The _Bashaws_, and other Grandees, as they passed by that Place in their return from Court, and knew, by its Trappings, that it was the _Chiaux_’s Horse, eating his Hay under the _Plane-Tree_, they demanded the Reason, why he was not shut up in a Stable, as heretofore? He readily told them all the Matter; that as he shut us up, so he and his Horse were shut out, so that the one could not get Food, or the other Provender. When the rest of the _Bashaws_ heard this Story, they laugh’d heartily, and from that Time held it fruitless to think of terrifying me with such frivolous Vexations as the shutting my Doors. But a while after that _Chiaux_ was removed, and then we had more Liberty. _Rustan_ himself was satisfied how vain his Menaces were by this Story, I shall now relate. There came a certain aged _Sancto_, of great Esteem among them for his Piety, to pay his Court to him; and, among other Discourses, he asked _Rustan_ why, since the _Sultan_’s Children were at Discord one with another, which was likely to occasion great Troubles in their Empire, he did not make Peace with the _German_ Emperor, that _Solyman_ might be secure from Danger on that side? I desire nothing more, says _Rustan_; but how can I bring it about? His Demands I cannot yield to, and my Demands he will not accept, nor can I compel him so to do. I have tried all Ways to bring him to my Terms; I have kept him in the nature of a Prisoner these many Years, I have dealt coarsely enough with him; and yet, alas! he is but hardened the more thereby. When I would shut him up as a close Prisoner in his own House, then he bars his Door on the Inside, that no body can come at him; thus all my Labour is in vain. If another Man had been so hardly dealt with, to avoid the Durance, he would have turned to our Religion; as for him, he cares not a Rush. This was _Rustan_’s Discourse, as some present thereat informed me. The reason of their surly Carriage, is this: The _Turks_ are very suspicious, that the Agents of Christian Princes have a great Latitude in their Commissions; so that they have Power to alter them, as occasion serves; if they cannot at first get favourable, then they may except of harder Terms. To get out of them the full of their Commissions, they vex their Persons, shut them up close, threaten War, and abuse them all manner of ways.