'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.' [‎34] (455/594)

At the very Inftant that he appeared without, the General
of the Mufquetteers, with the Prime Minifters Deputy, who
kept at a alliance behind him, threw himlelf at the Prince's Feet,
and made three Obeyfances according to Cuftom, knocking the
Ground with his Forehead. Then rifing upon his Knees, with
his Cheeks all bathed in Tears, which either the Lamentations
of the Ladies had drawn from his Eyes, or the Death of the
Monarch, of which he brought the News, had made him
fhed, he declared the occafion of his coming in thefe words,
which he uttered with a loud voice, and very diftin6tly.
May your Illujlrlous Head he Jafe ; 77;e Kjng
World, jour Father Habas, to whom
accumulation of Glory hds found a'Place
and lourlllujlrioui Highnefs is chofen
Jliled the Lieutenant of the true Soverei For that is the fignifi-
cation of the word Falie-Neamet, which was made ufe of in
that Expreffion, as being the moft ufual Epithete, as alfo the
moft fublime, which the ferftans have been accuftomed to give
their Kings. For Vahe denotes a ; that is,
an Ablolute Prince in his Dominions, and yet one that depends
and holds of another. It alfo fignifies a Mediator almoft in
the fame fenfe. Becaufe a Lieutenant of that nature is a Medi
ator between the Lord from whom he derives his Authority, and
the People to whom he diftributes both Punifhmencs and Re
wards in the Name of the Sovereign Supreme. As for
it comes from the word Inaam, which lignifies the free Gift of a
Lord r * his Slave. So that by the Compound the
(perfans underftand a Lieutenant, whom the true and fupreme
Sovereign, who is God, has eftabliflied with abfolute Autho
rity to dilpence over all the World in his Head his Favour and
Benefits, as we fhall more amply and more to the purpofe ex
plain it in another place.
The General of theMufquetteers thought it not convenient to
ufe more words, that he might not delay the Prince, whom he
found to be impatient to hear what he had to lay. But then
from one extremity he fell into another quite contrary. To
thofe Tears that had forfaken him fucceeded Aftonifhment, Joy
and ; Sadneis that overwhelmed him anew ,• and rendered him
once again as motionlels as before.
He became like a peribn who out of long Darknefs comes
of a fudden in a flaring Light. He feemed to be feized with a
kind of dazling Amaze, and like one that did not fee, beheld
as in a Trance, the great number of Eunuchs that kneeled
round