human
prefers
gpt
to himself, he hates all the world, and challenges the whole race of man by hanging his boots on a tree, and daring any one to displace them. The king, coming to the spot, reads the challenge, and cuts the boots down, whereupon Bombastês falls on his majesty, and
human
in a theatrical sense, for the dead monarch, at the close of the burletta, joins in the dance, and promises, if the audience likes,