[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.