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KING BUNNY } Let him come.
SIR PETER }
(Exit SERVANT.)
SIR PETER: Who might it be? What might he want?
(Re-enter SERVANT with HIT.)
SERVANT: This is the Mouse.
KING BUNNY: How-now good Hit.
HIT: I am well. I hope I find the same. How tight thy ring is.
(KING BUNNY tacks it of. Goes to window to look at mark on finger.)
HIT: (aside) I am a lucky Mouse.
(Tacks ring. Exit.)
KING BUNNY: (turns) O where is my ring and where is Hit?
(Curtain.)
Scene III: Mr Icthus-oress’s House.
(MR ICTHUS-ORESS, BOB, TOM and GOLLIWOG.)
MR ICTHUS-ORESS: Wilt have a game of cards?
BOB: The law of mine order allows me not such idle pleasures.
MR ICTHUS-ORESS: Thou needst not play, then.
(Enter SIR PETER MOUSE.)
SIR PETER: Hast sceene the King’s ring? T’is lost.
MR ICTHUS-ORESS: Lost!! None of us saw it.
SIR PETER: It must be found.
(Exit.)
MR ICTHUS-ORESS: T’is bad.
BOB: May wee be saved from the theft that stole King Bunny’s ring.
TOM: Thy bald and brainless pate shall do no good.
MR ICTHUS-ORESS: Hush I hear footsteps.
(Enter HIT bearing BUNNY’S ring made to look like a common ring.)
HIT: I’ll sell you ring for one Ducat. MR ICTHUS-ORESS: (gives ducat) I shall buy it.
(Curtain.)
ACT II
Scene I: Murry. SIR BIG’S house.
(Enter SIR BIG, SIR PETER, GOLLYWOG, etc.)
SIR BIG: Gollywog.
GOLLYWOG: My lord.
SIR BIG: Get me mine aurmer. I and the good Sir Peter mean to find the king’s ring.
(Exit GOLLYWOG.)
SIR PETER: Wee set our selves to a hard task.
SIR BIG: Indeed wee do sir.
(Enter MR BLUE.)
MR BLUE: I too shall help to find the king’s ring. (Exit all. Enter MR ICTHUS-ORESS, TOM, BOB, GOLLYWOG.)
MR ICTHUS-ORESS: The ring which I have bought is good.
TOM: How goes the story of Bun’s ring I wonder. (Enter MR BLUE with arrow in his side borne by MR YELLOW.)
MR BLUE: I asked Mr Hit had he got it
but he got angry and shot an arrow at me. MR ICTHUS-ORESS: He is a false knave.
(Enter the rest of BROWNIE BAND and DORIMIE.) DORIMIE: (to MR BLUE) I have revenged you. MR BLUE: Much thank for that.
(Curtain.)
Scene II: A boat. SIR BIG’S cabin.
(Flourish. Enter SIR PETER, GOLLYWOG
and DORIMIE.)
SIR BIG: O now we sail to Cannon-Town for there that false knave Hit has fled. Wee mean punish him for shooting at Mr Blue.
SIR PETER: Indeed you speak sooth. Ho!! Dorimie. DORIMIE: My lord.
SIR PETER: Get me some wine.
(Exit all. Flourish. Enter MR ICTHUS-ORESS.)
MR ICTHUS-ORESS: (sings)
Something ti tack a tack to
Hurting the feelings of you.
(Enter HIT.)
HIT: Hail gossip. Dist like the ring I gave thee.
MR ICTHUS-ORESS: O verry well.
(Curtain.)
Scene III: The Liberry at Cannon-Town.
(Enter a HERALD. At last SIR BIG, SIR PETER,
MR GOLD FISH and all the BROWNIE BAND,
MR BLUE included.)
HERALD: Be it now told that Archaabald Hit hath been made a member of the order of knight. Ye reason why be not told ye public.
(Exit HERALD: Flourish. Enter KING BUNNY followed by DORIMIE.)
KING BUNNY: Come hither friends and list to me. I knighted Hit to draw him near me, for the nearer he is to me the more I know about him.
ALL: Yes, well.
KING BUNNY: Don’t you know that we have thought from the first that Hit had stolen my ring? And so I mean to see if he realy has.
MR BLUE: I, Sir Big, and Sir Peter Mouse, intend to find thy ring but we heard that Hit had come hither.
KING BUNNY: O I see.
(Curtain.)
ACT III
Scene I: A public garden in Cannon-Town.
(DORIMIE and MR ICTHUS-ORESS discovered.)
DORIMIE: Hail.
MR ICTHUS-ORESS: Good-day sir.
DORIMIE: The same to you gossip.
MR ICTHUS-ORESS: The day is fine.
DORIMIE: Indeed it is good man.
MR ICTHUS-ORESS: Nice gardens.
DORIMIE: Look hear minstrel.
MR ICTHUS-ORESS: Yes.
DORIMIE: I want you to teach me to sing.
MR ICTHUS-ORESS: All right, this the way I sing (sings)
the owl and the
pussy cat went to sea.
DORIMIE: To see what?
MR ICTHUS-ORESS: To the sea.
DORIMIE: O, was it the see of, what Bishop?
(Enter SIR BIG.)
SIR BIG: In sooth thou hast a nice ring.
MR ICTHUS-ORESS: Yes.
SIR BIG: (suddenly finding it is BUNNY’S ring) How is this? This is King Bunny’s ring made up to look like a comon one, at last I have found the theif ho!! Mr Blue, Sir Peter Mouse, Gollywog, I’ve got the King’s ring.
(Enter SIR PETER MOUSE, GOLLYWOG and MR BLUE.)
MR BLUE: Hail Big, what means this noise?
GOLLYWOG: T’is strange.
SIR PETER: O what means this? Explain thy-selfe my lord Sir Big.
DORIMIE: Give him time.
