bright Example of his Patrons. My Business now calls
me to Court; the Emperor, as yet, has never heard of you: For
whoever dares acquaint him with any thing, without my Permission,
passes his Time very ill. To Morrow, I'll present you to His
Majesty.

He left the Room, and I retired to my Apartment, where none cou'd come
at me, but who pass'd thro' my Lord's, which was Death to do, or even
to fly within Twenty Yards of his House, without Permission. Nay, the
proudest among them, and those of the highest Rank alight at his
Outer-gate, and walk into the House.

The next Morning my Lord came into my Apartment:

"Well, _Probusomo_, said he, I intend this Day to present you to his
Imperial Majesty; and tho' you are of a Species hitherto unknown in
our Parts of the World, and are, for that Reason, look'd upon as a
kind of Monster, as perhaps one of us should be, were we to appear
in your Nation, yet I have observ'd some Points of Discretion in
your Behaviour, and I begin to have a Kindness for you, for which
Reason I intend to instruct you how to demean your self; and if you
are wise enough to act and be guided by the Counsels I shall
prescribe to you, while you are at Court, I can, in spite of your
awkard Form, get you naturalized, and then perhaps may prefer you to
some Charge in the Government, considerable enough to enable you to
pass the rest of your Days in Ease and Plenty.

"You that don't know what a Court is (_proceeded he_) should receive
some Idea of it before you enter there. You must first be informed,
that Emperors do not always trouble themselves with the Affairs of
State; for they sometimes pass their whole Lives in a continued
Round of indolent Pleasures, while their Favourites govern all. I
don't doubt but you have already made your Observation upon the
servile Crowd who attend my Motions, who wait upon my Commands, with
an Obsequiousness that perhaps is not practised in your Parts of the
World, betwixt Creatures of the same Species, yet many of them hate
me, as I do them,--perhaps you'll think this strange; but when the
secret Springs of this Attachment to my Interest come to unfold
themselves to you, which will soon happen, by the Observations I see
you are capable of making, your Admiration will cease. However, I
shall be a little particular in explaining some Matters to you, that
you may thereby be the better qualified to serve my
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