King. I'll follow him, &c.

[They hold him by the coat-tails, but he gradually tugs them off.

Scene IV.—A Wood.

Enter Fusbos.

Fusbos. This day is big with fate: just as I set

My foot across the threshold, lo! I met

A man whose squint terrific struck my view;

Another came, and lo! he squinted too;

And ere I'd reach'd the corner of the street,

Some ten short paces, 'twas my lot to meet