—If he could live with you. (Aside.)
Thra. The courtiers all
Began to envy me, and rail’d in secret:
I car’d not; whence their spleen increas’d the more.
One in particular, who had the charge
Of th’ Indian elephants; who grew at last
So very troublesome, “I prithee, Strato,
Are you so savage, and so fierce, (says I,)
Because you’re governor of the wild beasts?”
Gnat. Oh, finely said! and shrewdly! excellent!