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CONTEXT ''Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks'' is a historical tableau, set in wrote about them is true! A holy people! No one in the world held so deeply freedom, equality, and fraternity." The text of the Sultan's letter to the Cossacks: : ''As the Sultan; son of Muhammad; brother of the Sun and Moon; grandson and viceroy of God; ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt; emperor of emperors; sovereign of sovereigns; extraordinary knight, never defeated; steadfast guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ; trustee chosen by God himself; the hope and comfort of Muslims; confounder and great defender of Christians—I command you, the Zaporozhian Cossacks, to submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks. : —Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV According to the legend, the reply was a stream of invective, parodying the Sultan's titles: : ''Thou Turkish Devil! : ''Brother and companion to the accursed Devil, and Secretary to Lucifer himself, Greetings! : ''What the hell kind of noble knight art thou? Satan voids and thy army devours. Never wilt thou be fit to have the sons of Christ under thee. Thy army we fear not, and by land and by sea in our Chaika s we will do battle against thee. : ''Thou scullion of Babylon, thou beer-brewer of Jerusalem, thou goat-thief of Alexandria, thou swineherd of Egypt (both the Greater and the Lesser), thou Armenian pig and Tartar goat. Thou hangman of Kamyanets , thou evildoer of Podolia , thou great silly oaf of all the world and of the netherworld and, before our God, a blockhead, a swine's snout, a mare's ass, and clown of Hades . May the devil take thee! : ''That is what the Cossacks have to say to thee, thou basest born of runts! Unfit art thou to lord it over true Christians! : ''The date we know not, for no calender have we got. The moon {Link without Title} is in the sky, the year is in a book, and the day is the same with us here as with ye over there—and thou can kiss us thou knowest where! : Koshovyi Otaman Ivan Sirko : and all the Zaparozhian Cossack Brotherhood'' :: REFERENCES
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