An Englishman's Home...

"Good morrow, Sire. How can'st I aid thee?"
"Well met, Knave. I have a castle most jolly & well set. Yet I am vexed lest a conflagration entrap me within!"
"For sooth, Sire, thou need'st a means of expediant egress, truely wrought by yonder blacksmith. He is but a fool, yet skilled, & his work will n'er despoil the noble proportions your mason fashioned."
"Let him diligently proceed forthwith!"
"Very good, Sire."