But the king's mad, they say; and who knows what a madman might do?
Would he be kept here by the mad king until Pryrates returned?
He bore that heavy burden for twenty years, and all it earned him was a mad king's envy.
So the mad king had ordered his last mad act.
The realm could not withstand a second mad king, another dance of blood and vengeance.
For that reason, I suppose, he will become their mad king.
A mad king, an arrogant foreigner for a queen and a child heir.
I've spent a lot of my time tracking your mad king down.
It would be better for everyone this way, including the wretched mad king.
He is escaping from Saul, a mad jealous king who wants to kill him.