HOTHAM.
We are concerned here with an affiliation between two nations which, although differing in language, manners, and customs, still have so many points of contact that they should seize every opportunity to come closer to each other.
KING.
Couldn't you weave in something there about the English being really descended from the Germans?
HOTHAM.
That would lead us too far afield.
KING.
Oh, very well, as you say. It was a good beginning.
HOTHAM.
Such an opportunity now offers in the mutually expressed wish of the dynasties of England and Prussia, to unite in the bonds of holy matrimony two of their illustrious scions. The Prince of Wales sues for the hand of Princess Wilhelmine.