Chapter XXXIV: Sultan Solyman
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The horrible and cruell murder of Sultan Selyman, late the emperor of the Turkes and father of Selym that now raigneth, done vpon his eldest sonne Mvstapha, by the procurement, and meanes of Rosa his mother in lawe, and by the speciall instigation of one of his noble men called Rvstanvs: where also is remembred the wilful death of one of his sons named Giangir, for the griefe he conceiued to see Mvstapha so miserably strangled.
[_Source and Origin._--N. à Moffa.
_Painter._--Not in I.; II. ii. 341; III. ii. 663; IV. iii. 395.
_Derivates._--Latin Tragedy of same name _Solyman et Mustapha_ was
played in 1581 (Fleay, _History_, 421).]
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