4th Prince: Let us go quick and call the
Guardian.
5th Prince: What will he say seeing us in these
clothes? He will be vexed with us.
1st Prince: It was folly of us running away.
But he will forgive us, knowing it will teach us
better sense.
2nd Prince: Come to him then, I don't mind
what he will do to us so long as we are safe from
the terrible Grugach of an Ogre. (All go to right
door, it opens and Ogre bursts in.)
Ogre: Ye thought to deceive me, did ye? Ye
thought to bar me out and to keep me out? And
I after minding you and caring you these seven
years!
3rd Prince: What way did you get in?
Ogre: It's easy for me to get in any place. If
I had a mind I could turn into a house fly and come
through the lockhole of the door. It's much if I
don't change the whole lot of ye into small birds,
and myself to a hawk going through you! Or, into
frightened mice, and I myself into a starving cat!
It's much if I don't skin you with this whip, and
grind your bones as fine as rape seed!
4th Prince: I will call for help! (Tries to shout.)
Ogre: (Putting hand over his mouth and lifting
whip.) Shout now and welcome, and it is bare
bones will be left of you! If it wasn't that I need
you to search out the golden-handled sword for me
I'd throttle the whole of ye as easy as I'd squeeze
an egg! Come on now! Show me where the
treasure is hid.
5th Prince: How would we know?