he exclaimed , `` I ca n't hit you with this ! This is the Sword of Sharpness ; it would cut through your steel and your neck at a touch . '' He paused , and thought . `` Let me beseech your Royal Highness , '' he said to the Duke of York , who was in a terrible taking , `` to lend your blade to a hand not less royal than your own . '' `` Give him it , Hal ! '' said Prince Charles , who was standing with the point of his sword on the ground , and the blade bent . `` He seems to believe in his own nonsense . '' The duke yielded his sword ; Dick took it , made a nourish , and rushed at Prince Charles . 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 , XXXXX French and English ; and then he ran up , just in time to hear Prince Charles say : `` Sir , take your life !
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