And eat it up half dough,

Than thus to stay till’t be enough,

And so thy manners show!

“But serve me such another trick,

I’ll thwack thee on the snout:”

Which made the patient King, poor man,

Of her to stand in doubt.

PART IV—WHEREIN KING ALFRED BLOWS HIS
BUGLE-HORN

But, to be brief, to bed they went

The old man and his wife;