The giant nurses frighten children with it,[73]

And cry Tom Thumb is come, and if you are

Naughty, will surely take the child away.

Nood. But hark! these trumpets speak the king's approach.[74]

Dood. He comes most luckily for my petition. [Flourish.

Scene II.

King, Queen, Grizzle, Noodle, Doodle, Foodle.

King. Let nothing but a face of joy appear;[75]

The man who frowns this day shall lose his head,

That he may have no face to frown withal.