To be brief, I favour thee therefore, thy fortune is made." I was bewildered enough by this speech, not a tithe of which could I understand.

I took it ill to be called Dutchman, and dragon's tooth; nor, albeit I was a printer's 'prentice, did I know what he meant by Parnassus.

Still, as he seemed friendly disposed, I answered: "I thank you." "Thank not me," said he, raising his hand.

"Let not the groping man thank the lamp, nor the briar the brook.

Thank the sun whence the lamp hath his light, and the ocean to whom the brook oweth his waters.