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 Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the 
Turks are even sicker.  
 Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the 
Turks are even sicker. 
 [Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from
 the province they have desolated and read more 
 [Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from
 the province they have desolated and profaned. 
 [The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to 
appear healthy, although his end read more 
 [The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to 
appear healthy, although his end was near. 
The Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent.
The Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent.
 We have on out hands a sick man,--a very sick man. [The sick man 
of Europe, the Turk.]  
 We have on out hands a sick man,--a very sick man. [The sick man 
of Europe, the Turk.] 
 [The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild 
and regular diet, but by a powerful read more 
 [The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild 
and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually 
exhausted it.