Nood. Oh! monstrous, dreadful, terrible—Oh! oh!
Deaf be my ears, for ever blind my eyes!
Dumb be my tongue! feet lame! all senses lost!
Howl wolves; grunt, bears; hiss, snakes; shriek, all ye ghosts![201]
King. What does the blockhead mean?
Nood. I mean, my liege,
Only to grace my tale with decent horror.[202]
Whilst from my garret, twice two stories high,
I look'd abroad into the streets below,
I saw Tom Thumb attended by the mob;