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Chap. 46. Of the Noise which the Palatines great At∣chievements made in the far distant Regions of the world, and the various Effects of it. (Book 46)
BY the Light and Blaze of this great Bonfire, Fame flew through all the world from Re∣gion to Region as swift as Wildfire, which is fifteen hundred Leagues in half an hour. She made a short stop in Ethiopia, at Prester John's Country, where she told a long story to Queen Candaces, and thence fetching a Tour about the Southern Hemisphere, came to the Great Moguls Court, and then pass'd on to the Emperour of China, so to the Tartars, and the lately discover'd Common-wealth of Heliopolis, in her return homeward taking Persia, Mingrelia and Russia in her way. It is not to be credited how those far distant Monarchs were astonish'd, and what a Pannick dread seiz'd upon their spirits to hear of the wonderful Atchievements perform'd by the Pala∣tine, while every one thought him in the bowels of his Dominions already. The great Mogull, admo∣nish'd and terrifi'd by the Fate of his Predecessor Porus, dreaded the coming of another Alexander, and looking upon his vast Empire as already lost, tho' of a black, sun-burnt complexion, turn'd as white and as pale as a piece of new fine Holland. The Emperour of China had newly drank his mor∣nings-draught, and breakfasted just as the news came, at what time the apprehension of the danger he was in, cast him into such a cold sweat, that he brought up all again. And as for the great Can of Tartary, he was in such a lamentable pickle, that you might have smelt him above ten German Leagues.
But as for the Female Sex, the Physick of the Pa∣latine's glorious Actions wrought quite after ano∣ther