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In so much that they most reverently saluted the vilest and most

abject of them for lords-passing over the ambassadors themselves

without any honour, judging them by their wearing of golden

chains to be bondmen. You should have seen children also, that

had cast away their pearls and precious stones, when they saw the

like sticking upon the ambassadors' caps, dig and push their

mothers under the sides, saying thus to them-"Look, though he

were a little child still." But the mother; yea and that also in

good earnest: "Peace, son," saith she, "I think he be some of the

ambassadors' fools."')