call
them) were all sorts of offices belonging to the Seraglio, apartments
for the pages, chiosks or summer-houses for pleasure, and though I
could not get admittance to view the innermost rooms and chambers, yet
by the outward and more common places of resort I could make a guess
at the richness of the rest, being sumptuous beyond comparison of any
in use among Christian princes. On the right hereof was pitched the
Grand Vizier's tent, exceeding rich and lofty, and had I not seen that
of the Sultan before it, I should have judged it the best that mine
eyes had seen. The ostentation and richness of this empire being
evidenced in nothing more than the richness of their pavilions,
sumptuous beyond the fixed palaces of princes, erected with marble and
mortar.'

[40] _Quaker Women_, by Mabel R. Brailsford.

XXIX. FIERCE FEATHERS

_'We who were once slayers of one
another do not now fight against our
enemies.'--JUSTIN MARTYR. A.D. 140._

_'Victory that is gotten by the
sword is a victory slaves get one
over the other; but victory
contained by love is a victory for
a king.'--GERRARD WINSTANLEY. 1649._

_'Here you will come to love God
above all, and your neighbours as
yourselves. Nothing hurts, nothing
harms, nothing makes afraid on
this holy mountain.'--G. FOX._

_'My friends that are gone or are
going over to plant and make
outward plantations in America,
keep your own plantations in your
hearts with the spirit and power
of God, that your own vines and
lilies be not hurt.'--G. FOX._

_'Take heed of many words, what
reaches to the life settles in the
life. That which cometh from the
life and is received from God,
reaches to the life and settles
others in the life.'--G. FOX._

_'An old Indian named Papunehang
appreciated the spirit and
atmosphere of a Friends' meeting,
even if he did not comprehend the
words, telling the interpreter
afterwards, "I love to feel where
words come from."'--A.M. GUMMERE