Aid you, lest they should o'erwhelm you."

Then uprose the Queen, and vanished,

And a hubbub fills the Chamber:

Peers take off their robes of velvet;

Ladies cover up their shoulders,

And the throng is quickly scattered;

Yet was very full the chamber—

Full of Lords, and full of strangers,

All come down, and feeling curious

How the Earl and eke the Marquis