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Prince Hilarion has been waiting for his wedding day for twenty
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HIL. Well, father, is there news for me at last?
HILD. King Gama is in sight, but much I fear
With no Princess!
HIL. Alas, my liege, I’ve heard,
That Princess Ida has forsworn the world,
And, with a band of women, shut herself
Within a lonely country house, and there
Devotes herself to stern philosophies!
HILD. Then I should say the loss of such a wife
Is one to which a reasonable man
Would easily be reconciled.
HIL. Oh, no!
Or I am not a reasonable man.
She is my wife � has been for twenty years!
(Holding glass) I think I see her now.
HILD. Ha! Let me look!
HIL. In my mind’s eye, I mean � a blushing bride
All bib and tucker, frill and furbelow!
How exquisite she looked as she was borne,
Recumbent, in her foster-mother’s arms!
How the bride wept � nor would be comforted
Until the
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