SECOND SOLDIER. Besides, they would not know your Majesty dressed so.
KING (anxiously). Gentlemen, disguise yourselves as you have me.
PRINCE. That will not do, Sire. The Danes must not see you dressed as we are. 'Twill make you safer.
KING. Aye, but there's more danger for you dressed so. Come, be beggars now with me!
FIRST SOLDIER (shaking head). Our first thought is for you, Sire.
SECOND SOLDIER. Should you fall into the Danes' hands now, what will become of England?
KING. Why, she must fight again!
PRINCE, (shaking head). Our soldiers ran from the Danes to-day, and lost the battle to them!
KING. 'Tis because they fear these Danes as they do monsters,—monsters come to rob them,—to burn their homes,—to make them slaves!
SOLDIERS. Aye! Aye!