 I should be out of her Sight, being admitted; confirmed all
that had passed from my Arrival at her Father's House.
    The King, although he be as learned a Person as any in his Dominions and had
been educated in the Study of Philosophy, and particularly Mathematicks; yet
when he observed my Shape exactly, and saw me walk erect, before I began to
speak, conceived I might be a piece of Clock-work, (which is in that Country
arrived to a very great Perfection) contrived by some ingenious Artist. But,
when he heard my Voice, and found what I delivered to be regular and rational,
he could not conceal his Astonishment. He was by no means satisfied with the
Relation I gave him of the Manner I came into his Kingdom; but thought it a
Story concerted between Glumdalclitch and her Father, who had taught me a Sett
of Words to make me sell at a higher Price. Upon this Imagination he put several
other Questions to me, and still received rational Answers, no otherwise
defective than by a Foreign Accent, and an imperfect Knowledge in the Language;
with some rustick Phrases which I had learned at the Farmer's House, and did not
suit the polite Style of a Court.
    His Majesty sent for three great Scholars who were then in their weekly
waiting (according to the Custom in that Country.) These Gentlemen, after they
had a while examined my Shape with much Nicety, were of different Opinions
concerning me. They all agreed that I could not be produced according to the
regular Laws of Nature; because I was not framed with a Capacity of preserving
my Life, either by Swiftness, or climbing of Trees, or digging Holes in the
Earth. They observed by my Teeth, which they viewed with great Exactness, that I
was a carnivorous Animal; yet most Quadrupeds being an Overmatch for me; and
Field-Mice, with some others, too nimble, they could not imagine how I should be
able to support my self, unless I fed upon Snails and other Insects; which they
offered by many learned Arguments to evince that I could not possibly do. One of
them seemed to think that I might be an Embrio, or abortive Birth. But this
Opinion was rejected by the other two, who observed my Limbs to be perfect and
finished; and that I had lived several Years, as it was manifested from my
Beard; the Stumps whereof they plainly discovered through a Magnifying-Glass.
They would not allow me to be a Dwarf, because my Littleness was beyond all
Degrees of Comparison; for the
