The Queen's Footstool

An aximander went to court because he was so wise. Dipylus, because he was slow in penmanship. antimacus because he wrote so ch and swift. Polypamon lived by plunder. And clitius is famous because he wasSo faithful. The patriotic codrus, because he bared his bosom to the foe. And spendius for a hundred treacheries. I did not mean to play footpad to thy capacious memory or rob your mind of all these just comparisons. But only to ask, in ordinary material manner, which was the best way to the palace? Which the nearest road, the safest footpath for a hasty stranger to our good queen