GLUMDALCA, TOM THUMB, HUNCAMUNCA.
_Glum._ I need not ask if you are Huncamunca,[136]
Your brandy-nose proclaims----
_Hunc._ I am a princess;
Nor need I ask who you are.
_Glum._ A giantess;
The queen of those who made and unmade queens.
_Hunc._ The man whose chief ambition is to be
My sweetheart, hath destroy'd these mighty giants.
_Glum._ Your sweetheart? Dost thou think the man who once
Hath worn my easy chains will e'er wear thine?
_Hunc._ Well may your chains be easy, since, if fame
Says true, they have been tried on twenty husbands.
The glove or boot, so many times pull'd on,[137]
May well sit easy on the hand or foot.
_Glum._ I glory in the number, and when I
Sit poorly down, like thee, content with one,
Heaven change this face for one as bad as thine.
_Hunc._ Let me see nearer what this beauty is
That captivates the heart of men by scores.
[_Holds a candle to her face._
Oh! Heaven, thou art as ugly as the devil.
_Glum._ You'd give the best of shoes within your shop
To be but half so handsome.
_Hunc._ Since you come
To that, I'll put my beauty to the test:[138]
Tom Thumb, I'm yours, if you with me will go.
_Glum._ Oh! stay Tom Thumb, and you alone shall fill
That bed where twenty giants used to lie.
_Thumb._ In the balcóny that o'erhangs the stage,
I've seen a puss two 'prentices engage;
One half-a-crown does in his fingers hold,
The other shows a little piece of gold;
She the half-guinea wisely does purloin,
And leaves the larger and the baser coin.
_Glum._ Left, scorn'd, and loath'd for such a chit as this;
I feel the storm that's rising in my mind,[139]
Tempests and whirlwinds rise, and roll, and roar.
I'm all within a hurricane, as if
The world's four winds were pent within my carcase.[140]
Confusion,[141] horror, murder, gripes, and death!