The Whole World is full of Fools, only He that’s the Least One is the
Wisest Man. This would have been Well, if the Moralist had not given
the Block-headed Servant too much Privilege: But the Ill Manners is
suitable enough however, to the Character. It was such a kind of a
Course Complement that _Scotus_ put upon _Charles the Bald_, as they
were Sitting together at a Table. The Emperor ask’d him _Quid Interest_
(says he) _inter Scotum & Sotum_? (Playing upon the Conceit of _Scot_ and
_Sot_) [_Mensa_] says he. That is to say, the Table is between the _Scot_
and the _Sot_: And so with the Liberty of a _Buffon_, the School-man
turn’d the _Sot_ upon the _Emperor_, in _Law-Latin_: This Booby’s Answer
in the Fable, as Unmannerly as it was, had yet a Great deal of Truth
in’t; for He that can Advance himself to be _a King of Fools_, may be
Honestly Reputed within a Hairs Breadth of an _Universal Monarch_.