[Footnote 66: See Phranza, l. iii. c. 20 21. His expressions
are positive: Ameras sua manu jugulavit . . . volebat enim
eo turpiter et nefarie abuti. Me miserum et infelicem i! Yet
he could only learn from report the bloody or impure scenes
that were acted in the dark recesses of the seraglio.]