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SCENE IX.
The Janizaries in confus'd March.[Enter a Messenger from the Sultan.
MESSENGER.
Commend me to the Aga of your Order,
I have a Message from the Emperor.
First JANIZARY.
We have no Aga; what's your Bus'ness with him?
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Then my Commands are to you all. I'm t'inform—
OMNES.
Hear him, hear him—Silence! begin, begin.
MESSENGER.
I'm t'inform ye, 'tis his Highness's Will,
Finding his Journey gave Dissatisfaction,
To all his loving Soldiers, and his Subjects,
At their Request, quite to relinquish it:
For as he strives in ev'ry other Action,
To do his Subjects pleasure; so in this.
JANIZARIES
Omnes.
Allah, Allah, Osman, Osman, Allah;
Long live our noble gen'rous Emp'ror Osman!
[Exit Messenger, and enter Levantines with an Ichoglan.
First LEVANTINE.
Along, along with him; bring him along:
We met this Fellow loit'ring on the Shore;
And having seiz'd him, found a trait'rous Letter,
Which speaks its own Contents, better than we can.
[A Janizary reads.
To the Bassa of Grand Cairo.
“We have for many Reasons resolv'd to transfer our
Seat of Empire to our antient City of Grand Cairo,
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with those of our Fathers. We command you, therefore,
at Sight hereof, to set forwards, to meet us, with
all the Forces of our Kingdom of Egypt.”
Osman.
Second JANIZARY.
O! Villainy—O! Mahomet! this is the Journey.
You've heard the Letter, and mark'd the Contents:
What say you t'it?
OMNES.
Let's chuse a Head, and march.
Third JANIZARY.
Shall Aly Aga be your new Commander?
OMNES.
He shall, he shall; Aly Aga, he shall.
Fourth JANIZARY.
First let us find the Mufti, and compel him
To march before us to the Seraglio.
OMNES.
Agreed, agreed; march, Aly Aga, march.
[Exeunt.
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