After this, _Bajazet_, considering he had disobeyed his Father’s Commands, by indulging his own Humour, and being cut off from his March into _Syria_, which he had design’d, resolved to move in good earnest towards _Amasia_.
_Solyman_ had presently a Messenger sent him of this Victory, and immediately he posted over into _Asia_. His _Bashaws_ would not let him go before; _But now_ (said they) _you must make haste to press upon ~Bajazet~ in his Misfortune and to prevent his Recruit; for if his secret Favourites should declare for him, they might cut them out further Work. The Report of your Passage over, will both discourage your Son and terrify all his Followers; and, therefore, make haste, lest he serve you as sometime your Father did, who was more formidable after he was conquered than before, so that his very Overthrow at first was the cause of his Victory in the End._ Neither did they thus speak without Cause; for ’tis incredible how much that Fight, though unfortunate, had added to _Bajazet_’s Renown. That he was so hardily valorous, as, with a small handful in comparison, to set upon the well-disciplin’d Army of his Brother, strengthened too with his Father’s Forces; that he was not daunted with the disadvantage of the Place, nor the roaring of the great Ordnance, and that he carried himself in the very Battel, not as a raw Officer, but an expert General. ’Tis true, said they, his Success was not answerable, but his Valour was not inferior; and, therefore, let _Selimus_ boast never so much of his Victory to his Father, this we are sure of, that, of the two, _Bajazet_ deserved to be Conqueror; and that we may attribute his Brother’s being so to any thing rather than to his own Valour. These Discourses concerning _Bajazet_, shew’d him to be Popular, and thereupon they double his Father’s Grief and Pain, and his Desire to ruin him. Resolved he was, none but _Selimus_ should succeed him in the Empire: For, besides that he was his eldest Son, he had been always faithful and obedient to him; but _Bajazet_ had been rebellious, and gaped after the Throne in his Lifetime; and he feared him the more, because he was esteem’d a very valiant Prince, and because also he had openly assisted _Selimus_ against him.