the world goes round!

_1st Wrenboy_: Come now, it's time to be taking
the road. Thank you, noble Gentlemen! That
you may be doing the same thing this day fifty years!
_(They go off playing fife and beating drum_.)

_1st Prince_: I would nearly wish to be in their
place to go through the world at large.

_2nd Prince_: They can go visit strange cities,
sailing in white-sailed ships.

_3rd Prince_: They have no lessons to learn.

_4th Prince_: No hours to keep. No clocks to
strike.

_5th Prince_: No Lady Messengers coming to
show off to.

_1st Prince_: They should be as merry as midges.

_2nd Prince_: As free as the March wind.

_3rd Prince_: I don't know how we stopped so
long shut up in this place.

_4th Prince_: I would be nearly ready to change
places with them if such a thing were possible.

_Jester: (Who has had his back to them comes
forward; the Princes stand on his right in a half
circle.)_ And why wouldn't you change?

_5th Prince_: It is a thing not possible.

_Jester_: I never could know the meaning of that
word "impossible." Where there's a will there's
a way.

_1st Prince_: It seems to me like the sound of a
bell ringing a long way off, that I had leave at one
time to go here and there.

_Jester_: If you are in earnest wanting to come to
that freedom again you will get it.

_2nd Prince_: No, we would be followed and
brought back through kindness.

_Jester_: If you have the strong wish to make
the change you can make it.

_1st Prince_: I think I was never so much in
earnest in all my life.

_(The Jester takes his pipe and plays a note
on it. The Wrenboys come back beating
their drum. They stand in a half circle
on Jester's left.)_

_Jester: (To all.)_

If it's true ye wish to change,
Some to have a wider range,
Some to have an easy life,
Some to rove into the wild,
If you do it, do it fast,
Do it while you have the chance.

_Wrenboys: (Together.)_ We will change! We will!

_Jester: (To Princes.)_

If you wish to leave your ease
And live wild and free like these
Like the fawn free and wild,
Not closed in as is a child,
Take your chance as it has come,
Let you run and run and run,
Where you'll get your joy and fun!

_2nd Prince:_ They will know us, they will know us!

_Jester:_ Change your clothes, change your clothes!

_3rd Prince:_ They will know us every place.

_Jester:_ Put their masks upon your face.

_(Wrenboys give them the