Now Ricardo had always neglected his fencing lessons . `` Where 's the good of it , '' he used to ask , `` all that stamping , and posture-making , and ha - haing ? The Sword of Sharpness is enough for me . '' But now he could not , in honour , use the Sword of Sharpness ; so on he came , waving the rapier like a claymore , and made a slice at Prince Charles 's head . The prince , very much surprised , parried in prime , riposted , and touched Dick on the hand . At this moment the Princess Jaqueline did what she should have thought of sooner . She flew out of Dick 's coat , and stung old King James on his royal nose . The king wakened , nearly crushed the princess -LRB- so dangerous is the practice of magic to the artist -RRB- , and then leaped up , and saw Dick 's blade flying through the air , glittering in the sun . The prince had disarmed him . `` Hullo ! what 's all this ? A moi , mes gardes ! '' cried the old king , in French and English ; and then he ran up , just in time to hear Prince Charles say : `` Sir , take your life ! I can not strike an unarmed man . A prince you may be , but you have not learned the exercises of gentlemen . '' `` What is all this , Carluccio ? '' asked the old king . `` Swords out ! brawling in my very presence ! blood drawn ! ''
XXXXX Dick 's hand was bleeding a good deal .
At Jaqueline for gardes in like of on out to