'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.' [‎11] (432/594)

S o l y m a n III. Perfia,
in the vanous minds of thoft
the nature of his Difeafe. /
„ . M | ° 1 }, Crue ^ is then, that the moll certain caufe was that
which I have already fet down, that is to fay, the Foul difeafe
attended with a Cancer, which feizing the Griftle that forms
the Conveyances of fmelling, preyed not only outwardly up-
on the Nole, but inwardly upon the Palate,and then falling upon
the U-onU flopped up the palfages of Refpiration. Butth^ywho
imagined themfelves to be more quick-fighced, and to under-
ttand the bottom of things much better, would flill be
whifpenng the Curious in the Ear, and I my felf have been
one of thole to whom it has been told for a great Secret, that
leveral of the chief Officers of the outward Court, and fome
of the Eunuchs alfoof the inward Court, or WomensApart-
ment, had for fome time before agreed among themfelves
to rid themlelves of this Great Monarch, and to that purpofe
a made choice of Poyfon, as the moll fecureway, and lefs
apt to be difcovered. And that which inlligated them to this
evihfli Refolution, was the frantick and furious humour of
atdblS ™ t 7 ftl11 P roduced extra vaganc
and bloudy Tellimonies; which was come to that height, that
IvStnT 1116 he was extreme-
ly addifted, he had cut the Throat of one of his moll beautiful
and legitimate Wives without any offence or other caufe given:
that he had done the fame to feveral of his Domeftick Servants;
r? readin ^ helike Mand untimely Ends,
fulfered themfelves to be tempted into this execrable defignof
giving him a Potion, that fhould wafte him by degrees, and
give him a llow Death, which Ihouldnbt be perceived till it
cametopafs. Others confelfed that in his drunken fits he had
committed thofecmel Ads of which he was accufed, yet that
never any body attempted to poyfon him for all that ,• but that
' C . W f r 5 , er a f ecret frame and inward grief for having
abandoned himfelf to fuch wild and extravagant Tranfportl
that gnawed and devoured his heart However it were, the
Rumour of his being poyfoned was never any other than a
Rumour, and was always looked upon as a Dream for which
there was no ground 5 tho had the bufinefs been more exadly
enquired mto, the truth perhaps might have come to light ac
cording to the Report. &
After the two chief Eunuchs, and chief Phyflcians had
chey went alfo to inform the other Lords of the Council, Hill
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