counsellors and his seven aunts!

_Queen_: He will give out that you are crazed
and mad.

_Princess_: He will be thankful to his life's end
to have got free of me!

_King_: I don't know. It seemed to me he
was better pleased with you in the finish than
in the commencement. But I'm in dread his
father may not be well pleased.

_Princess: (Patting him.)_ Which now of the
two of you is the most to be pitied? He to
have such a timid son or you to have such an unruly
daughter?

_Queen_: It is likely he will make an attack on
you. There was a war made by the King of Britain
on the head of a terrier pup that was sent to him
and that made away on the road following hares.
It's best for you to make ready to put yourself at
the head of your troop.

_King_: It's long since I went into my battle
dress. I'm in dread it would not close upon my
chest.

_Queen_: Ah, it might, so soon as you would
go through a few hardships in the fight.

_King_: If the rest of Adam's race was of my
opinion there'd be no fighting in the world at
all.

_Queen_: It is this child's stubbornness is leading
you into it. Go out, Nuala, after the Prince. Tell
him you are sorry you made a fool of him.

_Princess_: He was that before--thinking to
put me sitting and sewing in a cushioned chair,
listening to stories of kings making a slaughter
of one another.

_Queen_: Tell him you have changed your mind,
that you were but funning; that you will wed
with him yet.

_Princess_: I would sooner wed with the King
of Poison! I to have to go to his kingdom, I'd
sooner go earning my wages footing turf, with a
skirt of heavy flannel and a dress of the grey frieze!
Himself and his bogs and his frogs!

_Queen_: I tell you it is time for you to take a
husband.

_Princess_: You said that before! And I was
giving in a while ago, and I felt the blood of my
heart to be rising against it! And I will not give
in to you again! It is my own business and I will
take my own way.

_Queen: (To King.)_ This is all one with the
raving of a hag against heaven!

_King_: What the Queen is saying is right. Try
now and come around to it.

_Princess_: She has set you against me with her
talk!

_Queen: (To King.)_ It is best for you to lay
orders on her.

_Princess_: The King is not under your
orders!

_Queen_: You are striving to make him give in
to your own!

_King_: I will take orders from no one at all!

_Queen_: Bid her go bring back the Prince