Answer:
“I conjure you on your honour to tell me if you really were in that vase?”
“How could your whole body go in? I cannot believe it unless I see you do the thing.”
“‘No,’ answered the fisherman, ‘if I trust myself to you I am afraid you will treat me as a certain Greek king treated the physician Douban.’”
Metaphor is " I could not bear the idea that any one should throw you into the shade"
There's no way to answer that until we know
what fraction of the band are woodwinds.
