King: (With a roar.) Anyone to say that word
again I will not leave a head on any neck in the
kingdom! I declare on my oath it would be
best for me to take the world for my pillow and
put that lad upon the throne!
(Queen goes back frightened to door.)
Gateman: (Coming in.) There is a man coming
in that will take no denial. It is Fintan the
Astrologer.
(Fintan enters with Dall Glic, Nurse, Princess,
Taig, Manus and Prince of the Marshes
crowding after him.)
King: Another disturbance! The whole world
would seem to be on the move!
Queen: Fintan! What brings him here again?
Fintan: A great deceit? A terrible deception!
King: What at all is it?
Fintan: Long and all as I'm in the world, such
a thing never happened in my lifetime!
Queen: What is it has happened?