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Something to Look At, 1817. '...or The Return of the Embassy. "Il vaut mieux plier que rompre" [It's better to bend than to break], French proverb. "Nimble mischance that art so light of foot, Doth not thy Embassage belong to me", [from Richard II], Shakespear'. Top-hatted man talking to an ape: 'Egad Friend it's very lucky I met with you!! but for you John Bull would have had nothing to look at for his Fivety Thousand!! Mind when you are introduc'd we have no such stupid ceremony as knocking of heads our Courtiers kiss Bottoms. Attend to this and you'll be certain of a Seat or a Sinecure!',