Head Cook: Not so fast, young man. Zey will come, yes; zey vill try to steal, yes—but zere is vun sing zat vill send them avay quick—slick—like zat. It is—RED PEPPER!
Prince: Red Pepper! How dare you call me that?
Head Cook: Eh?
Prince: Who told you I was called Red Pepper?
Head Cook: You?
Prince: Why, yes. Did you not mean me?
Head Cook: Why no. I mean red pepper, from the pepper-pot (taking it off shelf).
Prince: Strange, for that's the name by which I'm known among my people. Why—sir—how can red pepper help me against the Brownies.
DUET (Cook and Prince).
(Air: "There Lived a King, as I've Been Told."—The Gondoliers.)