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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The same Prince being Wounded in a Fight with an Arrow, said to those who were about him: Every one calls me Immortal, and Son of Jupiter: What do you think on’t? does not this wound give the lie to all those Flatterers? This Blood that runs is of the same colour with that of my Subjects, and puts me in mind that I am but a Man.

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Le même Prince, ayant receu un coup de Flêche dans un Combat, dit à ceux qui l’environnoient: Chacun m’appelle immortel, & Fils de Jupiter: qu’en dites vous? cette blessure ne donne t-elle pas le dementi à tous ces Flatteurs là? ce sang qui coule n’est point d’une autre couleur que celui de mes sujets & il m’avertit que je ne suis qu’un Homme.