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)

bound to oppose the enemies thereof; after the example of those glorious Emperors Constantine, who made war against the Heathen Princes, Maxentius, Maximinus and Licinius, of Theodosius, the elder against the Tyrant Eugenius the worshipper of Hercules, of Theodosius the younger against the Saracens, of Honorius against the Goths, all enemies of Christ, by whose assistance they got notable victories, and glorious triumphs.

13. We cannot do better service to our Countrimen, nor offer a greater affront to the Mahometans, then to bring out th the open view of all, the blinde Samsons of their Alcoran, which hath mastered so many Nations, that we may laugh at it, of which even their own Wise men are ashamed, and are sorry it should be translated into any other language, for they are unwilling that their grand Hypocrite should be taken off, whose filthy nakedness must appear when he is devested; they know that Words and Works of darkness cannot endure the light, Trepidantq; immisfo limine manes, the infernal Ghosts tremble at any glimpse of light; and the wilde beasts return to their dens, saith David, when the morning appears, not daring to seek their prey but in the dark night of ignorance; this great thief Mahomet hath destroyed many thousands, and under the Lyons skin, this Ass hath assrighted his beastly minded Saracens, therefore let us take away the ring from this Giges, by which he hath made himself invisible and let ud with Hercules, pull out this theeving Cacus out of his dark den where he useth to hide and shelter himself, and expose his deformed carcass to the publick view, that we may wonder at it; and in detecting his errors, We follow the practice of Christ, who discovered to the world the damnable Tenets of the Scribes, Pharisees, Hypocrites.

14. The Turks are preposterously zealous in praying for the conversion