cooks to give me food: I had a lot of meat and liquor. The empress and the young princes stood far from me.
The emperor, who was taller than his people, had a strong face of olive colour. He was already twenty-eight years old and he was a king for about seven years. His dress was very simple, the fashion of it between the Asiatic and European, but he had a sword of gold to protect himself from me. His voice was very clear; and I could hear it when I stood up. The emperor spoke to me, and I answered: but we didn't understand each other. There were other people who talked to me and I tried to speak as many languages as I knew, High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca; it didn't help.
After a while, everyone left, and I stayed with some strong guards to keep me safe. There were people who wanted to get close to me, but some of them were not nice and sent arrows to me. One arrow almost crashed in my
Gulliver`s Travels. A Voyage to Lilliput. A2
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Jonathan Swift
