The Court Jester

“Hawkins: I am prepared to make a statement: When I was a lad I was gloomy and sad as I was from the day I was born. When other babes giggled and gurgled and wiggled, I proudly was loudly forlorn. My friends and my family looked at me clammily, thought there was something amiss: when others found various antics hilarious all I could manage was this [looks at his hands]”

“King Roderick: The Duke. What did the Duke do?”

“King Roderick: You spent some time in the Italian court?”

“Get it? Got it? Good.”