Not well consider’d; nay, if ’twere, yet nothing

But pardonable from such lips as those.

Est. Then, with your pardon, Sir—if Segismund,

My cousin, whom I shall rejoice to hail

As Prince of Poland too, as you propose,

Be to a trial coming upon which

More, as I think, than life itself depends,

Why, Sir, with sleep-disorder’d senses brought

To this uncertain contest with his stars?

King. Well ask’d indeed! As wisely be it answer’d!—