His Case was desperate, between an _angry Father_ that required to have him given up, and a _false Friend_, who pretended to detain him. Sometimes _Solyman_ dealt mildly with the _Persian_, putting him in mind of the League between them, that they were to have the same Enemies and Friends: Sometimes he threaten’d him with War, if _Bajazet_ were not surrendered; and thereupon he placed strong Garrisons on all the Confines of _Persia_; he filled _Mesopotamia_ and the Banks of _Euphrates_ with the Soldiers, especially the Veteran ones, whom he had employed against _Bajazet_, over whom _Mahomet_ the third of the _Vizier’s Bashaws_, and _Beglerbeg_ of _Greece_, was made General, for _Selimus_ was returned home: Moreover, he solicited the _Georgians_ dwelling between the _Hircan_ Sea and _Pontus_, bordering on _Persia_ to aid him against them: They answered courageously, That they were not strong enough of themselves to cope with the _Persian_; but if he himself came upon the Place with an Army, they would then shew themselves Men of Courage against the _Persian_ as their common Enemy. The _Hircanians_ also and the Posterity of _Tamerlane_ were solicitous to join Arms. _Solyman_ himself gave out, that he would go to _Aleppo_, (a City of _Syria_, seated on the Banks of _Euphrates_) that from thence he might make War on the _Persian_: Nor was the _Persian_ himself without Fear; for he had often experienced the Dint of _Solyman_’s Sword. But the generality of the _Turks_ were averse to the War, and look’d on it as a wicked and detestable one; and this cooled the _Sultan_. A great many of the Soldiers, especially the Horse, forsook their Colours, and return’d to _Constantinople_ without leave of their Officers; and being commanded immediately to return, they did so; but so unwillingly, that _Solyman_ plainly saw their Aversion from the Service.