I am,
May it please Your MAJESTY,
Your MAJESTY'S
Most faithful, most obliged,
And most obedient
Subject and Servant,
John Hawkesworth.
CHAP. I.
Who is he among the children of the earth, that repines at the power of
the wicked? and who is he, that would change the lot of the righteous?
He, who has appointed to each his portion, is God; the Omniscient and
the Almighty, who fills eternity, and whose existence is from Himself!
but he who murmurs, is man; who yesterday was not, and who to-morrow
shall be forgotten: let him listen in silence to the voice of knowlege,
and hide the blushes of confusion in the dust.
Solyman, the mighty and the wife, who, in the one hundred and second
year of the Hegyra, sat upon the throne of Persia, had two sons, ALMORAN
and HAMET, and they were twins. ALMORAN was the first born, but Solyman
divided his affection equally between them: they were both lodged in the
same part of the seraglio, both were attended by the same servants, and
both received instructions from the same teacher.
One of the first things that ALMORAN learnt, was the prerogative of his
birth; and he was taught very early to set a high value upon it, by the
terms in which those about him expressed their sense of the power, the
splendor, and the delights of royalty.
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