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,