to speak to me in that fashion, without first taking off
your hat, without observing _rationem loci, temporis et personae_.
What! you begin by an abrupt speech, instead of saying _Salve_, vel
_salvus sis, doctor doctorum eruditissime_. What do you take me for,
eh?

BAR. Really, doctor, I am very sorry; the fact is that I am almost
beside myself, and did not think of what I was doing; but I know you
are a gallant man.

DOC. Do you know what _gallant man_ comes from?

BAR. It matters little to me whether it comes from Villejuif or
Aubervilliers.

DOC. Know that the word _gallant man_ comes from _elegant_. By taking
the _g_ and the _a_ of the last syllable, that makes _ga_; then by
taking the two _ll_'s, adding _a_ and the two last letters _nt_, that
makes _gallant_; then by adding _man_ you have _gallant man_. But to
come back to what I said; What do you take me for?

BAR. I take you for a doctor. But let us speak a little of what I have
to propose to you. You must know that ...

DOC. Let me tell you first that I am not only a doctor, but that I am
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten times
doctor. Firstly, number one is the base, the foundation, and the first
of all numbers; so am I the first of all doctors, the most learned of
the learned. Secondly, there are two faculties essential for a perfect
knowledge of things: the sense and the understanding; I am all sense,
all understanding: ergo, I am twice doctor.

BAR. Agreed. What I want ...

DOC. Thirdly, according to Aristotle, the number three is that of
perfection; I am perfect; and every thing I do is perfect: ergo, I am
three times doctor.

BAR. Very well then, doctor....

DOC. Fourthly, philosophy is divided into four parts, logic, morals,
physics, and metaphysics; I possess all four, and know them perfectly:
ergo, I am four times doctor.

BAR. Deuce take it, I don't doubt it. Listen to me then.

DOC. Fifthly, there are five universals: the genus, the species, the
differentia, the property, and the accident, without knowing which it
is impossible to arrive at any satisfactory conclusions; I make great
use of them, and know how important they are; ergo, I am five times
doctor.

BAR. I must have patience.

DOC. Sixthly, number six is the number of work; I work incessantly for
my own glory; ergo, I am six times doctor.

BAR. Well, well, speak as long as you like.

DOC. Seventhly, the number seven is the number of bliss; I p