'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎183] (226/1024)

I Chap. XVII. of Monfieur T a v 1 e r n i e r.
Wax-Candle in my hand, I went and view’d them all. The King laugh’d, and
being very glad to fee my face among theirs, Bmg'hiihn, laith he, her to ^hm
tlw baji meft a fancy. In obedience to which, '! pick’d out the elded, as I thought
and led her to his Majefty, who caus’d us to fit down by him. Then the King-
pointing to another. And rehy, faith he, did you . not choofi yonder Girl, which U
younger and handfmer ; commanding them both to kifs me one after another, that
I might underftand the difference between the Careffes of one and the other.
But I reply’d, that were I to choofi; again, I would make the fame choice, be
lieving prudence to accompany age. However I befought his Majefly to confider
that it was not for tneto look upon elder ot younger, and that though he had’
giv’n me the liberty to fend the elder home to rriy Lodging, yet it was not in my
pow’r to accept of his favour, in regard I had a Wife, to whom I never had been
unfaithful.
We had thus droll’d together ’till eleven a Clock at night,' when the King
ftarted another Queftion, Whether any one preffnt knew how to Sing > It hap
pen’d that there was one Monfieur IWw there, that Play’d upon the Virginals, and
pretended to Sing, ( who immediately began a Court-Air. But his Voice being 3
high-pitch’d Voice, and for that the Perfians are altogether for Bafes, the King
did not like him. When I ^perceiv’d that, being in a merry vein, though I knew
not a Note, yet having a good deep voice, and clear, I fung an old Air that came
into my heatj, which begins,
Fill all the Bowls then^ fill 'em highj
Fill all the Glajfes there, for why
Should every Creature drink^hut 1 ?
The King was fo pleas’d, that he cry’d .out, Baricala, Baricala, as much as to
fay, Oh the works of God! an expreflion of admiration ufual among the Per
fians. ,
By this time it was very late, and the King growing fleepy, gave us leave to de
part j which we did very willingly, having had hard labour for feventeen hours
together. - * N
The next night the King fell a drinking again, and there was in his prefence an
Agi or Pilgrim newly return’d from Mecca, and confequently oblig’d never to drink
Wine after that. While the ftaid, there was one of the Perfian Lords got
fo impertinently fuddl’d, that he twke ftruek the Agi's Turbant from his head,
refus’d to drink when the King commanded him, play’d the fool with the Curti-
fans when they were dancing, and committed fo many other adfs of folly, that the
King incens’d at fuch a continuation ofBuflfonry, in a great fury, FbUKafcal,
faid he, bM loft all hti reftett, and thinks he U no more my Slave \ drag him out hy
the feet, and throw him to the Dogs to eat. Immediately four or five of the King’s
Officers came and drag’d him out of the Hall by the feet, and every body wonder’d
he was not thrown to the pogs, according to the King’s Command s. but ’tis
thought that fome of the King’s Woman beg’d for him, fo that his punifhment was
chang’d,
There was one of the Curtifans that gave one of her Companions a box on the
car, not in the King’s prefence, but in the Gallery where they were drinking
together. However fhe did not ftrike fo foftly, but that the King heard thenoife
of the blow. Whereupon he commanded her that had giv’n the blow to be had
before the Deroga or Judge of the Town, whom he order’d to expunge her out
of the number of Curtifans, and to put another in her places that (he fhould
have a hundred Fomans giv’n her, and that the Deroga fhould caufe her to be
marry’d.
The next day I waited on the King, and receiv’d thofe Models which he had
befpoke me to fend into France. They were the Patterns of certain Drinking-
Cups and Trenchers, with the Model of a Dagger drawn with his own hand : for
he had learnt to draw of a couple of Dutch-men that were in his Service* The
Dagger