THE SOURCE QF THE NILE. 47
A murtherer and a villain :
A flave, that is not twentieth part the tithe
Of your preceding lord ; a vice of kings ;
A cutpurfe of the empire, and the rule,
That from a Ihelf the precious diadem ftole
And put it in his pocket ;
A king of fhreds and patches..
Shakespeare..
It requires fomethingof innate royalty to perfonate a king.
When I got up and flood before him, he feemed to be rather difconcerted, and not prepared to fay any thing to me. There were few people there belides fervants, moiV men of confideration having left Gondar, and gone with Fafd. After two or three fquirts through his teeth, and a whifper from his brother Chremation, whom I had never before feen—" Wherefore is it, fays he, that you who are z. great man, do not attend the palace ? you were conftantly withTecla Haimanout, the exile, or ufurper, in peace and war i : you ufcd to ride with him, and divert him with your tricks on horfeback, and, I believe, ate and drank with him. Where is all that money you got from Ras el Feel, of. which province, I am told, you are flill governor, though you conceal it ? How dare you keep Yafme in that govern- ment, and not allow Abd eljeileel, wiio is my Have, appoint- ed to enter and govern that province ?" I waited patiently till he had faid all he had to fay, and made a flight in- clination of the head. I anfwered, " I am no great man, even in my own country ; one proof of this is my being here in yours. 1 arrived in the time of the late king, and Ilwas recommended to him by his friends in Arabia. You
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