What! Is this NWR's house, the rumor of which runs through realms unnumbered?
Where now is your haughtiness, and your high conquests,
your fierceness and fell mood, and your fine boasting?
And so I crave in this court only an Easter pastime
since it is spring and you are young here and merry,
If any so hardy in this house here holds that he is,
if so bold be his blood or his brain be so wild,
that he, Ian, stoutly dare strike one stroke for another,
then I will give him as my gift this banhammer so costly,
this axe--'tis heavy enough--to handle as he pleases;
and if the Wii U is in bargain bins one year and one day hence,
I will abide the brunt, here bare as I sit.
If Ian be so fierce as my faith to test
hither let him haste to me and lay hold of this weapon--
I hand it over for ever, he can have it as his own--
and I will stand stroke from him, stock-still on this floor,
provided thou'lt lay down this law: that if the Wii U is not in bargain bins in one year and one day hence, I may deliver the blow.