_4th Prince_: (_Rushing at Ogre_.) It is you that
are a rogue and a thief!

_Other Princes_: Throw him down while we have
the chance. (_They surround him_.)

_Guardian_: Silence! Don't make that disturbance!
I felt a suspicion yesterday the first
time I saw your faces there was villainy hidden
beneath the dust that was on your cheeks.

_4th Prince_: Listen to us, listen!

_Guardian_: And whatever I thought then, you
are seventeen times more wicked looking now!
And the very scum of the roads!

_5th Prince_: Oh, have you forgotten your
nurslings!

_Guardian: It_ is well you reminded me of them.
(_To Servant_.) Go now and bring the young Princes
here till they will see justice done! They are
maybe gone a bit wild and foolish since yesterday,
put out by those Dowager Messengers. But whatever
they were at their worst, they are King George
compared with these!

_1st Prince_: You _must_ listen!

_Guardian_: Must! What is that language!
That is a word was never said to me since I was
made the Queen's Chamberlain. Here! Put a
gag upon their mouths! (_Soldiers do so, tying a
handkerchief on mouth of each_.) Tie their hands
behind them with ropes. (_This is done_.) Rapscallions!
Do they think to terrify and command me!
I that am not only Governor of the Island but am
Supreme Judge whenever I come into this Court.

_Ogre_: That is very good and very right! Keep
the gag in their mouth! You wouldn't like to be
listening to the things they were saying a while
ago! They were giving out great impudence and
very disrespectful talk!

_Guardian_: Give me here my Judge's wig and
my gown! (_Puts them on_.) Where now are the
young Princes?

_Servant_: They are coming now.

_Guardian_: It will be a great help in their education
seeing justice done by me, as straight as was
ever done by Aristides. Give me here that book of
punishments and rewards. I'll see what is bad
enough for these lads! (_He consults book_.)

_Servant_: Here now are the Princes.

_(Wrenboys come in wearing Princes' clothes_)

_1st Wrenboy: (To another_) Do you see who it
is that is in it?

_2nd Wrenboy_: It is the young Princes in our
clothes!

_3rd Wrenboy_: What in the world wide brought
them here? Believe me it was through some
villainy of the Grugach.

_4th Wrenboy_: What at all has happened?

_5th Wrenboy_: Go ask them what it was brought
them, or what they came doing.

_1st Wrenboy: (To Princes_) What is it brought
you here