THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, AZ 
- 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 fhelf the precious diadem ftole. 
And put it in his pocket ; 
A king of fhreds and patches.. 
| SHAKESPEARE, - 
It requires fomething of innate royalty to perfonate a king... 
Wuen I gor up and ftood before him, he feemed to be’ 
rather difconcerted, and not prepared to fay any thing to™ 
me. There were few people there befides fervants, moft 
men of confideration having left Gondar, arid gone with 
Fafil, 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 
- a great man, do-not attend the palace ?. you: were conftantly | 
with Tecla Haimanout, the exile, or ufurper, in peace and war: : 
you ufed 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 ftill governor, though - 
you conceal it?: How dare you keep Yafine in that govern- - 
ment, and not allow Abd el Jelleel, whois my flave, appoint-- | 
ed to enter. and govern that provinee ?” I waited: patiently ~ 
till he. had ‘faid ail 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 ° 
Iiwas recommended to him by his friends in Arabia.. You: 
are. 
