A Jackpudding dares to talk to us?
JACKPUD.
Why not? For if people laugh at me, I am not hurt at all; why, it would be my warmest wish to have you laugh at me. So do not hesitate.
LEUTNER.
That is pretty funny!
JACKPUD.
Naturally, what scarcely befits the king is all the more fitting for me; hence he would not appear, but left this important announcement to me.
MÜLLER.
But we do not wish to hear anything.