masks.)_

You never will be missed
For I will throw a dust
Before everybody's eye
That wants to look or pry
To see if you are here,--
And if you should appear
To be someway strange or queer
They will think themselves are blind
Or confused in the mind!

_(Throws a handful of dust over all the boys.)_

Dust of Mullein, work your spell;
Keep the double secret well!

_5th Prince: (To a Wrenboy.)_

Give me here your coat now fast
I don't want to be the last.

_(They all rapidly change coats and caps.)_

_Jester:_ That will do, that is enough.

_1st Wrenboy_: But my hands are very rough.

_Jester_:

Never mind; never mind,
The truth is hard to find!

_Guardian: (Off stage.)_ Gillie, do as you are
told, shut the door, it's getting cold.

_1st Prince_: Oh, I'm in dread! What will be
said!

_2nd Prince_: I'd sooner stay in my old way!

_Jester_:

Never mind, never mind!
The truth is hard to find!
Keep steady. Are you ready?

_1st Wrenboy_: I'll be ashamed if I am blamed.

_2nd Wrenboy_: I have no grace or lovely face!

_Jester: (To Princes.)_ Too late, too late! Go
out the gate!

(_The Princes have taken up fife and drum.
They march out playing_.)

CURTAIN

ACT II

ACT II

SCENE I

(_A front scene. A poor hut or tent, the
Princes are coming in slowly, some limping.
They are in Wrenboys' clothes and the
masks are in their hands_.)

_1st Prince_: This should be the hut where the
Wrenboys told us to come.

_2nd Prince_: It is a poor looking place.

_3d Prince_: It is good to have any place to sit
down in for a while. My back is aching.

_4th Prince_: My feet are all scratched and torn.
There are blisters rising.

_5th Prince:_ I thought we would never come to
the end of the road. The stones by the lake were
so hard and so sharp.

_1st Prince_: It was a root of a tree I fell over
that made these bruises on my knees. I was
watching a hawk that was still and quiet up in the
air, and when it made a swoop all of a sudden
I stumbled and fell.

_2nd Prince_: It was in slipping where the rocks
are high I gave this twist to my arm. I can hardly
move it.

_3rd Prince_: But wasn't the sight of the sunset
splendid over the lake? And the hills so blue!

_4th Prince_: I like the tall trees best. I tried
to climb up one of them, but it was so smooth I
did but slip and fall.

_1st Prince_: I would wish to walk as far as the
hills