Nay, even the queen and the fourteen queenlets must have a separate court and brilliant uniforms.
"Thrice a week the king goes in glorious array to the market-place accompanied by his body-guards and officers of state, while behind ride the fifteen queens.

On the market-place stands a magnificent throne with silken cushions and canopy, whereon the tailor-monarch takes his seat, and alongside him sits his chief queen.

Knipperdollinch sits at his feet.

A page on his left bears the book of the law, the Old Testament; another on his right an unsheathed sword.

The book denotes that he sits on the throne of David; the sword that he is the king of the just, who is appointed to exterminate all unrighteousness.