[Exit Palaemon.
Enter Palaemon, and Don Torribio, a Spanish magician.
Palaemon. Here is the man.
King Bilbonzo. Come nearer, my friend.
Don Torribio. Who told you that I am your friend? Are you in the thought-reading business too?
Homaris (3rd Minister). This is an unmannerly customer.
Palaemon. Do you know you are speaking to the King?
Don Torribio. Why, yes,—I thought so. I presume no one else would wear such a head-gear.
King Bilbonzo. Silence, my lords!—this is evidently an eccentric man. Let him alone. Magicians, fools, and poets have ever been allowed a certain familiarity with princes.
Don Torribio. You forget to add fleas, my prince.