is of noble birth and possesses a genealogy, stands on his hind legs

and neighs in the street like an Arabian horse, and says when a

commoner has been in a room: 'Some people from the street have been

here,' there nobility is decaying; it has become a mask of the kind

that Thespis created, and it is amusing when such a person is

Such was the tutor's speech; it was a little long, but while he

delivered it he had finished cutting the flute.

There was a large party at the mansion; many guests from the