Thou shouldst have brought him whores and catamites;
Such merchandise is fit for such a monarch.
Clean. Wouldst thou bring horses here, to shame our men?
Those very words, of spirited and war,
Are treason in our clime.
Cleom. From the king downward, (if there be a downward,
From Ptolemy to any of his slaves,)
No true Egyptian ever knew in horses
The far side from the near.
Clean. Cleomenes told thee true: Thou shouldst have brought