{A} _In this line I have not drawn from fiction but memory--that mirror of regret memory--the too faithful mirror of affliction the long vista through which we gaze. Someone has said that the perfection of Architecture is frozen music--the perfection of Beauty to my mind always presented the idea of living Music_.--[MS. erased.] [134] {166} Carasman Oglou, or Kara Osman Oglou, is the principal landholder in Turkey; he governs Magnesia: those who, by a kind of feudal tenure, possess land on condition of service, are called Timariots: they serve as Spahis, according to the extent of territory, and bring a certain number into the field, generally cavalry. [The "line of Carasman" dates back to Kara Youlouk, the founder of the dynasty of the "White Sheep," at the close of the fourteenth century. Hammer-Purgstall (_Hist. de l'Emp. Ottoman_, iii. 151) gives _sang-sue_, "blood-sucker," as the equivalent of Youlouk, which should, however, be interpreted "smooth-face." Of the Magnesian Kara Osman Oglou ("Black Osman-son"), Dallaway (_Constantinople Ancient and Modern_, 1797, p. 190) writes, "He is the most powerful and opulent derè bey ('lord of the valley'), or feudal tenant, in the empire, and, though inferior to the pashas in rank, possesses more wealth and influence, and offers them an example of administration and patriotic government which they have rarely the virtue to follow." For the Timariots, who formed the third class of the feudal cavalry of the Ottoman Empire, see Finlay's _Greece under Othoman ... Domination_, 1856, pp. 50, 51.] [fn] _Who won of yore paternal lands_.--[MS.] [fo] _Enough if that thy bridesman true_.--[MS. erased.] [135] [The Bey Oglou (Begzāde) is "the nobleman," "the high-born chief."] [136] {167} When a Pacha is sufficiently strong to resist, the single messenger, who is always the first bearer of the order for his death, is strangled instead, and sometimes five or six, one after the other, on the same errand, by command of the refractory patient; if, on the contrary, he is weak or loyal, he bows, kisses the Sultan's respectable signature, and is bowstrung with great complacency. In 1810, several of these presents were exhibited in the niche of the Seraglio gate; among others, the head of the Pacha of Bagdat, a brave young man, cut off by treachery, after a desperate resistance. [137] Clapping of the hands calls the servants. The Turks hate a superfluous expenditure of voice, and they have no bells. [138] "Chibouque," the Turkish pipe, of which the amber mouthpiece, and sometimes the ball which contains the leaf, is adorned with precious stones, if in possession of the wealthier orders. [139] {168} "Maugrabee" [_Maghrabī_, Moors], Moorish mercenaries. [140] "Delis," bravos who form the forlorn hope of the cavalry, and always begin the action. [See _Childe Harold_, Canto II., _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 149, note 1.]