'The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies, through the Black Sea, and the country of Colchis. Containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan. To which is added, the coronation of the present King of Persia, Solyman the III.' [‎135] (164/594)

through the BJack-Sea, and Colchis.
the end the Childern which (he ihould have by him might
Reign more (ecu rely.
Prince George had a great kindnefs for his Wife, as much an
Adulterefs, and as wicked as (he was. So that her being cak'n
from him by force threw him into a moft furious defpair. He
perform'd the Ceremony of Mourning for her Forty Days,
according to the Cuftom of the Country, as if flie had been
Dead i after which he betook himfelf to Arms, and fell into
the Territories of the Prince his Nephew. But was Va
liant, and had good Souldiers about hirti, fo that wai
conftrairi'd to retire into his Mountains, where he died foon
after for Grief and Vekation.
The Prince of the Ahccts alfo went about to revenge the
Affront and ?njury done him, in the Perfon of the Prjncefs his
Daughter, but with as ill fuccefs. He rais'd Forces, began a
War againft the Prince of Mingrelia, and tho the confequen-
ces of the War did not at all fall out to his Advantage^
yet would he never make Peace or Truce with him nor would
he put an end to the War, till he underftood the Death of his
Barbarous Son-in-Law.
There was alfo a Third Enemy, more formidable but as un-
fuccefsful that would notfuffer Levan to beat reft This was
his own Brother call'd Jofeph, who engag'd himfelf lb far in
the juft Refentments of his Untie and the Prince of the
Abca% that he relblv'd to revenge their Quarrel, by caufing
the Criminal to be Murder'd. To that purpofe he corrupted
one of his Guards an Abca by Birth to Affafiinate him j the
Prince's Cup-Bearer being alio Privy to the Confpiracy. The
Plot was lb lay'd that 'jofeph fliould go and Dine at the Palace :
that the Abca Guard fliould ftand behind him with a Lance in
his Hand, and that when the Prince lifted to his Mouth one of
thofe great Beakers of Wine which the Drink at
the end of the Meal, the Cup-Bearer ihould make a fign to
the Abca, who was then to ftrike him through the Body with
his Lance. This Plot was within a little bf being put in Exe
cution, but fail'd when the ftroak was ready to have been gi
ven, Divine Juftice refolving that Lev art's Crimes ihould be
his own Murderers and Executioners, which (par'd him a long
time before they accomplifli'd it. For the Prince perceiv'd the
fign which the Gup-Hearer gave the Guard, and as it were in-
ipir'd, threw himfelf down from the place where he ftoodj fo
that the Lance never touch'd him at all. However the Jlca
efcap'd, but the Cup-Bearer was feiz'd, put to the Rack, and
difitierri"