The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English; / or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern

by Abel Boyer

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Antigonus hearing a Poet call him Son of Jupiter; My Valet de Chamber, said he smiling, who empties my Close-stool, knows but too well that I am but a Man.

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Antigonus entendant un Poëte flateur l’appeller Fils de Jupiter: Mon Valet de chambre, dit-il en soûriant, qui vuide ma chaise percée sçait trop bien que je ne suis qu’un Homme.