Victory to the King! two young hermits are in waiting outside, and solicit an audience of your Majesty.
KING.
Introduce them Immediately.
WARDER.
I will, my liege.
[Goes out, and re-enters with TWO YOUNG HERMITS.]
This way, Sirs, this way.
[Both the HERMITS _look at the KING.
FIRST HERMIT.
How majestic is his mien, and yet what confidence it inspires! But this might be expected in a king, whose character and habits have earned for him a title only one degree removed from that of a Sage [39].