_Scar._ A horse is a degree of honour above a hog---- Has _la Feuillade_ the privilege of distributing titles at the court of _France_? Has he more wit than in cardinal _Mazarine_’s days, who always greeted him in these words, Monsieur _de la Feuillade, All your brains would lie in a nutshell_. _Furet._ ’Tis true, there is no more substance in his brains, than in whipt cream; and as that fills up the desart, and serves to cool and refresh the stomach after a plentiful dinner; so does he serve to unbend and divert the mind, after solid conversation and business. To prove this, I will tell you how he made the king to laugh very heartily, concerning the archbishop of _Rheims_. _Scar._ As a wise politick lady, when she has not the fool her husband to divert her, will have her monkey; so must the great statesman have his buffoon. He is the same to the politician as a clyster is to the man that’s costive. But go on with your story. _Furet._ He being one day with the king, looking out at a window of _Versailles_, that faces the great road to _Paris_, and observing the passengers, the king at last discover’d a coach with more, as he thought, than six horses; and turning to _la Feuillade_, praising the equipage, ask’d him if it was not the archbishop of _Rheims_’s livery: yes, Sir, said _la Feuillade_. I can discover but seven horses, reply’d the king: Oh! Sir, said _la Feuillade_, the eighth is in the coach. But I pretend to degrade this archbishop, and prove that he’s but a _mitred hog_ as well as the rest of his brethren. _Scar._ Ah dear Monsieur _l’Abbé_, for the love of Monsieur _le Tellier_, who has render’d his king and country such great service, take not from him the honour _la Feuillade_ conferr’d on him, and with the king’s approbation. _Furet._ Plead not so earnestly for him, but hear me with patience. I do not say but the archbishop of _Rheims_ is a brute, a very animal, a coach-horse, _per omnes casus_; but yet he pursues the affairs of love with as much zeal, and as little conscience, as any prelate in _Europe_, therefore must not be distinguish’d from his brethren. Besides, if you take him from his lawful title of _mitred hog_, you will hinder his preferment. _Scar._ Oh! by no means. I have read that _Caligula_ honour’d one of his horses with the title of senator; why then may not the Pope, who is the successor of that emperor, call into his senate your coach-horse?