When he hears the praises of a despot or a king being sung, it sounds to his ears as if some stock breeder were being congratulated some keeper of pigs or sheep, or cows that are giving him plenty of milk; only he thinks that the rulers have a more difficult and treacherous animal to rear and milk, and that such a man, having no spare time, is bound to become quite as coarse and uncultivated as the stock farmer; for the castle of the one is as much a prison as the.