the grand signior's pages serving in the seraglio. These are the children of Christian parents, either taken in war, purchased, or sent in presents from the viceroys and governors of distant provinces; they are the most sprightly, beautiful, and well-made that can be met with; and are always reviewed and approved of by the grand signior himself before they are admitted into the seraglios of Pera, Constantinople, or Adrianople, being the three colleges where they are educated, or fitted for employments, according to the opinion the court entertains of them.

ICCHOR, properly signifies a thin watery humour like serum; but is sometimes used for a thicker kind flowing from ulcers, called alfa sanguis.