Consider what an humble Figure the biggest People make when they are eating, sleeping, and doing the other coarse Work of Nature, to which they are all condemn'd ! But then, when they are in their Altitudes, in their Pomp, or in their Passion ; strutting, or mauling their Inferiours ; you would take them for an other sort of Creatures, and that they fancy themselves more than Mortal Men! And yet how many little Masters did they lately cringe to, how mean was their Service and their Salary ; and what a sorry Condition will they come to in a short time? ¹²