to go joking, having neither cark nor care: that
is no way to treat the second best match in Ireland!

_King_: You were saying you had your mind
made up to take him.

_Princess_: It failed me to do it! Himself and
his counsellors and his seven aunts!

_Queen_: He will give out that you are crazed
and mad.

_Princess_: He will be thankful to his life's end
to have got free of me!

_King_: I don't know. It seemed to me he
was better pleased with you in the finish than
in the commencement. But I'm in dread his
father may not be well pleased.

_Princess: (Patting him.)_ Which now of the
two of you is the most to be pitied? He to
have such a timid son or you to have such an unruly
daughter?

_Queen_: It is likely he will make an attack on
you. There was a war made by the King of Britain
on the head of a terrier pup that was sent to him
and that made away on the road following hares.
It's best for you to make ready to put yourself at