person be Pan huper sebastos, there's a Huper superlative ceremony
then of conducting him to the bottom of the stairs, or to the very
gate: as if there were such rules set to these Leviathans as are to
the sea, "Hitherto shalt thou go, and no further." Perditur haec
inter misero Lux. Thus wretchedly the precious day is lost.

How many impertinent letters and visits must he receive, and
sometimes answer both too as impertinently? He never sets his foot
beyond his threshold, unless, like a funeral, he hath a train to
follow him, as if, like the dead corpse, he could not stir till the
bearers were all ready. "My life," says Horace, speaking to one of
these magnificos, "is a great deal more easy and commodious than
thine, in that I can go into the market and cheapen what I please
without being wondered at; and take my horse and ride as far as
Tarentum without being missed." It is an unpleasant constraint to
be always under the sight and observation and censure of others; as
there may be vanity in it, so, methinks, there should be vexation
too of spirit. And I wonder how princes can endure to have two or
three hundred men stand gazing upon them whilst they are at dinner,
and taking notice of every bit they eat. Nothing seems greater and
more lordly than the multitude of domestic servants, but, even this
too, if weighed seriously, is a piece of servitude; unless you will
be a servant to them, as many men are, the trouble and care of yours
in the government of them all, is much more than that of every one
of them in their observation of you. I take the profession of a
schoolmaster to be one of the most useful, and which ought to be of
the most honourable in a commonwealth, yet certainly all his farces
and tyrannical authority over so many boys takes away his own
liberty more than theirs.