Bonaparte cried, 'Haven't time?
Why, my dear king, you've got all eternity.' 'I know it,' replied Frederick, 'but that isn't enough.

Read a page or two, my dear Napoleon, and you'll see why.'" "Frederick will have his joke," said Shakespeare, with a wink at Tennyson and a smile for the two philosophers, intended, no doubt, to put them in a more agreeable frame of mind.

"Why, he even asked me the other day why I never wrote a tragedy about him, completely ignoring the fact that he came along many years after I had departed.

I spoke of that, and he said, 'Oh, I was only joking.' I apologized.

'I didn't know that,' said I.