(Coming forward.)_ Ye should be tired.

_2nd Wrenboy_: We should be, but that we have
our feet well soled,--with the dust of the road!

_3rd Wrenboy_: If walking could tire us we might
be tired. But we're as well pleased to be moving,
where we have no house or home that you'll call a
house or a home.

_Jester_: That's not so with those young princes.
Wouldn't you be well pleased if ye could change
places with them? (_He goes back to his corner_.)

_4th Wrenboy_: They are lovely kind young
princes. I was near in dread they might set the
dogs at us.

_5th Wrenboy_: They would do that if they
knew the Ogre had sent us to spy out the place
for him.

_1st Wrenboy_: It failed us to see what he wanted
us to see. It is likely he will beat us, when we go
back, with his cat-o'-nine-tails.

_2nd Wrenboy_: Wouldn't it be good if we could
do as that Jester was saying and change places with
those sons of kings! They that can lie in the
sunshine on soft pillows.

_3rd Wrenboy_: They that can use food when they
ask it, and not have to wait till they can find it,
or steal it, or get it what way they can.

_3rd Wrenboy_: And not to be waiting till you'll
hear a rabbit squealing, with the teeth of a weasel
in his neck.

_4th Wrenboy_: And the weasel when you take
it to be spitting poison at you, the same as a serpent.

_5th Wrenboy_: It would be a nice thing to be
eating sweet red apples in place of the green crabs.

_1st Wrenboy_: Or to be maybe sucking marrow-bones.

_2nd Wrenboy_: It is likely they are as airy and
as careless as the blackbird singing on the bush.

_3rd Wrenboy_: It's likely they go following after
foxes on horses, having huntsmen and beagles at
their feet.

_4th Wrenboy_: Or go out sporting and fowling
with their greyhound and with their gun.

_5th Wrenboy_: Or matching fighting cocks.

_1st Wrenboy_: It's likely they lead a gentleman's
life, card-playing and eating and drinking, and
racing with jockeys in speckled clothes.

_2nd Wrenboy_: Their brooches were shining like
green fire, the same as a marten cat's eyes. They
have everything finer than another.

_3rd Wrenboy_: Their faces as clean as a linen
sheet. Their hair as if combed with a silver comb.

_4th Wrenboy_: There is no one to so much as
put a clean shirt on ourselves.

_5th Wrenboy: (Rubbing his hand_.) I never
felt uneasy at the dirt that is grinted into me till
I saw them so nice.

_1st Wrenboy_: That music they wer