Revolting puns

Mental Health

"Sire!" the chief steward gasped, having run up several flights of castle stairs. "The peasants are revolting!"

The lord of the land nodded gravely while he tried to keep a straight face and said, "Yes, dreadfully so. We should...we should--" (his efforts to not burst into laughter at his own joke, which would sort of ruin it, were failing, but he had to say it) "--we should give them a bath!"

Blank looks abounded in the council.  One tentative noble spoke up: "Shall we drown them, then?"