The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabique into French; by the sieur Du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the King of France, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities

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The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabique into French; by the sieur Du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the King of France, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities
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printed, anno Dom. 1649.
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"The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabique into French; by the sieur Du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the King of France, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B25542.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.

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CHAP. C. The Chapter of Horses, containing eleven Verses, written at Mecca and Medina.

Some Arabians have called this the Chapter of Return, or of them that return.

IN the name of God, gracious and mercifull. I sweare by the Horses, and the noise they make with their feet, when they return to war, and by the fire, which they make to arise, when they strike their feet against stones; that run lightly through jealousie, and raise the dust in the midst of enemies, that man is ingratefull for the graces of his Lord, he himself is witnesse of his ingratitude, and too much affecteth the riches of the earth; knoweth he not

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••••••t God will make all the world to revive? that he will ••••ing to light whatsoever is most secret in the hearts of en? and that he knoweth all that they have done?

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