KING: I'll try.
ACT III
Boy: Well, they are back again! Thanks to goodness, but none to you. What can you do?
KING: Pray excuse me for not doing any better, but you see, I am not used to work. I am the king.
BOY: I was a simpleton to trust you with the geese; but I am not such a simpleton as to believe that you are the king.
KING: Just as you will. You are a good lad. Here is another gold coin as a peace offering. Good-day.
BOY (as king walks away): He is a kind gentleman, whoever he may be; but take my word for it, he will never make a gooseherd.
—OLD TALE.