A Play of Isaac (2010)
A Play of Isaac
“Simon had been in the middle of turning from one of them to the other and Master Richard was across the room saying something at Lewis who was nodding and jigging a little on his toes, heeding nothing but that he was going to have his players. Now Basset was simply making the expected bow to Master Penteney, and Joliffe matched him, both their bows deep but, this time, unflourished, one of Basset’s dictates being that a player should always make a flourished bow to both country folk and the nob...ility—to the first because they were impressed by it, to the latter because it amused them—but that for merchants, craftsmen, and almost any other townspeople a plain bow was best. “Because,” Basset had said, “they’re on the watch, always, to keep from being robbed by their betters or cheated by their fellows, by lesser folk, and by assuredly such useless troublemakers as they’re sure we are. Be too fantastical to them and all they’ll do is distrust you the worse.”
So here Basset’s bow was carefully graded with respect to a wealthy man, and Joliffe’s bow was slightly deeper, to show that as Basset’s man he was even more humble—another of Basset’s dictates being that a man was always deemed more important if he had followers.MoreLess
So here Basset’s bow was carefully graded with respect to a wealthy man, and Joliffe’s bow was slightly deeper, to show that as Basset’s man he was even more humble—another of Basset’s dictates being that a man was always deemed more important if he had followers.MoreLess
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