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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Subtitles by ADONI@ 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Restoration_(1995) ,WEB_MKV_H264(Miramax,Eng,Lat,Sub) 1280x718 3 00:01:42,210 --> 00:01:44,290 -Dr. Merivel. -In a moment. 4 00:01:44,330 --> 00:01:46,500 -Doctor! -In a moment! 5 00:01:46,630 --> 00:01:48,840 -Merivel, we must move on. -I've sprinkled the lavell in to heal. 6 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,130 This will strengthen the hand. We must not allow the tendons to atrophy. 7 00:01:52,220 --> 00:01:54,180 -Merivel! -I'll return this afternoon. 8 00:01:54,260 --> 00:01:57,470 Old Mr. Parr is suffering from an extreme shortness of breath. 9 00:01:57,500 --> 00:02:02,270 -What do you prescribe? -Let's try some syrup of sage flower. 10 00:02:02,300 --> 00:02:04,740 -Doctor! Doctor! -Citron pills to relieve coughing. 11 00:02:04,780 --> 00:02:07,170 -Doctor! -I shall be with you presently, Mr. Watchurst. 12 00:02:08,310 --> 00:02:10,220 -I'm starving. -You can't be. 13 00:02:10,310 --> 00:02:12,230 -I am. -You've already eaten. 14 00:02:12,310 --> 00:02:14,730 I had a piece of bread and scarcely any cheese. 15 00:02:14,810 --> 00:02:16,730 There's no time to eat! 16 00:02:16,770 --> 00:02:19,780 For the five years we've worked here, there is never time to eat. 17 00:02:19,820 --> 00:02:23,190 There is no time to drink. There is no time, even, to look after our patients. 18 00:02:23,590 --> 00:02:26,400 Doctor! Doctor Merivel! 19 00:02:26,470 --> 00:02:28,520 Samuel needs you. 20 00:02:28,870 --> 00:02:31,880 Sam-Samuel! Samuel! Look... Look at me! 21 00:02:31,910 --> 00:02:37,000 It's Robert. It's Robert. Quiet now. Be quiet. Be quiet. 22 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:41,720 Merivel! You must see to Parr. He'll only accept comfort from you. 23 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,980 Give him a complice for his head and some chamomile. 24 00:02:45,020 --> 00:02:47,030 Mr. Parr! 25 00:02:48,260 --> 00:02:50,700 Mr. Parr, tell me how you're feeling. 26 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:54,660 Is there hope I will get well again? 27 00:02:54,690 --> 00:02:57,130 There is always hope. 28 00:02:59,230 --> 00:03:03,330 You must rest and allow my medicines to do their work. 29 00:03:04,780 --> 00:03:08,250 Dr. Merivel! Doctor! 30 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:10,620 I-I do what I can to treat them. 31 00:03:10,700 --> 00:03:13,660 But our science gives us no hope of curing most of them, 32 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:15,830 and I am frustrated! 33 00:03:15,910 --> 00:03:18,680 No, I'm... frightened. 34 00:03:18,710 --> 00:03:20,670 Of what? 35 00:03:20,750 --> 00:03:23,670 Their faith and my ignorance. 36 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:26,970 That is why you prefer a life of debauchery. 37 00:03:27,090 --> 00:03:30,390 Your mother died believing you were a man of honor. 38 00:03:30,470 --> 00:03:34,890 And I beg her pardon every night, and I am at the hospital every day for her. 39 00:03:34,930 --> 00:03:38,850 You mean your whoring is interrupted daily by the care of the sick. 40 00:03:38,940 --> 00:03:42,020 You've not come to me for money to spend on your medicines. 41 00:03:42,070 --> 00:03:44,550 Indeed I have, in a sense. 42 00:03:44,580 --> 00:03:47,260 The five shillings I require are for... 43 00:03:47,330 --> 00:03:50,720 well, for a pawnbroker so I can redeem my case of instruments. 44 00:03:50,750 --> 00:03:52,970 Father, I am sorry to confess it. 45 00:03:53,050 --> 00:03:55,550 -You should be damned for it. -I should. 46 00:03:55,590 --> 00:03:58,270 Look. Look at these hands. Look at them. 47 00:03:58,340 --> 00:04:00,900 Worked to the bone for your case of instruments, 48 00:04:01,010 --> 00:04:03,940 for your teachers and for the books on your table. 49 00:04:04,020 --> 00:04:06,490 Or have they been pawned too? 50 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,320 So that the son of a glove maker... 51 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,320 should not be denied the use of those gifts... 52 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,070 which marked you as a physician before you could spell "physic". 53 00:04:16,110 --> 00:04:18,000 My gifts? 54 00:04:18,070 --> 00:04:19,990 Your gifts, Robert. 55 00:04:20,070 --> 00:04:21,990 Oh, yes, my gifts. 56 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,120 My first patient was a frog. I cured him of jumping. 57 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:27,450 Now I can cure people of breathing. 58 00:04:27,540 --> 00:04:30,220 My gifts, Father, bring me to dark despair in dark rooms... 59 00:04:30,250 --> 00:04:32,420 so I can hear joy in the street. 60 00:04:32,540 --> 00:04:35,560 The King is restored to us, the theaters are open, 61 00:04:35,670 --> 00:04:38,430 the tailors and wig makers are happy as whores... 62 00:04:38,510 --> 00:04:41,220 and rich men go to heaven again. 63 00:04:41,300 --> 00:04:43,890 I would like to shake the King's hand. 64 00:04:43,970 --> 00:04:46,110 Take the hand of your friend Pearce, Robert. 65 00:04:46,140 --> 00:04:48,280 He is the example to follow. 66 00:04:48,310 --> 00:04:50,640 He may dress like a crow, 67 00:04:50,690 --> 00:04:53,150 but he once infected himself with scarlet fever, 68 00:04:53,230 --> 00:04:55,150 the better to study the disease. 69 00:04:55,230 --> 00:04:58,900 Well, in my own small way, I'm doing the same for the clap. 70 00:05:03,910 --> 00:05:07,160 Look at this glove. Touch it. 71 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,210 This glove is for the King. 72 00:05:12,290 --> 00:05:15,500 And that is the closest you will ever get... 73 00:05:15,550 --> 00:05:19,420 to touching the hand of the King of England. 74 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,340 Here are your five shillings. 75 00:05:26,930 --> 00:05:29,560 Redeem your case of instruments. 76 00:05:30,980 --> 00:05:33,190 And if you've a heart, 77 00:05:33,260 --> 00:05:35,650 redeem your gift, Robert. 78 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:39,110 Thank you, Father. 79 00:05:39,180 --> 00:05:41,030 And don't spend the money on women. 80 00:05:48,090 --> 00:05:51,020 Merivel! I must prevail on you... 81 00:05:51,050 --> 00:05:53,220 to come to the examining theater this instant. 82 00:05:53,300 --> 00:05:56,020 I won't be a moment, Pearce. 83 00:05:58,470 --> 00:06:00,360 Merivel! 84 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,400 He's probably fled because of your antics. 85 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,620 Pearce, you must not take my romping as an affront to you. 86 00:06:07,650 --> 00:06:09,820 I simply answer the call of nature. 87 00:06:09,900 --> 00:06:12,910 Yes, well, your nature, like mine, is very much fallen. 88 00:06:12,950 --> 00:06:16,130 That awful truth ought to go somewhere 89 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:18,290 towards discouraging your unsightly bouts of debauchery. 90 00:06:18,370 --> 00:06:22,330 I suppose you're right. But I do very much enjoy them. 91 00:06:22,460 --> 00:06:25,380 This is the fellow. 92 00:06:34,220 --> 00:06:36,140 Shall I unbuckle? 93 00:06:36,220 --> 00:06:38,550 Please, yes. 94 00:06:48,110 --> 00:06:50,650 Good God! 95 00:06:50,780 --> 00:06:52,860 A fracture of the ribs occasioned by a fall from his horse... 96 00:06:52,940 --> 00:06:55,030 was brought to a terrible suppuration. 97 00:06:55,070 --> 00:06:57,530 The doctors feared it would never heal. 98 00:06:57,570 --> 00:07:00,450 You can see the sconce of the old ulcer at the edge here. 99 00:07:00,540 --> 00:07:02,450 Yes. 100 00:07:02,540 --> 00:07:06,710 Merivel, we are witnessing a living, beating heart. 101 00:07:06,750 --> 00:07:09,880 Might a man touch it with his hand? 102 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,420 No one has ever dared. 103 00:07:13,670 --> 00:07:17,010 Yes. Yes? 104 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:32,480 Sir? 105 00:07:39,310 --> 00:07:41,530 I cannot. 106 00:07:41,610 --> 00:07:45,150 -Pearce, it's just... -Please! I mean... Just please... 107 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:47,200 Perhaps your friend. 108 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,170 Are you not afraid? 109 00:08:04,260 --> 00:08:07,270 I'm beyond fear, sir. Are you? 110 00:08:26,070 --> 00:08:29,650 You're touching the organ, sir? 111 00:08:29,740 --> 00:08:32,420 Can you not feel my grip? 112 00:08:32,490 --> 00:08:35,340 I feel nothing at all. 113 00:08:35,410 --> 00:08:37,330 No pain? 114 00:08:37,410 --> 00:08:39,370 Nothing. 115 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,070 Tell me, who is the young doctor? 116 00:08:48,150 --> 00:08:51,530 Robert Merivel, Your Majesty. 117 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,580 You will summon him to the palace this very afternoon. 118 00:09:05,340 --> 00:09:08,380 Watch where you're going, you fool! 119 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:13,570 Your stockings. 120 00:10:22,860 --> 00:10:26,410 It's the young doctor, Your Majesty. 121 00:10:28,370 --> 00:10:30,740 Do you know why I've summoned you here? 122 00:10:38,090 --> 00:10:40,000 I... 123 00:10:43,970 --> 00:10:46,300 A great heaviness hangs over me... 124 00:10:46,390 --> 00:10:49,930 causing me a most abject desperation. 125 00:10:52,730 --> 00:10:55,560 Someone very close to me is dying. 126 00:10:55,650 --> 00:10:58,190 Someone without whom I cannot live. 127 00:11:00,070 --> 00:11:02,990 My doctors have bled her repeatedly; 128 00:11:03,020 --> 00:11:06,860 have tried, without success, lesions, emetics and purges. 129 00:11:06,940 --> 00:11:10,650 Shaved the hair off her body in order to cup her. 130 00:11:10,690 --> 00:11:13,110 But she does not rally. 131 00:11:16,030 --> 00:11:18,960 You are my final hope, Merivel. 132 00:11:18,990 --> 00:11:23,170 If you can cure her, I will offer you a place here as a court physician. 133 00:11:23,250 --> 00:11:25,410 And if I fail? 134 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,300 You must not fail. 135 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:36,840 Her name is Lou Lou. 136 00:11:36,890 --> 00:11:39,680 "Lou Lou", Your Majesty? 137 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:42,600 Your own name, by the way, has a very pleasing cadence. 138 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:44,600 Thank you, Sire. 139 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:48,110 Merivel. Very pretty to the ear. 140 00:11:54,030 --> 00:11:56,000 Lou Lou? 141 00:11:58,530 --> 00:12:00,950 Oh, my darling is not well. 142 00:12:02,490 --> 00:12:05,120 Come, Merivel. 143 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:12,220 Call for any medicines, anything you deem suitable. 144 00:12:15,970 --> 00:12:18,760 You will stay until the little creature recovers. 145 00:12:18,890 --> 00:12:20,800 Of course. 146 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,640 Do not disappoint me, Merivel. 147 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:28,680 I shall not, Sire. 148 00:12:38,530 --> 00:12:41,530 There was a time she would've answered me. 149 00:12:52,030 --> 00:12:54,450 What have they done to you? 150 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,610 My dear Pearce, 151 00:13:22,650 --> 00:13:25,940 by the time you read this letter my fate will be sealed. 152 00:13:26,020 --> 00:13:29,320 This morning, my future never glowed so bright, 153 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:33,250 and now it is sputtering out in the life of a sick spaniel. 154 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:37,030 If I save her, my life will be changed utterly. 155 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,790 If she dies, I may as well go with her. 156 00:13:40,870 --> 00:13:43,500 I think of our great teacher, William Harvey. 157 00:13:43,540 --> 00:13:46,750 Though I was often drunk at his lectures, I remember his cry: 158 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,140 "Trust in the power of nature". 159 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:58,020 Is that the best hope now, for Lou Lou and me? 160 00:13:58,100 --> 00:14:02,650 To let her sleep and give nature a chance to work quietly within her? 161 00:14:02,730 --> 00:14:05,610 But what if I'm wrong? 162 00:14:05,650 --> 00:14:10,320 How will I explain this prescription to His Majesty? 163 00:15:02,650 --> 00:15:05,240 This is well done. I like you, Merivel. 164 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,330 Yours is a curious and original mind. 165 00:15:08,410 --> 00:15:11,840 And in this new age, originality is of great value. 166 00:15:13,500 --> 00:15:16,080 We shall open our palace to you, Merivel... 167 00:15:16,170 --> 00:15:18,300 its treasures and temptations... 168 00:15:18,340 --> 00:15:20,890 and we shall see what you make of yourself. 169 00:15:22,130 --> 00:15:24,300 Thank you, Sire. 170 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,610 You have been given an extraordinary opportunity for one of your rank. 171 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:33,610 Haven't I? I have... 172 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:36,900 -You must at every moment please the King. -That would mean... 173 00:15:36,940 --> 00:15:39,900 -If you do not, suffice it to say, I shall be watching. -Good. 174 00:15:39,980 --> 00:15:43,410 Now it is my task to lay out for you your life in this place. 175 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,620 This shall be your lodging. 176 00:15:49,700 --> 00:15:52,990 The royal tailors will be continually at your disposal. 177 00:15:54,460 --> 00:15:58,210 And these shall be your playfellows. 178 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:17,600 This paper sets forth the following duties for one Robert Merivel, physician: 179 00:16:17,690 --> 00:16:21,550 The daily care and comfort of the 18 royal dogs... 180 00:16:21,650 --> 00:16:25,650 with, as required, the right to perform operations upon them. 181 00:16:25,690 --> 00:16:30,320 It's ten years wasted. I'm warning you, your life will be undone. 182 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:34,370 No, not wasted, Pearce, for those years have brought me to this new life. 183 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:37,330 I'm to the palace, and that's an end of it. 184 00:16:43,790 --> 00:16:46,800 My dear, we must be pleased for each other. 185 00:16:46,910 --> 00:16:49,130 You must be pleased for my appointment... 186 00:16:49,210 --> 00:16:53,930 as I am pleased that you have, uh, given up drinking sack. 187 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,770 And found my peace in Quakerism. 188 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,640 Even so, Pearce. Even so. 189 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:07,600 My dear Pearce, 190 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:09,940 a year has passed most profitably and pleasurably, 191 00:17:10,020 --> 00:17:12,350 leaving me no moment in which to write to you. 192 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,870 All day I am thick in the affairs of state, 193 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:17,440 yet I manage to employ my medical knowledge... 194 00:17:17,490 --> 00:17:20,200 especially in anatomy... in the services of the King, 195 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:24,120 who's particularly fond of my trick of farting at will. 196 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,550 I am Aeolius, 197 00:17:27,620 --> 00:17:30,330 King of the Winds! 198 00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:37,760 That my dear departed father could see me now, 199 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,130 for the King shows me a flattering affection... 200 00:17:40,220 --> 00:17:43,590 that stems, I suspect, from my ability to amuse him. 201 00:18:08,370 --> 00:18:12,290 Our physician has become our fool. 202 00:18:28,250 --> 00:18:31,180 What do you make of the preparations, Merivel? 203 00:18:31,260 --> 00:18:34,100 Oh, sir. Most wondrous, Sire! What is it for? 204 00:18:34,180 --> 00:18:36,510 -A wedding. -Ohh! 205 00:18:36,550 --> 00:18:38,810 -A most lavish affair! -Yes. 206 00:18:38,890 --> 00:18:42,740 -Who's to be married? -Celia Clemence. 207 00:18:42,810 --> 00:18:47,070 Um... I understood she was your mistress. 208 00:18:47,110 --> 00:18:49,360 Then you understood right, Merivel. 209 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:51,530 That is generosity indeed. 210 00:18:51,610 --> 00:18:53,750 Merivel, let me explain. 211 00:18:53,780 --> 00:18:55,920 Celia Clemence's presence in my bed... 212 00:18:55,990 --> 00:18:58,410 continues to be necessity. 213 00:18:58,450 --> 00:19:02,160 So, too, does that of my grand amour, Barbara Castlemaine. 214 00:19:02,250 --> 00:19:05,210 But her tantrums on the subject of Miss Clemence... 215 00:19:05,330 --> 00:19:07,420 are making me edgy. 216 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:11,050 So... Miss Clemence is to be married... 217 00:19:11,130 --> 00:19:14,880 and seemingly dispatched out of London with her husband, 218 00:19:14,970 --> 00:19:18,590 while, in fact, I secret her near the river in Kew, 219 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:20,970 the better to sport with her unobserved. 220 00:19:23,350 --> 00:19:25,980 And for her husband, I need a man... 221 00:19:26,020 --> 00:19:28,230 who is far too enamored of women in general... 222 00:19:28,310 --> 00:19:30,860 to make the mistake of loving one in particular. 223 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:34,200 Ah! Again, a most superior aspect of the plan. 224 00:19:34,220 --> 00:19:37,150 And whom has Your Majesty chosen for this particular honor? 225 00:19:37,220 --> 00:19:40,970 Yes, in fact I've decided that you should be the one to marry her, Merivel. 226 00:19:42,180 --> 00:19:44,100 Marry, Your Majesty? 227 00:19:44,180 --> 00:19:47,310 "Marry Merivel". The phrase is very pretty to my ear. 228 00:19:47,350 --> 00:19:49,650 But, Sire, I do not wish to marry... 229 00:19:49,690 --> 00:19:52,820 I'm not asking you to wish it. I'm asking you to do it. 230 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:56,860 Merivel, have I not done you very many favors in the past? 231 00:19:56,950 --> 00:19:58,860 Yes, Sire, many favors, but... 232 00:19:58,950 --> 00:20:02,530 -Voila. You owe me at least one in return. 233 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,870 I shall, of course, reward you for it. 234 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:11,710 Make you a knight, give you a most agreeable estate in Suffolk... 235 00:20:11,740 --> 00:20:14,800 -and my second best bed. -I would prefer to stay at court. 236 00:20:14,870 --> 00:20:17,120 No, no. You will go to Suffolk... 237 00:20:17,210 --> 00:20:19,630 and you will make something of the house. 238 00:20:19,670 --> 00:20:21,840 And, perhaps, if the time is right, 239 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,310 we shall favor you with a visit. 240 00:20:24,340 --> 00:20:26,760 -Aye. -Go now. 241 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:31,650 Only remember this, Merivel: If she's over there with you, 242 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:36,070 there will be no intimacy of any kind between you. 243 00:20:36,140 --> 00:20:40,100 Though she is your wife, she is yours in name only. 244 00:20:40,230 --> 00:20:43,770 You are to be a paper bridegroom. 245 00:20:47,650 --> 00:20:49,330 Voila, mademoiselle. 246 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:54,540 Un, deux, 247 00:20:54,620 --> 00:20:56,590 troix. 248 00:20:59,710 --> 00:21:03,140 "Sir Robert Merivel, Bidnold". 249 00:21:05,420 --> 00:21:07,640 Nova vel noviter inventa. 250 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,890 Observationes proprias et alienas recensere... 251 00:21:10,930 --> 00:21:14,270 ad considerandum propriam opinionem... 252 00:21:14,390 --> 00:21:16,720 vel obsignatis tabulis... 253 00:21:16,770 --> 00:21:21,070 in aliis animalibus agere secundum Socratis regulam. 254 00:21:21,150 --> 00:21:25,730 Unde observationes exoticas... 255 00:21:25,820 --> 00:21:28,190 I've come to give you these. 256 00:21:31,450 --> 00:21:35,370 -These are... These are your medical books! -I know. 257 00:21:35,450 --> 00:21:39,400 -Your copy of Harvey. -I know. 258 00:21:39,460 --> 00:21:42,670 I have resolved to abandon medicine. 259 00:21:42,750 --> 00:21:46,000 The King has made other plans for me. 260 00:21:46,090 --> 00:21:50,040 I have been given a knighthood, an estate and a wife. 261 00:21:50,090 --> 00:21:53,880 This is my time of preferment, Pearce. This is my time. 262 00:21:53,970 --> 00:21:56,220 What? 263 00:21:56,260 --> 00:21:58,220 Nothing. 264 00:21:58,270 --> 00:22:00,180 Merivel! 265 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,860 When you stood in this room... 266 00:22:04,930 --> 00:22:07,350 and put your hand around that man's heart... 267 00:22:07,430 --> 00:22:10,650 something I did not dare do that day... 268 00:22:10,730 --> 00:22:14,100 your vital flame was burning. 269 00:22:14,150 --> 00:22:19,120 Now, you see, the light has gone out of your eyes. 270 00:22:19,150 --> 00:22:22,280 No, my study of medicine has given me nothing... 271 00:22:22,410 --> 00:22:25,210 but a perpetual and visible awareness of mortality; 272 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:29,120 that were I to continue, it would very shortly bring me to despair. 273 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,540 -Very well. -I must see to my dogs. 274 00:22:31,580 --> 00:22:33,880 Very well! 275 00:22:36,650 --> 00:22:38,570 Merivel! 276 00:22:39,860 --> 00:22:41,780 Merivel! 277 00:22:42,180 --> 00:22:44,090 Merivel! 278 00:22:44,180 --> 00:22:47,570 Harvey revealed his work to us so that treading in the same path... 279 00:22:47,570 --> 00:22:49,800 we might discover very many things as yet unknown to others. 280 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,990 -You have a gift for healing, Merivel. -I do not! 281 00:22:54,060 --> 00:22:58,150 Yes. Oh, yes, you do. For understanding sickness. 282 00:22:58,230 --> 00:23:01,110 Death is a terrible thing, Pearce. 283 00:23:01,150 --> 00:23:04,280 I need color and light, not darkness and death. 284 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:07,210 I feel I've had quite enough of dark things. 285 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,340 I want bright things and decorative things. 286 00:23:10,410 --> 00:23:13,830 I am, after all, a creature of the new age. 287 00:23:15,630 --> 00:23:17,670 I shall pray for you. 288 00:23:20,380 --> 00:23:23,170 Come along, Mr. Bung. 289 00:23:39,460 --> 00:23:41,870 Your bride. 290 00:25:07,460 --> 00:25:10,500 He filled your jar with spice! 291 00:25:10,630 --> 00:25:13,550 To the wedding chamber! 292 00:25:23,370 --> 00:25:26,660 -Bed her well, Merivel! Bed her well, Merivel! 293 00:25:26,700 --> 00:25:28,830 Bed her well, Merivel! 294 00:25:28,910 --> 00:25:31,870 Bed her well, Merivel! Bed her well! 295 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,660 Bed her well, Merivel! Bed her well, Merivel! 296 00:25:35,710 --> 00:25:40,620 Bed her well, Merivel! 297 00:25:45,250 --> 00:25:47,180 Fair thee well! 298 00:25:50,610 --> 00:25:53,960 -I believe our kiss convinced them, Lady Celia. 299 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:14,000 Well done, Merivel. 300 00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:17,490 Well done! We fooled 'em all. 301 00:26:20,580 --> 00:26:24,120 You are a most useful fellow, Merivel. Most useful! 302 00:26:25,790 --> 00:26:29,170 And at the moment you are most useful to me... 303 00:26:29,260 --> 00:26:31,560 in Suffolk. 304 00:26:36,970 --> 00:26:39,260 Oh. Yes. 305 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,770 Your disguise is behind the pillar. 306 00:27:14,180 --> 00:27:18,430 Pearce, this will make no sense to you, as it makes no sense to me, 307 00:27:18,470 --> 00:27:23,430 but the moment I saw Lady Celia I was captivated by her. 308 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,560 When I think of her, I feel faint, my heart aches... 309 00:27:26,650 --> 00:27:29,270 and I fear there is no cure for me, 310 00:27:29,350 --> 00:27:32,440 for I cannot stop thinking of her, even in my sleep. 311 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,460 Sir Robert! 312 00:27:53,790 --> 00:27:56,760 Welcome to Bidnold. 313 00:28:01,050 --> 00:28:04,760 Ah, Will Gates at your service. 314 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,850 You are alone, sir? 315 00:28:14,930 --> 00:28:18,450 Yes. Lady Merivel desired that I act as a vanguard... 316 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,620 and see the lay of the land. 317 00:28:20,650 --> 00:28:23,360 I trust that the wedding went off as planned. 318 00:28:24,860 --> 00:28:29,110 Yes, most well. Um, I shall now retire. 319 00:28:33,580 --> 00:28:36,420 Oh, could you send up some strong liquor? 320 00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:38,420 Yes, sir. 321 00:28:45,740 --> 00:28:48,070 Good morning, Sir Robert. 322 00:28:49,950 --> 00:28:52,990 Mr. Gates, I find the house induces in me... 323 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,330 a most melancholy frame of mind. 324 00:28:55,410 --> 00:28:58,120 And exceeding dark. 325 00:28:58,170 --> 00:29:00,630 The King confiscated it from a Puritan. 326 00:29:00,750 --> 00:29:02,670 Oh. 327 00:29:04,090 --> 00:29:06,420 Mr. Gates. 328 00:29:06,510 --> 00:29:09,000 I must be straight with you. 329 00:29:09,090 --> 00:29:14,340 We shall not expect Lady Merivel's arrival for some time. 330 00:29:16,930 --> 00:29:18,890 Well... 331 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,820 one cannot stay in bed indefinitely. 332 00:29:23,850 --> 00:29:28,240 What one needs is a diversion. 333 00:29:28,310 --> 00:29:31,490 The King told me to make something of the house. 334 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:35,990 Oh! And you are monarch here. 335 00:29:38,530 --> 00:29:41,000 We shall have color and light! 336 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,580 With purples and golds and crimsons and scarlets and carmines. 337 00:29:43,630 --> 00:29:46,480 -What, all together in one place, sir? -Yes, Mr. Gates. 338 00:29:46,530 --> 00:29:49,320 We will make this house so beautiful that if Lady Celia 339 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,490 were to pay us a visit, she would never want to leave. 340 00:29:52,770 --> 00:29:55,010 Ah, the Dutchman. 341 00:29:55,110 --> 00:29:57,010 Yes! 342 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,480 All of it! 343 00:30:03,990 --> 00:30:05,980 Yes! 344 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,710 Mr. Gates, to divert myself further... 345 00:30:14,790 --> 00:30:17,490 and to display our lavish decoration, 346 00:30:17,550 --> 00:30:20,160 I feel the urge for company. 347 00:30:20,220 --> 00:30:22,370 Perhaps a visit from the neighbors... 348 00:30:22,470 --> 00:30:25,330 will restore my old uncontainable nature. 349 00:30:25,430 --> 00:30:28,130 A pox on wisdom! 350 00:30:28,180 --> 00:30:31,130 Let us all be mares and stallions. 351 00:30:37,730 --> 00:30:39,890 Sir Robert, someone at the door. 352 00:30:39,990 --> 00:30:44,850 What? At the door? Another man come to whinny in our festivities! 353 00:30:45,530 --> 00:30:48,320 Why do you not have a turban? 354 00:30:48,370 --> 00:30:51,070 Guy, supply Mr. Gates with a turban! 355 00:30:55,380 --> 00:30:58,160 Sir Robert Merivel. 356 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,390 Oh, Lady... 357 00:31:07,410 --> 00:31:09,610 Would you show me immediately to my rooms? 358 00:31:09,690 --> 00:31:12,240 Yes, of course, and without delay. 359 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,530 Without delay. 360 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,540 Where am I? 361 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,920 I attempted to take you back to your room last night, sir, 362 00:31:42,980 --> 00:31:46,560 but you were most insistent to sleep here. 363 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,140 What... What's the bird? 364 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,440 A gift from Lady Violet. 365 00:31:55,860 --> 00:31:59,200 Oh, Mr. Gates, I've just had a most extraordinary dream. 366 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:04,040 I dreamed that Lady Celia did arrive at Bidnold in the most foul humor. 367 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,160 I'm afraid she did, sir, and she has now repaired to the garden room. 368 00:32:08,250 --> 00:32:11,170 All right, now, gently. Gently. 369 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,630 Careful! Careful! 370 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,200 I've got it. 371 00:32:22,290 --> 00:32:24,190 Keep it to your left. 372 00:32:26,790 --> 00:32:30,620 Lady Celia. 373 00:32:30,670 --> 00:32:32,910 I have come to bid you welcome to Bidnold. 374 00:32:32,980 --> 00:32:35,550 No, I do not desire to be made welcome. 375 00:32:35,650 --> 00:32:39,700 -The King will very soon ask me back to him. -I'm sure he will. 376 00:32:39,780 --> 00:32:43,440 I'm sure he has of late been most distracted by the foreign wars. 377 00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:46,320 But in the meantime, if there's any comfort... 378 00:32:46,410 --> 00:32:48,740 I might provide here at Bidnold for Your Ladyship... 379 00:32:48,790 --> 00:32:51,740 No, there is nothing. Nothing. 380 00:32:54,420 --> 00:32:58,330 Well... um, well, then together we shall wait... 381 00:32:58,420 --> 00:33:01,670 for the return of the King's love. 382 00:33:01,710 --> 00:33:05,130 Love? You use that word? 383 00:33:05,220 --> 00:33:07,970 The King and his love for me made use of you. 384 00:33:08,010 --> 00:33:11,590 He looked around for the stupidest man he could find, and he found you. 385 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,850 I begged him not to marry me to such a fool. 386 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,840 I have brought a... 387 00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:21,730 Stay away from me. 388 00:33:26,010 --> 00:33:29,590 "Celia, my loneliness consumes me, 389 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,670 but I see your unhappiness is as great as mine". 390 00:34:00,620 --> 00:34:03,030 Well, come in, please. 391 00:34:03,130 --> 00:34:06,040 I hope my playing isn't disturbing you. 392 00:34:06,090 --> 00:34:08,920 No, it is I who am disturbing you. 393 00:34:09,010 --> 00:34:11,760 I... No. 394 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:13,960 What is the bird? 395 00:34:15,510 --> 00:34:18,800 I am told it is an Indian nightingale. It was a gift. 396 00:34:18,850 --> 00:34:21,520 -From the King? -Yes, from the King. 397 00:34:28,740 --> 00:34:31,980 -It's most beautiful. -Mmm. 398 00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:34,940 -Only it does not sing. -No. 399 00:34:35,030 --> 00:34:37,270 Perhaps it wants encouragement. 400 00:34:37,410 --> 00:34:41,530 Now, if it were to hear you play, for your playing, as I recall, 401 00:34:41,580 --> 00:34:44,740 has about it an exceeding sweetness. 402 00:34:47,330 --> 00:34:50,540 Would it be asking too much if I were to keep the bird in my room? 403 00:34:50,620 --> 00:34:53,110 No, nothing would be too much. Will! 404 00:34:53,210 --> 00:34:55,880 No, no. I'll... 405 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,630 And let the garden room be my private habitation, 406 00:34:59,670 --> 00:35:03,430 where I shall perhaps from time to time invite you. 407 00:35:06,220 --> 00:35:07,640 Um... 408 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,310 I find much of the decoration here rather disturbing. 409 00:35:10,390 --> 00:35:12,940 Yes, certain of the servants regularly complain of it. 410 00:35:13,060 --> 00:35:16,930 Merivel, forgive me if I spoke before of matters that do not regard me. 411 00:35:16,980 --> 00:35:21,720 We live in an age where many are made fools and many are deceived. 412 00:35:21,820 --> 00:35:25,740 I, in my faith for the King's love, am probably as foolish as you. 413 00:35:39,380 --> 00:35:41,290 Oh. 414 00:35:44,220 --> 00:35:46,970 It's from my old friend, Mr. Pearce. 415 00:35:47,010 --> 00:35:51,390 It seems he's now working in a hospital with his Quakers. 416 00:35:55,270 --> 00:35:59,140 Will, will you sit down? Please. 417 00:36:07,620 --> 00:36:09,690 Is there a Mrs. Gates? 418 00:36:09,740 --> 00:36:12,660 Oh, no, sir. 419 00:36:15,290 --> 00:36:18,360 The messy constellations I see through my telescope... 420 00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:20,580 offer me no clue to my destiny. 421 00:36:20,670 --> 00:36:24,830 There is, I fear, a great deal about the world and my role in it... 422 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,920 which, despite all my early learning, I have utterly failed to understand. 423 00:36:32,020 --> 00:36:36,550 I must restrain my thoughts and do something altogether more constructive. 424 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,590 What is the matter, sir? 425 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,350 I have done the one thing forbidden by the King: 426 00:36:42,430 --> 00:36:45,270 I have fallen in love with my wife. 427 00:37:02,370 --> 00:37:05,490 Merivel, there is someone to see you. 428 00:37:05,580 --> 00:37:08,460 This is Mr. Finn, a painter. 429 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,560 A painter? 430 00:37:11,650 --> 00:37:14,270 A painter! Welcome! 431 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,940 A painter! Most excellent. 432 00:37:17,990 --> 00:37:20,030 -Did I send for a painter? -No, sir. 433 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,620 Never mind. I'm a keen painter myself. 434 00:37:34,340 --> 00:37:38,380 I call it "Le Matin de Merivel I'Automne". 435 00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:43,960 What do you make of it, honestly? 436 00:37:45,770 --> 00:37:48,630 It is an excrescence. 437 00:37:48,690 --> 00:37:52,430 Ah! Perhaps that is the word for it. 438 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,680 But to me it's a rather memorable rendering... 439 00:37:55,820 --> 00:37:59,390 of all the colors I have in my park. 440 00:37:59,490 --> 00:38:01,770 You must not show this painting to anyone. 441 00:38:01,870 --> 00:38:04,070 -You must, I think, burn it. -Oh. 442 00:38:04,140 --> 00:38:06,460 Merivel, Mr. Finn has arrived with a commission. 443 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,310 A commission! From whom? 444 00:38:10,980 --> 00:38:13,390 Robin Hood? 445 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:17,720 Robin Hood? Oh, yes. My Lincoln green. 446 00:38:17,780 --> 00:38:20,230 How funny. 447 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,230 Now, if I may, this letter commands... 448 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,850 the following commission by one Elias Finn, myself, 449 00:38:25,910 --> 00:38:28,940 a noble and beautiful portrait of Lady Merivel. 450 00:38:29,070 --> 00:38:32,990 "An excellent painting will earn Mr. Finn a small place at court". 451 00:38:33,070 --> 00:38:35,950 So, you see, not Robin Hood... the King. 452 00:38:36,030 --> 00:38:37,940 Shall we go? 453 00:38:39,410 --> 00:38:43,080 My imprisonment is over. The King means me to return. 454 00:38:53,050 --> 00:38:55,040 -Aw, cherubs. -Uh-huh. 455 00:38:55,140 --> 00:38:58,500 The King has often told me he cannot abide the cherub. 456 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,630 I would not depend upon this for your future, either of you. 457 00:39:01,770 --> 00:39:04,690 -Why not, Merivel? -It is a commission from the King. 458 00:39:04,730 --> 00:39:07,050 My dear Flinn... No, Finch... 459 00:39:07,150 --> 00:39:09,980 -Uh, "Finn". -Oh. 460 00:39:10,050 --> 00:39:12,230 Many portraits are commissioned by the King, 461 00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:15,790 and most of the poor artists are still waiting to be paid. 462 00:39:15,820 --> 00:39:19,270 Yes, well, we shall have to make the painting too beautiful to be resisted. 463 00:39:19,330 --> 00:39:23,750 And, Celia, there seems to be no mention of your returning to court. 464 00:39:23,830 --> 00:39:27,980 -But why else would he ask for a portrait? -Souvenir, perhaps. 465 00:39:28,580 --> 00:39:30,170 A letter, Sir Robert. 466 00:39:30,230 --> 00:39:31,170 Mmm. 467 00:39:35,930 --> 00:39:37,350 From the King. 468 00:39:38,910 --> 00:39:40,020 If I may! If I may! 469 00:39:40,030 --> 00:39:43,460 What mention does the King make of the painting in his letter? 470 00:39:43,790 --> 00:39:46,200 Oh, it's... None. 471 00:39:46,460 --> 00:39:49,410 I would frame some message to him, but I don't know what to say. 472 00:39:49,460 --> 00:39:53,080 Celia, if I do not set sail now, I shall not reach London by morning. 473 00:39:53,130 --> 00:39:57,420 And we both know the King regards a betrayal of time as a betrayal of faith. 474 00:40:29,970 --> 00:40:32,300 ...there is a void... 475 00:40:47,740 --> 00:40:49,700 Ah, Merivel. Is it you? 476 00:40:49,740 --> 00:40:52,410 It is me. 477 00:40:52,450 --> 00:40:55,400 It-It is in fact I, Sire. 478 00:41:09,970 --> 00:41:14,330 Time has changed you, Merivel. 479 00:41:14,330 --> 00:41:17,170 As with many of my people, some vital part of you appears to be asleep. 480 00:41:22,610 --> 00:41:25,100 Something has arrived, Merivel. 481 00:41:25,190 --> 00:41:28,110 Something that may rouse even you from sleep. 482 00:41:29,530 --> 00:41:33,230 The plague. La peste. 483 00:41:33,330 --> 00:41:37,400 Deptford, four people have died. It will spread. 484 00:41:37,500 --> 00:41:40,860 Some of us will be spared and some will die. 485 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,830 But all of us will awake. 486 00:41:52,510 --> 00:41:55,800 Come along, Merivel. There is much to discuss. 487 00:41:55,890 --> 00:41:59,050 You see, I have started work upon this toad. 488 00:41:59,140 --> 00:42:01,390 -Ah. -Will you help me to dissect it? 489 00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,600 Yes, if you wish me to, Sire. 490 00:42:03,650 --> 00:42:06,270 Yes, I do wish you to, Merivel. 491 00:42:06,310 --> 00:42:10,940 I have summoned you to talk about your wife. 492 00:42:12,310 --> 00:42:15,070 Pin, Merivel. 493 00:42:16,730 --> 00:42:19,700 When I married her to you, it was to hide her... 494 00:42:19,780 --> 00:42:24,910 from the intelligent gaze of my mistress, Lady Castlemaine. 495 00:42:26,410 --> 00:42:31,150 Now, observe the sheen of the gut. It's like a jewel. 496 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,800 You may imagine, then, my fury when she commanded me... 497 00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,620 to end my liaison with Lady Castlemaine... 498 00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:42,750 and likewise to terminate my amours... 499 00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,430 with certain actresses of the playhouse. 500 00:42:48,350 --> 00:42:51,550 So I banished her to Suffolk. 501 00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,220 Now the grosser part of me... 502 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,470 is uncommonly sensible to her absence. 503 00:42:57,570 --> 00:43:01,480 The royal tool is waving about in search of her. 504 00:43:02,860 --> 00:43:06,990 She is skillful and enthusiastic in these matters. 505 00:43:08,620 --> 00:43:12,530 Merivel, I desire you to impress upon Celia... 506 00:43:12,620 --> 00:43:16,120 to be content with what she has. 507 00:43:16,170 --> 00:43:19,790 Tell her to come to me in humility and she may have it all again: 508 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:24,260 Her house, servants, money and the King in her bed from time to time. 509 00:43:24,340 --> 00:43:27,500 I desire her penitent return... 510 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,920 when the portrait is finished. 511 00:43:30,020 --> 00:43:34,880 Um... he's a slow painter, Your Majesty, what with all the cherubs. 512 00:43:34,980 --> 00:43:37,850 What is a painting without cherubs? Hmm? 513 00:43:37,900 --> 00:43:39,930 Precisely, Sire. 514 00:43:40,030 --> 00:43:42,020 Make this clear, Merivel: 515 00:43:42,070 --> 00:43:46,310 I expect her in my bed when the portrait is complete. 516 00:43:49,620 --> 00:43:53,070 The King would give no promise whatsoever with regard to you. 517 00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,280 But he must have said something. 518 00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,620 He desired that you stay here at Bidnold... 519 00:43:57,660 --> 00:44:00,870 until you became aware of the changeful nature of all things. 520 00:44:02,540 --> 00:44:04,780 But how long does he say this will take? 521 00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,380 Months? Years? 522 00:44:07,460 --> 00:44:10,120 Am I to grow old and see my beauty vanish... 523 00:44:10,170 --> 00:44:12,780 and all that once pleased him turn to decay? 524 00:44:12,830 --> 00:44:14,960 I'm sure he does not intend that, 525 00:44:15,010 --> 00:44:17,460 but he has put the matter into your hands and into mine. 526 00:44:18,180 --> 00:44:20,250 Into your hands? 527 00:44:20,310 --> 00:44:22,210 Yes. 528 00:44:22,310 --> 00:44:25,590 For I am to judge when you are ready. 529 00:44:25,690 --> 00:44:29,270 And the King has promised to correspond with me regularly over the matter. 530 00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,930 And how shall I arrive at this wisdom? 531 00:44:32,030 --> 00:44:34,350 He has suggested, perhaps, that we together... 532 00:44:34,490 --> 00:44:36,980 exercise our gifts for music. 533 00:44:45,290 --> 00:44:48,370 -Just arrived, sir. -Will, I need you to do something for me. 534 00:44:48,420 --> 00:44:52,460 -Anything, sir. -You must forge a letter to me from the King. 535 00:44:52,550 --> 00:44:55,120 Sir. 536 00:44:56,430 --> 00:44:59,880 And, uh, the King makes no mention of a date... 537 00:44:59,930 --> 00:45:03,130 for me to have, uh, completed the painting? 538 00:45:03,180 --> 00:45:05,300 -My dear Finch. -"Finn". 539 00:45:05,350 --> 00:45:07,340 Ah! 540 00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,930 He has no interest, it seems, in the painting whatsoever... 541 00:45:11,020 --> 00:45:14,390 but for his continued suspicion of cherubs. 542 00:45:14,490 --> 00:45:16,930 So it seems to me that it is to music... 543 00:45:17,030 --> 00:45:19,400 that His Majesty owes his greatest affection. 544 00:45:19,490 --> 00:45:22,330 -We are all mere pawns. -Mmm! Prawns, yes. 545 00:45:22,410 --> 00:45:25,320 No, no, "pawns". "Pawns"! 546 00:45:30,670 --> 00:45:32,620 Hmm. 547 00:45:37,090 --> 00:45:41,330 Merivel, wake up. There is something I must tell you. 548 00:45:41,430 --> 00:45:43,670 Celia! 549 00:45:43,770 --> 00:45:45,710 The bird is ill. 550 00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:47,180 The bird. The bird. Oh, the bird! 551 00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:48,740 Please, we must do something. 552 00:45:48,790 --> 00:45:50,870 Birds are not really my specialty... 553 00:45:50,930 --> 00:45:52,750 But, Merivel, it is dying! 554 00:46:03,110 --> 00:46:06,440 Merivel, why are you no longer a physician? 555 00:46:07,780 --> 00:46:09,200 Um... 556 00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,480 When I asked the King why he was marrying me to such a fool, 557 00:46:12,570 --> 00:46:15,580 he said that you had a great gift for healing. 558 00:46:17,750 --> 00:46:22,540 Perhaps I should stay. We should watch over the bird together. 559 00:46:22,630 --> 00:46:25,170 Yes, I would like that. 560 00:46:49,780 --> 00:46:51,740 It's dead. 561 00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,670 Are you not putting yourself at terrible risk, sir? 562 00:47:14,720 --> 00:47:17,960 Forging the King's seal is a hanging offense. 563 00:47:18,020 --> 00:47:20,550 I love her, Will. I must do all I can... 564 00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:23,180 to discourage completion of the portrait. 565 00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,560 Sir Robert? 566 00:47:30,610 --> 00:47:32,890 I'm sure your wife is greatly dismayed... 567 00:47:32,950 --> 00:47:35,090 at the loss of her favorite bird. 568 00:47:35,190 --> 00:47:37,110 Inconsolable, I fear. 569 00:47:37,190 --> 00:47:39,730 Which must, in turn, cause you much distress. 570 00:47:39,820 --> 00:47:42,860 Of course. I did all that I could. 571 00:47:42,950 --> 00:47:45,860 Sir Robert, now that the painting is nearly complete, 572 00:47:45,950 --> 00:47:49,650 I feel it is my duty to thank you for your hospitality during my stay here. 573 00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:52,500 Th-Th-The desire to finish the work... 574 00:47:52,540 --> 00:47:55,030 has perhaps made me less than an ideal guest. 575 00:47:55,170 --> 00:47:57,710 -For that I am sorry. -No, matter, Finn. No matter. 576 00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,800 I understand better than most the lure of court. 577 00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:02,970 -Sir Robert. -Hmm? 578 00:48:03,050 --> 00:48:05,540 May I be forward with you? 579 00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,500 During my stay here, I-I've noticed... 580 00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:10,840 that a certain bond has formed... 581 00:48:10,930 --> 00:48:14,100 between yourself and Lady Merivel. 582 00:48:14,140 --> 00:48:16,810 A-And that you are perhaps... 583 00:48:16,900 --> 00:48:19,680 although she has warmed considerably... 584 00:48:19,730 --> 00:48:22,350 unsure how to further the matter. 585 00:48:23,820 --> 00:48:27,950 Perhaps i-i-i-if I were to broach the subject with her, 586 00:48:28,030 --> 00:48:31,980 her natural shyness might find some release? 587 00:48:33,460 --> 00:48:37,320 My God, it's a most delicate situation. 588 00:48:37,380 --> 00:48:39,780 But that might be the very thing. 589 00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:43,620 I think. Well, I'll do what I can. 590 00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,080 I will, of course, act most subtly. 591 00:49:08,990 --> 00:49:10,900 Merivel! 592 00:49:12,620 --> 00:49:15,490 I have spoken to Lady Celia, and my impression is... 593 00:49:15,580 --> 00:49:18,490 that your advances would not be unwelcome. 594 00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:57,020 Voila! Venus! Uncommonly bright! 595 00:49:57,110 --> 00:50:01,320 A good portent. Venus being the brightest of all the evening stars... 596 00:50:01,410 --> 00:50:04,160 and the reigning planet of earthly love. 597 00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:06,230 Come and look. 598 00:50:10,500 --> 00:50:13,200 Uh, uh... Here. Here. 599 00:50:14,670 --> 00:50:16,580 Ah. 600 00:50:18,970 --> 00:50:22,330 -You're right, Merivel. It really is a beautiful star. -Yes. 601 00:50:22,390 --> 00:50:25,560 And it smiles on us from on high. 602 00:50:27,390 --> 00:50:29,300 We are blessed. 603 00:50:56,590 --> 00:50:58,490 Merivel? 604 00:50:59,720 --> 00:51:02,250 Merivel! 605 00:51:02,340 --> 00:51:04,710 No! 606 00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,550 No! No! 607 00:51:11,100 --> 00:51:13,500 Celia, you must think no more of the King. 608 00:51:13,610 --> 00:51:16,850 If he is not weary of you now, he soon will be. 609 00:51:18,980 --> 00:51:22,060 -You're wrong, Merivel. The King wants me back. 610 00:51:22,150 --> 00:51:26,720 Do you think he will curtail his amours with the actresses of the playhouse? Never. 611 00:51:26,780 --> 00:51:31,110 He is a loose fish! He cannot be held or kept. 612 00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:36,410 I am your husband, and all that I ask is that you allow me to love you. 613 00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,640 It just arrived from the palace, sir. 614 00:52:15,910 --> 00:52:17,900 Mr. Finn has betrayed us. 615 00:52:17,990 --> 00:52:21,080 I-I shall leave for court in the morning. 616 00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:28,160 And, Will, pack one of our pineapples. 617 00:52:28,250 --> 00:52:31,000 I shall take it as a gift to the King, 618 00:52:31,050 --> 00:52:33,750 though I fear that... 619 00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:35,790 What, sir? 620 00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,630 That no offering of this kind will be enough. 621 00:52:50,610 --> 00:52:53,060 Ah, Merivel! 622 00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:59,770 This is my new plan for our native city, Merivel. 623 00:52:59,870 --> 00:53:02,400 Yes, come along, Merivel. 624 00:53:02,540 --> 00:53:05,360 See how Fleet Street is thus straightened. 625 00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,820 And there is here one straight view from Ludgate Circus... 626 00:53:08,870 --> 00:53:11,740 past St. Paul's and on to the Royal Exchange. 627 00:53:11,830 --> 00:53:16,000 And here's another street from Smithfield down to the river... 628 00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:18,660 where, perhaps, the halls of the lesser companies... 629 00:53:18,750 --> 00:53:21,500 might be built along Thames Quay. 630 00:53:23,590 --> 00:53:28,250 All for the beauty, ornament and convenience of the city. 631 00:53:28,300 --> 00:53:30,340 Sit down, Merivel. 632 00:53:30,470 --> 00:53:32,380 Ohh! 633 00:53:33,810 --> 00:53:36,480 I-It is a brave new plan, Sire. 634 00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:38,470 Now, I have... 635 00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:42,430 Do you remember we once made a plan together, Merivel? 636 00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:45,530 And in that plan, love was not asked of you. 637 00:53:45,570 --> 00:53:49,270 Indeed, it was the only thing specifically forbidden of you. 638 00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:52,030 By ignoring what we agreed, 639 00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:55,440 you have driven yourself out of paradise. 640 00:53:56,660 --> 00:53:58,650 Out of paradise? 641 00:53:58,710 --> 00:54:01,120 Well, yes. For what is your role now? 642 00:54:01,210 --> 00:54:05,700 I had not intended to love Celia. I do not know how it happened. 643 00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,630 It happened because you allowed it to happen. 644 00:54:08,720 --> 00:54:12,170 By trying to be the thing that you were charged with pretending to be, 645 00:54:12,300 --> 00:54:15,220 you have rendered yourself useless to me. 646 00:54:15,270 --> 00:54:18,380 I'm taking Bidnold from you. 647 00:54:24,070 --> 00:54:26,520 What'll I do? 648 00:54:26,570 --> 00:54:30,020 Hmm. What did you do before? 649 00:54:30,070 --> 00:54:33,860 I was... I worked as a physician. 650 00:54:33,950 --> 00:54:36,440 Ah, yes. In the hospital. 651 00:54:36,540 --> 00:54:39,210 Well, you can use that skill again. 652 00:54:39,330 --> 00:54:43,240 -I cannot! -Why not, Merivel? 653 00:54:45,340 --> 00:54:47,580 Because I'm afraid. 654 00:54:47,630 --> 00:54:52,080 Precisely. So, au revoir, Merivel. 655 00:54:52,140 --> 00:54:55,740 I shall not say adieu, for who knows, 656 00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:59,760 perhaps in the future, history may have another role for you. 657 00:55:00,420 --> 00:55:03,560 Your Majesty, you took me from the Royal College, 658 00:55:03,620 --> 00:55:06,530 gave me your dogs to look after, 659 00:55:06,540 --> 00:55:09,210 liked me for my foolishness. 660 00:55:09,310 --> 00:55:11,300 No, Merivel. 661 00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:15,810 I liked you for your skill, 662 00:55:15,860 --> 00:55:18,320 for then the two were in you... light and dark. 663 00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,820 But now, your skill is fallen away... 664 00:55:20,900 --> 00:55:24,610 and you are one foolish, quivering mass. 665 00:55:27,830 --> 00:55:30,200 The plague is coming, Merivel, 666 00:55:30,290 --> 00:55:33,570 and the plague rouses men from their sleep. 667 00:56:00,740 --> 00:56:03,310 You know, Will, in my time at Bidnold... 668 00:56:03,410 --> 00:56:07,020 I have grown uncommonly fond of you. 669 00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:11,820 And I... if I may say so, sir... am uncommonly fond of you. 670 00:56:11,910 --> 00:56:15,910 So you're off to Mr. Pearce and the Quakers, sir? 671 00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,200 I've nowhere else to go. 672 00:56:52,110 --> 00:56:55,110 Ah! How may I help you, friend? 673 00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:58,160 I-I've come to visit my friend, Pearce. 674 00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,950 You must be Robert. 675 00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:03,030 Please, enter. 676 00:57:08,170 --> 00:57:10,070 Daniel! 677 00:57:10,170 --> 00:57:14,420 Ah, John told us one day you would like to join us. 678 00:57:14,510 --> 00:57:18,120 -Ah, did he? -Get some oats for the horse. 679 00:57:18,180 --> 00:57:20,300 I do not intend staying long. 680 00:57:20,350 --> 00:57:22,440 I hate being housed up anywhere for too long, sir. 681 00:57:22,490 --> 00:57:23,750 Robert! 682 00:57:26,930 --> 00:57:28,090 Robert! 683 00:57:28,150 --> 00:57:30,810 Pearce! Pearce! 684 00:57:30,900 --> 00:57:34,150 -John. -John? 685 00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,850 Here in Whittlesea, I'm John and you're Robert. 686 00:57:36,950 --> 00:57:40,810 I'm bound, after all these years, to find that difficult. 687 00:57:40,910 --> 00:57:45,740 Come on. Let's get you out of the wet and up to your room. 688 00:57:45,790 --> 00:57:49,280 It's the size of one of my linen cupboards. 689 00:57:49,380 --> 00:57:52,210 Here we give prominence to other things, Robert. 690 00:57:52,300 --> 00:57:56,160 When I saw your life before among the terrible luxuries of the courts, I, uh... 691 00:57:56,260 --> 00:57:59,750 well, I prayed you would be taken out of it. 692 00:58:01,850 --> 00:58:05,460 And yet I was uncommonly fond of it, Pearce. 693 00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:09,680 This is our new friend Robert. 694 00:58:09,770 --> 00:58:11,890 This is Ambrose, 695 00:58:11,980 --> 00:58:13,970 Daniel... 696 00:58:14,030 --> 00:58:16,180 and our dear sisters, 697 00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:19,110 Hannah and Eleanor. 698 00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:21,350 Robert is well qualified to help us. 699 00:58:21,450 --> 00:58:24,570 He claims to have forgotten medicine, but I know he has not. 700 00:58:24,660 --> 00:58:27,190 -I have. Sadly, I have. -Not. 701 00:58:27,250 --> 00:58:29,810 -Well, regrettably, but in fact... -Stop it. 702 00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:34,160 Lord, send a light to show Robert the way. 703 00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:37,950 Dear Jesus, be with Robert. 704 00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:41,620 God in heaven, take Robert's hand. 705 00:58:41,670 --> 00:58:43,880 Be at his side. 706 00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:47,380 And even when night comes, still be at his side. 707 00:58:47,470 --> 00:58:50,010 Amen. 708 00:58:51,390 --> 00:58:54,800 The inmates are looked after in a series of barns. 709 00:58:54,850 --> 00:58:57,090 This is the men's barn. 710 00:58:57,140 --> 00:59:01,060 And in the women's barn, the invalid friends weave sailcloth. 711 00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:08,980 The keepers must never enter the barns alone. 712 00:59:09,070 --> 00:59:11,480 Yes, I certainly understand. 713 00:59:11,570 --> 00:59:13,700 This is alarming. 714 00:59:13,780 --> 00:59:15,770 This is our work now. 715 00:59:15,870 --> 00:59:18,540 But how has madness undone so many? 716 00:59:18,620 --> 00:59:20,610 By a hundred different ways. 717 00:59:20,710 --> 00:59:22,950 Madness is a brother and sister to misfortune. 718 00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:25,870 Poverty and abandonment are prime causes. 719 00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:30,010 This is Robert! He's come to help us in our work. 720 00:59:30,090 --> 00:59:32,300 Say the name to yourselves... 721 00:59:32,340 --> 00:59:35,790 and keep it precious because he is your friend. 722 00:59:35,890 --> 00:59:37,800 -Robert. -Robert. 723 00:59:37,890 --> 00:59:41,630 We have one here, a young Irish woman... Katharine. 724 00:59:41,730 --> 00:59:45,430 She was abandoned one night by her husband. 725 00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:47,810 And now, she will not sleep. 726 00:59:47,900 --> 00:59:50,570 Are you another man sent to do me injustice? 727 00:59:52,070 --> 00:59:55,770 Katharine, this is our new friend Robert. He won't hurt you. 728 01:00:03,950 --> 01:00:06,580 Red may now, having passed under the hoop, 729 01:00:06,590 --> 01:00:08,320 endeavor to roquet black. 730 01:00:08,370 --> 01:00:11,790 May we not play a little croquet here, Robert? 731 01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:15,120 Um. No. No. The sight of a croquet hoop... 732 01:00:15,180 --> 01:00:19,300 would produce in John a most extraordinary reaction. 733 01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:22,590 What is she doing? 734 01:00:22,670 --> 01:00:24,800 She calls it her leaving step. 735 01:00:31,060 --> 01:00:33,020 That's some kind of dance? 736 01:00:35,270 --> 01:00:37,180 -Hello, Robert. -Hello. 737 01:00:39,690 --> 01:00:43,060 Every man on earth has his leaving step. 738 01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:46,200 If my husband had been a small man, 739 01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:48,230 he would not have been able to leave. 740 01:00:48,330 --> 01:00:52,370 He was a large man. Stepped over me as I slept, 741 01:00:52,450 --> 01:00:55,370 in one giant stride. 742 01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:00,080 The king, too, being plagued by fools 743 01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:02,370 from whom he wishes to walk away, 744 01:01:02,420 --> 01:01:04,660 has perfected his leaving step 745 01:01:04,670 --> 01:01:06,750 to a walk of unsurpassed elegance. 746 01:01:09,050 --> 01:01:11,460 Show me then that walk. 747 01:01:13,890 --> 01:01:16,380 Um... 748 01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:18,390 Well, sort of... 749 01:01:22,690 --> 01:01:24,650 Uh... I cannot. 750 01:01:24,700 --> 01:01:28,270 My imitation is too poor. The shoes are all wrong and, uh... 751 01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:32,150 But you, too, are a man. Have you not your own leaving step? 752 01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:35,120 No. It is others who leave me. 753 01:01:40,290 --> 01:01:44,760 Lunacy is a devilish liquid thing. 754 01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:50,340 It can only be coaxed out by blood, vomit or feces. 755 01:01:50,430 --> 01:01:53,130 Do you not smell the choler? 756 01:01:53,220 --> 01:01:55,260 See. She's quiet now. 757 01:01:55,390 --> 01:01:58,470 Of course. She's lost a lot of blood. 758 01:02:04,230 --> 01:02:06,850 Do you honestly believe that the bleeding is necessary? 759 01:02:06,950 --> 01:02:09,560 I hope to make her sleep. Sleep is the best thing for her. 760 01:02:09,660 --> 01:02:11,560 Is there not some other way? 761 01:02:11,650 --> 01:02:14,140 Robert, you've not seen the nature of her madness. 762 01:02:14,190 --> 01:02:17,530 She marches up and down at night, shouting and crying. 763 01:02:17,610 --> 01:02:21,120 -What does she shout? -That she is not mad. 764 01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:23,320 Perhaps she is not mad. 765 01:02:23,450 --> 01:02:26,900 On two occasions she tried to take her own life. 766 01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:29,250 Mightn't that be despair? 767 01:02:29,290 --> 01:02:33,210 What you and I would feel were we locked away with the mad. 768 01:02:38,260 --> 01:02:40,670 Why do you tear your clothes? 769 01:02:42,550 --> 01:02:45,590 I'm making windows for my limbs to see through. 770 01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:49,300 Clothes make me blind and I must be watchful at all times, 771 01:02:49,350 --> 01:02:52,140 lest someone come to hurt me again. 772 01:02:52,230 --> 01:02:55,850 This is for you. The robe of sleep. 773 01:02:55,980 --> 01:02:59,400 To comfort you, as you comfort your doll. 774 01:02:59,450 --> 01:03:02,150 Robert. 775 01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:04,400 I shall be along shortly. 776 01:03:21,050 --> 01:03:23,080 Why are you afraid to sleep? 777 01:03:26,100 --> 01:03:29,210 Once I fell asleep, 778 01:03:29,350 --> 01:03:31,590 but the evil in me was wakeful. 779 01:03:31,690 --> 01:03:33,640 And I let slip my little girl. 780 01:03:33,690 --> 01:03:36,180 Your daughter? 781 01:03:39,650 --> 01:03:43,980 My man was an English soldier. One of Cromwell's. 782 01:03:44,070 --> 01:03:48,480 He was good to my family. 783 01:03:48,580 --> 01:03:51,110 And I was green as a goose. 784 01:03:51,210 --> 01:03:54,240 And fair looking. 785 01:03:56,090 --> 01:03:57,990 It was he who took you to London? 786 01:04:00,550 --> 01:04:04,540 A little girl was born to us and lived three years before she was taken. 787 01:04:06,500 --> 01:04:08,910 She liked to see the boats. 788 01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:15,090 We watched the river and the river watched us... 789 01:04:15,140 --> 01:04:18,420 until one day I closed my eyes... 790 01:04:18,470 --> 01:04:21,430 and the river took her for drownin'. 791 01:04:23,190 --> 01:04:25,430 You must be watchful always, Robert. 792 01:04:27,110 --> 01:04:30,110 Do not sleep. 793 01:04:30,190 --> 01:04:33,530 We will be watchful for each other. 794 01:04:33,570 --> 01:04:35,900 You can sleep. I will take the first watch. 795 01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:40,020 I cannot. 796 01:04:53,630 --> 01:04:57,170 Across the sea, in the Land of Mar... 797 01:04:57,260 --> 01:05:01,340 there is a valley where are kept all the things lost on earth. 798 01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:07,520 Lost kingdoms, lost riches, 799 01:05:07,610 --> 01:05:10,860 lost hours, lost loves. 800 01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:16,020 The people go there to discover their lost days and lost deeds. 801 01:05:24,370 --> 01:05:28,360 And often they are surprised to come across a few of their lost wits. 802 01:05:30,670 --> 01:05:34,000 Simply because they'd never in the least missed them. 803 01:05:46,810 --> 01:05:51,880 Robert, if you're seen to be overattentive to one, 804 01:05:51,930 --> 01:05:55,060 you'll be seen to be less than attentive to the others. 805 01:05:55,100 --> 01:05:57,810 I helped her to sleep. So perhaps I was near a cure for her. 806 01:05:57,900 --> 01:05:59,730 That is somewhat arrogant. 807 01:05:59,810 --> 01:06:03,230 Cures are not performed by us. Only Jesus cures. 808 01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:05,220 We are merely His agents. 809 01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:09,260 But may we not, as His agents, look to ourselves? 810 01:06:09,260 --> 01:06:12,260 To our own experience to aid in a cure? 811 01:06:13,660 --> 01:06:16,750 When I am ill, I will seek out... 812 01:06:16,830 --> 01:06:19,290 at the first sign or footstep of that illness... 813 01:06:19,380 --> 01:06:23,420 the services of a physician to help me to a cure. 814 01:06:23,510 --> 01:06:26,800 And the insane man, on the contrary, is not brought 815 01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:29,770 to any bedlam or hospital until the disease is far advanced. 816 01:06:32,510 --> 01:06:36,050 For all our inmates there was a time before. 817 01:06:36,140 --> 01:06:38,100 When there was no madness in them. 818 01:06:38,190 --> 01:06:42,730 We should try to ask each one of those in our care... 819 01:06:42,770 --> 01:06:45,970 to try to remember how it was to be in the time before. 820 01:06:46,030 --> 01:06:48,270 And to return them there. 821 01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:51,730 Perhaps as sleep returns Katharine to her time before, 822 01:06:51,830 --> 01:06:53,820 in times of joy, 823 01:06:53,950 --> 01:06:59,320 and in this way we might discover... 824 01:06:59,420 --> 01:07:02,670 the imprint of the steps to madness. 825 01:07:02,750 --> 01:07:06,450 There, just under the surface, 826 01:07:06,510 --> 01:07:09,960 there could be cures by dancing and laughter. 827 01:07:10,050 --> 01:07:11,960 I see Daniel playing a tarantella. 828 01:07:12,050 --> 01:07:13,960 I see the women dancing like happy children. 829 01:07:14,060 --> 01:07:16,970 I see... I see... 830 01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:23,470 all the things lost on earth. 831 01:07:23,570 --> 01:07:25,680 Robert! 832 01:07:25,780 --> 01:07:27,810 This is not the Court Masque. 833 01:07:27,900 --> 01:07:30,300 I know that! 834 01:07:32,940 --> 01:07:34,920 But you cannot banish joy, 835 01:07:34,930 --> 01:07:36,720 for that is the road to madness. 836 01:07:36,780 --> 01:07:39,610 And, and all this... 837 01:07:39,660 --> 01:07:41,780 has come to me from the Lord... 838 01:07:44,030 --> 01:07:45,950 I suspect. 839 01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:54,830 Today, instead of walking round the tree, we're gonna dance. 840 01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:58,620 Or skip. Or gallop. Anything. 841 01:07:58,710 --> 01:08:02,050 And your keepers will dance with you. 842 01:08:04,550 --> 01:08:07,590 Um, this is a twirling dance... 843 01:08:07,680 --> 01:08:11,380 so why do you not twirl and turn and dance? 844 01:08:36,630 --> 01:08:38,590 Hello, Robert. 845 01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:06,160 One, two and three and four. 846 01:09:14,330 --> 01:09:16,240 Yes! Yes! 847 01:09:16,330 --> 01:09:18,410 Ha ha! 848 01:09:33,090 --> 01:09:36,470 -Dance with me! -Oh, I cannot. 849 01:09:36,550 --> 01:09:38,760 Robert cannot, for he is the music. 850 01:09:38,850 --> 01:09:41,140 Perhaps, uh, John will ask you to dance with him. 851 01:10:06,170 --> 01:10:08,070 Come on! 852 01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:14,910 Why was this music not always with us? 853 01:10:22,970 --> 01:10:24,930 Aha! 854 01:10:37,070 --> 01:10:37,940 John? 855 01:10:47,900 --> 01:10:48,780 John. 856 01:10:50,420 --> 01:10:52,370 Robert. 857 01:10:52,420 --> 01:10:55,830 For a month now, 858 01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:59,160 and I'm telling this to you and nobody else, 859 01:10:59,260 --> 01:11:01,710 I've felt certain symptoms come upon me. 860 01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:06,670 First, you must rest. 861 01:11:06,770 --> 01:11:08,670 Only then, Pearce, can I prescribe my remedy. 862 01:11:08,770 --> 01:11:10,680 -John. -Ah, John, then, 863 01:11:10,770 --> 01:11:13,470 but you'll be neither one nor the other if you allow yourself to die. 864 01:11:13,570 --> 01:11:15,560 I cannot stay in bed, there's so much work to do... 865 01:11:15,610 --> 01:11:17,600 Please do not make me lose my temper! 866 01:11:17,740 --> 01:11:20,690 Have I not a hundred times since we've met allowed you to command me... 867 01:11:20,770 --> 01:11:22,730 and done this or that thing at your bidding? 868 01:11:22,770 --> 01:11:25,150 I have. So do not even consider contradicting me! 869 01:11:34,910 --> 01:11:36,820 What do you prescribe? 870 01:11:40,620 --> 01:11:44,570 Syrup of roses to warm your blood and soothe your coughing. 871 01:11:44,630 --> 01:11:47,090 A burdock poultice for your head. 872 01:11:47,130 --> 01:11:50,970 -And for the slime in the lung? -Sal ammoniac. 873 01:11:51,050 --> 01:11:52,960 And a balsam. 874 01:11:53,050 --> 01:11:57,350 Yes, we shall try several dissolved in boiling water and inhaled. 875 01:11:57,430 --> 01:12:02,140 It's all come back to you then, Robert? 876 01:12:02,230 --> 01:12:05,150 The right knowledge at the right time. 877 01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:08,770 Perhaps. We shall see. 878 01:12:47,150 --> 01:12:50,060 Tell me more tales of the Land of Mar. 879 01:12:54,700 --> 01:12:58,150 In the woods there lived great families of badger. 880 01:12:58,280 --> 01:13:01,440 And people liked to bring their children there to see them. 881 01:13:15,040 --> 01:13:18,460 The children are always told that if they are very quiet, they will see them. 882 01:13:21,630 --> 01:13:23,540 As far as I know, 883 01:13:23,630 --> 01:13:26,040 they are never quiet enough. 884 01:14:01,920 --> 01:14:04,790 This shall be our meeting place. 885 01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:07,880 Yes. 886 01:14:07,930 --> 01:14:09,890 And I'll wait for ya. 887 01:14:15,190 --> 01:14:18,190 And you'll come to me. 888 01:14:18,270 --> 01:14:20,180 I will. 889 01:14:40,630 --> 01:14:43,190 Merivel? 890 01:14:45,340 --> 01:14:47,250 Why had you go out? 891 01:14:47,340 --> 01:14:50,080 Oh, when I cannot sleep, sometimes I walk... 892 01:14:50,180 --> 01:14:52,090 in the air at night. 893 01:14:53,970 --> 01:14:55,880 Let's see. 894 01:15:02,510 --> 01:15:04,430 Hmm. 895 01:15:04,470 --> 01:15:06,430 You're burning up. 896 01:15:10,980 --> 01:15:12,890 You called me Merivel. 897 01:15:14,690 --> 01:15:18,360 Since this fever I've... 898 01:15:18,450 --> 01:15:21,320 I've forgotten your other name. 899 01:15:21,410 --> 01:15:23,310 Robert. 900 01:15:23,410 --> 01:15:25,820 Robert. That's it. 901 01:15:31,250 --> 01:15:34,200 What I do remember is... 902 01:15:34,250 --> 01:15:38,120 how I witnessed the beating heart. 903 01:15:38,170 --> 01:15:40,130 Yes, I remember. 904 01:15:41,550 --> 01:15:44,890 You put your hand in and touched it, but I could not. 905 01:15:45,970 --> 01:15:48,300 I remember. 906 01:15:50,640 --> 01:15:53,050 And yet the man felt nothing. 907 01:15:54,270 --> 01:15:56,180 No, he felt nothing. 908 01:16:00,900 --> 01:16:04,310 Pray for me that I might become that man and feel no pain. 909 01:16:05,700 --> 01:16:08,400 I shall. 910 01:16:16,960 --> 01:16:19,120 It is not the plague then? 911 01:16:19,210 --> 01:16:22,830 No. It's his lung. A potent consumption. 912 01:16:22,930 --> 01:16:26,970 Let us pray for our friend John in his time of trouble... 913 01:16:27,060 --> 01:16:30,260 that his pain may be the less. 914 01:16:48,400 --> 01:16:50,320 Stay with me. 915 01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:56,530 The pain is less when you stay with me. 916 01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:06,990 Blessed be the name of the Lord... 917 01:17:07,090 --> 01:17:10,170 from this time forth and forever more. 918 01:17:10,260 --> 01:17:12,300 From the rising of the sun... 919 01:17:12,340 --> 01:17:14,720 and the going down of the same, 920 01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:18,140 the Lord's name is to be praised. 921 01:17:18,220 --> 01:17:23,430 It troubles me to take with me to my grave so much that I do not know. 922 01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:27,390 I'd rather you did not talk about the grave, John. 923 01:17:27,480 --> 01:17:30,400 Of course you would. 924 01:17:30,480 --> 01:17:32,940 There are many matters, ever since I met you, 925 01:17:33,030 --> 01:17:36,940 upon which you would prefer me to remain silent. 926 01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:40,110 But it has never been my way. 927 01:17:46,670 --> 01:17:48,570 Here. 928 01:17:54,130 --> 01:17:56,800 Your copy of Harvey. 929 01:17:56,930 --> 01:18:00,500 You have a gift, Merivel. Use it. 930 01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:02,920 Robert! 931 01:18:04,770 --> 01:18:12,600 Robert! 932 01:18:12,740 --> 01:18:18,240 Robert is my lover! 933 01:18:18,320 --> 01:18:20,230 Robert! 934 01:18:20,330 --> 01:18:24,030 He is my lover! 935 01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:29,160 Robert! 936 01:18:32,420 --> 01:18:35,250 He is my lover! 937 01:18:44,170 --> 01:18:47,010 Farewell, my friend. 938 01:19:05,860 --> 01:19:10,850 When the time is right, Robert shall leave us. 939 01:19:10,990 --> 01:19:13,030 And he will take Katharine with him. 940 01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:15,020 Why? 941 01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:18,040 Because, Daniel, she is carrying his child. 942 01:19:31,430 --> 01:19:33,960 -Good-bye, Hannah. -Good-bye, Robert. 943 01:19:34,060 --> 01:19:36,720 -Good-bye, Ambrose. -Good-bye, Robert. 944 01:19:38,770 --> 01:19:40,680 Walk on. 945 01:19:56,290 --> 01:19:59,240 He will never teach me croquet now. 946 01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:11,250 Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross 947 01:20:11,380 --> 01:20:15,290 To see a fine lady ride on her white horse 948 01:20:15,390 --> 01:20:19,300 With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes 949 01:20:19,390 --> 01:20:21,340 And she shall have music wherever... 950 01:20:21,390 --> 01:20:23,680 Are you content now? 951 01:20:23,770 --> 01:20:26,220 Why should I not be? 952 01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:29,220 Will you be Quakerish all the way to London? 953 01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:34,940 You know, in Ireland, a man with a horse, a cart, 954 01:20:34,980 --> 01:20:38,230 and a book he knows how to read is the catch of the county. 955 01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:40,520 Well, perhaps when we have made fire of the cart, 956 01:20:40,610 --> 01:20:43,610 and eaten the horse, wiped our asses with the book, 957 01:20:43,740 --> 01:20:46,660 you'll have become acquainted with what you have caught. 958 01:20:57,880 --> 01:20:59,790 Oy! Hop it! 959 01:20:59,880 --> 01:21:02,510 Find the lady. 960 01:21:02,590 --> 01:21:06,540 She's here, she's there, you seek her everywhere. 961 01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:09,010 She's floating in the air. 962 01:21:09,060 --> 01:21:11,460 Where is she? Find the lady. 963 01:21:16,650 --> 01:21:18,550 That was my sixpence if I had played. 964 01:21:18,610 --> 01:21:22,230 -Here is our chance of money. -Here's your chance 965 01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:24,850 -to be shorn like a sheep. -Ho, fellow! 966 01:21:24,950 --> 01:21:26,990 Move on or you'll lose your breeches. 967 01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:30,860 Thank you, but I'm not one of your bog-dwelling Irish bumpkins. 968 01:21:30,910 --> 01:21:33,660 I have had some traffic with the affairs of men. 969 01:21:33,750 --> 01:21:35,710 We must have money. 970 01:21:35,790 --> 01:21:39,040 There's money inside my skirt. 971 01:21:39,090 --> 01:21:41,080 Sarah! 972 01:21:41,170 --> 01:21:43,500 She is simple. 973 01:21:45,970 --> 01:21:47,880 We are doctor and patient. 974 01:21:50,390 --> 01:21:52,550 I am the doctor. 975 01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:54,590 Show me the cards. 976 01:21:58,570 --> 01:22:00,430 Find the lady. 977 01:22:12,370 --> 01:22:15,190 I have lost everything. 978 01:22:15,250 --> 01:22:19,450 Not quite everything, sir. 979 01:22:19,530 --> 01:22:21,910 I cannot. That was a gift from the King. 980 01:22:21,990 --> 01:22:25,440 Pity. 981 01:22:30,920 --> 01:22:32,910 Once more. 982 01:22:35,130 --> 01:22:37,040 "Sir Robert Merivel. 983 01:22:37,130 --> 01:22:39,710 Master of Bidnold". 984 01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:41,930 Show me the cards. 985 01:22:41,970 --> 01:22:44,810 Find the lady. 986 01:22:44,890 --> 01:22:48,310 She's here, she's there, she's floating in the air. 987 01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:50,300 Find the lady. 988 01:22:53,070 --> 01:22:54,970 Nooo! 989 01:22:57,950 --> 01:23:00,810 Oh, I've made her mad again. 990 01:23:03,870 --> 01:23:06,110 Ah, gold! 991 01:23:07,410 --> 01:23:10,780 Heavy as a hen egg against everything he's lost. 992 01:23:10,830 --> 01:23:14,170 -And breakfast. -She's simple. 993 01:23:14,250 --> 01:23:17,450 It's gold. Even-Stevens, then. 994 01:23:17,510 --> 01:23:19,470 And breakfast. 995 01:23:19,510 --> 01:23:22,080 Oh, shame. To rob an idiot girl. 996 01:23:22,140 --> 01:23:24,100 That's not kind, Robert. 997 01:23:24,140 --> 01:23:26,100 Find the lady. 998 01:23:33,230 --> 01:23:35,260 No! 999 01:23:37,190 --> 01:23:39,810 Ha! 1000 01:23:46,450 --> 01:23:48,360 But, how? 1001 01:23:48,460 --> 01:23:51,290 Simple. 1002 01:23:53,460 --> 01:23:56,450 Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross 1003 01:23:56,510 --> 01:24:00,280 To see a fine lady ride on her white horse 1004 01:24:00,380 --> 01:24:04,590 With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes 1005 01:24:04,720 --> 01:24:08,760 She shall have music wherever she goes 1006 01:25:01,140 --> 01:25:03,050 Hello? 1007 01:25:10,110 --> 01:25:12,020 Hello? 1008 01:25:12,110 --> 01:25:14,020 Hello! 1009 01:25:24,120 --> 01:25:26,070 I once lived here. 1010 01:25:33,260 --> 01:25:35,670 Put your hand on my belly. 1011 01:25:42,230 --> 01:25:44,840 I'm frightened that something might happen to take it away. 1012 01:25:48,480 --> 01:25:51,930 We'll build him a big strong castle in the Land of Mar, 1013 01:25:52,030 --> 01:25:54,640 and put him in a high tower where he will be safe. 1014 01:25:57,150 --> 01:26:00,760 Where he will feel none of the unkindness of the world; 1015 01:26:00,820 --> 01:26:03,990 scheming, ugliness. 1016 01:26:04,070 --> 01:26:06,990 And should he pass through the valley of lost things, 1017 01:26:07,070 --> 01:26:09,560 nothing of him will ever be lost. 1018 01:26:11,910 --> 01:26:14,750 And we shall call him John. 1019 01:26:16,170 --> 01:26:19,840 No one will ever be able to take him from you. 1020 01:26:29,510 --> 01:26:31,920 Do not enter, sir. 1021 01:26:34,730 --> 01:26:36,630 I've come looking for work. 1022 01:26:36,730 --> 01:26:39,190 I, uh, I attended the college. 1023 01:26:39,270 --> 01:26:42,640 That ward is struck, and once a ward or a house is struck, 1024 01:26:42,690 --> 01:26:46,360 then all the people therein are quarantined for 40 days. 1025 01:26:47,860 --> 01:26:50,950 -Both sick and well? -Both together. 1026 01:26:51,030 --> 01:26:52,940 What happens? 1027 01:26:53,040 --> 01:26:56,650 We leave them. Mostly they die. 1028 01:27:00,790 --> 01:27:02,990 -What about the physicians? -All fled. 1029 01:27:03,050 --> 01:27:05,750 Physicians have become the men most despised. 1030 01:27:10,010 --> 01:27:11,920 Perhaps you'd like that, sir. 1031 01:27:12,010 --> 01:27:16,010 Physicians used to wear them to purify the air against the plague. 1032 01:27:16,060 --> 01:27:18,890 Well, you can keep it. 1033 01:27:18,980 --> 01:27:22,640 The physician who wore it comes here no more. 1034 01:27:22,690 --> 01:27:24,600 Nor does he go anywhere. 1035 01:27:24,730 --> 01:27:27,640 Nor has breath. 1036 01:28:04,350 --> 01:28:06,250 John. 1037 01:28:28,910 --> 01:28:32,580 You have a gift, Merivel. Use it. 1038 01:28:42,340 --> 01:28:44,300 For the child. 1039 01:28:49,850 --> 01:28:52,260 Why do you stay with me? 1040 01:28:55,480 --> 01:28:59,220 Because the child has weaved our lives together. 1041 01:28:59,280 --> 01:29:02,140 I know you don't love me as you've loved others. 1042 01:29:04,570 --> 01:29:09,190 Um, perhaps I do not recognize love, Katharine. I'm not a wise man. 1043 01:29:24,470 --> 01:29:26,580 In the Land of Mar, 1044 01:29:26,640 --> 01:29:29,460 which lies just above Africa... 1045 01:29:33,600 --> 01:29:36,220 To help you sleep. 1046 01:29:36,260 --> 01:29:38,390 You must sleep, Robert, 1047 01:29:38,470 --> 01:29:41,470 if you are to heal others as you've healed me. 1048 01:29:54,860 --> 01:29:57,980 It's all right. It's all right. 1049 01:30:09,590 --> 01:30:12,080 We can only wait and pray. 1050 01:30:12,130 --> 01:30:15,580 And then, if she should start to slip away? 1051 01:30:15,630 --> 01:30:18,580 Then there is only one thing can be done. 1052 01:30:18,720 --> 01:30:23,020 Katharine. Katharine. 1053 01:30:23,060 --> 01:30:25,020 The baby is large. 1054 01:30:25,060 --> 01:30:27,730 You cannot push it out of you. 1055 01:30:30,020 --> 01:30:32,810 Is there nothing can be done to save it? 1056 01:30:32,860 --> 01:30:35,310 I must cut into the womb. 1057 01:30:37,110 --> 01:30:39,560 But if I do, I shall lose you. 1058 01:30:39,660 --> 01:30:42,580 And I don't want to lose you, Katharine. 1059 01:30:44,580 --> 01:30:46,820 You must save the child. 1060 01:31:00,600 --> 01:31:02,670 Are you not afraid? 1061 01:31:02,720 --> 01:31:05,170 You're leaving me, I fear. 1062 01:31:07,390 --> 01:31:09,340 Nothing else. 1063 01:31:17,110 --> 01:31:19,510 Be with me now, Pearce. 1064 01:31:26,950 --> 01:31:29,780 Now, help me. Hold back the flesh... 1065 01:31:29,870 --> 01:31:32,740 while I gently lever the child out. 1066 01:31:42,340 --> 01:31:45,210 Ah! Oh! Huh! 1067 01:31:47,510 --> 01:31:49,420 Katharine. 1068 01:31:49,510 --> 01:31:53,470 Katharine! 1069 01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:10,600 There's nothing more I can do. 1070 01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:14,240 Sir! 1071 01:32:17,330 --> 01:32:19,240 Robert. 1072 01:32:25,670 --> 01:32:28,700 It is no John, it is our little girl. 1073 01:32:31,640 --> 01:32:34,800 We shall call her Margaret. 1074 01:32:35,850 --> 01:32:38,420 Margaret. 1075 01:32:41,730 --> 01:32:44,650 I love you, Robert. 1076 01:32:44,730 --> 01:32:46,640 I love you. 1077 01:32:52,610 --> 01:32:54,770 Keep her safe. 1078 01:32:54,870 --> 01:32:57,150 I will. 1079 01:33:42,990 --> 01:33:47,530 Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, 1080 01:33:47,580 --> 01:33:51,900 in sure and certain hope of resurrection to eternal life... 1081 01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:55,030 the Lord, Jesus Christ who shall... 1082 01:34:00,840 --> 01:34:03,000 I write this for you, dear Margaret, 1083 01:34:03,090 --> 01:34:05,300 to tell you something of my life. 1084 01:34:05,430 --> 01:34:07,640 Whatever is good in it I owe to two people... 1085 01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:10,170 whom I could not save. 1086 01:34:10,270 --> 01:34:13,550 Your mother loved you and gave her life for yours. 1087 01:34:13,600 --> 01:34:16,550 She was the bravest spirit I ever knew. 1088 01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:24,530 The most compassionate was my friend John Pearce. 1089 01:34:24,570 --> 01:34:27,980 Now I know I must return to our work in the hospital, 1090 01:34:28,070 --> 01:34:30,990 and take on the role that was always meant for me. 1091 01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:33,230 I have arranged for your safekeeping. 1092 01:34:33,330 --> 01:34:37,370 For if I become ill, I will not return. 1093 01:35:14,690 --> 01:35:16,600 But they are tied to the bed. 1094 01:35:16,700 --> 01:35:19,660 Those already affected with the plague are tied... 1095 01:35:19,780 --> 01:35:21,970 to prevent them going into the streets 1096 01:35:21,970 --> 01:35:23,730 like madmen and infecting other people. 1097 01:35:23,830 --> 01:35:26,660 But the sick and the well must be separated. 1098 01:35:26,750 --> 01:35:28,990 Open it! 1099 01:35:29,080 --> 01:35:32,840 I can't, sir. The proclamation. The plague! 1100 01:35:32,920 --> 01:35:34,830 Then I shall open it. 1101 01:36:08,580 --> 01:36:11,610 The sick and the well they keep quarantined together. 1102 01:36:11,710 --> 01:36:15,330 If I were merely to separate them, a great many lives would be saved. 1103 01:36:17,510 --> 01:36:20,590 Who do I have to thank for this kindness? 1104 01:36:20,720 --> 01:36:23,080 One John Pearce. 1105 01:36:24,260 --> 01:36:26,210 The sick I can offer no cure. 1106 01:36:26,270 --> 01:36:28,710 But my presence among them may bring with it some hope. 1107 01:36:31,100 --> 01:36:33,050 Fear is our greatest enemy. 1108 01:36:33,110 --> 01:36:35,510 And hope our best weapon against the disease. 1109 01:36:49,830 --> 01:36:52,200 They have mistaken me for John Pearce. 1110 01:36:52,290 --> 01:36:54,610 A mistake to which I have contributed. 1111 01:36:54,700 --> 01:36:57,990 I allow them to continue to honor my friend. 1112 01:36:59,580 --> 01:37:01,540 Dr. Pearce. 1113 01:37:05,920 --> 01:37:07,880 Excellent. 1114 01:37:14,890 --> 01:37:17,460 There you are. Mary will show you out. 1115 01:37:29,150 --> 01:37:30,860 Margaret. 1116 01:37:31,150 --> 01:37:34,070 -Dr. Pearce. -Who calls? 1117 01:38:21,580 --> 01:38:24,700 Pearce. 1118 01:38:24,750 --> 01:38:27,910 I give her into your hands. 1119 01:38:27,960 --> 01:38:31,330 Call for any medicines. Anything you deem suitable. 1120 01:39:19,170 --> 01:39:21,460 Why have they sent another doctor to me? 1121 01:39:21,500 --> 01:39:24,450 You must want to live, Lady Celia. 1122 01:39:24,510 --> 01:39:27,080 No. 1123 01:39:27,180 --> 01:39:29,640 Not in so wretched a state. 1124 01:39:42,270 --> 01:39:44,320 Tell me, Doctor, 1125 01:39:44,440 --> 01:39:46,400 why is it that those that we love... 1126 01:39:46,530 --> 01:39:48,440 do not love us in return? 1127 01:39:51,240 --> 01:39:55,370 I once loved a woman who did not love me. 1128 01:39:55,410 --> 01:39:58,360 Yet I believed that she did. 1129 01:40:00,790 --> 01:40:04,410 Is it not equally possible... 1130 01:40:04,510 --> 01:40:08,410 to mistakenly feel unloved? 1131 01:40:08,510 --> 01:40:10,310 I am one of many. 1132 01:40:10,310 --> 01:40:13,710 I know no special place in the King's heart. 1133 01:40:13,810 --> 01:40:16,710 The King does love you, Lady Celia. 1134 01:40:18,190 --> 01:40:21,140 Why would he reveal such intimacies to you and not to me? 1135 01:40:21,270 --> 01:40:24,850 He told me nothing, but I recognized in him... 1136 01:40:24,940 --> 01:40:27,610 the very feelings I myself have known. 1137 01:40:31,570 --> 01:40:34,940 How may I arrive at such an understanding? 1138 01:40:35,020 --> 01:40:38,030 I used to look to the constellations for some explanation... 1139 01:40:38,110 --> 01:40:41,070 in mysterious times of my own life. 1140 01:40:41,160 --> 01:40:44,910 But the stars hold only part of the answer, Lady Celia. 1141 01:40:44,990 --> 01:40:46,950 Now I look toward myself and those who believed in me 1142 01:40:47,000 --> 01:40:49,320 and loved me for the man I was. 1143 01:40:49,370 --> 01:40:52,370 Now I know we have the power to shape our own destiny. 1144 01:40:52,500 --> 01:40:55,700 Your voice sounds familiar. 1145 01:40:55,800 --> 01:40:59,630 Perhaps from some other time in my life, when I was a child. 1146 01:40:59,720 --> 01:41:01,620 Yes. 1147 01:41:01,720 --> 01:41:04,920 Perhaps when we were children. 1148 01:41:18,360 --> 01:41:22,200 Sire, I am familiar with the many symptoms of the plague. 1149 01:41:22,280 --> 01:41:25,200 Lady Celia suffers from a different illness, a fever, 1150 01:41:25,280 --> 01:41:27,980 which I have treated and from which she will recover. 1151 01:41:28,040 --> 01:41:30,740 And something else... She is with child. 1152 01:41:35,210 --> 01:41:37,490 Good Doctor, 1153 01:41:37,590 --> 01:41:40,160 you have made my heart exceeding glad. 1154 01:41:40,260 --> 01:41:43,430 But she is still haunted by a profound melancholy. 1155 01:41:43,510 --> 01:41:47,290 It can be relieved only by some assurance of love. 1156 01:41:50,770 --> 01:41:53,170 I do believe I understand you. 1157 01:41:53,230 --> 01:41:55,720 I believe I do. 1158 01:41:55,770 --> 01:41:59,350 And now you must remove your headdress... 1159 01:41:59,440 --> 01:42:01,970 and make yourself known to us. 1160 01:42:02,030 --> 01:42:05,140 That, if Your Majesty will forgive me, I cannot do. 1161 01:42:05,370 --> 01:42:07,810 I only hope I've proved useful. 1162 01:42:16,420 --> 01:42:19,870 A large part of the city is on fire. 1163 01:42:21,970 --> 01:42:25,000 Boatsman! 1164 01:42:37,050 --> 01:42:39,010 Go in! 1165 01:42:39,060 --> 01:42:41,050 All right. 1166 01:42:41,100 --> 01:42:43,220 I must find my daughter. 1167 01:42:43,310 --> 01:42:45,630 Now, go in closer! 1168 01:43:12,420 --> 01:43:16,010 -Am I not near Cheapside? -Save yourself, sir. 1169 01:43:16,050 --> 01:43:18,210 Cheapside is gone. 1170 01:43:35,740 --> 01:43:38,490 -Where am I? -Get away from me! 1171 01:43:38,570 --> 01:43:42,150 -What street is this? -I don't know! 1172 01:43:42,240 --> 01:43:44,150 Margaret! 1173 01:43:53,880 --> 01:43:56,410 Margaret! 1174 01:45:08,780 --> 01:45:10,740 Someone in there. 1175 01:45:45,060 --> 01:45:50,560 Where am I? 1176 01:45:50,650 --> 01:45:54,060 You have come back to Bidnold. 1177 01:45:54,160 --> 01:45:56,060 Will. 1178 01:45:59,750 --> 01:46:01,940 I remember the journey. 1179 01:46:02,030 --> 01:46:03,950 I think not, sir. 1180 01:46:04,030 --> 01:46:06,820 You were asleep for the most part of it. 1181 01:46:07,870 --> 01:46:10,990 They found you 15 miles from here. 1182 01:46:11,080 --> 01:46:14,420 Stuck fast under a tree. 1183 01:46:18,180 --> 01:46:19,700 Margaret? 1184 01:46:20,010 --> 01:46:23,170 No word of Margaret? 1185 01:46:23,300 --> 01:46:25,210 Sir? 1186 01:46:28,600 --> 01:46:30,890 I wish you might have known her, Will. 1187 01:46:30,930 --> 01:46:34,770 I had a little daughter. A most beautiful little girl. 1188 01:47:26,360 --> 01:47:30,300 I feel as though old age has come upon me in the space of a moment. 1189 01:48:24,790 --> 01:48:26,750 I fear I'm dreaming. 1190 01:48:26,790 --> 01:48:29,710 No, Merivel. You are awake. 1191 01:48:33,750 --> 01:48:37,830 -Lady Celia has recovered. -She was ill, Sire? 1192 01:48:37,920 --> 01:48:40,840 Yes, and I was led to believe that a colleague of yours, 1193 01:48:40,890 --> 01:48:44,500 a certain John Pearce, was responsible for her recovery. 1194 01:48:44,560 --> 01:48:47,720 However, Celia thinks differently. 1195 01:48:47,810 --> 01:48:49,970 And her suspicions were confirmed... 1196 01:48:50,020 --> 01:48:52,690 when a midwife carrying a very young child... 1197 01:48:52,770 --> 01:48:56,640 came to our palace in search of one... 1198 01:48:56,690 --> 01:48:58,650 Robert Merivel. 1199 01:48:58,740 --> 01:49:02,150 Your child, I believe. 1200 01:49:35,820 --> 01:49:37,720 Merivel. 1201 01:49:44,480 --> 01:49:47,270 I am not mistaken, am I, Merivel, 1202 01:49:47,360 --> 01:49:50,080 about your love for this place? -No, Sire. 1203 01:49:50,080 --> 01:49:53,740 There are here in Bidnold certain combinations of color... 1204 01:49:53,780 --> 01:49:56,070 I do not think exist anywhere else in the world. 1205 01:49:56,120 --> 01:49:58,790 Yes, quite. 1206 01:49:58,870 --> 01:50:01,410 Yes, your man Gates sent to us and told us that... 1207 01:50:01,460 --> 01:50:04,620 you had returned to your house. 1208 01:50:04,710 --> 01:50:06,870 My house, Sire? 1209 01:50:06,960 --> 01:50:08,870 Yes. 1210 01:50:08,960 --> 01:50:11,450 I am giving you Bidnold... 1211 01:50:11,550 --> 01:50:15,380 until my reign is over and another age comes. 1212 01:50:15,470 --> 01:50:18,840 What was taken from you is restored to you... 1213 01:50:18,890 --> 01:50:22,140 in return for the lives you've saved... 1214 01:50:22,230 --> 01:50:25,010 and the man that you have become. 1215 01:50:26,110 --> 01:50:28,510 It is your house, Merivel. 1216 01:50:28,610 --> 01:50:31,020 And I shall never take it from you. 1217 01:50:36,950 --> 01:50:40,020 And I have commissioned a portrait of you. 1218 01:50:43,750 --> 01:50:46,700 And it shall be called "A Physician". 1219 01:50:51,550 --> 01:50:55,000 The fire in its fury has consumed the great plague. 1220 01:50:55,090 --> 01:50:57,840 Misfortune may leave behind unlooked-for blessings, 1221 01:50:57,930 --> 01:51:00,600 none dearer than you, my little Margaret. 1222 01:51:04,100 --> 01:51:07,430 I will return to the city to my work as a doctor, 1223 01:51:07,480 --> 01:51:10,640 and the rebuilding of the King's hospital. 1224 01:51:10,730 --> 01:51:12,640 The stars that once confused me... 1225 01:51:12,740 --> 01:51:15,400 seem now to light a path that is clear, 1226 01:51:15,450 --> 01:51:18,400 that I have in truth been traveling for all these days. 1227 01:51:20,580 --> 01:51:23,010 Where I met what came 1228 01:51:23,020 --> 01:51:24,900 and left behind my sorrows. 1229 01:51:24,960 --> 01:51:27,350 And I'm traveling still. 1230 01:51:36,710 --> 01:51:41,050 Subtitles by ADONI@ 93204