"'With that Answer: is your Majesty serious ?' KING.

"'With that.'" A most vehement young King; no negotiating with him, Sir Thomas! It is like negotiating for the Sibyl's Books: the longer you bargain, the higher he will rise.

In four weeks, time he will demand Four Principalities more; nay, already demands them, the whole of Lower Silesia and Breslau.

A precious negotiation I have made of it! Sir Thomas, wide-eyed, asks a second time:-- ROBINSON.

"'Is that your Majesty's deliberate answer ?' KING.