Dood. My liege, I a petition have here got.
King. Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day:
Let other hours be set apart for business.
To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk.[79]
And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
Queen. (Though I already[80] half-seas over am)
If the capacious goblet overflow
With arrack punch——'fore George! I'll see it out:
Of rum and brandy I'll not taste a drop.
King. Though rack, in punch, eight shillings be a quart,