(Princes go off playing, "Home, Sweet Home."
The Wrenboys sit down.)
1st Wrenboy: It is likely we'll get good treatment.
Jester: (Coming forward.) Ye should be tired.
2nd Wrenboy: We should be, but that we have
our feet well soled,—with the dust of the road!
3rd Wrenboy: If walking could tire us we might
be tired. But we're as well pleased to be moving,
where we have no house or home that you'll call a
house or a home.
Jester: That's not so with those young princes.
Wouldn't you be well pleased if ye could change
places with them? (He goes back to his corner.)
4th Wrenboy: They are lovely kind young
princes. I was near in dread they might set the
dogs at us.
5th Wrenboy: They would do that if they
knew the Ogre had sent us to spy out the place
for him.
1st Wrenboy: It failed us to see what he wanted
us to see. It is likely he will beat us, when we go
back, with his cat-o'-nine-tails.
2nd Wrenboy: Wouldn't it be good if we could
do as that Jester was saying and change places with
those sons of kings! They that can lie in the
sunshine on soft pillows.