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Chap. IV. o/Monfieur T A VERNIER.
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fell Juftice, Tent a fecond order for the execution of the Merchants without:
delay* ,
The fame Sba-Sefi having giv*n command that theEye^ of a young Lord of the
Court (hould be put out, one of the principal Officers of the Eloufe being prefent,
and feeing the Executioner prick the eyes of the unfortunate young 1 man with the
point of a fmall knife, fhut his own eyes and turn’d away his head, as abhorring
fach a fpedacle. The King perceiving it, and vex’d to fee thofe figns of pity, and
adiflike of an ad that he approv’d i IFbat, faid he in a fury, art thou afraid to pu-
nijh the wicked ? And at the fame time commanded his eyes to be pull ’d out of his
head.
It is a cuftom, that if any man points at the King as he paffes along in the Street,
or upon the Road, he mu ft lofe his hand. One day Sha-Sefi being in the Country,
rwo Merchants of Confiantinople were upon the Road, where the King and his Train
were to pafs. They ftopp’d to fee the King, and when he came near, one of the
Merchants pray’d his Friend that oft’n had feed him, to fhew him which was he.
The other knowing that only the King wears the Heron tops in his Bonnet, inno
cently lifted up his hand todiftinguifh him, by pointing, from the reft of the Lords
that follow’d him. For which ad two Horfe-men came prefently to him, and cut
off his hand with a Scimiter. v
CHAP. IV.
wry oj naipn ^aater, i\atme oj Zu
rich,/'« tkeReignof Sha-Sefi, hadretain’dhiminhis Service,
R Alph Sadler, born in Zurich, was a Watch-maker by Profeffion, who put him- L
felf into the fervice of the Emperors Refident at the Ottoman Court,
with whom he went to Conftantinople. This man I defil’d to take along with
me into ?erfu\ and coming to Ifpaban, he fet himfelf to work, and made a fmall
Watch about the bignefs of half a Crown i which being a neat piece of work,
the Englffb would needs buy, to prefent it to Iman Couli-Kan, paying the
price demanded, which was two hundred Crowns. Iman-CoulhKan prefented
it to the if ing •, who was mightily pleas’d with it, in regard it was the leaft
linking Watch that eves had been feen by the King, who therefore carry’d it
hanging about his Neck under his Cloathes, in a Gold Chain. One day the King
happening to wind up his Watch, and turning the Key the wrong way, broke
the Fufil, for which he was fo much troubl’d, that he fent for the Watch
maker fiom Ifpaban to Cashing whither when Ralph came, he prelently made
the Watch as good as ever. The King thus fatisfy’d in his work and in his per 1 i
fon, order’d him a Penfion of thirty Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. , and Diet for him and a man, and
provition for two Horfes : commanding him withall to make fome new pieces
of work. Now a skilful workman in the fervice of the Perfian King, has this
advantage, thatif hepleafes the King* befides his Wages that are duly paid, the
King out of his liberality beftows on him a prefent, which ufually amounts to a
third part or half his Wages * 5 or elfe his Wages are rais’d, which is more advantage
ous than a prefent.
Ralph was oblig’d every morning to wait upon the King at his riling, to
wind up his Watch * and was fo much in the Kings favour, that every morn
ing when he came out of the Kings Chamber, he had a Glafs of Wine pre
fented him, as a mark of efteem. And indeed the King had fuch an affedion
for him, that to retain him in his fervice he often follicited him to turn Maho
metan, c '
TheEmbaffador of Holftein coming to Ifpahan, and feeing Ralph fo much in favour
with the King, endeavour’d to gain his Friendlhip.
Thus Ralph oft’n keeping company with the Embafiadors, and having one
tlme toxsfd till late at night upon the debauch with them, returning home to
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