[Doubtfully.] Perhaps you’re right. And yet I was always taught to consider that kind of thing awfully entertaining. But, there. Fashions change in humour as in other things. Send them away.
Fortinbras.
[Giving them money.] Away with you, fellows. Go and get drunk.
[Exeunt clowns.
Horatio.
[Relapses into blank verse on their departure.]
What think you of the New Wing, Fortinbras?
The whole effect is cheerful, is it not?
Good large sash windows, lots of light and air;
No mediæval nonsense.