  As soon as he reached the great gate, he seized the bars,
and tried to shake them, shouting--

Open!  Unbar the gates!

The soldier that had maltreated Tom obeyed promptly; and as the prince
burst through the portal, half-smothered with royal wrath, the soldier
fetched him a sounding box on the ear that sent him whirling to the
roadway, and said--

Take that, thou beggars spawn, for what thou gotst me from his
Highness!

The crowd roared with laughter.