in.)_ The King is greatly
put out with all he went through, and the way
the passion rose in him a while ago.

_Nurse_: That he may be twenty times worse
before he is better! Showing such fury towards
the innocent child the way he did!

_Dall Glic_: The Queen has brought him to the
grass plot for to give him his exercise, walking his
seven steps east and west.

_Nurse_: Hasn't she great power over him to
make him to that much?

_Dall Glic_: I tell you I am in dread of her myself.
Some plan she has for making my two eyes equal.
I vexed her someway, and she got queer and humpy,
and put a lip on herself, and said she would take
me in hand. I declare I never will have a minute's
ease thinking of it.

_Nurse_: The King should have done his seven
steps, for I hear her coming.

_(Dall Glic goes to recess of window.)_

_Queen: (Coming in.)_ Did you, Nurse, ever at
any time turn and dress a dinner?

_Nurse: (Very stiff.)_ Indeed I never did. Any
house I ever was in there was a good kitchen and
well attended, the Lord be praised!

_Queen_: Ah, but just to be kind and to oblige
the King.

_Nurse_: Troth, the same King will wait long
till he'll see any dish I will ready for him! I am
not one that was reared between the flags and the
oven in the corner of the one room! To be a nurse
to King's children is my trade, and not to go stirring
mashes, for hens or for humans!

_Queen_: I heard a crafty woman lay down one
time there was no way to hold a man, only by food
and flattery.

_Nurse_: Sure any mother of children walking the
road could tell you that much.

_Queen_: I went maybe too far urging him not
to lessen so much food the way he did. I only
thought to befriend him. But now he is someway
upset and nothing will rightly smooth him but to
be thinking upon his next meal; and what it will
be I don't know, unless the berries of the bush.

_Dall Glic: (Leaning out of the window.)_ Here!
Hi! Come this way!

_Queen_: Who are you calling to?

_Dall Glic_: It is someone with the appearance
of a cook.

_Queen_: Are you saying it is a cook? That
now will put the King in great humour!

_(Manus appears at the window.)_

_Nurse: (Looking at him.)_ I wouldn't hardly
think he'd suit. He has a sort of innocent look.
I wouldn't say him to be a country lad. I don't
know is he fitted to go readying meals for a royal
family, and the King so wrathful if they do not
please him as he is. And as to the Princess Nu!
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