LOVE'S LABOUR NOT LOST!
(A Dramatic Scene, with Suggestions from Shakspeare.)
Scene.—A British Quay. Enter The Visible Prince (like the King and his companions in "Love's Labour's Lost") "in Russian habits" but bearing a true British face, not masked. To him enters the most loyal and loving of his subjects and sage counsellors, Mr. Punch.
Mr. Punch (joyously). "All hail the pleasantest Prince upon the earth!"
Prince (gaily.) "Behaviour, what wert thou, till this man show'd thee?"
Mr. Punch. Well capped, my Prince!
Prince. Be you the same, good friend!
"Your bonnet to its right use; 'tis for the head,"
(As Hamlet said), and "'tis indifferent cold."
Mr. Punch. "It is a nipping and an eager air"—