King.Ho! ho! ho! ho!
Fred.Dear me!
Let’s see! (Counting on fingers.)
Yes, yes; with yours my figures do agree!
All. Ha, ha, ha, ha! Ho, ho, ho, ho! (Frederic more amused than any.)
Fred.How quaint the ways of paradox!
At common sense she gaily mocks!
Though counting in the usual way,
Years twenty-one I’ve been alive,
Yet, reckoning by my natal day,