"JA, like the Silesians.

No, you must read me the FABLES yourself; they lose a great deal otherwise.

Come back soon." [_Gellert's Briefwechsel mit Demoiselle Lucius_ (already cited), pp.

632 et seq.] (EXIT GELLERT.) KING (to Icilius, as we learn from a different Record).

"That is quite another man than Gottsched!" (EXUENT OMNES.) The modest Gellert says he "remembered Jesus Sirach's advice, PRESS NOT THYSELF ON KINGS,--and never came back;" nor was specially sent for, in the hurries succeeding; though the King never quite forgot him.