,
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156 MOGUL TALES.
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FOLACKENRY TOLON
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LXXIII. EVEN IN G.
The Hiftory of ABDERAIM, recounted
by MOUIAD.
Ꮓ
ARAT Alriadh was well affured, that
ſhe had ſeen a Man in her Chamber,
but her Attendants were far from be-
lieving any fuch Thing, and regarded
all fhe faid, as only the Effects of a
Dream; the Sultan her Father coming
to fee her, told her plainly, if fhe had no more
Prudence than to affert pofitively fuch Things as were
morrally impoffible, and if the continued to talk in
fuch a Manner, every Body would believe the was
bereaved of her Senfes.
THE Princefs was not to be perfuaded out of
what ſhe had feen, yet fhe felt great Difquiet to think
that no Body gave any Faith to her Difcourfe; fhe
could not help thinking of an Adventure fo Singular,
and continued all the Morning in a violent Agita-
tion, and being extreamly Melancholly, fhe fhut
herſelf up alone in her Clofet, and bursting into a
Flood of Tears. How unhappy am I (cried fhe) is
not my Sorrow great enough for the deplorable State
to which we are reduced, but I muft alfo be looked
upon as a Dreamer: Ah! whoever thou art that I
faw in the Morning, Man or Genii, I forgive the
Boldnefs
MOGUL TALES. 157
Boldness of thy entering my Chamber, provided that
in this Moment thou wilt appear before my Eyes, in
the fame Form, I will look upon thee without Fear.
And I ſwear to thee, by the Head of my Father,
that I will inviolably keep it Secret, if thou wilt
confide in me.
No fooner had Zarat Alriadh pronounced theſe
laft Words, but Abderaim appeared before her, ex-
actly in the fame Manner he had done in the Morn-
ing, and perceiving that the was a little furprized:
Recover yourſelf Madam (faid he) I am too fenfible
of the Refpect I owe you, ever to abufe my Power;
but being informed of the abominable Proceedings
of the Sultan Nemer, against you, I flew to your Affi-
ftance, and I flatter my felf, fhall be able to fruftrate
all his Projects; if my lovely Princefs defigns to ap-
prove of mine, which are favoured by the moft puif-
fant of the Perizes, named Margeon Banou, I dare
lift my Eyes even to the Princefs of Carizme ; if the
will permit me to hope, I fhall at laſt meet with a fa-
vourable Regard from the moſt beautiful Perſon in
the Univerfe.
THE Princefs, during the whole Time of this
Difcourfe, view'd Abderaim with great Attention:
He was young, handfome, and well made, and en-
dowed with a very extraordinary Power; in making
the Compariſon between him, and the old Sultan of
Tartary, who, as ſhe had been informed, was ugly
enough to frighten every Body that looked on him
the foon gave Preference to the former, and addref-
fing herſelf to him with fome Timidity. Whoever
you are, faid fhe, I approve every Thing you will be
pleaſed to do for our Deliverance from the Op-
preffion of Nemar, and ſhall think myſelf under the
greateſt Obligation to you. In short, I intreat you.
to tell me, what you defire in return, for fo effen-
tial
158 MOGUL TALES.
tial a Service. The Liberty, Madam, replied Ab-
deraim, at all Times to tell you, that I adore you,
and leave to hope, that I may one Day touch your
Heart,
My Lord (faid Zarat Alriadh, to him, with much
Modefty) Love, and Hope; but you are not igno-
Fant that I depend entirely on Hebat-Alladh, obtain me
from him, and be affured, if he commands me to re-
ceive your Vows, you will not find me in the leaft
difpleafed at fuch a Union. My Father threw him-
felf at the Princefs's Feet, which he embraced with
great Ardour, expreffing the moft lively Acknowledg
ments for fo vaft a Favour; but hearing a Noife in
the next Chamber, he judged it proper to difappear
that Moment, and by that Time he had re-affumed
the Form of a Fly, the Sultan of Carizme, having
caufed the Cloſet Door to be opened, entered, bear-
ing in his Face the Tokens of violent Melancholly.
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AH! my Child (cried he) I am come juft now
from being informed, that the Tartar has Spies in
Carizme, and I tremble with Concern while I tell
you, that both you and I would have been this
very Night delivered into his Hands, if I had not
happily discovered the Enterprize; the Traitors are
already Executed with the moft exquifite Tortures;
I have cauſed the Guards to be doubled, and con-
figned all the Ports of this City to the Care of fuch
Perfons, as are of affured Fidelity; but the greateſt
Trouble I now have, is, that Nemar has fent me a
Defiance. He has an Elephant of fo prodigious a
Size, that the like of him was never feen for Force
and Courage; he made fo great a Ravage in the laft
Battle, that all our People are fenfible how much he
is to be feared.
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THE Tartar propofes to me to make a Combat,
between this Monſter, and a Man, or any Beaſt of
Strength I fhall pleafe to chooſe, on Condition, that
if he is vanquished, the Sultan will immediately de-
part with all his Troops: But if the Elephant is
Conqueror, you and I fhall be delivered up to his
Mercy. I have affembled all my Council on this
Occafion, but I perceived nothing but Fear in all their
Faces I caufed the Defiance of Nemar to be publiſhed
throughout Carizme"; but none of our Subjects have
been daring enough to prefent themfelves; in fhort,
Nemar has fent me Word, that if I do not give him
an Anſwer this Night, he will To-morrow make a
general Affault, and put all to the Sword.
:
THE Princefs was extreamly alarmed at this News ;
but recollecting herfelf and confiding in the Pro-
miſes which Abderaim had made her. My Lord
(faid he, to Hebat Alladh) we muft hope, that our
Prophet will regard us with an Eye of Pity, and to
implore his Affiftance, I would adviſe you to have
the Prayers redoubled in all the Mofques, perhaps,
in our laſt Extremity, he will vouchfafe to fend us a
Deliverer, who will overcome our Enemy.
THE Sultan approved very well of his Daugh-
ter's Counſel, and retired inftantly to put it in Exe-
cution. Soon as the Door was fhut, my Father ap-
peared again before Zarat Alriadh. I heard your Con-
verfation with the Sultan (faid he to her) and I can
affure you, lovely Princefs, by the Head of our Pro-
phet, that I fhall To-morrow vanquish Nemar's
mighty Elephant.
AFTER I have conferred a little with Margeon
Banou, I will prefent myfelf before Hebat Allah, and
from him I fhall demand your Hand, as the Reward
of
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of the Victory, if you will condefcend to grant me
Permiffion. I gave it you before (anſwered ſhe) but
remember, my Lord, that I am intereſted in your
Safety, and take Care to preferve a Life that is dear
to me.
ABDERAIM kiffed the Hand of Zarat Alriadh
a hundred Times, and after having implored the Af-
fiftance of the Fairy, his Protectreſs, he, by her Ad-
vice, prefented himſelf before the Sultan of Carizme.
"My Lord (faid he) having heard of the Trou-
❝bles which embarafs you, I come to offer you my
"Service; I will promife you the Death of the Ele-
"phant, of which the Prince of Tartary boafts fo
"much; and will do more, becauſe I know the
Perfidy of that Sultan, and am very fenfible, that
"he has no Mind to keep his Word with you, which
"he has paffed in Cafe that Animal be vanquished;
"I will To-morrow lay his Head at your Feet, and
"make all his Troops pafs under the Sabres of your
"Soldiers. But permit me to fet a Price on fuch a
"Victory, and promife that the lovely Princefs your
Daughter, fhall be my Reward, and animated by
"that hope, there is nothing, my Lord, that I am
66 not able to execute".
BRAVE Unknown (replied the Sultan) whoever
you are, you could not have come about an Affair
fo difficult, without the Aid of fome fupernatural
Power; if you believe me, I fwear to you, by all
that is moft Sacred in our Religion, that I will give.
you the Princess to Wife, provided he will Confent..
I ask no more, my Lord (replied Abderaim.) Be plea-
fed to let the Sultan of Tartars know, that he may
fend his Elephant To-morrow to the Place, which
he appointed you for the Combat, and I will fend a
Lion to oppofe him, who will not be afraid of his
mighty
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mighty Size, and after he has gained the Victory over
this monstrous Animal, you fhall fee me at the Head
of your Soldiers, treading under our Feet the Tar-
tars, 'till you fhall have no longer Reafon to fear
their Numbers. I have a fecret Art, which will
render their Arrows of no ufe; in fhort, your Sol-
diers fhall deftroy them fo totally, that ſcarce a Man
of them fhall remain alive, to carry the dreadful
News into his own Country.
LXXIV. EVENING.
The HISTORY of ABDERAIM, re-
counted by MOUIAD.
T
HE Promiſes of Abderaim, had fo
great an Appearance of Truth, and
the fincere Manner in which he
made them, had fo powerful an Ef-
fect on the Sultan of Carizme, that
he re affumed his former Serenity of
Mind, and fent Word to Nemar, that
The accepted his Conditions, and at the Head of Ten
Thoufand Men, the next Morning would conduct à
Lion out of the City, to the Plain, which faced the
principal Gate, in order to enter the Combat with
this famous Elephant. If this anfwer aftoniſhed the
Sultan of Tartars, it caufed a univerfal Joy through-
out all Carizme, every one waited for the Day with
extream Impatience.
.
DURING
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1
DURING this Time, Hebat Alladh, to encourage
my Father, thought it proper to introduce him to the
beautiful Princefs, and prefenting him to her. Said,
my dear Daughter, this young Warrior is the Perfon
in whom I place all my Hopes. Notwithſtanding,
the many and extream Difficulties which he has to
encounter, I have an entire Confidence in every
"Thing he fays, and make not the leaſt doubt, but that
he will totally deftroy our Enemy; on which Con-.
dition, I flatter myſelf, that you will receive him as
your Spouſe without Reluctance.
ZARAT ALRIADAH feigned to be extreamly
furprized at the Sight of Abderaim: My Lord (faid
the to the Sultan) I receive your Orders with that
Submiffion, which I fo juftly owe to my Father, and
my King, and have a perfect Faith in the Promifes
of him whom you prefent me; becauſe he is the
fame Perfon I faw this Morning in my Chamber,
whoſe Preſence put me in fo great a Fright, that I
ſcarce at that Time knew, whether it was a Reality
or a Dream; he certainly is indowed with a fuper-
natural Power, and able to execute Things, which
to common Underſtanding may feem impoffible.
THE Sultan could not forbear Laughing at the
whimfical Notion of his Daughter. Ah! my Child
(faid he) forget your nightly Vifion, and recommend
your future Spouſe, to the Care and Favour of our
Great Prophet, My Lord, replied Abderaim, the
Princefs is not miftaken, I dare affure you, that
what ſhe has told you on that Subject is not an Illu-
fion. I do not comprehend you (cried the Sultan,
fmiling) who believed that my Father had only a
Mind to flatter the fair Lady's Imagination. Let us
at prefent think of nothing but over coming an Ene
my, from whom I have fuffered too many Out-
rages.
THAT
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THAT (faid Abderiam) is my Bufinefs, and I once
more affure you, that by this Time To-morrow, you
will find a great Change in your Affairs. May the
Prophet fecond your Endeavours (faid the Sultan) but
it is now Time to retire, and leave the Princess at
Liberty; after the ufual Compliment, he conducted
my Father to a magnificent Collation, and when Sup-
per was over, to an Apartment in the Palace, prepared
for his Repofe.
THE next Morning, by break of Day, Hebat Alladh
went out to Carizme, at the Head of Ten Thoufand
Men, and found the Elephant on the Plain, whom the
Tartars irritated to the Combat, 'till that Animal be
gan to be impatient at not ſeeing his Enemy. But in
a fmall Time they perceived coming out of the City,
a monftrous Lion, who by the beating his Flanks with
his Tail, and his territie Roar, gave the Tartars to
underſtand the Indignation he was in, at being obliged
to fight with an Animal, fo much unworthy of his
Courage.
BEFORE I proceed to the Recital of the Com-
bat. Illuftrious Perizes (continued Mouiad) it is fit
that I fhould remind you (though without doubt you
know it much better than I) that all Animals of the
fame Specie have among themſelves a Signal, or Ar-
ticulation of Voice, by which they underſtand one
another. My Father having been informed of this
by Margeon-Banou, foon as he was left alone in his
Apartment, the Evening before the Combat, he
opened the Window of his Chamber, and taking the
Form of a Fly, flew out, and defcended in the midſt
of the City, and took the Form of a Rat, where by
fetting up a Cry, by which thefe little Animals is un
derftood as a Call, he affembled in lefs than half an
Hour, all the Rats in the City to him; and having
奢
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in their Language explained to them the whole Affair,
he put himself at their Head, and led them out at the
Port, to the Number of Eight Thoufand; and on
their firſt Entrance into the Camp of Tartars, he dif
tributed his Troops into feveral Quarters of the Army,
each of which punctually obſerving the Orders of their
Chief, ranged themſelves in the Cordage of the Tar-
tars Bows, who were at that Time in a found Sleep,
and executed their Commiffion fo exactly, that all the
Cords were knawed in fuch a Manner, that the hung
but by a fingle Thread.
THIS Operation was performed with great Silence,
and after my Father had conducted the Rats again into
the City, he re took his own Form, and repoſed him-
ſelf ſome Hours. On the great expected Morning,
he was found in the chief Place of the City of Ca-
rizme, in the Form of a Lion, attended with two
black Slaves, that were fent to him by Margeon Banou,
and by whom he was conducted to the appointed
Stage.
THE Elephant, and the Lion, after having for
fome Time viewed each other, with Eyes ſparkling
with Rage and Fury, began fo terrible a Combat,
that the like had never been feen; if the Elephant
had prodigious Strength, the Lion was invulnerable,
and endowed with extream Agility, he attacked the
Elephant with fo much Violence and Cunning, that
it was with the greateſt Difficulty in the World that
¿Animal deſcended himſelf from his Teeth and Claws
in vain did he employ his Trunk againſt the Lion,
though he ftruck him with all his Force, in vain did
he endeavour to gripe him with his Teeth, the Lion
ftill baffled all the Attacks of his Enemy; at laſt, af-
ter an Hours Combat, the Lion feized hold of his
Trunk, and cut it with his Teeth, at the fame Mo-
ment with his Tallents, claw'd out both his Eyes.
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The Elephant, thus blinded and overcome, his Ad-
verſary feized hold of his Throat, and ftrangled him
on the Spot, with as much Eafe, as if he had been
only a fimple Deer.
THE Citizens of Carizme, who from the Walls
were Spectators of the Victory, fet up a loud Cry of
Joy, and the Ten Thouſand Men, who were headed
by Hebat Alladh, having anfwered their Shout;
the Tartars were extreamly enraged, and by the Or-
der of Nemar, advanced a great Pace to chaftife their
Infolence; but Abderiam, who had by this Time re-
affumed his own Shape, and joined the Sultan of Ca-
rizme, bid the Tartars Defiance, who upon endea-
vouring to make uſe of their Bows, were ftruck with
the greateſt Surprize, when they found they were ren-
dered intirely uſeleſs. Frightened at an Adventure ſo
extraordinary, and pierced in every Part by the Darts
of the Carizmians, who ſoon cafting away their other
Arms, affaulted them Sabre in Hand, they loſt all
their Courage, and in leſs than four Hours, there was
not a fingle Tartar left alive.
My Father who with great Eagernefs fearched
for the cruel Nemar, with much Pains found him,
and after an obftinate Combat, having vanquished
him, he cut off his Head, and according to his Pro-
mife threw it at the Feet of the Sultan of Carizme.
At the Sight of which, and after fo compleat a Vic-
tory, the Glory of which belonged intirely to dɛ-
riam, it is eafy to judge of the Joy of Hebat Alladh,
and the Princess, who juftly regarded him as the Şo-
vereign Deliverer of themſelves and the whole King-
dom.
THAT Monarch, in order to perform punctually
the Promiſe he had made my Father, caufed the
Marriage betwixt him and the Princeſs Zarat Alriadh,
to
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to be celebrated with great Magnificence the fame
Day.
It is impoffible to exprefs the extream Satisfaction.
my Father and his Spouſe enjoy'd during three Months,
in which there was nothing but continual Feafts, and
Rejoicings; but foon after the Sultan, having a Mind
to have Abderiam declared his Succeffor, refolved to
make a Progreſs through all the Cities in his Domini-
ons, and to oblige them to take the Oath of Fidelity
to his favourite Son-in-Law.
He accordingly put this Defign in Execution, and
being arrived at a City (the Name of which I have
forgot) but it was fituate near the Sea; the Governor,
after having entertained his Royal Gueſts, with great
Magnificence, for feveral Days, invited them to go
and fee the Beds of Pearl, which were formed but
three Leagues from thence, and propofed to give them
a fuperb Entertainment on that Occafion, they accept-
ed his Offer.
THE Sultan, Abderiam, and the Princefs his
Spouſe (for fhe would accompany him in his Voyage)
entered aboard a very fine Ship, they fet fail in order
to ſee the Pearls, attended by two other Ships; this
pleaſant Voyage lafted three Days; on the firſt and
fecond the Repafts were ferved with much Delicacy,
and the Night before the third Day, were, by Order
of the Governor, illuminated all they three Veffels
after an extraordinary Manner.
THE Feaft continued 'till very late in the Night,
and Abderiam having drank a little more than uſual
of the excellent Wine of Schiraz, flept the next Morn-
ing later than ordinary, infomuch, that the Company
waited for him, to begin the Fiſhing, and to bring to
his Feet the Pearls, as they lay in the Shells. Awaking
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in a Surprize, and afhamed of having been fo indolent,
he dreffed himſelf immediately, and defcended from
the Veffel into the Barque, without remembring to
repeat as he had hitherto done, the Ad of Faith,
contained in the Words which Margeon-Banou, had
commanded him never to omit? foon after a Fiſher,
having preſented him with a Shell, which contained
a Pearl of vaft Size, as my Father reached out his
Hand to receive it, he was ſeized by a Woman, of a
horrible Countenance, who in an Inſtant dived down
with him into the Sea.
↑
CIADAK
LXXV. EVENING.
The History of ABDERIAM recounted
by MOUIAD.
N
1
EVER was Surprize and Grief equal to
that, which Zarat Alriadh, and the
Sultan her Father felt on this Occafion
They ordered the Fiſhers to dive inſtantly
down, and try if it was not poffible to
recover Abderiam out of the Hands of
that Monſter; but all their Pains proving ineffectual,
Zarat Alriadh, and Hebar`Alladh, gave themſelves
up to the moſt Deſpair, and were obliged to return to
the City from whence they fet out but three Days
before, without the leaft hope of evermore ſeeing the
unfortunate Abderiam.
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THE Princeſs of Carizme, to indulge her Sorrow,
retired to a Chamber that looked over the Sea, where
fhe ſhed abundance of Tears for the Lofs of her
Spouſe, whom the tenderly loved; and in this Room,
by chance the perceived, through a Pannel of the
Wainfcoat that opened, a Cloſet full of Pictures, which
repreſented all the Hiftory of Abderiam, to the very.
Moment of the Pearl Fiſhing, in which he was car-
ried away by Schetan Couli; for it was that evil Genii,
who had conveyed him to her dark and difmak
Dwelling.
SHE was extreamly aftoniſhed on examining the
Pictures; but cafting her Eyes on a Book, which the
found on the Table, fhe read theſe Words.
I
PRINCESS,
F thou wilt recover thy Spouse, fwallow three Drops
of the Liquor which flands on the Table, and you
ſhall inftantly take the Form of an Eagle, under which
Figure you fhall be Transported into Egypt to Gabel Teir,
or the Mountain of Birds. Within eight Days all Sorts
of Birds affemble at that Place, by the Means of a
Taliſman, which is hid there; and having refted them-
felves 'till Night, they all fly away without Exception
only one, which remains with his Beek faftened in a
Rock 'till that Day twelve Months, at which Time it
falls, and another takes it's Place. Make your felf Mif
trefs of the Rock, that is to ſay, take Place of the Bird-
that is faftened by the Beek, and when all the rest are.
departed, pronounce inftantly thofe Miftic Words. En la
illalla Mohamed il refoul alla. That is, There is but;
one God, and Mahomed is the Prophet; which un-
luckily your Husband forgot to repeat the Day he was loft.
If you perform thefe Inftructions punctually you will be
inftructed in the Methods you muſt purſue, in order to take
Abderiam out of the Power of the evil Genii.
ZÁRAT
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ZARAT AL RIADH, after having read
theſe long Inftructions feveral Times over, and re-
peated the Words therein commanded, hefitated not
a Moment, but drank the Water which food in a
Bottle on the Table, by the Side of the Book; and
instantly found herſelf covered with Feathers, and
advancing in the Air, fhe took her Flight towards
Egypt. In feven Days fhe arrived at the Mountain,
extreamly fatigued; however, all the Birds being af
fembled, the approached to that Bird which was
faſtened by the Beak to the Rock, and with great
Courage and Spirit combated all thofe who pretended
to diſpute the Place with her, 'till at laft fhe made
herſelf Miſtreſs of it.
NIGHT being come, and all the Birds having
quitted the Mountain, the found herſelf faftened by
the Beak, and repeating the Myfterious Words the
had read in the Book, the Rock opened, and the re-
affumed her natural Form; and defcending by a Lid-
der, all fhining with Rubies and Carbuncles, the
came into a moft magnificent Hall, wherein there
was no Light, befides one Gold Lamp fix'd on the
Ground, at the Foot of a Tomb, made of a Rock of
Chryſtal, juſt by it was a little Tree, on which hung
three golden Cherries.
BUT how great was her Affliction, when the
perceived through the Chryftal, her dear Abderaim
naked from the Middle upwards, and all his Body
mark'd and torn with the Laſhes of a Whip; the
thought a thouſand Times the ſhould have expired
at fo moving a Sight, and attempted to treak the
Tomb in Pieces, but my Father let her underftand
by a feeble Voice, that all her Efforts would be in-
effectual, and that was not the Way by which the
must deliver him out of his Mifery,
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"DEAS
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"DEAR Light of my Life, faid he to her, feize
you on the three golden Cherries which you fee
hanging on that Tree, put them in your Mouth,
" and remount the Ladder inftantly, take your
"Form of a Bird, and return to the Clofet, wherein
you were firft Metamorphofèd; turn the Leaves of
"the Book you have read, and perform whatever
Margeon Banou has written therein for my Delive.
rance, I attend that Moment with all the Refig-
"nation which is due to the Will of our Holy Pro-
phet".
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THE Princefs, taking a forrowful Leave of her
Spouſe, forgot not to take the three golden Cherries,
which the put in her Mouth, and remounting the
Ladder without Lofs of Time, affumed again the
Form of an Eagle, and returned quickly to the Clofet
from whence fhe came; where fhe no fooner arrived
(though exceeding fatigued for feventeen Days be-
fore) than fhe took her own Form, and laying the
three golden Cherries on the Table, turn'd the
Leaves of the Book, where he read the following
Words.
T
HOU can'ft not obtain the Deliverance of thy
Spouse, until this Day nine Months, during that
Space remain in this Caftle, where thou shalt be deliver'd
of a Son, which thou muſt Name Mouiad, and when
the Time here-mention'd is come, cause thyself and thy
Son to be conducted in a Barque to the very Place where
you loft Abderaim: There the Prophet will inspire you
with what you are to perform for the Deliverance of
your Husband; but forget not above all, to take the
three golden Cherries with you.
CONFORMABLE to the Command fhe had receiv-
ed from the Book, Zarat Alriadh preferved the Gol-
den
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den Cherries with the utmoſt Care, and paffing thro'
the Chamber fhe went down to the Sultan's Apart-
ment, who, from the moſt fenfible Grief imaginable,
felt on a fudden exceffive Joy, at the Sight of the
Princefs, whom he before imagined had thrown her-
felf into the Sea.
SHE recounted to him all that had befel her, and
fhewed him the three golden Cherries; fhe furpriz'd
him ſo much at the Recital, that it was with the
greateſt Difficulty in the World that he could give
any Credit to what the faid; he ran however direct-
ly to his Daughter's Chamber, and ſearched every
Corner of the Wainfcot, but neither he, nor the
Princefs, could at that Time find the Cloſet Door;
yet being thoroughly perfuaded that the did not de-
ceive him, he took a Refolution to leave her in the
Caſtle; and in a few Days after, to return to Ca-
rizme, for fear that the Tartars fhould again renew
their Infults.
THUS the unhappy Zarat Alriadh remained in the
Caſtle, continually thinking of her dear Abderaim,
and daily expecting to be delivered of the Burden
The carried. At length when the Time of her Ly-
ing-in drew nigh, fhe again perc ived the Door of
the Myfterious Clofet to open, and entering with
great Joy, the found the Book open, and read theſe
Words.
T
HOU fhalt To-morrow be brought to Bed of a
Son; but obferve, that the Duration of his Life,
depends entirely upon you; if you wish that he may live,
you must take Care to renounce all the Grandeur to which
he is born; this is the Decree of Fate, and you muſt
once more be feperated from your Spouse, for a more con-
fiderable Term of Years, than your prefent parting.
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Ir
172 MOGUL TALES.
Ir is impoffible to imagine, what a dreadful
Confternation the Princefs was in at reading this
Lecture; the paſſed the reſt of the Day, and all the
Night, in great Pain, and the next brought me into
the World, for whom ſhe had moft tender Compaf-
fion, and preffing me in her Arms, faid, “
My dear
"Mouiad, I will facrifice, without Regret, all the
Dignities, to which by Right I might afpire; thy
"Life is to me more precious than all the-vain
"Tities in the World, I will quit them for thee
"without the leaft Hefitation: Heaven grant thee
Happineſs, and that our Prophet may regard thee
"with a favourable Eye."
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66
I was thus permitted to live by the Abdication of
my Mother, and when the Day came, which the
waited for with great Impatience, in which my Fa-
ther was to be delivered, the took me in her Arms,
and carried me into the Bark, and taking with her
the Golden Cherries, caufed it to fail to the fame
Place, where ſhe had loft her dear Abderaim.
EVEN-
MOGUL TALES. 173
Exeter
LXXVI. EVENING:
The HISTORY of ABDERAIM, recited
by MOUIAD.
O fconer were we arrived at the ap
pointed Place, but I fell into a moit
violent Fit of crying, which atto-
nished my Mother, who, 'till täet
Moment had never fees me thed a
Tear; but how great was her Fear,
when the beheld the horrible Genij,
who had carried away my Father, lift her Head a-
bove the Water. For what does that Child cry at
fuch a Rate (ſaid ſhe) in a terrible Voice. 'Tis he, re-
plied the Princeſs, who demands of thee his Father.
Well, anſwered Scheitan Couli, What wilt thon give
me, and I will let you fee him, juft to the Shoulders ?
I will prefent thee (aid my Mother) with this gol-
den Cherry, which having thrown to her, the Gezi“,
according to agreement, caufed my Father to appear
above the Water: My Mother was fo tranfported
with Joy, that he offered the wicked Fury another
Cherry to fee him juft to the Knees. I will do more,
faid fhe, you shall fee him entirely out of the Wa-
ter, if thou wilt throw me the Third Cherry, I
fwear to thee, by the Throne of our Prophet (reply'd
my Mother) I will do it: Then Scheitan Couli having
lifted up my Father above the Wares of the Sea,
he no fooner pronounced the Myftick Words, and
I s
wiked
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wifhed to become a Fly, but he was changed in an
Inftant, and took his Flight to our Bark, which, as
foon as he enter'd he was reftor'd to his own Form,
and tenderly embraced my Mother and me; it was
remarkable, that I ceas'd Crying from the Moment
I faw his Face.
THE wicked Fairy who diligently watched, be-
lieving the Metamorphofe of my Father would foom
be ended, was extreamly furprized, when as foon as
fhe received the third Cherry, the perceived that Ab-
deroim was no lorger in her Power; the Violence of
her Rage is not to be imagined, and in order to be
revenged on us, fhe raifed fo furious a Tempeft, that
our Barque was in one Moment toffed up to the
Clouds, and the next precipitated almoft to the Bot-
tom of the Deep.
1
A
WHILE this terrible Hurricane lafted, my Fa-
ther held my Mother in his Arms, vainly imploring
the Affiftance of Margeon Banou. Alas! the Year
was expired, and the Fairy deaf to all his Prayers;
at length, after we had been all that Day the Sport
of the Waves, we were thrown upon a Rock, where
our Barque ftruck; by good Fortune it was well ftored
with Provifions, of which my Father and Mother had
great need, for my Part I was almoſt dying, having
never taken the Breaſt during all the Tempeft.
THE next Day the Weather being more ferene,
Abderaim judged it proper to put to Sea again, and
after our Seamen had worked hard and got clear of
the Rock, Zarat Alriadh recounted to her Spouſe all
that had happened to her in his Abfence, and the
Manner in which the had faved my Life, as likewiſe
what had been related to her concerning their future
Parting my Father was extreamly touched at the
Recital, and at the deplorable State we were in;
they
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they were forced to manage with great Oeconemy to
make the Victuals hold out, the Barque failed on,
before the Wind for nine Days together, and then a
violent Storm rifing, it carried us we knew not where,
nor was there the leaft Hope left that we ſhould
eſcape the Fury of the Waves.
THREE Days we continued in this Condition,
without any Suftenance, till Nature grew fo weak,
that our Sailors were conſtrained to abandon the Care
of the Barque, and fell down in fainting Fits, which
nearly reſembled Death. We knew not where we were,
nor what Sea we traverſed, but after eight Days our
Barque happily reſted at a Port, where the Inhabi-
tants received us with great Compaffion. The State
we were in excited their Pity, they took a tender
Care of us, and having carried us to different Houſes,
they fpared no Coft to reſtore us to Health, after the
dreadful Fatigue we had undergone.
THE Town where we were, was fituated in a
little Ifland of the Tartarian Sea, near the Kingdom
of Anian, and as it afforded but little Merchandize,
fcarce any Veffels came thither, it was two Years and
a half before we faw one, and then by Accident,
there arrived a Ship in the Port, after the Captain
had fold his Cargo, he defigned to fail for the City
of Bargu, which is fituated on the Northern Sea, over-
against the Place where the Tartarian River dif-
charges itſelf into the Sea; as we could not hope to
get from where we then were by Land, to the King-
dom of Carizme, Abderaim waited on the Captain
of the Veffel, and prefented him with a Diamond of
Value, out of many which my Mother had brought
with her; that Gentleman joyfully ingaged to receive
us on Board.
THIS Captain was in all Appearance a very fine
Gentleman, but extreamly violent in his Paffions,
I 1 4
during
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during the Courfe of our Voyage, he fhewed fome
Signs, by which it was eafy to guefs he was fallen
in Love with my Mother; but he rightly judged that
the Union between her and her Spoufe would never
be broken while they remained together, the Pre-
fence of my Father was an invincible Obftacle to his
Defires, therefore he refolved to get rid of him, and
it was not long before he executed his wicked In-
tention.
WE were obliged to flop at a little Ifle, to take
in fome Provifions, there he found a Veffel which
was ready to fail, and vifiting the Captain, he propo-
fed to fell him one of his Slaves, and a little Child,
they agreed for forty Pieces of Gold, on Condition
that he waited till the Moment of the Veffel's De-
parture, and then we fhould be delivered to him;
this was executed with great Eafe; for as my Father
was walking on the Deck with me in his Arms, we
were inftantly hurried into a Boat, which waited for
that Purpoſe, juſt as the Veffel was going to fet Sail,
we were got a great Way from the Port, before any
Body could know that we were gone.
Abderaim
fignified the great Surprize he was in to the Cap-
tain, but that Man, without giving him an Anſwer,
walked from him, and gave the neceffary Orders for
working the Ship.
You may eafily judge that my Father was in
extream Grief, he remembered in that unhappy
Moment, all his Load of Sorrow. Seperated from a
Princeſs whom he paffionately Loved, and fufpecting
with Juftice, the Perfidy of that Captain; he gave
himſelf over to Defpair, and the only Thing, as he
often told me afterwards, that made him endure Life,
after the Loss of his Liberty, was the innocent En-
dearments with which I carreffed him.
HE
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He refolved at laft for my Sake to bear all the
fevere Strokes of Fortune; and next Day, feeing
the Captain of the Veffel aboard which we were: I
plainly perceive (ſaid he) that I am your Slave, and
that the Villain that put me into your Hands, by a
moſt abominable Theft, has taken fufficient Care
that I ſhould not regain my Liberty; yet I hope,
and believe, that you are too honeſt a Man, to have
any Share in the infamous Deſigns of that Traitor,
who without Doubt put me into your Hands with no
other Deſign but to ruin my Wife, with whom he
fell in Love; but the Juftice of Heaven will I doubt
not, difappoint his Projects, and I know her Virtue
is fo ftrong, that fhe will fooner fubmit to Death,
than endure the leaft Action that is offenfive to Mo-
defty.
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LAFRDIONCNVEYORATED
LXXVII. EVENING.
-
The History of ABDERAIM recounted
by MOUIAD.
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?
HE Captain was furprized at this
Difcourfe of my, Father's.
It is
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true, replied he, that you and that,
"Infant are my Slaves; but I am
intirely innnocent of any Know-
"ledge of the Villain's Defign, who
"made you loſe your Liberty; and
"to deal plainly with you, I paid but forty Pieces of
"Gold for both of you, which Sum if you can re-
pay, I fwear to you, that I will fet you on Shore,
any Port we touch at, that you ſhall chuſe, and
that fhall be both Free."
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at
you
•
NOTWITHSTANDING the Affliction my Father
was in, he felt fome gleam of Comfort at this gene-
rous Proceeding, and taking a Diamond out of his
Pocket worth more than an hundred Pieces of Gold,
he prefented it to the Captain, and pray'd him to
accept it for our Liberty. The Man was ſo charmed
with my Father's Liberality, that he inſtantly de-
clared before all his People, that we were no longer
Slaves, and the very next Day coming into a Port,
the Name of which I cannot now remember, he fet
us on Shoar according to my Father's Defire.
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As we had, had a very favourable Wind, we had
run near two hundred Leagues in four or five Days
that we were at Sea, by which we found that we
were a great Diſtance from the Place where we had
left Zarat Alriadh, and confequently that fhe was car-
ried away from thence. My Father could think of no
better Way to retrieve her out of the Hands of the
perfidious Captain, than to cruize round the Seas,
for which Purpoſe, with fome of his Diamonds, he
purchaſed a Veffel that was an excellent Sailor, and
made Choice of a brave and experienced Captain to
command her. We touched at all the Ports in the
Northern Ocean, without hearing the leaft News of
her.
TILL at laft Abderaim lofing all Hopes of ever re-
covering his dear Spouſe, and recollecting that ſhe had
told him, that they must once more be feperated
for a longer Time, refolved to conform himſelf to
the Will of Heaven with a perfect Refignation, to
that Effect, judging it not proper to return to Ca-
rizme, and prefent himſelf before the Sultan his Fa-
ther-in-Law, without the Princeſs Zarat Alriadh, and
apprehending that the Accidents which had befel him,
would be looked on as Fables, he took a Refolution
to return into his own Country,
AFTER having paffed the Streights of Anian in the
Oriental Sea, and run through the Sea of China, we
came to the Indian Ocean, and traverfing the Streights
of Sanda, and Arabian Sea, we arrived after two
Years in the Port of Serat, whence by Land we re-
turned to Candahar.
I gave you the Story directly as Abderaim recited
it to me, for you will eafily judge that I can have but
I 6
a very
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a very fmall Idea of thofe Affairs which I have hi-
therto related, any further than by his often repeat-
ing them to me, I remember moft of the Particulars.
But to proceed, Abderaim on his Return to Candahar,
bought a little Eſtate, and made it all his Care to
give me a good Education.
My Father, notwithstanding the prefent Situation
of his Affairs, did not intirely lofe his Hopes, he
took great Pleaſure in talking of the happy Time in
which he had been poffefs'd of fo fhining a Fortune;
he had fome Neighbours whom he uſed to entertain
with an Account of his Adventures, and notwith-
ftanding he always related them in the fame manner
without the leaft Contradiction, they thought them
fo incredible, that they gave him by way of Jeft, as I
have before told you, the Nick-name of Kedhab, that
is, the Liar; yet Abderaim was not in the leaſt offend-
ed at it, knowing himſelf that if another Perſon had
related the fame Things, he fhould have been much
inclined to doubt the Truth of their Affertions.
I remained at Candahar (continued Mouiad) 'till
I was fourteen years old, and purfued my Studies with
great Affiduity, till fome who were kept fhort as
well as I, put it in my Head to leave my Father's
Houfe, and go with them to Perfia ; we had all three
been inſtructed in Mufick, and depended upon that
Talent to fill our Pockets with Money, not apprehend-
ing it poſſible for us ever to be reduced to any Ne-
ceffity. With theſe flattering Ideas we fet out for Hif-
paban, where we arrived without any Obftacle to our
great Joy, and as that City offered all forts of Pleaſures
and Diverfions, we quickly found Ways to fpend all
the Money we had brought out with us, which foon
made us begin to reflect.
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We knew not where to put our Heads, and were
reduced to the Want of every thing; this made us
refolve to try what we could gain by our Skill in
Mufick, and Singing, to this End, we joined our-
felves to a Company of Dancers; this way of Life had
the Charm of Novelty, which hindered us from
thinking of a Return to Candahar; I conformed in
every thing to the Sentiments of my Comrades, and
for fome Time was mightily delighted in my Pro-
feffion.
Ar length I began to grow very uneafy, at the
Thoughts of having left my Father in fuch a man-
ner, the extream Sorrow I was fenfible he fuffered
for my Lofs, gave me a moft fenfible Difquiet, I had
often repented my having entered into fuch Com-
pany: If it be really true (faid I to my felf) that
I am the Grandfon of the Sultan of Carizme, what a
Shame it is for me to lead fuch a vile abandoned
Life.
DURING the Time that I was reaſoning thus with
myfelf, there arrived at Hifpahan, another Troop
of Dancers, who after having ſtay'd there a few Days,
intended to go to Mogoliftan, by the Way of Cardabar.
Continually agitated with the Remorfe I felt, for ha-
ving quitted the Houfe of Abderaim with fo little Rea-
fon, I abandoned my Comrades, who would not fol-
low me, and put myself into this new Troop, who
were much fuperior to thoſe whom I quitted.
WE fet out together for that City, and after ha-
ving paffed through all the Places we met with in our
Rout, in which we got a great deal of Money: We
arrived at laſt within five Miles of Candahar, from
whence
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whence I had been abfent almoſt two Years; here I
took my Leave of my Directreſs, promifing to rejoin
them in a little Time, tho' I had in Reality no In-
tention to do it. I entered into that City alone, and
went directly to the Houſe of Abderiam: But was in-
formed by fome of his Neighbours, who did not know
me, that he had been gone from thence more than
eighteen Months in fearch of an only Son, whom he
had loft.
EVEN-
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MOGUL TALES. 183
BEDEKOROTH
LXVIII. EVENING.
The Hiftory of ABDERIAM recounted
by MOUIAD.
WAS feized with extream Grief at
the hearing that my Father was not at
Candabar; I made a hundred Reflecti-
ons, every one more melancholly than
another, on the Miſeries he might fof-
fer in his Travels. But knowing it was
impoffible for me to find any Remedy, I refolved to
return to our Directrefs, hoping that in the Courſe of
our Journies I might meet with Abderiam: But before
I departed from Candabar, I went to a back Door
that belonged to our Houfe, which opened in a fecret
manner, known to no Body but my Father and myſelf,
by which means I entered, and faw all the Furniture
and Moveables, in the fame order they were when I
went away. I found upon the Table in my Father's
Chamber, a Paper in which he had written, Ingrateful
Mouiad is the Cauſe of my Death.
I could not read thefe Words without ſhedding many
Tears, and after leaving a Letter upon the fame Table,
in which I begged Pardon of Abderiam for my Abfence
in the moſt fubmiffive Terms; I remarked to him, that
my Neceffities obliged me to Travel through Tartary,
Turqueftan, and the Indies, and that I hoped that Hea
ven would grant me the Happiefs to meet with him
in
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in fome of thefe Places. I fhut the Door again, and
went to the Karavanferial, where our Troop lodged,
and was by them joyfully received; after having gain'd
in that City more Money than in any other through
which we had paffed, we went onwards with our
Journey, I enquired diligently all the Way after Ab-
deraim, but to no Purpoſe; at laft we arrived at
Cambaye, where we were received into the Karavan-
ferial, with great Kindneſs by the Governor; he ap-
pointed us Chambers, and as I was much fatigued
both in Mind and Body, I laid down to reft myſelf,
and fell into a profound Sleep, in which all the Hif-
tory of my Father's Life was repreſented to me. I faw
him in a Dream, holding by the Hand, a beautiful
Lady, without a Veil, I ran to him, and with Tears
threw myſelf at his Feet, he took me up, and after
having embraced me, prefented me to the Lady: Za-
rat-Alriadh, (faid he) lift up your Eyes there is our
Son, for whom I have been ſo long feeking; I went
to throw myſelf on the Neck of my Mother, with
all Tranfports which Nature infpir'd; but the repulfed
me with Indignation: This cannot be Mouiad, (faid fhe)
the Grandfon of the Sultan of Carizme would have
had a greater Soul, than to have been of the Profeffion
which this young Man has embraced, this is none of
my Son.
WHATEVER Confufion I fuffered at thefe Re-
proaches, which were but too juft, yet I could not
help crying out, Ah! Madam, though I am not
worthy to be acknowledged by you, yet I am not-
withstanding that Mouiad, who was formerly fo dear
to you, and fince Abderiam affures me, that I owe
my Birth to you, permit me by this Embrace to teſti-
fy the Joy I feel, at having found you after ſo long a
Separation.
AFTER faying this, I approached again to em-
brace the Princeſs, but ſhe gave me fo furious a blow
that
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that I fell flat on the Ground. I inftantly fet
up fuch
a Cry (continued Mouiad) that it awaked Maffoud,
who lay in the next Chamber; who came to my Bed
and asked what ailed me. I was fo much amazed
that I could not fpeak, which made me imagine,
that I was very fick; he inftantly run and lighted our
Chamber Lamp, at that which always hung in the
Gallery of the Karavanferial, and returned to me
again; by that Time I was able to tell him my
Dream, which fet him into a hearty Laugh; but
perceiving one Side of my Face violently red and in-
flamed, he was a little furprized; and after having
made fome Reflections on this Adventure; it muſt
certainly (faid he) happen, that towards the End of
your Dream, you ftruck your Head against the Poft
of the Bed, and that was the Blow which you ima-
gine you received.
I could do nothing but think on what had paffed,
but while Maſſoud and I were reaſoning, on fo fingular
adventure, Day-light appeared, and I arofe, we went
together to take a Walk in the City of Cambaye. We
caufed publick Notice to be given of our Arrival, but
no Body had any Curiofity to fee us, becauſe they
thought our Troop was not fo good, as that which had
been there fome Months before; we were called to no
Houſes, nor knew we what to do.
We told our Sorrows to the Governor, who told
us, we ought not to be uneafy, our Merit was not
yet known in Cambave, and that we were welcome to
ftay where we were, without any Charge, as long as
we pleaſed. In order to put us in good Humour, he
made a great Supper for all our Troop that Night,
and entertained us in a very polite manner, but fince
that Time we have never been able to hear any thing
of the Governor, and in all Appearance it was in that
Night
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Night after Supper, we were tranfported into this en-
chanted Place.
THE Adventures of your Father are very fingular
(faid Cothrob) to the young Man, in Time you will
be fenfible, whether the Account you have from Ab-
deriam be true, and whether the Blow you thought
you received in the Karavanſferail, was real, or only
the Effect of a Dream. We are throughly perfuaded
(replied the Sultanas) that Mouiad fpeaks the Truth to
the beſt of his Knowledge; but it ſeems most likely
that Abderiam imagined all his History only to give
himfelfan Air of Distinction among his Neighbours, at
Candahar.. You may be miſtaken (anfwered the
Iman) and for my Part, I believe that all which Mouiad
has related is in every Particular true.
HOWEVER, it is a very eafy Matter to convince
you. You need only command your Genies who at-
tend, to transport hither Abderiam and the Princess of
Carizme, and they will inftantly obey you, Ah! my
Lord (faid Mouiad) throwing himself at Cothrob's
Feet, engage theſe illuftrious Perizes to grant me that
Favour, though I am by my paft Conduct unworthy
to obtain it. I am truly fenfible of all my Faults, and
fincerely penitent for them.
You fpeak like an honeft Man (replied the Iman)
and our Prophet who knows the Bottom of your
Heart will grant your Requeſt, as well for his own
Glory, as for your Satisfaction. He then gave a Sig-
nal, and the Gates of the Hall were opened, and Abde-
riam with the Princeſs Zarat-Alriadh conducted in. It
is impoffible to exprefs the Aftonishment all the Spec-
tators were in, and the extream Joy of Mouiad at the
Sight of his Father.
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My Lord (faid he) proftrating himſelf at his Knees,
you fee at your Feet a Child, who dares not lift up
his Eyes to look either in your Face, or that of the
Princeſs of Carizme ; his Conduct has indeed render-
ed him unworthy of your Favour, but if the extream
Regret he feels for having offended you, may merit
your Pardon, he begs it with all the Submiffion of a
Son, who must this Moment die with Grief, if you
retain any longer the Movements of your juft Anger
against him. Abderaim and Zarat-Aliadh, were fo
much furprized at finding themſelves in a Place which
was quite unknown to them, and fee there their Son
in fo humble a Pofture, that till the Aftoniſhment
was a little over, they could not utter a Word, but af-
ter fhedding many Tears, they both tenderly embra-
ced Mouiad.
By what fupernatural Power, faid they, do we find
ourſelves in this inchanted Place, how was it poffible
for us to be conducted hither? And to whom do we
owe this Obligation? 'Tis to our great Prophet you
muft make your Acknowledgments (faid Cothrob) and
Abderaim, who had made much longer Journies in
lefs Time, ought not to be furprized as having been
tranſported in a few Moments, from the Serail of the
Sultan of Tangut, to this Palace.
Ir is true, my Lord (replied Abderaim) that after
the marvellous Adventures I have paffed through, I
ought to be furprized at nothing; nevertheless, I can-
not help being extreamly fenfible of this laft, becauſe
it has restored to me a Son, for whom the Princefs and
I have ſcarce ceafed weeping, till the Inftant we found
him here.
My Lord (faid Gebernaz) this Son, who is fo dear
to you, has juſt given us your Hiſtory, quite down to
the
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the Time, that by the Solicitations of two young
Men, he left your Houfe; and fince his Recital has
given us a great deal of Pleafure, I am perfuaded
the Adventures which has happened to you, equally
merits our Curiofity. I dare not ask you to favour us
with them immediately, that would be depriving the
Princefs and you, of the Satisfaction you will enjoy
in the Company of Mouiad, we will leave you at Li-
berty; there is a Perfon appointed to conduct you
to an Appartment, where you will find every Thing
provided that you can want or defire, and we flatter
ourfelves, that To-Morrow about this Time, you will
not refuſe to give us a Recital of your marvellous Ad-
ventures.
ABDERAIM having affured the Sultanas that he
ſhould be ready to give them the utmoſt Marks of his
Refpect and Submiſſion, and that he would not fail the
next Day being ready to recount his Hiftory, took his
Leave, and paffed on with his Spouſe and Son to the
Appartment deſtin’d for them.
Ir was there Mouiad, after having obtained his Par-
don, receiv'd an hundred tender Embraces from the
Princeſs of Carizme, and that ſhe inform'd him that
Abderaim had been in the Ginniſtan; this was much
eafier to conceive, than their unaccountable Tranfpor-
tation to this Palace.
THEIR feveral Adventures had render'd them very
credulous in Things of the like Nature, infomuch that
they were all thoroughly perfuaded, that they were
in the Palace of the Perizes, and what had happened
to them, was done by their Means.
THEY no fooner appeared before them the next
Day, but they proftrated themſelves at their Feet,
and
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and returned them all imaginable Thanks for the many
Obligations they had received; and Abderaim be-
lieving that he perceived, they waited with fome Im-
patience, the Account of his Adventures began in the
following Terms.
EVEN
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FROHET SINTERED
LXXIX. EVENING.
The HISTORY of ABDERAIM, re-
counted by himself.
T
HE Abfence of Mouiad, gave me ſo
fenfible a Diſpleaſure, that I thought
an Hundred Times I fhould have
died of Grief. I waited Three
Months to fee if he would return,
and that Time being expired with-
out receiving any News, I refolved
to go in fearch of him. I fhut up my Houfe, leave-
ing upon my Chamber Table a Paper, where in few
Words I exprefled the cruel Situation his Flight had
put me in (in Cafe he fhould return to the Houſe
while I was abfent.) I then fet out on my Journey to
feek him; I rambled firft through Turqueftan, Mogo-
liftan, and the Indies, but to no Purpoſe, for as he in-
form'd me Yeſterday, he had turned afide and gone to
Perfia.
AFTER more than a Year's Fatigue, I arrived
one Day pretty late, at a great Borough pretty near
Agra, the Night furprized me, juſt by an Indian Pa-
god or Temple, which was finely built; as I was very
much embarraffed what to do with myſelf, I refolved
at laſt to lye down on the Steps of the Temple; as I
was going to do fo, I was furprized at finding the Gate
open; I entered however, without Hefitation, and
after
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191
after having examined by the Light of three Lamps,
which were burning before the Statue of the Ram,
(for whom thofe Idolaters have the greatest Vene-
ration) I thought I fhould fcarce find a more agreeable
Place to repote in, for by this Time I was extreamly
tired, and fleepy, fo fhutting the Gate which I had
found open, I laid myfelf down behind this Gigan-
tick Statue of their falfe God, but was quickly a-
waked by a Noife, which feemed to be very near
me.
>
As I was liftning with great Attention, I faw the
Carpet which lay at the Feet of the Statue, lift up,
and from under it came two Bramins, or Priefts, ard
one of them addreffed himſelf to the other, in theſe
Words. Brother, I attend here this Night for a fire
• Morfel, I mean a Girl of about Fourteen, but the
' moſt beautiful Creature that ever Nature produc'd;
C
her Name is After, the owes her Being to a great
• Merchant of this Borough, I fell fo violently in Love
' with her, that I could no longer fupport Life, with-
out fatisfying my Paffion.
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،
•
C
THE only Hope I had to do fo, was by ac-
quainting her Father, that he had the good For-
tune to pleaſe our mighty Ram, who defired that
'fhe might this Night be conducted to the Temple
to become his Wife, and that he was fo much in
Love with her, that he would have her brought
to him for Eight Days together. The good Man
' her Father, whofe Name is Nahon, thought him-
felf highly honoured by the Ram, and I expect that
' in half an Hour, he will bring hither himſelf the
Charming After; 'tis for this Reafon I am in fo
much Hafte to put on the Habit ſuitable to fuch an
• Occafion,'
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Br
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·
By my Faith (replied the other Bramin) you have
• Reafon to fay that After is a perfect Beauty; I have
⚫ likewife been a long Time in Love with her, and
'fhould have been before Hand with you, if I had not
thought her too young: She ſhall be yours fince
Fortune will have it fo, but afterwards when you
care for her no longer, I defire that I may fucceed
• you.' 'With all my Heart (anfwered the firſt Bra-
• min) when I have had her for eight Days, I will aſk
' her for eight more, and you fhall have her, only
help to drefs me in the Habit of the Deity I am
to perfonate, and be affured I will acquit myſelf
• juftly to you.'
"
As foon as this infamous Wretch was dreffed in the
Habit, and adorn'd with all the Ornaments belonging
to the Statue of the Ram, he went foftly, and open'd
the Door of the Pagod, which having left upon the
Jar, his Companion and he defcended by the fame
Trap-Door, and attended, as I imagin'd, with much
Impatience, the Arrival of that unbappy Victim, who
was blinded by Credulity.
AT laft After came, conducted by her Father,
who, puſhing open the Door, entered into the Pa-
god: My dear Child (fay's he) be thankful to our
Great Ram, who has condefcended to make Choice
of you; 'tis fo great an Honour done to our Family,
that we ought if poffible to redouble our Reſpect to
him. After this Exhortation, Nakon went out of
the Temple, and fhut the Door after him, leaving
his Daughter a Prey to the wicked Prieſts of a falſe
God.
ASTER, full of the Act of Religion fhe was about
to perform, proftrated herſelf with her Face to the
Ground, as he had been inftructed, and while
this
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this innocent Creature was frequently praying to the
Ram. Oh! Heaven (faid I to myfelf) how can you
fuffer theſe Monſters to abuſe a credulous People, and
difhonour their Wives and Daughters? Great Ma-
bomet, thou that canft not behold fuch Infamy with-
out extream Horror; why doft thou not fend Than-
der, and deſtroy fuch impious Wretches? Ah! that
I could, though at the Hazard of my Life, be any
ways inftrumental in deſtroying ſuch an abominable
Sect.
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LXXIX. EVENIN G.
The HISTORY of ABDERAIM re-
counted by himself.
W
HILE I was attending the Time of
her Prayer, I found myſelf fuddenly
animated with a mighty Tranfport,
and without doubt I was infpired by
the Spirit of our Prophet. I waited
till the wicked Bramin afcended from
his Cave, and had lifted the innocent
After from the Earth, making known to her his Paf-
fion; and 'till that fimple Creature deceived by the
fhining Appearance of the Impofture, was juſt going
in the moſt fubmiffive Manner to yield herſelf up to
his Will. But then I came from the Place where I
had been hid, and taking my Sabre in my Hand, I
ftruck the Bramin dead at my Feet.
ASTER was fo much aftonish'd, that ſhe fell
on a little Bed, which was defigned for her to have
paffed the Night in with that Villain; but I taking
her by the Hand, defired her not to be afraid. You
fee (continued I) lovely After, a Friend of the Pro-
phet; I am fent by Mohamed, who tired with the A-
bominations of thefe impious Creatures, is refolved to
deftroy their Temple, their Idol, and their Religi-
Í then fhewed her the fubterraneous Paffage, and
made her underſtand the Impoſture of thoſe miferable
Wretches; that the Ram, inſtead of being a puiffant
on.
Deity,
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Deity, as they had made her believe, was no more
than a vain Idol, made by the Hands of Men, which
their Blindneſs of Heart had made them Worſhip.
I have faved your Honour, Madam (ſays I) and am
going to conduct you to your Father. Tell him from
me, that before this next Day paffes, he muſt affemble
all his Sect, and bring them with him to the Temple,
that I may fhew him the fenfeleſs Deity he has wor-
fhipped; order him likewiſe from me, to facrifice all
the infamous Miniſters of the Ram, without any Pity,
and affure him, that if all the Gentiles in this Borough
do not the fame Day acknowledge one only God, and
Mohamed for his Prophet, I will cauſe it to rain
Fire from Heaven upon them, and reduce both them-
felves, and all that they have, to Afhes.
I was in that Moment (continued Abderaim) anima-
ted with ſo fierce a Zeal, that I appeared in the Eyes
of After to be fomething more than a Mortal; the
put into my Hands and Abjuration of her Idolatry, fo
I went out of the Temple with her, without fhutting
the Gate, in order to conduct her home. This fimple
Girl was extreamly aſtoniſhed and frightened at the
Menaces I had ufed, firmly believing that the dread-
ful Effects would follow, unleſs my Orders were punctu-
ally obey'd; and doubtless it was our Prophet who
infpir'd me with what Words I fpoke, and affifted me
in all Things which might turn to the Honour and
Benefit of our Religion.
WHEN we arrived at the Door of After's Habitation,
I knocked with all my Force, but by good Fortune
the Houſe ſtanding at the Corner of the Street, I
had an Opportunity to flip from her Side, as foon as
I heard the Servants ftirring, without her perceiving
how I went, and hid myfelf in the next Street.
When the Door was open'd, and this lovely Creature
miffed me, fhe apprehended that I had vanished
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away, becauſe I knew ſhe was fafe, and no longer
ftood in need of my Affiftance.
It was plain, however, that After punctually obey'd
my Orders in every Particular, and that fhe found no
Difficulty to perfuade her Father of the Impofture the
Bramins had been guilty of; for having at the ap-
pointed Hour, affembled all the Gentiles who dwelt in
that Borough, they went together to the Temple, and
foon convinc'd themſelves, that their falſe God was a
fenfelefs Stone, and his Priefts vile debauch'd Im-
poftors, who had impos'd upon them a ridiculous Re-
ligion, which they immediately renounced with one
Confent.
THEY gave Notice inftantly to the Cady, or Judge
of Agra, who liv'd but half a League from them, and
defired he would come to their Temple; relating to
him all that had happened to After. All this was
tranfacted with ſo much Secrecy, that all the Bramins
were found found afleep. The Cady and his Archers
entered their Cloifter by the fubterraneous Paffage,
and made them all Prifoners. They were conducted
to Agra, loaded with Chains, and the next Day, af-
ter having in their Torments confeffed their horrid
Crimes, they were burnt alive in the moſt publick
Place of that City.
THEIR Temple and their Dwelling were eraced
to the Ground, their Idol was broke into a Thoufand
Pieces, and all the Gentiles of that Borough, as well
as thofe of Agra, without Exception, profeffed openly
the Religion of our Prophet, and that Day was regard-
ed as the moſt venerable and illuſtrious that ever hap
pened in the World.
I had no Mind (you may believe) to have it known
publickly, that I had any Hand in this Adventure,
it
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it was a fufficient Satisfaction to me that I had been
the happy Inftrument of doing ſo much Good in the
Propagation of the Religion of our great Prophet. I
rejoiced in fecret at the Succefs of my Labour, and
after having been three Days in the Karavanfrail of
Agra, the following Evening, while I was in a pro-
found Sleep, I thought in a Dream that I beheld our
Prophet.
· ABDERAIM (ſaid he) I am well pleaſed with
thee, thou haft executed my Will in every Point
the Temple of the Gentiles is deftroy'd, taeir Re-
ligion abolished, the true one exalted, and all this is
• done by thy Means. I intend to recompence fo
great an Action; but as I cannot oppofe that
⚫ which is written in Hommal Katab, or the Table
• of Light; and as you cannot be restored to your
• Wife and Son, "for a confiderable Time, I will in
the men while Charm your Sorrow, and for
' that Eff:&, I am myfelf going to conduct you tɔ
a delicious Place, where by Anticipation, yoa fhail
fee the Pleafures which are referved for true Be-
' lievers.'
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LXXX.
EVENING.
The Hiftory of ABDERAIM, recounted
by himself.
UR Prophet then lifted me up by the
Lock of Hair, which we always
keep on our Heads, and tranfported
me inftantly before a magnificent
Fabrick of white Pearl, the Door
was of Emeralds, and the Lock of
Gold; this Edifice was of fo extra-
ordinary a Bignefs, that the Prophet affured me, that
when all the Men, and all the Angels were affembled
together, at the Top of this Dome, they would ap-
pear to our Eyes but like fo many little Birds on the
Branches of a great Tree: Then having proftrated
myſelf on the Earth, he pronounced with me thefe
myfterious Words, Bifmilla irrahman irrahman, that
is, In the Name of God, Wife and Merciful.
I had no fooner obey'd the Prophet, with the moſt
profound Refpect (continued Abderaim) than the
Door opened, and I entered immediately into a moſt
beautiful Arbour, the extream Brightness of the pre-
cious Stones with which it was adorn'd, fo dazell'd
my Eyes, that I ftood for a confiderable Time in a per-
fect Extafy.
WHEN I recover'd myſelf a little, I found that
the Prophet was gone; but there ftood by me an
Angel,
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•
Angel, who ſpoke to me in theſe Terms. Oh!
happy Man, thou art efteemed the Friend of the
Prophet, I have a Charge to ſhow unto thee all
• the Rarities of this Place; remark thou this rich
Pavillion, from whence proceed thofe four Foun-
tains, the firſt is always full of fine Water, the fe-
'cond of Milk, the third of Wine, and the fourth of
• Honey.
• You muſt know, that whofoever is taught to
pronounce with a pure Heart, thofe Words which
⚫ the Prophet made you repeat when the Door open-
⚫ed unto you of this wonderous Dome; they may
drink of the fweet and agreeable Liquors of thefe
• four Fountains, which produces on them fuch mar-
• vellous and extraordinary Effect, that they would
• feem incredible, to thoſe who do not profefs and
'follow the Law of our Prophet; but as thou haft
' contributed fo much to the making it known to
the Gentiles, whom thou haft converted from their
Errors, and drawn from the Precipice of utter De-
• firuction; I am going to fhow thee fome Part of
⚫ the Marvels of this Place: Go into that Garden, and
• examine the great Tree which is called Tsuba, its
• Root is of Pearl, its Branches of Emerals, and its
• Leaves of fine Silk: It contains threefcore and ten
⚫ thouſand Branches; there is not a Window in all
'this Dome or Paradife, but receives its Light from
⚫ fome Branch of this Tree, and all thoſe who inha-
'bit this magnificent Building, can gather from it
'whatever Fruit they wish for.
SEEST thou (continued the Angel) that other
Tree, at the Extremity of whofe Branches hangs
an infinite Number of Veſtments, embroidered
with Gold, ornaments of Pearls and Rubies of all
• Sizes; theſe are alfo for the Inhabitants of Pa-
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• radife. As thou has faithfully executed thoſe ef
fential Points of our Prophet's Religion, and taught
• it unto the Gentiles: Behold there is two Horfes
tied to that Tree, who will kneel down at our
Feet, we will mount them, and they will carry us
with great Swiftnefs through all this happy Place,
⚫ and give you an Opportunity of feeing all the Objects
distinctly.
Ir is impoffible, illuftrious Perizes (continued Ab-
deraim) to give you a Detail of all the Wonders I faw
in thofe happy Days; but that which ftruck me very
much, was the Sight of one of thoſe Virgins with
black Eye-brows, who came out of a Pavillion, juſt
as we paffed by it: She looked upon us very fixedly
for fome Time, and then fell a Laughing, which gave
us an Opportunity of feeing her Teeth, which fhone
with fuch a.bright Whitenefs, that they furprized us
both; at laſt the let us know that ſhe was one of thofe
fine Girls who were decreed to fullfil the Defires of
thofe, that ſhould have an Inclination to live with her
in that Place.
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GMAYID
LXXXI. EVENING.
The HISTORY of ABDERAIM, recounted
by Himfelf.
T
HE Angel, my" Conductor (continued
Abderaim) made me view the Two
Fountains of Purification, which cleans'd
from Jealoufy, Hatred, Treafon and
all other Faults to which Mankind are
fubject, and of which Waters they
muſt drink before they enter into Paradife: He next
conducted me to the Ciſtern of our Prophet, in which
all true Believers being plunged, and waſhing their
Heads, they come out, with Faces more refplendent
and bright, than the Moon on her Fourteenth Day.
I afterwards examin'd attentively the feven Walls
that environ'd this Place, each of which was fo bril-
liant, that their Light extended itſelf for more than
Five Hundred Weeks Journey.
AFTER having view'd all thefe furprizing Things
with infinite Delight, I faw, coming towards me, the
happy Inhabitants of this Place, they appeared to me
to be in the Bloom of Youth, their Eyes glittered
like Stars, and they had fine Monftachus, to diſtin-
guish them from the Women; I ſaw them at Table,
eating the most exquifite Ragouts, and other delici-
ous Viands, which never were dreffed at a Fire;
but what furprized me, was, that when they had ai-
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moſt dined, I ſaw feveral Birds defcending out of the
Air, and others flying over their Heads, faying to
them :
W.
E are the Birds, whofe Mouths refemble that of
a Camel, we have drank of the pure Water of
the Fountain of Salefebil, and Kiafour, we eat only of
the Odoriferous Herbs, which grow in Paradife.
AFTER this, the happy Company made no Scruple
to eat theſe Birds, which tumbled ready drefs'd upon
the Table accommodated exactly to the Taste of every
Body who eat of them; and afterwards by the greateſt
Prodigy, they reviv'd again in a Moment and flew a-
way.
THE Angel feeing me furpriz'd: Be not aftonish'd
(fays he) at what you fee, this Bird on which the
Happy feed, and whofe Flefh never diminishes, is
the lively Image of the Alcoran, from which all may
draw Profit, and may for ever Read, without being
tired, and the Force of its Words will always ftrength-
en and delight. We then return'd to the fame Dome
from whence we departed, and quitting our Horfes
we return'd them to their Pofts; the Angel then
diſappear'd, and I again faw the Prophet, at whoſe
Feet I proftrated myſelf, to thank him for the
great Favours he had bestowed on me above other
Mortals.
I am going (faid he) to tranfport you into the
World again, where you fhall find one of my Fa-
vourites, who will give you all Things you need : But
how long do you believe you have fojourn'd in that
delicious Place? Oh! great Prophet (anfwer'd I) I
was ſcarce feven Minutes in that venerable Abode to
my Apprehenfion: Thou has been (fays he) more
than ſeven Years; obferve by that how the Hours
pafs,
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203
pafs, in the Eternal Dwellings of thoſe who obey my
Commands.
INSTRUCT my faithful Servants, tell them of all
the Wonders you have ſeen, and Woe be unto all
thofe who will not believe all you relate unto them.
Then taking me by the Lock of Hair, as before, the
Prophet tranfported me to the Side of a Mofque, where
he left me fleeping: I took all that I have been tell-
ing you for a Dream, and really thought that I was-
in a Bed in the Karavanferail at Agra; but as foon!
as I was thoroughly awakened from my Sleep, and
found myſelf by the Side of a Moſque, I knew it to
be that of Tangut, and found that I had been aſleep
more than ſeven Years.
My first Care was to go into the Moſque, and re-
turn Thanks to the Prophet, for the extraordinary
Favours he had fhewn unto me, and after Prayers,.
having obtained Permiffion of the Iman to ſpeak to
the People, I recounted unto them (with an Elo-
quence, which without Doubt was given me by the
Prophet) the Journey I had fo lately made through:
his Paradife; and although I related Things very
difficult to be believ'd, yet no Body made the leaſt
Doubt of the Truth; on the contrary, the whole Au-
dience regarded me with an extream Veneration, and
the Sultan of Tangut being informed of all that I had:
declared to the People, fent his Iman who had carried
me to his own Houſe, Orders to invite me to the Pag
lace.
I found at the Door a fine Horſe, whoſe Saddle
was covered with Gold Stuff, and the Bridle embroi-
dered with Pearls and Emeralds; I was mounted up-
on him, and four Imans, of which Number, he who
had entertained me, was one attended on me.
I was
accompany'd by a vaft Concourfe of People, who
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Bleffed me all the Way as I went. Being arrived at
the Palace, I was received with much Refpect by
the Officers of the Sultan, before whom, when I was
introduced, I would have proftrated myfelf; but he
catching me up, embraced me with great Goodneſs,
and let me know, that it would afford him infinite
Pleaſure, if I would relate to him the Hiftory of my
Life.
I immediately obey'd; but when I came to recount
the Marvels I had feen in the Paradife of our Pro-
phet, he appear'd to me mightily touch'd at every
Word I faid, and I perceived the Tears ran down
his Cheeks in abundance. Oh! Holy Man, thou
Friend of the Prophet (faid he to me) how happy are
you, who have in your Life Time feen fuch marvel-
lous Things. I am thoroughly convinced of the Truth
of all you fay, and muft beg that you would edify one
of my Sultanas, by a Repetition of thefe wonderful
Things, who is not as yet thoroughly converted to
our Religion. I can without Fear expofe to your View
a Mortal, who the Beauties of the incomparable
Houris, i. e. Virgins of Paradife."
AH! my Lord (replied I) that Sight, tho' it was
one beyond all Expreffion, could not make me forget
the Princeſs of Carizme ; and untill the happy Mo-
ment, in which I am to find her, arrives, I fhall wait
with the utmoſt Impatience. I run no Rifque then
(faid the Sultan) in letting you fee the Lady of whom
I ſpeak, fince a Heart filled with a Paffion fo violent as
yours, can receive no Impreffion from any other Ob-
ject, how beautiful foever it be; however give me
Leave to affure you, that this fair One is almoſt to be
compared with the beautiful Houris, whom you faw
in your myfterious Journey.
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WELL then, my Lord (faid I) fince you defire
it I will fee this Sultana; but I fwear to you, by the
White Stone, which Adam carried to Paradiſe, and
which fell in the Heritage of Abraham, Ishmael, and
their Defcendants, that her Beauty, how powerful
foever it may be, is not able to alter the violent Love,
with which my Heart is filled, for Zarat Alriadh.
And I, faid the Sultan, have fo perfect a Veneration
for fuch a Man as Abderaim, that however dear this
Sultana may be to me, if you fhould find yourſelf at-
tracted to her Charms, I fwear to you by my Head,
-I will that Moment furrender her to you.
AFTER thefe Words, the Sultan, taking me by
the Hand, and having conducted me into an inner
Part of the Palace, we entered into a fine Salon,
where the first Object that ftruck my Sight, was the
Princeſs of Carizme, from whom I had fo long been
feperated; I was in that Moment fo amazed, at fo
unexpected a Sight, and fo afflicted at the fame Time
to think that Princefs fhould be efpoufed to the Sul-
tan, that the Extremity of my Grief left me without
Senfe, and I funk down on a Sopha, that ftood near
me.
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IMA
LXXXII. EVENING.
The HISTORY of ABDERAI M, re-
counted by Himself.
T was more than half an Hour be
fore I came to myself; and to my
great Surprize, found I was in the
Arms of Zarat Alriadh, and as I
had my Eyes full of Tears, and my
Face appeared covered with a mor-
tal Paleneſs; the Sultan of Tangut
who perceived that his Difcourfe had thrown me into
this Agony, faid my dear Abderaim, the Princeſs of
Carizme is not of the Number of my Wives. The
Sultana, to whom the owes her Being, was my Sifter,
and it is not without a Myſtery, that ſhe is found this
Day in my Serail.
AT this unexpected News, I paffed as it were from.
Death to Life. And the Sultan having left me alone
with her, I recounted to her all that had happened
to me, from the Moment of our cruel Seperation,
at which ſhe was greatly Aſtoniſhed. Then I in my
Turn, pray'd her to tell me all that had befallen her,
from that melancholly Time, which ſhe did in the
following Terms.
HISTORY
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SCORTSTARVE
HISTORY
Of the Princess ZARAT-ALRIADh,
recounted by ABDERAIM.
Y
OU may believe, my dear Abderaim
(faid the Princeſs to me) that I felt
the ſharpeſt Pangs of Grief when I
found you did not return with
Mouiad that Night, on which you
were both fold by the perfidious
Captain, who pretended to have
you ſearched for with great Care, and hearing no
News of you, he told me, that you were certainly
devoured by Tygers, as you walked by the Sea-fide,
thofe Creatures being very common in thoſe Parts,
as this appeared to me but too probable, my Dif-
pair redoubled to fuch a Degree, that I refolved to
Die.
I remained three Days without Eating or Drink-
ing, how many Prayers did that Deceiver make for
me, and as he wished nothing more than to get me
once more on Board his Veffel, he made ufe of a
Trick which effected it. Madam (faid he to me)
neither your Spouſe nor Son is dead, I was informed
just now by an Inhabitant of this Ifland, that the
laft Veffel which departed-from the Port carried them
away in it.
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THE Captain who commands it, is a Man of no
Probity, it is common for him to commit fuch Crimes,
but my Veffel being a much better Sailor than his,
and as we are ready to depart immediately, I flatter
myſelf that I fhall overtake him before they can
reach any other Port, and oblige him to fet them at
Liberty; and you may be affured (continued he) that
I will lofe the laſt Drop of Blood I have, rather
than he ſhall affront me in fo grofs a Manner un-
puniſhed.
SEDUCED by this Difcourfe, which bore fo great
an Appearance of Truth, and deluded by the plea-
fing Hope of retrieving you again, I was prevail'd
upon to take fome Nouriſhment, and entering the
Veffel, we quitted the Port immediately; but as foon
as we were got out into the main Sea, the Captain
entered the Cabbin he had allotted me.
WHAT I told you (ſaid he) of the Deliverance of
your Spouſe and Son, was purely Imagination, they
have, beyond Difpute, been made the Prey of Ty-
gers; but Madam, the violent Paffion I have for
you, would not fuffer me to abandon you to your Sor-
rows; I was too fenfibly touched with your Beauty,
not to pity your Diftrefs. There is now no better
Way to repair the Lofs you have fuffered, than by
accepting of me for your Spoufe.
I was fo much furprized at the Compliments, and
Propofition the Captain had made me, that I remain-
ed for fome Time as immoveable as a Statue; but
at laft, after reflecting ferioufly on his paft Conduct:
Ah! deceitful Wretch (faid I) I plainly perceive
that you have difpofed either of the Lives or Li-
berties of my Huſband and Son; you looked upon
them as invincible Obſtacles to your infamous Defires,
but
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209
but hope not, nor believe that you fhall ever gain
any Advantage over me; and know that I prefer
Death, nay, even the moft Cruel that can be invent
ed, to the Horror of being forced to fubmit to your
Defires.
THE Captain, who was a Man of a violent Tem-
per, could not bear this Manner of Treatment, with-
out falling into a great Rage. I will give you faid
he) an Hour to reflect on the advantagious Offer I
have made you, with Eyes, which ſparkled with In-
dignation; when the Time is paffed, if
paffed, if you return
not my Love, as you ought, I will give you Caufe to
fear the Effects of my juit Rage and Refentment, my
Paffion will be converted to Hatred, and I ſhall pu-
niſh you without any farther Confideration.
HAVING faid this, he quitted the Room, and
left me in the moſt dreadful Situation that ever Mor-
tal was in. I employed most of the Time, that
inhuman Monfter had allotted me, in Tears; and
when the Moment drew near, in which I expected
his Return, I was ready to expire; but after I had
invoked our Prophet in a moft folemn Manner, I
found myſelf all on a fudden fortified, against all
Attempts the Captain could make.
Mr Courage augmented every Minute, and look-
ing in a Trunk which he had left open, to fee if I
could get any Weapon to defend myſelf, I found a
Sabre, on which I ſeized, and waited the coming of
that miferable Wretch, with a full Refolution to
take away his Life, for which Purpoſe I feated my
felf behind the Door, which he had ftrongly faſtened
on the Out fide.
HE
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He was as good as his Word, and the Moment
the Hour he had given me was expired, he entered,
the Room, and I, before he had Time to turn to-
wards me, cut off his Head at one Blow with the
Sabre; then taking it up by the Lock of Hair, I
went with it inftantly upon Deck; and addreffing
myíelf to the under Officers: There (faid I) is the
Head of your infamous Captain, who not fatisfied
with having fold my Husband and Son into Slavery,
durft alfo make an Attempt on the Honour of the
Princefs of Carizme.
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JO CORALS
LXXXIII. EVENING.
The History of ZARAT-ALRIADH, re-
counted by ABDERAIM.
A
S the Captain was never much beloved
by any of his People, I eafily perceived,
that no Body refented the Revenge, I
had taken; on the contrary, the Gen-
tleman, whofe Place it was to fucceed
tleman, whofe Place it
him, addreffed himself to me in the fol-
"Madam (fays he) I dare affure
you, that there is not one Perfon on Board, but
"will be ready to fhew you the highest Marks of
Refpect, which are due to your Sex and Rank ;
"had we known the wicked Intention of our Captain,
lowing Terms.
"
<c
you may be certain, notwithstanding the Authority
"he bore in his Veffel, as the greatest P rt of the
Cargo appertained to him, yet he fhould never have
"been the Mafter of your Destiny; and to make
you truly fenfible, Madam, of the juft Guard we
"have for you, we will receive no Orders, but from
your Mouth,'
CC
>>
BEFORE I had Time to anfwer fo polite a Com-
pliment as I ought, the whole Ship's Crew gave a
Shout of Joy, in Token of their approving what
their Officer had faid, and immediately came to pay
me their Homage. I found it impoffible to refufe the
Honour they did me; you may judge, my dear Ab-
der aim
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:
:
deriam (continued the Princeſs) of the Joy I felt for
my Deliverance, and the Sorrow I endured for your
Lofs.
I affembled a Council immediately, and prayed them
to chooſe a proper Perfon to govern the Veffel, and
was much pleaſed when I heard that they had elected
the Gentleman who firit fpoke to me, as the moſt ca-
pable to diſcharge that Office.
THE new Captain was no fooner vefted with this
Dignity, than he ordered the Carcafe of this wicked
Predeceffor to be cut in four Quarters, and thrown
into the Sea; and afterwards having aſked to what
Place I would have them direct their Courfe, I let
him underſtand that the neareſt Port to Carizme
would be agreeable to me. Upon this they prepared
with all poffible ſpeed to execute my Will; we failed
for more than two Months, during which Time we
had very favourable Weather; but at length we were
obliged to put into a Port, well known to our Sailors,
to take in fome Provifions, where there happened a
very extraordinary Scene.
THE Captain of our Veffel, being refolved to
purchaſe ſome Slaves, which was the way of Com-
merce in this Place; two of the Inhabitants, the one
named Okilan, and the other Idirim, both very wick-
edly inclined, had conceived a mortal Hatred againſt
each other; nay, they carried their fpite fo far, that
they refolved to ſteal each other's Wives, and fell them
to the Commander of our Veffel; this was executed,
almoſt at the fame Time, Okilan, having in the Night
forced the Houſe of Idirim, and carried off his Wife,
whom he brought on Board, and fold to our Captain
for an Hundred Pieces of Gold; but feemed to think
the Price too fmall, the Captain told Okilan that it
was rather too much, for he had juft before bought a
Woman
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Woman, who was both younger and handſomer, yet
ſhe did not coſt him above half the Money.
THAT is impoffible (replied the Villain) our Peo-
ple know the Value of fine Women better than to fell
you fuch a Bargain, as you tell me of; and if you
can convince me of the Truth, I will let you have this
at the fame Price. It is an eafy matter to convince you
(ſaid the Captain) ſince it is not half an Hour ago that
I bought her; he then ordered the Slave in Question
to be brought in, but the violent Surprize and Fury
of Okilan is not to be deſcribed, when he ſaw that it
was his Wife, thus fold to Slavery, and apprehended
that it was Idirim who had fold her: He thought of
nothing but how to deliver her out of the Captain's
Hands, and preffed him to take the Wife of his Ene-
my at what Price he pleaſed; that fince both thefe
Women had been at the Diſcretion of the Captain, it
was not fit that he ſhould fuffer the other Woman to
be releaſed, leaſt ſhe ſhould make his Wife the Sub-
ject of Shame and Raillery.
WHILE this fingular Scene was paffing on board
our Veffel, Idirim was fill'd with Joy, at having taken
fo terrible and mortifying a Revenge of his Enemy;
but no fooner did he arrive at his own Houſe, than to
his inexpreffible Grief, he was informed, that during
his Abfence, Okilan had caufed the Houſe to be broke
open, and his Wife carried away; this News made
him run directly to his Chalop, and he arrived on
Board our Veffel, at the Inftant that Okilan was bar-
gaining for the Releaſe of his Wife.
THESE two Men at the Sight of one another, were
feized with fo furious a Rage, that thinking on nothing
but Revenge, they feized each other round the Body,
and in their Struggling fell into the Sea; it feemed in
all Appearance that neither would' let go their hold,
tho'
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tho' they were almoft ftifled with Water, thus they
periſhed in the Waves, notwithſtanding all the Endea-
vours our Sailors uſed to fave them.
BEING informed of this extraordinary Adventure,
I cauſed the two Women to be brought before me,
and fent to ſeek for the Commander of the Port, in
order to deliver them to him, rendering our Captain
only the Money which he had paid for them; but
they appeared fo much difcontented at what had hap-
pened to their Husbands, and in general fo much dif-
liked the Inhabitants of that Place, that they intreated
me to take them with me.
As they had no Children, and the Commander of
the Port did not oppofe their Departure, I willingly
took them into my Service, and promiſed to take Care
of their Fortune, when we arrived at Carizme. We
fet Sail fome Hours after, and having heard one of
thefe Women relate, that upon a Rock by the Sea-fide,
about twelve Leagues from the Place we came from,
there lived a holy Dervife, retired from the World,
who had great Correfpondence with the Heavens, and
could difcover the moft fecret Things. I refolved to
go and pay him a Vifit, in order to hear fome News
of my dear Abderaim. In fhort (continued the Prin-
cefs) I went and found him extreamly Sick in a Grotto,
fituated in the Rock, on the Sommet of a Mountain,
and as foon as I entered, "Madam (faid he to me)
"before I fpoke a Word to him, you must yet wait
a long Time before you can poffibly be reſtored to
your Huſband and Son.
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"THAT Time can only be rendered eaſy and ſhort
to you, by the Manner in which you pafs it: Return
to your Veffel, and make Prefents of all the Equi-
page and Cargo, of which they made you Mistress;
diftribute alfo what Diamonds you have among the
* Officers, and return again to this Place, with only
"
"theſe
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"theſe two Women, and you ſhall find all Eafe and
"Comfort for you Sorrows.
THO' I was much aſtoniſhed (continued Zarat-Al-
riadh) at the Council this Holy Perfon gave, yet I
heffitated not to obey him. I returned to the Veffel,
and executed his Orders exactly. Notwithstanding
all the Obſtacles that the polite Officers raiſed againſt
my Defign, I continued firm, and would not return to
the Grotto of the good Derwife, before I faw the
Veffel failed a great way from the Place where we
ftood.
I then afcended, tho' with much Pain, yet extream
Confidence, to the Dwelling of the good old Man ;
but judge of my Aſtoniſhment and Grief, when I
found that he was Speechlefs, and in his Agonies; I
got to the To of the Rock, to fee if I could poffible
make any Sign to our Veffel; but it was fo far advan-
ced to Sea, that I loft all Hopes of ever rejoining it
again, which Thought filled me with Diſpair.
THE two Women, who had adviſed me to this
Journey, were in a Condition not eaſy to be diſcribed,
at length feeing there was no Remedy for our Evils,
I exhorted them to take Courage; we returned to the
Grotto, and arrived the very Moment the good Der-
vije Expired.
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GROHE FORED
LXXXIV. EVENING.
The Hiftory of the Princess ZARAT-
ALRIADH, recounted by ABDE-
RAIM.
A
S we had armed ourſelves with Refo-
lution againſt this Melancholly Event,
which we had too much Reaſon to
expect, we were lefs affrighted, than
we were embarraffed, what we ſhould
do with the Body of the Dervife, and
my two Women and I fat down and
confulted what manner we fhould be able to give
Burial, but at laft being fatigued beyond our Strength,
we all fell into a profound Sleep. I cannot tell how
long our Sleep lafted, but the Night ſeemed to be far
- advanced, when I heard fomebody near me; the Noife
made me open my Eyes; and I perceived in a Mo-
ment, the Grotto was illuminated with more than an
hundred cryſtal Lamps, which produced fo ftrong a
Light that it dazzled my Eyes; I foftly awakened my
two Women, who were as much furprized as I was at
fo ftrange a Sight, but our Aftoniſhment was encreaſed,
when we ſaw in the Grotto, fix young Boys dreffed in
White, and extreamly beautiful, thefe took the Corps
of the Holy old Man to a Fountain, which was at
one Door of the Grotto, and after having waſhed, and
wrapped it in Linnen, they laid it again upon the
Bed.
WHY
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"WHY (fays one of thefe lovely Boys) do we not
"interr in the Earth, the Body of this true Believer?
"We muſt wait, anſwered the other, the Arrival of
"the worthy Nephew of the great Alroamat. It is
"he who must mark out the Place where we muſt de-
"pofit the Corpfe of this Holy Man; he will not
ftay long, becauſe he has Orders to be here by the
"middle of the Night. Therefore while we wait
"for him, let us pray the Almighty, that he will
"beſtow his Mercy on this illuftrious Derviſe".
THEN theſe young Boys pronounced feveral
Chapters of the Khoran, with fo much Devotion, that
we received great Edification thereby. But they had
not continued this pious Exerciſe above half an Hour,
before the Sage whom they expected, appeared, and
they proftrated themſelves with their Faces to the
Earth on his Arrival.
THE Nephew of Alroamat, whofe Vifage fhone
with ſo amazing a Brightnefs, that we durft not lift
up our Eyes to behold it; after having made a fhort
Elogium on the Virtues of the holy Perfon deceaſed,
fhewed his Attendants, by pointing with his Finger
to the Corner where we were, that they would there
find a Stone, upon which they would fee fome Sen-
tences of the Alcoran engraved; this Stone he direct-
ed them to take up. But as foon as the young Boys
approached to obey the Orders of the Sage, they to
their great Surprize perceived us lying upon that
very Stone.
WHAT, faid the Nephew of the great Alroamat,
does the Sight of the three Women make you afraid?
Defire them to range themſelves on the other Side,
you may be certain, that they came not to this Place
VOL. II.
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without a Miſtery, which in due Time will be re-
vealed.
Two of thoſe beautiful Boys having taken up the
Stone, the other four, who had the Charge of the
Corpfe, brought it forwards, and were followed by
the Sage; they all defcended by a Pair of Stairs,
which were illuminated in the fame Manner as the
Grotto. After I had beheld all theſe Marvels (con-
tinued Zarat-Alriadh) I took my two Women by
the Hands, and following the holy Convoy, I faw
the Deceaſed interr'd in a Tomb of white Marble,
which flood in the Middle of a ftately Hall; and, as
foon as the Ceremony was finiſhed, all the Lights
went out in an Inftant, and we heard not the leaft
Noife,
1
EVEN.
MOGUL TALES. 219
LXXXV. EVENING.
History of ZARAT ALRIADH, re-
counted by ABDERAIM, concluded.
T
HIS Strange Adventure furprized
my Women to fuch a Degree, that I
thought they would have died of the
Fright, and I proteft to you, I was
little lefs frightened than they; but
putting my whole Confidence in our
great Prophet, I earneftly prayed unto him, not to
abandon me in this Diftrefs, and I had no fooner
pro-
nounced three Times the Words which were taught
me, by the Fairy Margeon Banou, but I found myſelf,
and my two Women tranſported into a delicious Gar-
den, where we perceived a new Meteor, inftead of
the Sun, which produced a charming Light, it was
a perfect oval Form, of a blewifh Colour, fpangled
with Stars, one of which was in the Middle, being
much bigger than the reſt.
We were very much furprized again at this new
Event, when at laft we faw coming out from a Grove
of Oranges, a Woman, of a moft majeftick Prefence,
who approached with great Affability, and embra-
cing me tenderly. Princeſs of Carizme (ſaid ſhe to me)
I am Margeon Banou, who protected Abderaim; I can
but very little interpofe myſelf in the Favour of him,
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or of you, againſt what is deftined; it is only per-
mitted me to fweeten your Sorrows; you fhall re-
main in this inchanted Place, untill the Time that
you are to be rejoined to your Spouſe, the Days will
feem fo fhort, that however defirous you may be to
fee thoſe you ſo dearly Love, you will feel no Un-
eafinefs while you are here.
THUS (continued Zarat Alriadh) I paffed more
than ſeven Years in the Palace of the Fairy, which
feemed to me not feven Weeks; and that illuftrious
Perize was continually varying the Pleafures, her
Converſation was fo charming and inftructive, that
it was impoffible for me to leave her without Regret.
It is but four Days ago that I learnt from her, that
the Time of my Separation from you was near ex-
pired, I thought I fhould have expired with Joy at
the News.
WHEN embracing me, fhe faid, go and meet a
Huſband that adores you, I am going this Inftant to
have you transported to the Serail of the Sultan of
Tangut your Uncle; the Nephew of the celebrated
Alroamat, whom you faw in the Grotto of the good
Derwife in concert with me, inftructed him in a
Dream of your Arrival, and that of Abderaim, who
not long after, was conducted to the fame Place, in a
Manner yet more extraordinary. You will foon find
your Son in a Condition, indeed very unworthy of him.
IN fhort, illuftrious Perizes, purfued Abderaim,
every Thing came to paſs as the Fairy had faid to
the Princeſs my Spouſe, and it is not more than
forty eight Hours fince I found my dear Zarat
Alriadh. As we were walking together in the Gar-
dens of the Sultan of Tangut, we were lifted up by
the Genii, who obeys your Orders, and in lefs than
two Minutes transported to this Superb Palace,
where
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221
where to our extream Joy we have at laſt found
Mouiad.
-
My Lord (faid Cothrob to Abderaim) I can affure
you, the Recital of the Adventures of the Princeſs
your Spouſe, and your own, has given us all a great
deal of Pleaſure; and as I am ſenſible that you both
earneſtly defire to ſee the Sultan of Carizme, I ſhall
very foon give the neceffry Orders for your being
conducted thither; but it is now Time for us to re-
tire, and the Adventures of To-morrow will be full
of Events fo fingular, that I believe it will not be
difpleafing to you to be Spectators of them; I there-
fore invite you, and all the Princes and Princeffes here
prefent, and defire that none of you will omit coming
at the ufual Hour; the Iman then ordered the De-
coction of Bueng to be put into the Wine, which
the Dancers Drank, and an hundred Pieces of Gold
to be put into the Pockets of each of them, as well
as their Directrefs. Which being done, they were all
carried whilſt aſleep to the Karavanferail of Cambaye,
except Ildiz and Maſſoud, as for Mouiad, he had been
in the Apartment of Abderaim, and the Princeſs his
Mother from the Day they arrived at the Palace.
EVEN-
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MOGUL TALES.
LXXXVI. EVENING.
The HISTORY of OGUZ, and the
five SULTANAS, continued.
T
HE next Day, which was the Time
prefixed by the Sultan Oguz, for his
Will to be opened, being come, Co-
throb came into the Hall, followed by
the Sultanas, Ackfou, Schirin, and Ba
thal; were they found all the Princes
"I muft intreat
and Princeffes, Ildiz and Maffoud.
you to hear me with Attention (fai he, addreffing
"himſelf to the noble Company) and that no Body
"
દ
may interrupt me, it is fit that theſe Illufions fhould
"ceafe; you are not in the Ginaſtan, as you have
"hitherto been made to believe; this is the Serail
"of the Sultan of Cambaye, who has diſappeared from
"the Eyes of his Sultanas, and his Children, fince
66
which, to this Day four Months are accompliſhed,
"and if in this Place, there has paffed many mar-
❝velous Adventures, they are done by the Power,
"which is given me by the Seal of Solomon, which
"you fee on my Finger; none of you can be ignorant
"of the Authority it gives to whoever poffeffes it,
" becauſe all the Secrets of Nature lye open to him,
"he commands the Elements, and all the People who
"inhabit them, with all the Power which that Sultan
poffeffed, and his Wiſdom which was immenfe. O-
guz
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·223
"
"
•
guz who knew my Capacity, trufted me with the
Sovereign Power to this Day, and according to his
"Intentions, I am going to tranfmit it into his
"Hands to whom it lawfully belongs; but before
that, it is neceffary, that the Sultanas do inftantly
declare their Sentiments."
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THB four Sultanas to whom the Memory of their
Spouſe was very dear, could not refrain from burting
into a Flood of Tears,
Ar length Gebernas (poke in the following Terms.
"Illustrious Cothrob, the Memory of our dear Lord
" and Husband, is fo precious to us, that there is
“not one of us who would not facrifice our Lives, to
"recal him to the Light of Day: theſe are the
"Thoughts of Geanfoux, Neubar, Shebgerak, and
"myſelf; and if we do not at all Times appear fo
“much afflicted to outward View, cur Grief is not
"the leſs, ſince it proceeds from the Sincerity of
"our Hearts; judge then, if in this Difpofition, we
can have any Intentions to pafs into the Arms
"of another Man. No, my Lord, do not injure us
"fo much, as to believe as capable of fuch a
"Thing.
"
“WE have done all that we are able, to perfuade
“Goul-Saba to think as we do, and to abandon her
"Paffion for a Man, fo much unworthy of her; it
"is alfo to be wished that the Prince Bathal her Son,
"would quit all Thoughts of the young Iliz; but
C
our Remonftrances were vain, they operated nei-
"ther on the one nor the other. Goul-Saba is only
"fenfible of the Charms of Maffsud, who finds himn-
"ſelf too much honoured by the Choice, not to prefs
"that fhe would perfect his Happicefs, by giving him
“her Hand, and the young Prince authorized by the
Example of his Mother, is become fo paffionately
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"in Love with Ildiz, that he will no longer hark
en to Reaſon, nor confider what is due to his
"Birth".
"THESE Moft wife Iman, are our fincere Sen-
"timents, and as by all the Wonders we have ſeen
"performed by our Means, we are perfectly con-
<<
vinced, that you are the most powerful next to
our Prophet, we beg that you would obtain of him
"the Favour to take us out of the World; that we
may go to our dear Spouſe, for we have found fince
"his Lofs, nothing that can make us with longer
"to fojourn here". "I know much better, wife Sul-
tanas (replied Cothrob) than to ask him fuch a Fa-
" vour; but on the contrary, I fhall defire that the
"Sword of the Angel of Death, may long be kept
* from you”.
"IF the Sultanas are fo infenfible (faid Goul-Saba,
"interrupting the Iman) that they would die, be-
"cauſe they have loft their Spouſe, my Son and I,
"have, long fince been of a contrary Opinion; and
""
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notwithstanding all the Pains they have taken to
"talk to us on this Subject, we are fenfible that we
can never be happy, unless we unite ourſelves with
"Ildiz and Mafoud, there is no Felicity for us with-
❝out it, and therefore nothing is able to make us
"alter our Refolution".
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MOGUL TALES. 225
LXXXVII. EVENING.
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The Hiftory of OGUZ, and the five
SULTANAS continued.
W.
ELL then (replied Cothrob to Goul-
Saba) fince you will not reflect on
the Baſeneſs, and ill Confequence
which will inevitably attend fuch
Sentiments, and are both refolved to
perfift in your Blindneſs. I will
will open
the Teftament of the Sultan your
late Spouſe, and execute his Will exactly, after the
Orders we ſhall find contained therein: This Com-
mand he gave me in Secret, before he depofited it in
my Hands. I defire the Favour of you (anſwered
Goul-Saba briskly) fince we have larguifhed with ex-
tream Impatience for four Months paft, to delay no
longer, fince the wifh'd for Moment is arrived.
I am going to fatisfy your Curiofity (faid the Iman)
and after having fhewn all the Sultanas, that the
Signet of the Sultan was intire, he opened the Pack--
et, and read the following Words. Let the Name of
our great Prophet be praiſed, and may his Religion ex--
tend from Caf to Caf, it was he who revealed to me a.
Part of what has fince happened in the Serail, before
he feparated me from my dear Sultanas. The Sultan of
Ormuz, who has a perfect Love for the Princeſs Ackſou,
my Daughter, may be affured that his Paffion is approved
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、
by our Prophet; let them therefore be immediately u
nited together, and let that Monarch be put in Poffeffion
of all that belongs to him as her Husband.
DRAW near my Lord, faid Cothrob, to Prince Ca-
zan-Can, and receive from my Hand, the Princeſs
whom Oguz has given you to Wife: Tho' Modeſty
would not permit her fooner to diſcover the tender
Sentiments the had, for fo great and fo lovely a Mo-
ther, ſhe may to Day without a Bluſh, confefs, that
your Perſon is extreamly dear to her.
CAZAN-CAN, as well as the other Princes, was
fo much aftonished at what had juft paffed, that they
thought it rather the Effects of a Dream, than a
Reality; but the Iman who penetrated the very Depth
of their Hearts, foon drew them out of that Error.
It is not an Illufion as you imagine it to be my Lords,
(faid he to them) the King of Ormuz, may if he
thinks fit, inftantly become the Husband of the Prin-·
cefs of Guzarat. If I will (cryed Cazan-Can?) Ah!
mighty Sage, you are truly fenfible of the Violence
of my Love, nor can you be ignorant that I fhall
die with Grief if the lovely Ackfou, expreffes the leaſt
Repugnance to my Happineſs.
VERY far from it, (reply'd fhe modeftly) I dare
now affure you, that I could never have known Hap-
pineſs, if the Orders of the Sultan my Father, had
not accorded with the real Sentiments of my Heart.
The Sultan of Ormuz was tranfported with Joy, at fo
kind and natural a Declaration, he made the utmoſt
Acknowledgment for fo vaft a Favour, and kiffed.
the Princeflès Hand with the greateſt Reſpect imagin-
able, and the Iman performed the Ceremony of Mar-
riage upon the Spot, which being done, he informed
the Company that he must go on to read the rest of the:
Will
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227
Will of Oguz, to which they attended with profound
Silence.
MY Sultanas (whom I wish may always be favoured
by the Prophet) may from this Moment rejoice in the Li-
berty I have given them, in difpofing of themſelves; 1
break all the Bonds that tied them to me; only requiring
that they take Care not to dishonour themselves by an un-
worthy Choice; but if any one of them forget, that The
has been Spouse to the Sultan of Guzarat, let the Iman
marıy them, and let her inftantly be turned out of the
Serail, that she may not cause the others to blush at the
Sight of her.
UPON this, Goul-Saba went and took Mafoud by
the Hand. Behold (ſaid ſhe) this is the Succeffor I
give the Sultan; the ſpoke thefe Words with fo fhock-
ing an Affurance, that the four Sultanas were ex-
treamly provoked; I fhall very little Regard, con-
tinued fhe, the Morals of Oguz, fince I am going to
quit this difmal Place; nor am I afraid to fay, that
it was always hateful to me; and if the Authority of
the Sultan had not detained me, I had never ſtaid for-
his Death, and much leſs fince.
THE Sultanas were going to reproach Goul-Saba
in the ſtrongeſt Terms, for her abominable Behaviour,
but Cothrob prevented them. Let her alone (faid he).
and be contented, it is a fufficient Puniſhment that
fhe is thus permitted to diſhonour herſelf, having ſaid
this, he married her to Maſſoud ; and then went on to
read the reſt of the Will.
SCHIRIN ball reign after me :
As for Ba-
thal, you muſt understand, that he is not my Son, but
the Off-fpring of a vile Mufician, I have no Intereft in
him.
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228 MOGUL TALES.
Ar the reading of this Article, the Sultanas were
fo much furprized, that they could not forbear ex-
preffing their Aftoniſhment. Bathal, is he not the
Son of Oguz, cry'd they. No, he is not, anfwered
Goul-Saba, without the leaft Sign of Shame or Mo-
defty, and what then, I had a Lover before I entered
this Serail, and was with Child, when I was very
much againſt my Inclination, prefented to the Sultan';
and as it plainly appears, that I am the fole Difpofer
of my Son, and that I give my Confent to his Mar-
riage with Ndiz, I intreat the Iman to join them upon;
the Spot.
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MOGUL TALES. 229
LXXXVIII. EVEN IN G.
The Hiftory of OGUZ, and the five
SULTANAS continued.
XOTHROB having executed without
any Difpute, the Defire of Goul Saba,
C as we are at prefènt (cry'd fhe) all
well contented, I fuppofe that my Son
and I, with both our Spouſes, may
be permitted to go out of this honour-
able Prifon? Nothing hinders you, (anſwered the
Iman) if the Sultan of Guzarat gives you Permif-
fion. I fuppofe, replyed the Spoufe of Masoud,
Schirin is too juft, and too good natured to oppoſe
it: We are not certain what his Intentions may
be, faid Cothrob, and as we are drawing near to a new
Part of this odd Story, you will foon fee the Perfon
on whom your Fate depends. He had no fooner ſpoke
thefe Words, than the Door opened, which led from
the Mofque to the Hall, and Oguz came into the
midst of the Affembly.
Ir is impoffible to reprefent perfectly, the dif
ferent Emotions the Sultanas felt. If the four eldeft
were touched with Raptures of Joy, at the Sight of
what they only took for the Phantafm of that dear
Husband, whom they fo long, and fo fincerely mourn-
ed; Goul Saba was fo amazed and terrified, that ſhe
had
230 MOGUL TALE S.
had like to have died with Fear; and as for Bathal
he flood like a Marble Statue.
CC
"SULTANAS, faid Oguz, I am not yet entered
"into the Habitations of the Departed; no I was
willing before that Time, to know the inmoft Se-
crets of your Hearts, I obtained my Wish by a
feigned Death, and ever fince, not one Action
you
"did, or Word you ſpoke, has eſcaped my Know-
"ledge; this is all the Myftery, the reft has been
"wholly conducted by the Iman". Thefe Words
which reconciled the four Sultañas to Life, which
they had fo lately defired to loofe, redoubled the
Fear of Goul-Saba, confufed beyond all Expreffion;
It was a long Time before he was able to make
the leaſt Motion; at length, he threw herſelf at the
Feet of the Sultan, where the remained proftrate
in a profound Silence, and attended trembling, the
Punishment the expected to have pronounced upon
her, for the infolent Diſcourſe ſhe had made with
Relation to Oguz.
&C
"RISE up, unworthy Goul Saba, faid the Sultan
to her, and no longer be in fear for your Life, for
"notwithſtanding your fcandalous Conduct, and the
"Manner in which you have very often expreffed
"yourſelf in fpeaking of me, deferve Death; yet Î
"will not foil my Hands with the Blood of fuch an
abject Wretch as thou art.
"FORGET then for ever, that you have had the
"Honour of my Bed, and tollow, without Conſtraint,
"the loofe kind of Life, into which you have entered
"yourſelf, thou Daughter of a common Woman, and
"former Miltre fs of a Player, who art this Day be-
come the Spouſe of a Man of the fame Profeflion;
go, and execife a Trade that fuits your Genius,
{
** and
MOGUL TALES. 231
" and for which you were born, and finish your un-
fortunate Days with your unworthy Son, on a
"Theatrical Throne, fince you have not deferved to
"finish them on that of Guzarat.
"AND you wife Cothrob, whofe Power I know
"extends to every Thing, oblige me by taking for
ever from my Eyes thefe Objects, whofe Prefence
difturbs the Peace of my Mind, and irritate me to
"Paffion; let them with the reft of the Troop whom
you have fent to the Kerevanferail, be this Mo-
"ment tranfported to fo great a Diftance, that I
may never hear of them any more”.
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=
As foon as Oguz had done fpeaking, to the great
Aftoniſhment of the Spectators, Goul Saba, Maffoud,
Ildiz, and Bathal, difappeared out of the Hall where
they were, and the Sultan turning to his other Wives.
"Adorable Sultanas, (faid he ſhedding fome Tears,
" which he could not reftrain.) Pardon the Weakness
"of which I have been guilty, with Relation to
"Goul Saba and her Son; by it you may plainly fee
"the miferable State of Man, how liable he is to be
"deceived.
"RESTORE me once more to all your Tender-
“neſs, if the grateful Senfe I have of your excel-
"lent Conduct is capable of diminishing my Crime.”
"We never murmured at any Thing you pleaſed
to do, my Lord, (replied Gekernax I can anf-
"wer for the three Sultanas, that neither they nor
“ I, ever ceafed to Love with the mot perfect
"Aff ction, no, not for one Moment; and if it
" has pleafed Heaven, that Time, which defroys.
"all Thi gs, had not altered both our Faces and
“Perfons, and taken away that Bloom and Beauty
“ with which we once were blefed, and which you
232
MOGUL TALES.
66
once beheld with Admiration and Pleaſure, we
might yet hope for the Happineſs of pleafing you.
"Ah! lovely Gehernaz (cry'd Oguz), that is not ne-
"ceffary, now my Blindnefs is diffipated, and I have
recovered the Uſe of my Reaſon; you appear to
me as amiable as you were the firſt Day I ſaw you,
" and I defire our great Prophet to puniſh me with
"Death, if for the Future I am ever guilty of the
"leaft Infidelity to you".
86.
EVEN
MOGUL TALES. 233
LXXXVIII. EVENING.
The History of Ocuz, and the five
SULTANAS Concluded.
A
S for you, Sultan of Ormuz, (faid
Oguz, addreffing himſelf to that Prince)
you, who have fo vifibly experienced
the Bounty of our great Prophet; I
give Acklou unto you, with as much
Pleaſure as Cothrob did before, who by
the Power he is endowed with, affured me, ſhe would
be perfec.ly happy, with fo good, and fo potent a
Monarch. With Regard to the Prince of Viſapour,
and his illuſtrious Spoufe, I ought to make many Ex-
cufes for detaining them fo long in this Place, which
the Power of Cothrob made appear to them to be en-
chanted. But whenever they are inclined to take
their Journey to Vifapour, this illuftrious Philofopher,
Nephew to the great Alroamat, and who, after ha-
ving reigned in China, quitted his Throne to his
Children, and in order, that he might enjoy himſelf,
cauſed them to be tranfported to the feveral Eſtates
he defigned for them.
ALL the Princes and Princeffes prefent, made the
utmoft Acknowledgment to the Sultan for the Part
he had in all thoſe Events, which rendered them in-
tirely Happy, and he received their Compliments
with
234
MOGUL TALES.
with the greateft Politenefs imaginable; he then
turned to Prince Schirin, and tenderly embracing
him, faid,
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}
"My Son, let my Example make you wife;
"learn to know, that there is a Time of Life, in
which the greateft Part of Mankind are Dupes to
"their own Paffions, the Reflection of which will
not be pleafing to us, when Time has rendered us
more difcreet, tho' lefs amiable in our Perfons. But
letting thefe Morals alone, we will confecrate this
"Day to Joy and Mirth, that I may in fome Mea-
"fure exprefs the Pleafure I feel at feeing the Prin-
cefs my Daughter, married to fo great a Prince."
Soon after this Difcourfe, a magnificent Colla-
tion was ferved, which lafted 'till the Night was far
advanced; and Cothrob, who was feated near the
Sultanas, caufed them to be prefented, as likewife the
Sultan, with a Sherbet, compofed of a Water from
a certain Fountain, which was only known to him-
felf; this Water had the Virtue of restoring upon
the Spot, Youth, Beauty, Health and Vigour.
THEY had no fooner drank of it, but looking
one upon another, and cafting their Eyes on Oguz,
they were ſo much aſtoniſhed, that they remained im-
moveable; a Manly Beauty adorned the Sultan's Face,
he appeared intirely different from what he was but
a few Moments before. With all the Graces of
Youth, he found himſelf reſtored to the Strength and
Vigour of a Man of Thirty. And the Sultanas to
the fame Degree of Beauty and Perfection which
they enjoyed before they were married to the Sultan
of Guzarat; their Surprize was fo great, that it was
a long Time before they were able to make their
Acknowledgments to the Iman, but at length recover-
ing from their Aſtoniſhment.
"RE-
MOGUL TALES. 235
66
66
"REVEREND Sage (faid they to him) was it not
enough that you did for us, when you reftored us
"the Heart of Oguz; but you must confound us
"with your Bounty; but you muſt likewiſe beſtow
upon us all thoſe Charms which were neceflary to
pleaſe him, and which Time had before effaced in
us, and to make our Satisfaction reciprocal, you
"have bleſſed the Sultan our Spouſe, with the fame
"Advantages; what Thanks have we to render you,
"and how fhall we be able to acquit ourſelves to-
"wards you for thefe unparallel'd Benefits?
(
"LOVELY Sultanas (replied Cothrob) I fhould
"think I had done nothing, if after having opened
"the Eyes of Oguz, with relation to Goul-Saba and
"Bathal, who are now actually with their Troop
"in the Port of Baifora, if I had not rendered back
to the Sultan, and you, all thofe Gifts which in
your Youth you received from the Hand of Na-
66.
ture ; this was effected by causing you to drink
"The Water of Youth; but I was not permitted to
"let you Taſte that of the Fountain call'd Holmat,
"which the great Monarch of Houlcarnein fought in
“ vain, and of which the Prophet Kedher drank for
a long Time, and became immortal; but that Fa-
vour was afforded but to a very fmall Number of
"particular Perfons.
"We are all born to die, and fince the Mir-
"ror of Alexandria has been broke, we ought not
"to flatter ourſelves with Immortality, which was
reported to be annexed to that Work, to which
"the Fortune of the City of Alexandria was Fatal.
"Let us therefore be continually doing good Works,
fince we only enjoy a Life which muft pafs away,
"theſe will conduct us to another, where the Pro-
phet permits us to partake the greateſt Pleaſures,
66
" in
236 MOGUL TALES.
"in the Sight of which Abderaim rejoiced for a con-
"fiderable Time, and all that he related to you,
"
ought to excite us to Merit, by a ſtrict Attach-
ment to his Law, an Admittance to the Habitati-
ons of the Bleſſed”.
THE Sultan having in his Turn made his Ac-
knowledgments to Cothrob, and teftified the Senfe
he had of his Bounty, ſpoke to him in the follow-
ing Manner.
" IF I did not know the generous Heart of Schi
"rin, I ſhould imagine that the Situation I find my-
"felf in at prefent, would give him Pain at the
Age I am of, would make any Body but him be-
"lieve that it would not be long before he ſhould
44
mount the Throne of Guzarate; my Death, which
"he had good Reaſon to believe was real, has already
"given him a fort of Right to this Empire, which
“I cannot take from him without Regret: But illu-
"ftrious Cothrob, if in giving the Advantages of
"Youth, you have a due Regard to his juft Hopes,
"I flatter myself that you will not difapprove the In-
"tention I have to make him my Affociate in the
"Throne. I declare therefore, that from this Day,
“I devide with him the Empire of Guzarate”.
"Ah! my Lord (cry'd Schirin, throwing himfelf
<< at the Sultan's Feet) believe not, that feduced by
"Impatience to Reign, I am capable of being in the
"leaft uneafy at feeing you in the happy State you
are at preſent. May Thunder blaſt me if I ever
❝entertained fo criminal a Thought, fuffer me there-
"fore to convince you of my Integrity, by ftill re-
"maining your firft Subject, and I will by my Obe-
"dience, Refpect and Submiffion, give you manifeſt
"Proofs that I have no defire to Reign."
"No,
MOGUL TALES.
237
*
"No, my Son (replied Oguz, interrupting him)
"I will never confent to that Demand; I am fo
"thoroughly perfuaded of the Integrity of your
"Heart, that I will abfolutely have you ſhare the
Empire with me. Rife, therefore, for it is not
proper for a Sultan to be in a Poſture you are, and
obey me for the laft Time without Reply".
66
<<
"
SCHIRIN, at this new Command, roſe up, and
after having in the moft refpectful Manner kiffed
the Hand of Oguz, that good Father tenderly em-
braced him, and defired Cothrob to make known to
his Subjects the Dignity to which he had juft exalted
that Prince.
THE Iman immediately gave his Orders to the
Prime Vizier, to publiſh it the next Day: It is not to
be conceived, with what extream Pleafure the Peo-
ple of Cambaye receiv'd this News, which they teſ-
tified by a thouſand Cries of Joy; and all the Prin-
ces and Princeffes, after having been entertained for
more than a Month at a magnificent Feast, which was
celebrated upon thefe joyful Triumphs, and during
all that Time, daily expreffing their Thanks to the
Sultan and Cothrob, upon all Occafions, and how
fenfible they were of their great Bounty, they at laſt
let them underſtand, that their Prefence was abío-
lutely neceffary in their feveral Countries.
UPON which, after having taken a folemn Leave
of each other, the illuftrious Cothrob fummoned all
the Genies, who were fubject to his Power, and gave
them a Charge to conduct the noble Gueſts to their
Kingdoms and Eftates; who, in a few Minutes tranf-
ported Cothbedin and Canzade, to Vifapour; Abderaim,
Zarat-Alriadh, and their Son, to Carisme; Zem-Al.
Zaman,
238 MOGUL TALES.
น
zaman, and Zendebroud, to Kafgar; and Cazan-Can,
Ackfou, Karabag, Albaert, Gülendam, and Aboul-
Affam, to Ormuz; and every one elſe, with their re-
fpective Spouſes, to their own Homes. 'Oguz, with
his four Sultanas, lived in a continual State of un-
envied Happineſs and Joy, to an extream old Age.
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