PRINCE.
But they express themselves with more politeness in Holland.
KING.
How then, Prince?
PRINCE.
They say that Your Majesty's Guards consist mostly of men who suffer from an abnormal growth. These giants, so they say, have periods where they shoot up to such an extent that they grow and grow beyond the tree-tops and disappear altogether from human ken.
KING.
Ha, ha! Wittily expressed. But drink, Prince, drink.
GRUMBKOW.
I imagined that Your Highness read only French journals.