And oft did majesty the dumpling grapple.
“’Tis monstrous, monstrous hard, indeed?” he cried;
“What makes it, pray, so hard?”—The dame replied,
Low curtseying, “Please your majesty, the apple.”
“Very astonishing, indeed! strange thing!”
Turning the dumpling round, rejoined the king;
“’Tis most extraordinary then, all this is—
It beats Pinetti’s conjuring all to pieces—
Strange I should never of a dumpling dream!
But, Goody, tell me where, where, where’s the seam?”