 usual? - O, sir, said I, there are
ladies here make your majesty a fool every day of their lives. The Simple took
no notice of my jest, and several present said my bones ought to be broke for my
impudence; but it pleased the queen, who, knowing Adelaide, whom she hated, to
be the cause of my disgrace, obtained me of the king, and took me into her
service; so that I was henceforth called the queen's fool, and in her court
received the same honour, and had as much wit, as I had formerly had in the
king's. But as the queen had really no power unless over her own domestics, I
was not treated in general with that complacence, nor did I receive those bribes
and presents, which had once fallen to my share.«
    »Nor did this confined respect continue long: for the queen, who had in fact
no taste for humour, soon grew sick of my foolery, and, forgetting the cause for
which she had taken me, neglected me so much, that her court grew intolerable to
my temper, and I broke my heart and died.«
    »Minos laughed heartily at several things in my story, and then, telling me
no one played the fool in Elysium, bid me go back again.«
 

                                Chapter Nineteen

                  Julian appears in the character of a beggar.

I now returned to Rome, and was born into a very poor and numerous family,
which, to be honest with you, procured its livelyhood by begging. This, if you
was never yourself of the calling, you do not know, I suppose, to be as regular
a trade as any other; to have its several rules and secrets, or mysteries, which
to learn require perhaps as tedious an apprenticeship as those of any craft
whatever.
    »The first thing we are taught is the countenance miserable. This indeed
nature makes much easier to some than others; but there are none who cannot
accomplish it, if they begin early enough in youth, and before the muscles are
grown too stubborn.«
    »The second thing is the voice lamentable. In this qualification too, nature
must have her share in producing the most consummate excellence: however, art
will here, as in every other instance, go a great way with industry and
application, even without the assistance of genius, especially if the student
begins young.«
    »There are many other instructions, but these are the most considerable. The
women are taught one practice more than the men, for they are instructed in the
