The Chancellor.
[Referring to volume.] All spinning-wheels to be banished from the kingdom—
The Queen.
It has made the price of household linen dreadfully high, but what else could we do?
The Chancellor.
[Continuing, from volume.] The word spin with all its variants to be blotted from dictionaries, dropped from conversation. To compose or sing a spinning-wheel song a capital offence. All spinsters to choose between death or matrimony!
The Queen.
And all of the self-sacrificing dears chose matrimony! So loyal of them!
The King.