(knock at door)
PRINCE GEORGE: Enter!
EDMOND: Dr. Johnson, Your Highness.
PRINCE GEORGE: Ah, Dr. Johnson! Damn cold day!
DOCTOR JOHNSON: Indeed it is, sir -- but a very fine one, for I celebrated last night the encyclopaedic implementation of my pre-meditated orchestration of demotic Anglo-Saxon.
PRINCE GEORGE: (nods, grinning, then speaks) Nope -- didn't catch any of that.
DOCTOR JOHNSON: Well, I simply observed, sir, that I'm felicitous, since, during the course of the penultimate solar sojourn, I terminated my uninterrupted categorisation of the vocabulary of our post-Norman tongue.
PRINCE GEORGE: Well, I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds damn saucy, you lucky thing! I know some fairly liberal-minded girls, but I've never penultimated any of them in a solar sojourn, or, for that matter, been given any Norman tongue!
EDMOND: I believe, sir, that the Doctor is trying to tell you that he is happy because he has finished his book. It has, apparently, taken him ten years.
PRINCE GEORGE: Yes, well, I'm a slow reader myself...
DOCTOR JOHNSON: (places two manuscripts on the table, but picks up the top one) Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved language.
PRINCE GEORGE: Hmm.
EDMOND: Every single one, sir?
DOCTOR JOHNSON: (confidently) Every single word, sir!
EDMOND: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafribblarities.
DOCTOR JOHNSON: What?
EDMOND: `Contrafribblarites', sir? It is a common word down our way.
DOCTOR JOHNSON: Damn! (writes in the book)
EDMOND: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anus-peptic, phrasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.
DOCTOR JOHNSON: What? What? WHAT?
PRINCE GEORGE: What are you on about, Blackadder? This is all beginning to sound a bit like dago talk to me.
EDMOND: I'm sorry, sir. I merely wished to congratulate the Doctor on not having left out a single word. (J sneers) Shall I fetch the tea, Your Highness?
PRINCE GEORGE: Yes, yes -- and get that damned fire up here, will you?
EDMOND: Certainly, sir. I shall return interphrastically. (exits) (J writes some more)
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