ABBOT. Your questions, Sire, are deep and hard.
KING. Answer them, or go to prison.
ABBOT. I pray you for some time to think!
KING. I will give you just two weeks. If you cannot answer then, I'll have your head cut off. And then I'll take your lands and palaces.
JESTER. And your knights and golden plates!
ABBOT (in a trembling voice). In two weeks I will return, Sire.
KING. Two weeks and not a day longer! Go!
SCENE II
TIME: two weeks later; morning.
PLACE: the Abbot's palace.