The Dragon Author:Gregory Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT III Scene: Same. Table cleared of all but vessels of fruit, cocoa-nuts, etc. Queen and Taig sitting in front, Nurse and Dall Glic standing in background. ... more » Queen: Now, King, the dinner being at an end, and the music, we have time and quiet to be talking. Taig: It is with the King's daughter I am come to talk. Queen: Go, Dall Glic, call the Princess. She will be here on the minute, but it is best for you to tell me out if it is to ask her in marriage you are come. Taig: It is so, where I was after being told she would be given as a wife to the first man that would come into the house. Queen: And who in the world wide gave that out? Taig: It was the Gateman said it to a hawker bringing lobsters from the strand, and that got no leave to cross the threshold by reason of the oath given out by the King. The half of the kingdom she will get, they were telling me, and the king living, and the whole of it after he will be dead. Nurse: There did another come in before you. Let me tell you that much! Taig: There did not. The lobster man that set a watch upon the door. Queen: A great honour you did us coming asking for her, and you being King of Sorcha! Taig: Look at my ring and my crown. They will bear witness that I am. And my kind coat of cotton and my golden shirt! And under that again there's a stiff pocket. (Slaps it.) Is there e'er a looking-glass in any place? (Gets up.) Dall Glic: There is the shining silver basin of the swans in the garden without. Taig: That will do. I would wish to look tasty when I come looking for a lady of a wife. (He and Dall Glic go outside window but in sight.) (Princess comes in very proud and sad.) Queen: You should be proud this day, Nu- ala, and so grand a man coming asking you in marriage as the King of ...« less