'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.' [‎53] (476/594)

b o l y m a n III, K^ing oj' Perfia
7 HabdsthSmrii qmtted Mafler
the World couud this Money,
Which is as much as to lay, He was declared King, in regard
that in thofc Countries, as well as here, none but Sovereigns
can coin Money. . 5
Underneath were thefe words : Zarhy fefaham haftad ou
ricjtj Coined at Ilpahan the yeur of the Hcgirah 1077.
It was almoft near Midnight before the Ceremony ended. At
what time the Kingrofe up in his Royal Habiliments, which
he did not put off till he was retired into his particular Apart
ment in the Womens Palace. All the while there was to be ob
served a great alteration in the Countenance of the Young
Prince. He looked with a Countenance all in diforder, like a
Perlon that was not well in his Senles. And indeed what
other could be expefted from aPerfonthat had been all along
mued up under a dole confinement, and had never feen the
World ? Befides that by a fecret Fatality of the ill humour of
his Father, he had been fhut up in a more rigorous Impnlotv
ment,than ever was pradiled before toward the Kings Children ?
Could he obferve a certain Pofture of Majefty, that fliould
have performed all things after a furprizing manner, who had
never been inftrudted before ? Much leis, was he able to make
any Refkaions upon himfelf. Add to this, that the Young
Prince paffed of a fudden from one Extremity to another. He
heard himfelf called Mafter of the He that but a little be
fore was in condition little inferiour to that of a Slave. True it
is, that he wanted for no Conveniences in his Captivity, which
was accompanied with all the Pleafures grateful to the Senfes j
but thole Plealures became Torments^ whenfowered with the
continual fears of Death, or deprivation of his Eyes that continu
ally threatned him.
And this was that which made him he could not tell what
to do. For what may we fay of that laft affault that attacked
his very Soul? How many dilmal Apparitions did the dreadful
Cries and frantick Lamentations of his Mother and his Wives,
and others of the fame Sex prefent to his Mind His Soul, to
Ipeak after the Terjtan manner, was like a Sea, which being agi
tated by a furious Tempeft, expreffes its dilbrder by the roaring
of the Waves, and fhews the difturbancc it was in after the Storm
is over, and tho a pleafing Calm fucceed.
The Grand Dutchels ( for that Title is given to the Mother
of the New King from the very moment of her Sons being
Crowned )was not in a wotfe Gondition. They had told her
the