And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
Ver. 6. And he turned himself.] No man may turn himself to go out of the great Turk's presence, but must go backward till he be out of the room. a Dissension falling out between Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex about a fit man for the government of Ireland, he uncivilly turned his back, as it were in contempt with a scornful look: she, waxing impatient, gave him a cuff on the ear, bidding him come again when she sent for him, b &c. But Moses may not be imagined to have so turned himself.
a Turk. Hist.
b Camden's Elis., fol. 494.