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 On such regards of safety and allowance As therein are set down.

King. It likes us well, And at our more consider'd time we'll read, Answer, and think upon this business. Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour; Go to your rest; at night we'll feast together: Most welcome home!

Pol. This business is well ended.— My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. Your noble son is mad: Mad call I it; for, to define true madness. What is 't but to be nothing else but mad? But let that go.

Queen. More matter, with less art.