Alexander Ross, The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabick into French, by the Sieur Du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the French king, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities. (1649)

and took a vaile to cover her, we sent her our Spirit in forme of a man; she was afraid, and said, God will preserve me from thee, if thou have his fear before thine eyes; he said, oh Mary! I am the Messenger of God thy Lord, who shall give thee a sonne, active, and prudent: She answered, how shall I have a sonne without the touch of man? I desire not to be unchaste; he said, The thing shall be as I have told thee, it is facile to thy Lord; thy sonne shall be a token of the omnipotency of God, and of his special grace towards such as shall believe in his divine Majesty; she became with child, and retired some time into a place remote from people, where she sustained the dolours of Child-birth, at the foot of a Datetree, and said, Why am I not dead? wherefore am I not in the number of persons forgotten? The Angel said to her, afflict not thy selfe; God hath placed a brook under thee, shake the foot of this Palme, and the Dates shall fall, gather them up, eat and drink, and wash thine eyes; say unto them that thou shall meet, that thou fastest, and hast made a vow not to speak to any one, untill the fast be accomplished. Her parents met her while she bare her Infant, and said unto her. oh Mary! behold a strange thing; oh sister of Aaron! Thy father did not command thee to do evill, neither was thy mother unchaste; she made signes to her infant to answer them; they said, how shall the infant in the Cradle speak? Then her infant spake, and said, I am the servant of God, he hath taught me the Scripture, hath made me a Prophet, blessed me in all places, and commanded me to pray unto him; he hath recommended to me purity through the whole course of my life, and to honor my father and mother; he hath not made me either violent or malicious, praysed shall be the day of my birth, the day that I shall dye, and the day of my resurrection. Thus spake Jesus, the sonne of Mary, with truth, of which ye doubt: God approveth not the discourse of them that say he hath a sonne; praised be God, when he willeth any thing, he saith, be thou, and it is; he is mine and your Lord, worship him, this is the right way; there be persons, who in his regard have been of different opinion, but misery is upon the