EXCERPT

JEROME
Let me just cut to the chase. Where I come from,
you've been toast for 700 years.
HENRY
Toast? What manner of babble is this?
JEROME
It's what I've been trying to tell you ever since I crossed your moat...which, by the way and from the scum on it, is a health hazard just waiting to happen.
HENRY
Enough of this nonsense! State thy kingdom of origin and make haste about it!
JEROME
For the time being, let's just say that I'm not from here.
HENRY
Thy speech and comical dress suggest as much.
(suddenly snaps fingers in inspiration)
The North, I should wager!
JEROME
The North?
HENRY
I have a dozen enemies there who would wish me ill.(smears his mouth with the back of his
hand)
JEROME
And half a dozen ladies to wish they'd succeeded...