‘18 ARISTOPHANES.
bird does it come from? A white-feathered boastard
[bustard] by chance?”
Dobattle. “ Fellow, thou diest!”
Hon. “You re not the man to do it.” ;

Dobat. “ Do you know you’re ‘speaking to a gene-
ral, you beggar?”

Eon, © Beggar! Beggar in your teeth! You a
general! Only one-of the cram hisspay 3 sort!”

Dobat. “1 was duly elected.” ’

Fon, “Elected! yes, by half a’ dozen’ cuckoos. I
am sick of the whole business; white-haired: men
serving in the ranks, and you and your young sprigs
of nobility off on an embassy to Thrace or Sicily or °
heaven knows where! — but always drawing pay.”

Dobat. “We were duly elected.”

fTon. “But why is it always you, and never honest
fellows such as he? Here, Coaldust, did you ever.
goonanembassy? He shakes his head. And yet
he would have done admirably for it. Or you, Heart-
of-Oak? Or you, Bend-in-the-Shoulders? No, you

“see, not one of them.”

Dobat. “O sovereign Pe shall I bear such
wrong?”

ffon. “ All things are borne, so Dobattle is paid.”

On this Dobattle marched off, finding that he could
make nothing of his antagonist. ‘Hereby I pro-
claim,” he said, as he departed, “that I will harass
the men of the Peloponnesus night and day.”

“And I,” said Honesty, “hereby proclaim that I