Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-330) and index
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"The lives of other": Introduction"What duty is": Service as ideal and indignity -- "The need we have to use you": Uses of servants -- "The mere word's a slave": Language and service -- "If I last in this service": Loyalty and disloyalty -- "Good counsel": Servants' advice and commentary -- "A losing office": Messengers -- "'Tis proper I obey him, but not now": Conflicts of service -- "Every good servant does not all commands": The duty to disobey -- "Duty in his service perishing": Servants and violence -- "Remember I have done thee worthy service": Conclusion.