down to the north of the world?

_Nurse_: Och! that is what is killing me entirely!
O save her, save her.

_King_: I tell you, it being to be, it will be.

_Queen_: You may be right, so, when you would
not go to the expense of paying her charges at the
Royal school. But wait, now, there is a plan
coming into my mind.

_Nurse_: There must surely be some way!

_Queen_: It is likely a king's daughter the beast--if
there is a beast--will come questing after, and
not after a king's wife.

_Dall Glic_: That is according to custom.

_Queen_: That's what I am saying. What we
have to do is to join Nuala with a man of a husband,
and she will be safe from the danger ahead of her.
In all the inventions made by poets, for to put
terror on children or to knock laughter out of fools,
did any of you ever hear of a Dragon swallowing
the wedding ring?

_All_: We never did.