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fair SpeecheSjthat (he would'often meet him in private
places 'y which was a favour very rare and
unufual in that Country, efpecially from fo
great a Perfon as the Emprefs. Having thus
gain'd the Love of the Emperor and Emprefs, to
fo great a degree, this ungrateful Villain madeufe
of that familiarity to which the Emprefs admitted
him, and of that confidence they both put in
him, firfl:
to raife a Jealoufie in the Mind of the
Emperor againft the Emprefs ^ and then by this
means to contrive an opportunity for murthering
them both : which barbarous deGgn this bloody
Villain accomplifhed after this manner. Firft, he
perfuaded the Emperor that his Emprefs was in
Love with a certain Nobleman, whom he fuppofed,
and (he often met him, and had private
Converfation with him in the Garden : Whereupon
the Emperor being highly enrag'd both a-
gainlt this Nobleman, whom he falfly accus'd,
and againft the Emprefs, who was fuppos'd to
have kept company with him, defir'd Mcryaa;?'
da?7oo to enquire diligently at what hour, and in
what place they were to meet together in the
Garden, if it were poffible for him to find it out;
and then, fays he, come and acquaint me with it,
and I will take care that neither of them fhall
efcape out of my hands, but both (hall fufFer
Death, according to the demerit of their Crime.
This Meryaandanoo promis'd to do, as the Emperor
had defired him ^ and fome time after he came
out of the Emperor's prefence, he went to the
Apartment of the Emprefs, and having good
affurance of her ready compliance, by his former
private Converfations with her, he pray'd her to
meet him at a certain Hour of that Day, in a
certain place of the Garden ^ which (he, miftrufting
nothing, readily promifed to do, and ap-
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