h Reason like themselves.

"But it will be necessary to instruct you in the Manner of making
your Address, when you enter the Court. You must remember then to
pay your Compliments to the _Squabbaws_, before you do to the
Emperor; and of these the _Vultuaquilians_ claim the Precedence to
those of our own Nation, particularly the bulkiest. It is the
Praftice here to do so, for the Emperor, as to what regards himself,
is no great Lover of Ceremony. The Form of addressing these
_Squabbaws_ has something in it very singular; but the servile
Manners of the _Cacklogallinians_ to those in any Power has made it
necessary to be comply'd with, and is the Cause that they now expect
it. You must make a low Obeisance to the Ground, at which time they
will turn their Backsides upon you, and spreading all the Feathers
of their Tails, give you an Opportunity of saluting them behind. You
will see the _Cacklogallinians_ of Figure and Rank pressing in,
endeavouring who shall be first in kissing the Posteriors of these
_Squabbaws_; and those upon whom they are graciously pleased to turn
their Backsides, and spread their Tails, return highly satisfied, as
if some extraordinary Honour had been conferr'd upon them; nay, I my
self am obliged to do it in as obsequious a Manner as any other,
every time I approach them."

When he had spoke these Words, a Servant came in to give him Notice,
that the Coach was ready. He ordered me to put on my Mantle, and attend
him: I did so, and he was pleased to do me the Honour to carry me with
him in his Coach. In the Way, he discoursed me upon several Subjects.
Among other things, it came into his Head to enquire of me, whether, in
the Parts of the World from whence I came, there were any such things as
Poets. I gave him to understand, that we had several who had been famous
in my own Country. He desired to know what kind of Persons they were: I
answered him, they were the faithful Registers of the glorious Actions
of great Men, whose Praises they sung, in order to stir up others, by
their Examples, to the Practice of Vertue, and Love of their Country;
and that as it required a great Genius, and fine Understanding, to be a
good Poet, they were, for that Reason, highly caressed by the Great, and
their Works so well paid for, that it was as rare to see a Poet poor, as
a Minister of State grow rich by his Employment. This I said, as well
out of Regard to Truth, as for the