Of general content, such fat well-being

As holds among my folk, their laws regardant

Of them they govern and their good alone.

Ay, so: a king of beasts, no king at all.

Swineherd Eumæus; who would call me king?

Fool, fool! Serve God, Eumæus, and mend thy shoes.

And why complain? Had not Laertes too

A son that feared the gods? and where is he?

Would he not now be glad to be alive,

Were’t but to envy me who feed his swine,