The rose and the ring; or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo; a fireside pantomime for great and small children . most part, that her majesty never suspected their absurdpassion, and went among them quite unaware of the havoc her beautywas causing, until an old blind lord, who had joined her party, told herwhat the truth was ; after which, for fear of making the people toomuch in love with her, she always wore a veil. She went about pri-vately from one noblemans castle to another, and they visited amongthemselves again, and had meetings, and composed proclamations andcounter-procla
The rose and the ring; or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo; a fireside pantomime for great and small children . most part, that her majesty never suspected their absurdpassion, and went among them quite unaware of the havoc her beautywas causing, until an old blind lord, who had joined her party, told herwhat the truth was ; after which, for fear of making the people toomuch in love with her, she always wore a veil. She went about pri-vately from one noblemans castle to another, and they visited amongthemselves again, and had meetings, and composed proclamations andcounter-proclamations, and distributed all the best places of the king-dom among one another, and selected Avho of the opposition partyshould be executed when the queen came to her own. And so, inabout a year, they were ready to move. The party of Fidelity was, in truth, composed of very feeble oldfogies, for the most part; they went about the country waving their 88 YOU, WHO WlIII SUCCESS WOULD FIGHT, old and flags, and calling God save the queen! and KingPadella happening to be absent upon an invasion, they had their ovv^n. way ibr a little ; and to l)e sure the people were very enthusiasticwhenever they saw the queen. Otherwise, the vulgar took mattersvery quietly ; for they said, as far as they could recollect, they werepretty well as much taxed in Cavolhores time as now in Padellas fillOULD BE STRONG AS WELL AS RIGHT, 89 XTTT. HOW QUEEN ROSALBA CAME TO THE CASTLE OF THE BOLD COUNT HOGGINARMO. Her Majestv, having indeed nothing else to give, made all her fol-lowers Knights of the Pumpkin, and marquises, earls, and baronets,and they had a little court for her, and made her a little crown ofgilt paper, and a robe of cotton velvet; and they quarreled about theplaces to be given away in her court, and about rank, and precedence,and dignities—you cant think how they quarreled ! The poor queenwas very tired of her honors before she had them a month, and I daresay sighed sometimes ev
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