Now, of all the rest, each is under him.
And yet almost every one is under more commanders and controllers,
too, than one. And many a man who is in a great office commandeth
fewer things and less labour to many men who are under him than
someone that is over him commandeth him alone.
VINCENT: Yet it doth them good, uncle, that men must make courtesy
to them and salute them with reverence and stand bareheaded before
them, or unto some of them peradventure kneel, too.
ANTHONY: Well, cousin, in some part they do but play at
gleek--they receive reverence, and to their cost they pay honour
again therefor. For except, as I said, a king alone, the greatest
in authority under him receiveth not so much reverence from any man
as according to reason he himself doth honour to the king. Nor
twenty men's courtesies do him not so much pleasure as his own once
kneeling doth him pain if his knee hap to be sore. And I once knew
a great officer of the king's to say--and in good faith I believe
he said but as he thought--that twenty men standing bareheaded
before him kept not his head half so warm as to keep on his own
cap. And he never took so much ease with their being bareheaded
before him, as he once caught grief with a cough that came upon him
by standing long bareheaded before the king.
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