The Sultan could not stand against this declaration: he sprung from his seat to the favorite: the courtiers disappear’d, and the new philosopher’s chair became the theatre of their pleasures: he gave her repeated proofs that he was not less charmed with her sentiments than with her discourse; and the philosophic equipage was thrown into disorder. Mirzoza return’d the black petticoats to her women, sent my lord Seneschal his enormous peruke, and to Monsieur l’Abbé his square cap, with assurances that he should be on the list at the next nomination. What would he not have attained, if he had been a genius? A seat in the academy was the least reward that he could expect: but unluckily he knew but two or three hundred words, and had never been able from that stock, to compass the composing of two Ritournelles .