'Tis in our own power—
Unless we fear that apes can tutor's—to
Be masters of our manners.
In The Emperor of the East we find:
You are master of the manners and the habit,
Rather the scorn of such as would live men,
And not, like apes, with servile imitation
Study prodigious fashions.[371]
Surely there is no need to assume common authorship here. The imitative ape has been common property for a long time.
A peculiarity of a sick man is referred to, thus: