rest.

"You must then know, that all this assiduous Court is not paid to my
Person, but to my Place. They know, that I not only hold the Reins
of the Government in my Hands, but keep the publick Treasure under
my own Eye, and that the Power of giving is only mine. It is not
their Love, but their Avarice, that makes them thus obedient to my
Nod; and the same Respect would be paid to the meanest of my
Domesticks, were such a one put in my Place.

"Their Hatred to me proceeds from various Causes. In some it is Envy,
because they think themselves affronted and injur'd by my great
Rise, as knowing themselves to be of greater Consideration in their
Country, and fancifying themselves themselves to be as well
qualified by their Parts. Others again are out of Humour, because I
do not comply with all their unreasonable Demands, their Luxury
always keeping them necessitous. Some of these are such as have
Parts enough to be troublesome; they are hard to be managed, and
indeed are the most dangerous Creatures I have to deal with. There
is a third Sort, who hate and oppose me, only because they love
their Country, but these I don't much fear, for their Party is very
weak at present.

"And since I am upon this Subject, I can't forbear observing to you,
that were it not for the Luxury of some, and the Folly of others, I
could never have stood my Ground so long, and executed those
Measures which I have brought about; and happy it is for a Person in
my Station (if he has any odd Measure in View) that many of the
upper Rank should happen to be Fools; I have myself kept several
Persons dancing Attendance after me, Year after Year, made them
maintain in publick Assemblies, that Nine was more than Fifteen;
that Black was White and a Hundred other things of equal Absurdity,
only by promising to stick a parti-colour'd Feather in their Tails;
and when this was done, it only made them the Scorn and Jest of
every thing of good Sense: Yet it answered my Purpose, and did not
hinder others of equal Folly from making Court for the same thing.

"Thus I have accounted with you why these People are subservient to
me, while they hate me; but I have not given you the Reason on my
Side for keeping up this Correspondence and Union with them, for
whom I have as little Esteem as they can have for me. Then, in a
Word it is, I can't do without them. This you'll easily comprehend
wh