“As to governing them well,” said Sancho, “there’s no need of charging me to do that, for I’m kindhearted by nature, and full of compassion for the poor; there’s no stealing the loaf from him who kneads and bakes;’ 720 and by my faith it won’t do to throw false dice with me; I am an old dog, and I know all about ‘tus, tus;’ 721 I can be wide-awake if need be, and I don’t let clouds come before my eyes, for I know where the shoe pinches me; 722 I say so, because with me the good will have support and protection, and the bad neither footing nor access. And it seems to me that, in governments, to make a beginning is everything; and maybe, after having been governor a fortnight, I’ll take kindly to the work and know more about it than the field labour I have been brought up to.”