nose. He was only cured when during an examination, when a French physician fed him juleps (lying that it was for medicinal purposes) and pretended to agree with him. The physician produced a knife and cut off the imaginary fly, and then showed Numan Pasha a dead one that was already hidden in his hand. A similar story was told earlier by Samuel Butler in his satirical poem Hudibras. See also Köprülü era of the Ottoman Empire Köprülü family List of Ottoman Grand Viziers List of Ottoman governors of Crete Notes External links Köprülü family 1670 births 1719 deaths People from the Ottoman Empire of Albanian descent 18th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire Albanian Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire Ottoman governors of Crete Damats Ottoman governors of Cyprus