f the Three
Waters of the Sea!

_(Princess stirs slightly.)_

_King_: That is a wonder of wonders! She is stirring!

_Manus_: Oh, my share of the world! Are you
come back to me?

_Princess_: It was a hard fight he wrestled with.
...I thought I heard his voice.... Is he come
from danger?

_Nurse_: He did. Here he is. He that saved
you and that killed the Dragon, and that let on
to be a serving boy, and he no less than one of
the world's kings!

_Manus_: Here I am, my dear, beside you, to be
your comrade and your company for ever.

_Princess_: You!...Yes, it is yourself. Forgive
me. I am sorry that I spoke unkindly to you
a while ago; I am ashamed that it failed me to
know you to be a king.

(_She stands up, helped by Nurse_.)

_Manus_: It was my own fault and my folly.
What way could you know it? There is nothing
to forgive.

_Princess_: But ...if I did not recognise you
as a king ...anyway ...the time you dropped
the eggs ...I was nearly certain that you were
no cook!

(_They embrace_.)

_Queen_: There now I have everything brought
about very well in the finish!

(_A scream at door. Taig rushes in, followed
by Sibby, in country dress. He kneels at
the Queen's feet, holding on to her skirt_.)

_Sibby_: Bad luck and bad cess to you! Torment
and vexation on you! (_Seizes him by back of neck
and shakes him_.) You dirty little scum and leavings!
You puny shrimp you! You miserable ninth part
of a man!

_Queen_: Is it King or the Dragon Killer he is
letting on to be yet, or do you know what he is
at all?

_Sibby_: It's myself knows that, and does know
it! He being Taig the tailor, my own son and
my misfortune, that stole away from me a while
ago, bringing with him the grand clothes of that
young champion (_points to Manus_) and his gold!
To borrow a team of horses from the plough he
did, and to bring away the magistrate's coach! But
I followed him! I came tracking him on the road!
Put off now those shoes that are too narrow for
you, you red thief, you! Fo