GRUMBKOW.
Convince yourself, Your Majesty. These immoral French writings are all marked with the initials of His Highness the Crown Prince.
SECKENDORF.
F.P.R.
GRUMBKOW.
Frédéric, Prince Royal.
[The KING starts in anger, takes up one of the books and then touches the bell. EVERSMANN comes in.]
KING.
Eversman [with conscious impressiveness], my spectacles! [EVERSMANN goes out and returns again with a big pair of glasses.] The Attorney-General must make a thorough examination of this vagrant's papers…. I will not have these French clowns in my country. [He looks through one of the books.] The Crown Prince's seal—But no—no … the vagabond must have stolen it from him.