1 00:02:12,407 --> 00:02:14,079 There he is! 2 00:02:42,727 --> 00:02:44,604 How nobly he bears himself. 3 00:02:44,767 --> 00:02:47,486 Oh, it must be wonderful to be a man and a hero. 4 00:02:47,647 --> 00:02:50,844 - He carries himself like a king. - His eyes constantly look up... 5 00:02:51,007 --> 00:02:53,396 searching for the queen. Isn't he wonderful? 6 00:02:53,567 --> 00:02:57,640 Yes, love too has its victories. And this, I think, belongs to Her Majesty. 7 00:02:57,807 --> 00:03:00,605 An easy victory if one is a queen and may command it. 8 00:03:00,767 --> 00:03:03,201 What if Her Majesty should overhear you? 9 00:03:16,967 --> 00:03:18,480 The day when Essex returns... 10 00:03:18,647 --> 00:03:21,639 every petticoat is chosen with an eye to pleasing him. 11 00:03:21,807 --> 00:03:24,401 Come along, my son, into the presence chamber. 12 00:03:24,567 --> 00:03:27,240 You may do as you please, Father. I'll have no part. 13 00:03:27,407 --> 00:03:30,717 Don't be a fool, Cecil. Elizabeth is difficult, even on good days. 14 00:03:30,887 --> 00:03:33,720 Good or bad, we'll see little of her with Essex home. 15 00:03:37,327 --> 00:03:41,036 Something's got to be done to tarnish him or he'll share England's throne. 16 00:03:41,207 --> 00:03:44,005 Then where shall we be? I'll be hanged if I welcome him. 17 00:03:44,167 --> 00:03:46,158 You may be hanged if you do not, my son. 18 00:03:46,327 --> 00:03:48,443 You know Her Majesty's infatuation for him. 19 00:03:56,847 --> 00:03:58,963 But, Your Majesty, I beg you to reconsider. 20 00:03:59,127 --> 00:04:02,005 Essex is a proud man. You must not do this thing to him. 21 00:04:02,167 --> 00:04:05,364 Bacon, this will not be easy for me. 22 00:04:05,567 --> 00:04:09,355 Whatever he has done, he is the man of all men closest to my heart. 23 00:04:09,887 --> 00:04:13,596 Whatever he suffers, I suffer a thousand times more intently. 24 00:04:13,807 --> 00:04:17,436 - Then why, Your Majesty, why? - Because the necessities of a queen... 25 00:04:17,607 --> 00:04:19,643 must transcend those of a woman. 26 00:04:19,807 --> 00:04:23,243 His ambition has jeopardized the prosperity of the English people. 27 00:04:23,407 --> 00:04:26,319 It may endanger the very peace and stability of England. 28 00:04:26,727 --> 00:04:30,800 Your Majesty, forgive this frankness, but your love jeopardizes the situation. 29 00:04:31,007 --> 00:04:34,761 A situation fraught with gravest consequence for my subjects, Bacon. 30 00:04:34,927 --> 00:04:37,964 My personal feelings must not enter into this. 31 00:04:38,127 --> 00:04:39,526 God help me. 32 00:04:39,687 --> 00:04:41,962 Go now. Let me alone. 33 00:04:42,167 --> 00:04:43,680 Your Majesty. 34 00:04:43,847 --> 00:04:45,678 My fan. Hurry. 35 00:04:53,607 --> 00:04:56,167 - Present arms! - Up! 36 00:05:40,047 --> 00:05:41,685 Robert Devereux... 37 00:05:41,967 --> 00:05:44,037 by grace of Her Majesty... 38 00:05:44,207 --> 00:05:47,438 Earl of Essex, general of the horse and knight of the Garter. 39 00:05:52,167 --> 00:05:56,445 Charles, Baron Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral of England. 40 00:05:58,647 --> 00:06:04,517 Walter Raleigh, knight, vice admiral of the fleets, and warden of the stannary. 41 00:06:18,327 --> 00:06:20,921 Do you kneel in homage, my Lord Essex... 42 00:06:21,087 --> 00:06:22,486 or in shame? 43 00:06:24,687 --> 00:06:26,120 Shame, Your Majesty? 44 00:06:26,767 --> 00:06:29,964 Have you lost your hearing as well as your military skill? 45 00:06:30,447 --> 00:06:31,562 Stand up. 46 00:06:33,807 --> 00:06:37,322 I believe my military skill was well demonstrated at Cádiz, madam. 47 00:06:37,487 --> 00:06:40,479 Has our commissioner not brought you news of my victory? 48 00:06:40,647 --> 00:06:42,319 Your victory! 49 00:06:43,887 --> 00:06:48,119 For three years, the rains of England have rotted our harvest to the ground. 50 00:06:48,287 --> 00:06:51,199 Three years of famine and a depleted treasury. 51 00:06:51,367 --> 00:06:54,006 But my Lord of Essex had the cure for that. 52 00:06:54,167 --> 00:06:55,805 Yes, indeed. 53 00:06:55,967 --> 00:06:59,243 "Raise me but £50,000, madam," says he... 54 00:06:59,647 --> 00:07:03,879 " and I'll sail for Cádiz and fetch you such a Spanish treasure fleet... 55 00:07:04,047 --> 00:07:06,003 as will make England rich again." 56 00:07:06,207 --> 00:07:07,879 So I did. 57 00:07:08,047 --> 00:07:10,197 I taxed my already overburdened people. 58 00:07:10,807 --> 00:07:13,037 Got him his £50,000. 59 00:07:13,807 --> 00:07:17,277 Now, where is my Spanish treasure fleet? 60 00:07:18,967 --> 00:07:20,525 Look! 61 00:07:21,047 --> 00:07:23,277 He can't answer. He daren't answer. 62 00:07:24,047 --> 00:07:26,720 - If Your Majesty will let me tell you. - Go on, then. 63 00:07:26,887 --> 00:07:29,606 Unfortunately, it was you who called the fleet back... 64 00:07:29,767 --> 00:07:31,723 before my plans had been carried out. 65 00:07:31,927 --> 00:07:35,476 Unfortunately, the Spanish treasure fleet, with 12 million ducats... 66 00:07:35,647 --> 00:07:39,560 lies beneath the waters of Cádiz Harbor, sunk by the Spaniards themselves. 67 00:07:40,047 --> 00:07:43,403 While Essex, against the advice of Howard and Raleigh... 68 00:07:43,927 --> 00:07:46,395 gathered fame for himself by storming the town. 69 00:07:46,607 --> 00:07:48,279 There was naught else to be done. 70 00:07:48,447 --> 00:07:51,519 - It was for the glory of England. - For the glory of Essex! 71 00:07:53,207 --> 00:07:56,324 Will that put food into the mouths of my starving people? 72 00:07:56,487 --> 00:08:00,036 Can they subsist upon laurel wreaths from your heroic brow? 73 00:08:00,767 --> 00:08:04,601 You think they're displeased with what I did at Cádiz, madam? Listen. 74 00:08:09,887 --> 00:08:13,004 The English people are more readily pleased than their queen. 75 00:08:13,167 --> 00:08:16,842 They cry your name, but what will they say when I must tax them again... 76 00:08:17,007 --> 00:08:19,077 to pay off the soldiers and the fleet? 77 00:08:19,247 --> 00:08:23,559 Is it nothing that 1200 pieces of Spanish ordnance were sunk in my hollow victory? 78 00:08:23,727 --> 00:08:25,479 And the Spanish fleet totally destroyed? 79 00:08:25,807 --> 00:08:28,446 Thanks to my Lord Howard and Sir Raleigh. 80 00:08:29,167 --> 00:08:32,000 It seems you've no reward for me as a soldier, madam. 81 00:08:32,167 --> 00:08:34,123 That the soldier can endure. 82 00:08:34,447 --> 00:08:37,325 But the man had hoped for a different kind of reception. 83 00:08:39,687 --> 00:08:41,643 You meant well, perhaps... 84 00:08:42,807 --> 00:08:47,722 but my rewards are for unselfish effort, not for things half or meanly done. 85 00:08:53,007 --> 00:08:54,804 Sir Walter Raleigh. 86 00:09:00,967 --> 00:09:04,084 From today, you take rank as commander of our guard. 87 00:09:08,167 --> 00:09:09,964 My Lord Howard. 88 00:09:13,407 --> 00:09:14,522 Your Majesty. 89 00:09:15,127 --> 00:09:18,119 In grateful return for what you tried to do at Cádiz... 90 00:09:18,287 --> 00:09:21,484 without thought of self and only for your country's honor... 91 00:09:21,647 --> 00:09:24,605 I appoint you lord lieutenant, general of all England... 92 00:09:24,767 --> 00:09:30,046 commander of my army and my fleet, and name you Earl of Nottingham. 93 00:09:30,247 --> 00:09:31,566 Your Majesty. 94 00:09:32,007 --> 00:09:33,725 - That's impossible. - Keep silent. 95 00:09:33,887 --> 00:09:37,766 I will not. Do you intend this Earl of Nottingham to take precedence over me? 96 00:09:37,967 --> 00:09:41,243 He'll take precedence over you as he did in wisdom at Cádiz. 97 00:09:41,407 --> 00:09:45,082 You were in command and abused it, with Essex first and England second. 98 00:09:45,287 --> 00:09:48,916 Think that if you will, but it's an injustice you place Howard before me. 99 00:09:49,087 --> 00:09:52,796 - I feel you have no right. - I have... I have no right? 100 00:09:53,887 --> 00:09:57,926 As a queen, yes. But as a woman, do I mean nothing to you? 101 00:10:00,007 --> 00:10:01,156 Nothing. 102 00:10:04,847 --> 00:10:06,599 Lord Essex! 103 00:10:19,767 --> 00:10:23,123 Do you dare turn your back on Elizabeth of England? 104 00:10:23,687 --> 00:10:25,006 You dare? 105 00:10:28,207 --> 00:10:31,244 I would not have taken that from the king, your father. 106 00:10:31,607 --> 00:10:34,326 Much less will I accept it from a king in petticoats. 107 00:10:53,047 --> 00:10:55,720 If the courier comes, send him to me at once. 108 00:10:55,887 --> 00:10:57,559 You may go. 109 00:10:58,887 --> 00:11:00,843 I said, that's all. 110 00:11:02,567 --> 00:11:04,523 - Well? - With Your Grace's indulgence... 111 00:11:04,687 --> 00:11:08,202 there's another matter. - Well, what is it? What's it about? 112 00:11:08,647 --> 00:11:10,080 Essex. 113 00:11:10,247 --> 00:11:12,636 Did I not forbid his name to be spoken at court? 114 00:11:12,807 --> 00:11:16,516 But Sir Thomas Egerton received a letter from him from his manor at Wanstead. 115 00:11:19,407 --> 00:11:21,637 I knew he'd come to it, Cecil. 116 00:11:22,047 --> 00:11:25,164 Begging Egerton to intercede for him, of course. 117 00:11:25,727 --> 00:11:29,686 Well, perhaps I was a little harsh. 118 00:11:33,087 --> 00:11:34,998 What did the letter say? 119 00:11:35,967 --> 00:11:38,401 - When is he coming home? - I have it here. 120 00:11:39,047 --> 00:11:40,366 Let me see. 121 00:11:40,527 --> 00:11:44,122 He says, " I owe to Her Majesty a duty of allegiance... 122 00:11:44,327 --> 00:11:47,046 in which I never can, never will fail." 123 00:11:48,527 --> 00:11:50,040 Poor darling. 124 00:11:50,447 --> 00:11:52,199 Of course he's sorry. 125 00:11:52,687 --> 00:11:55,121 But a little apprehensive perhaps. 126 00:11:56,087 --> 00:11:57,281 Go on. Go on. 127 00:11:57,487 --> 00:12:00,285 "But I do not owe her the duty of attendance upon her. 128 00:12:00,447 --> 00:12:03,564 And had I that duty, Her Majesty's conduct has canceled it. 129 00:12:04,167 --> 00:12:08,080 As for asking her pardon, why should I ask pardon for receiving an insult?" 130 00:12:08,247 --> 00:12:09,805 Stop it! 131 00:12:11,407 --> 00:12:12,999 No. 132 00:12:13,447 --> 00:12:15,563 No, go on. I'll hear it. 133 00:12:15,727 --> 00:12:20,482 "When the vilest of indignities is done to me, not even religion enforces me to sue. 134 00:12:20,647 --> 00:12:24,560 I have received the wrong. Let her seek pardon of me." 135 00:12:27,887 --> 00:12:29,525 "And if she refuses... 136 00:12:29,687 --> 00:12:32,884 all her power can show no more strength in oppressing me... 137 00:12:33,047 --> 00:12:35,242 than I can summon to resist it." 138 00:12:35,567 --> 00:12:37,762 Cecil, this is intolerable! 139 00:12:44,287 --> 00:12:46,243 Are you sure Essex wrote this? 140 00:12:46,407 --> 00:12:48,477 - Not you or your friends? - Your Majesty... 141 00:12:48,687 --> 00:12:50,279 Don't "Your Majesty" me! 142 00:12:50,447 --> 00:12:53,564 You slimy toad. I know human nature. 143 00:12:53,727 --> 00:12:58,278 Nothing would suit you so well as to see Essex saying farewell to his head. 144 00:12:58,447 --> 00:13:00,836 Will Your Grace examine the letter more closely? 145 00:13:01,007 --> 00:13:04,886 Rumor hath it you are not unacquainted with Milord of Essex's writing. 146 00:13:05,047 --> 00:13:08,801 And rumor hath it I have a heavy hand for insolence. 147 00:13:08,967 --> 00:13:11,606 Have you forgotten it? Now, get out. 148 00:13:11,767 --> 00:13:13,803 - But, madam... - Get out, I say! 149 00:13:43,047 --> 00:13:44,526 Robert... 150 00:13:45,807 --> 00:13:50,198 Robert, I don't know which I hate the most... 151 00:13:50,767 --> 00:13:52,883 you for making me love you... 152 00:13:53,367 --> 00:13:55,676 or myself for needing you so. 153 00:14:11,527 --> 00:14:14,325 There has seldom been a man so unwise, so headstrong... 154 00:14:14,487 --> 00:14:16,478 but he could see the necessity... 155 00:14:16,647 --> 00:14:19,036 of keeping friends and not making enemies at court. 156 00:14:19,207 --> 00:14:23,678 But you quarrel with the queen because she wanted peace and you wanted war. 157 00:14:23,847 --> 00:14:26,042 War? There is a war with Spain. 158 00:14:26,207 --> 00:14:29,836 And such a silly, frightened womanish war as only a woman would wage. 159 00:14:30,447 --> 00:14:31,641 Let me answer that. 160 00:14:31,807 --> 00:14:34,037 You are not forthright with yourself. 161 00:14:34,207 --> 00:14:36,038 You wish to complete your record as general... 162 00:14:36,207 --> 00:14:39,404 crush Spain, make a name like Caesar's, and climb to fame. 163 00:14:39,567 --> 00:14:41,797 You won Cádiz and caught the people's hearts. 164 00:14:41,967 --> 00:14:45,596 Caught their voices until the streets ring with your name when you pass. 165 00:14:45,767 --> 00:14:48,122 Take care. You are too popular already. 166 00:14:48,287 --> 00:14:50,596 My lord, you are loved better than the queen. 167 00:14:50,767 --> 00:14:52,120 That's your danger. 168 00:14:52,287 --> 00:14:55,120 She will not suffer a subject to eclipse her, she cannot. 169 00:14:55,287 --> 00:14:57,323 Make no mistake, she will not. 170 00:14:57,487 --> 00:15:00,240 - So I must wait? Hold back? - Precisely. 171 00:15:00,407 --> 00:15:02,762 Why? I come of better blood than Elizabeth. 172 00:15:02,927 --> 00:15:06,442 My name is among the earls who stood around the oak with King John. 173 00:15:06,607 --> 00:15:10,316 What the nobles once taught a king, a noble may teach a queen. 174 00:15:10,767 --> 00:15:12,200 You talk treason and death. 175 00:15:12,367 --> 00:15:15,643 The old order is dead. Your house will die if you cannot learn. 176 00:15:15,807 --> 00:15:17,559 This is Elizabeth we deal with. 177 00:15:17,767 --> 00:15:20,235 What's a king but a man, a queen but a woman? 178 00:15:20,447 --> 00:15:23,484 There's one man she fears, and that man's yourself. 179 00:15:23,647 --> 00:15:28,596 - And she has good reason to fear you. - To fear me? Why? I'm loyal. 180 00:15:28,767 --> 00:15:30,564 You're a man not easily governed... 181 00:15:30,727 --> 00:15:33,321 moreover, a general, popular and acclaimed. 182 00:15:33,527 --> 00:15:35,677 And last, she loves you... 183 00:15:35,847 --> 00:15:39,078 which makes you more to be feared whether you love her or not. 184 00:15:39,247 --> 00:15:40,885 Love her? 185 00:15:41,967 --> 00:15:43,878 I most certainly do love her. 186 00:15:44,047 --> 00:15:47,960 - My lord, a man as young as yourself... - if she were my mother's kitchen hag... 187 00:15:48,127 --> 00:15:52,518 toothless and wooden leg, she'd still make the others colorless. She's a witch. 188 00:15:52,687 --> 00:15:56,362 She's got a witch's brain. I love her. I hate her. 189 00:15:57,207 --> 00:15:58,401 I adore her. 190 00:16:03,847 --> 00:16:06,156 That side of it you must know for yourself. 191 00:16:06,367 --> 00:16:09,757 But, my lord, permit me to caution you. 192 00:16:09,967 --> 00:16:13,039 Don't count too much on the loves of queens. 193 00:16:15,487 --> 00:16:19,719 Thanks, Schoolmaster Bacon, for that sound lecture and the sound advice. 194 00:16:20,287 --> 00:16:22,676 Which you probably will not take. 195 00:16:23,407 --> 00:16:25,841 Which I probably will not. 196 00:16:38,767 --> 00:16:42,965 - What's the shortest road to London? - Up the hill to the river, then follow it. 197 00:16:55,047 --> 00:16:59,086 So you would take the queen's knight, Mistress Penelope? 198 00:16:59,247 --> 00:17:02,683 I fear you are overpresumptuous and over-inexperienced. 199 00:17:03,487 --> 00:17:08,356 - All knights are fair game, Your Grace. - I have observed you seem to think so. 200 00:17:08,607 --> 00:17:10,916 The queen will protect her own. 201 00:17:19,167 --> 00:17:20,805 Why didn't you move? 202 00:17:21,807 --> 00:17:24,560 - If I do, l... - You will take my knight. 203 00:17:25,487 --> 00:17:27,159 Is that so far from your desire? 204 00:17:30,167 --> 00:17:31,600 Move, I tell you. 205 00:17:36,527 --> 00:17:37,960 Check to Your Grace. 206 00:17:43,527 --> 00:17:45,677 I fear the queen is powerless now. 207 00:17:46,567 --> 00:17:48,762 The queen is never powerless. 208 00:17:49,527 --> 00:17:50,846 For example... 209 00:17:53,047 --> 00:17:56,164 I had no desire to play, but Your Majesty commanded me. 210 00:17:57,927 --> 00:17:59,918 Never mind, child. 211 00:18:00,087 --> 00:18:02,920 It's only a game, and I'm out of sorts. 212 00:18:03,567 --> 00:18:05,000 I'm tired of it. 213 00:18:06,127 --> 00:18:09,119 Do something. Sing. Play. 214 00:18:09,647 --> 00:18:11,239 Amuse me. 215 00:18:11,767 --> 00:18:13,439 - Your Majesty? - Well? 216 00:18:13,607 --> 00:18:15,837 Would you like to hear Master Marlowe's song: 217 00:18:16,007 --> 00:18:19,602 - "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"? - Anything you please. 218 00:18:39,567 --> 00:18:41,558 Please, Penelope, don't. 219 00:18:49,287 --> 00:18:51,164 - Your Majesty. - Well? 220 00:18:51,367 --> 00:18:55,155 By Your Grace, Raleigh has lately writ an answer to Master Marlowe's ballad. 221 00:18:55,327 --> 00:18:59,286 I'll sing it if Mistress Margaret will take Marlowe's verses against me. 222 00:18:59,487 --> 00:19:02,524 A tournament of song? By all means. 223 00:19:02,727 --> 00:19:04,683 Proceed. Proceed. 224 00:19:10,207 --> 00:19:14,041 So Sir Walter has turned rhymester. 225 00:19:16,567 --> 00:19:18,000 The words will fit perfectly. 226 00:19:18,167 --> 00:19:20,920 A woman in love with a man much younger than herself. 227 00:19:21,087 --> 00:19:23,760 Are you mad, Pen? She'll beat you... 228 00:19:24,407 --> 00:19:26,284 or send you to the tower. 229 00:19:30,087 --> 00:19:35,286 Come live with me And be my love 230 00:19:35,447 --> 00:19:39,725 Enjoy with me The pleasures here above 231 00:19:40,127 --> 00:19:45,520 That hills and valleys Dales and fields 232 00:19:45,687 --> 00:19:51,364 And all the wooded mountains yield 233 00:19:51,567 --> 00:19:56,641 If I could be As young and fair as you 234 00:19:56,807 --> 00:20:01,085 Believe what every shepherd Said was true 235 00:20:01,287 --> 00:20:06,759 These pretty speeches Might me move 236 00:20:06,927 --> 00:20:12,399 To live with you And be your love 237 00:20:13,047 --> 00:20:18,405 - And I will make your bed of roses - In lovers ' vows there is but little truth 238 00:20:18,567 --> 00:20:25,643 - And of a thousand fragrant posies - And love cannot endure without its youth 239 00:20:26,487 --> 00:20:29,160 A cap of flowers and a kirtle 240 00:20:29,327 --> 00:20:31,795 The flowers fade When summertime is ended 241 00:20:31,967 --> 00:20:35,721 - Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle - Our love is dead 242 00:20:35,887 --> 00:20:39,482 A love we thought so splendid 243 00:20:39,687 --> 00:20:45,205 If these delights Your mind may move 244 00:20:45,487 --> 00:20:51,119 Then live with me And be my love 245 00:20:51,327 --> 00:20:56,196 But were I young And loved so well 246 00:20:56,807 --> 00:21:00,595 Then I might hold you close forever... 247 00:21:04,047 --> 00:21:08,120 So, you brazen wench, you defy me! 248 00:21:12,447 --> 00:21:17,316 You dare hold your queen up to ridicule? You forward hussy! 249 00:21:17,487 --> 00:21:20,081 You, who can keep neither your eyes nor your nose... 250 00:21:20,247 --> 00:21:23,683 or your person where they belong! Look at you. 251 00:21:23,967 --> 00:21:27,164 Because a gentleman once glanced at you doesn't entitle you... 252 00:21:27,327 --> 00:21:30,842 to come into my presence dressed like an indecent hedge drab. 253 00:21:31,007 --> 00:21:34,158 Take it off, you shameless baggage. Get out of my sight! 254 00:21:37,327 --> 00:21:43,243 You too. Do you stand around like a herd of stupid cattle while I am treated so? 255 00:21:44,047 --> 00:21:50,077 You, too, think I am too old, too ugly for a man to look upon with love. 256 00:21:55,047 --> 00:21:56,526 Take them down! 257 00:21:56,687 --> 00:21:58,166 Do you hear me? 258 00:21:58,447 --> 00:21:59,880 Smash them. 259 00:22:00,527 --> 00:22:02,324 Destroy them. 260 00:22:03,607 --> 00:22:07,725 Break every mirror in the palace. I never want to see one in Whitehall again! 261 00:22:34,127 --> 00:22:35,879 What is this? 262 00:22:36,247 --> 00:22:38,078 What now? 263 00:22:39,927 --> 00:22:42,282 Why are you crying, Mistress Margaret? 264 00:22:43,127 --> 00:22:44,719 Come here. 265 00:22:48,847 --> 00:22:52,999 What have you to fear? You, the most innocent of them all? 266 00:22:56,207 --> 00:22:57,720 Look at me. 267 00:22:59,407 --> 00:23:04,959 Or do you too find your queen's face too harsh for kindly glances? 268 00:23:05,527 --> 00:23:07,438 Oh, no, Your Majesty. 269 00:23:07,847 --> 00:23:10,281 I think you're lovely. Really, I do. 270 00:23:10,847 --> 00:23:13,202 But I was crying because I... 271 00:23:13,807 --> 00:23:16,196 - Well? - Well... 272 00:23:17,167 --> 00:23:21,399 A little for myself because I was frightened and lonely. 273 00:23:23,607 --> 00:23:26,440 Because I was lonely, I cried for you too. 274 00:23:29,247 --> 00:23:31,761 You cried for me? 275 00:23:31,967 --> 00:23:33,798 Oh, forgive me, Your Grace... 276 00:23:34,367 --> 00:23:37,200 but I too know what it is to love someone... 277 00:23:37,487 --> 00:23:41,639 and not be able to see and to hear. 278 00:23:43,687 --> 00:23:47,441 It makes me cross too sometimes and out of sorts. 279 00:23:48,287 --> 00:23:52,360 You've no idea, when I'm out of your presence, how horrible I am. 280 00:23:53,527 --> 00:23:55,245 Are you indeed? 281 00:23:56,047 --> 00:23:59,244 And what is he like, this lucky one that you are lonely for? 282 00:23:59,847 --> 00:24:01,678 Oh, he's so tall... 283 00:24:02,487 --> 00:24:04,523 and his nose curls up. 284 00:24:04,687 --> 00:24:06,200 His nose what? 285 00:24:06,607 --> 00:24:10,077 I mean, when he laughs, his nose crinkles up like this. 286 00:24:11,047 --> 00:24:13,163 He laughs a lot, you know? 287 00:24:13,327 --> 00:24:15,363 Sometimes at me. 288 00:24:15,927 --> 00:24:19,203 Imagine. Oh, and he's handsome too, no doubt. 289 00:24:19,367 --> 00:24:20,800 Oh, madam... 290 00:24:22,167 --> 00:24:26,479 and his eyes are blue, like cornflowers, only much nicer. 291 00:24:27,727 --> 00:24:29,957 And when he looks at me... 292 00:24:33,407 --> 00:24:35,318 Who is this paragon? 293 00:24:36,007 --> 00:24:38,999 Why, Sir Peter Finchley, Your Grace. Don't you remember? 294 00:24:39,167 --> 00:24:42,398 Sir Peter Finchley? Yes. Now I remember. 295 00:24:42,567 --> 00:24:44,000 A wide-shouldered rascal... 296 00:24:44,167 --> 00:24:47,239 and much better-looking than any man has a right to be. 297 00:24:47,887 --> 00:24:50,447 With Baganold's forces in Ireland, isn't he? 298 00:24:51,367 --> 00:24:55,758 - You want him home again, I suppose? - Oh, more than anything in the world. 299 00:24:57,167 --> 00:24:58,395 He shall be recalled. 300 00:24:59,327 --> 00:25:02,444 I don't know how to thank Your Majesty. 301 00:25:03,527 --> 00:25:05,563 But it's doubtful if he'll come. 302 00:25:05,767 --> 00:25:07,439 I shall command it. 303 00:25:10,767 --> 00:25:13,076 And when he takes you in his arms again... 304 00:25:13,247 --> 00:25:15,317 thank heaven you're not a queen. 305 00:25:16,567 --> 00:25:18,717 But I thought to be a queen... 306 00:25:20,207 --> 00:25:22,767 To be a queen is to be less than human. 307 00:25:23,287 --> 00:25:25,596 To put pride before desire... 308 00:25:26,407 --> 00:25:29,001 to search men's hearts for tenderness... 309 00:25:29,167 --> 00:25:31,158 and find only ambition... 310 00:25:32,087 --> 00:25:35,397 to cry out in the dark for one unselfish voice... 311 00:25:36,087 --> 00:25:39,523 and hear only the dry rustle of papers of state. 312 00:25:40,527 --> 00:25:44,600 To turn to one's beloved with stars for eyes... 313 00:25:46,127 --> 00:25:51,121 and have him see behind them only the shadow of the executioner's block. 314 00:25:52,487 --> 00:25:54,603 A queen has no hour for love. 315 00:25:55,167 --> 00:25:58,079 Time presses, events crowd upon her. 316 00:25:59,487 --> 00:26:00,761 And for a shell... 317 00:26:01,807 --> 00:26:04,037 an empty, glittering husk... 318 00:26:05,167 --> 00:26:08,921 she must give up all that a woman holds most dear. 319 00:26:11,887 --> 00:26:13,366 And now... 320 00:26:14,127 --> 00:26:16,595 fetch me Master Francis Bacon. 321 00:26:16,807 --> 00:26:18,684 - Master Bacon? - At once. 322 00:26:18,847 --> 00:26:20,678 Yes, Your Majesty. 323 00:26:52,927 --> 00:26:56,522 Will your steps always be so laggard when I send for you, Master Bacon? 324 00:26:56,687 --> 00:26:59,360 My steps have lost the habit of being summoned by you. 325 00:26:59,527 --> 00:27:02,325 And your tongue has lost none of its sharpness, I see. 326 00:27:02,487 --> 00:27:05,240 To bed and hopeful dreams. 327 00:27:07,327 --> 00:27:09,477 You're a friend of my Lord Essex, aren't you? 328 00:27:09,647 --> 00:27:13,083 - I am whatever Your Grace desires. - And your own interest dictates. 329 00:27:13,247 --> 00:27:15,602 Anyway, you know him better than any other man. 330 00:27:15,767 --> 00:27:19,043 - Why has he not returned to court? - Not for lack of attraction... 331 00:27:19,207 --> 00:27:22,165 but possibly his pride. - A pox on his pride! 332 00:27:22,327 --> 00:27:25,160 He must come home. I command it! 333 00:27:27,407 --> 00:27:29,967 You need him back so badly, Your Grace? 334 00:27:30,127 --> 00:27:32,766 Purely for matters of state. Do you understand? 335 00:27:32,927 --> 00:27:34,440 Perfectly, madam. 336 00:27:35,727 --> 00:27:39,163 Bacon. Bacon, stop being clever. 337 00:27:40,327 --> 00:27:42,921 I'm too tired to fence with you. 338 00:27:43,327 --> 00:27:45,602 I can't force him back, and you know it. 339 00:27:45,767 --> 00:27:48,998 And he's so stupid, so stubborn, so pigheaded... 340 00:27:49,167 --> 00:27:53,524 that he'll never return of his own accord unless I humble myself to him. 341 00:27:53,687 --> 00:27:55,518 And that I'll never do. Never! 342 00:27:55,727 --> 00:27:57,922 - Do you hear? - Naturally, Your Majesty. 343 00:27:58,127 --> 00:28:02,120 Naturally! It's against all nature that I should suffer so. 344 00:28:06,607 --> 00:28:08,677 Tell me, what shall I do? 345 00:28:08,847 --> 00:28:12,999 Find me a way to compel his return without having to punish him. 346 00:28:13,167 --> 00:28:14,680 I'll not be ungrateful. 347 00:28:15,127 --> 00:28:17,516 My reward would lie in your happiness. 348 00:28:17,727 --> 00:28:21,003 And the advantage to you in his return to favor, of course. 349 00:28:21,207 --> 00:28:22,765 I'll not deny it, madam. 350 00:28:22,927 --> 00:28:27,239 But how to persuade him and still save the pride of each, I'm hanged if I know. 351 00:28:27,407 --> 00:28:29,637 Perhaps if I slept the night upon it. 352 00:28:30,687 --> 00:28:32,006 What is it? 353 00:28:33,447 --> 00:28:36,723 - A courier from Ireland, Your Majesty. - Have him enter. 354 00:28:44,007 --> 00:28:45,326 Your Majesty. 355 00:28:45,927 --> 00:28:47,485 I came... 356 00:28:51,327 --> 00:28:54,797 Bacon. Wine. Quickly. 357 00:29:07,327 --> 00:29:08,885 Chair. 358 00:29:13,527 --> 00:29:15,165 Allow me, Your Majesty. 359 00:29:19,647 --> 00:29:23,959 - Pardon, Majesty. - Never mind that. What is the news? 360 00:29:24,127 --> 00:29:26,595 We have been annihilated in Ireland, Your Grace. 361 00:29:26,767 --> 00:29:29,725 Tyrone surprised us. Sir William Baganold is dead. 362 00:29:29,927 --> 00:29:34,159 Every company, troop, arms, stores, everything, utterly destroyed. 363 00:29:36,847 --> 00:29:40,840 Wars, death, famine in that unhappy land. 364 00:29:41,287 --> 00:29:42,606 And for what? 365 00:29:43,847 --> 00:29:47,237 A few miserable acres of fever-smitten bog... 366 00:29:47,407 --> 00:29:51,639 and handfuls of tattered peasants whose only desire is to be left in peace... 367 00:29:51,807 --> 00:29:53,604 to cut each other's throats. 368 00:29:53,767 --> 00:29:55,325 Well, they may. 369 00:29:55,487 --> 00:29:57,239 I'll put an end to it. 370 00:29:57,407 --> 00:29:59,523 Not another man goes to Ireland. 371 00:29:59,687 --> 00:30:03,566 And let Philip of Spain use it as a base? He's not forgotten Cádiz, remember. 372 00:30:03,727 --> 00:30:07,083 And whoever holds Ireland points a dagger at the heart of England. 373 00:30:07,247 --> 00:30:10,876 I suppose you're right, but I'm sick of this bloodshed. 374 00:30:11,047 --> 00:30:13,322 My policy has always been peace... 375 00:30:13,487 --> 00:30:15,398 and this war was forced upon me. 376 00:30:16,567 --> 00:30:18,444 And Ireland... 377 00:30:22,927 --> 00:30:24,076 Get a physician. 378 00:30:24,247 --> 00:30:27,284 - Give him the best of food and lodging. - Yes, Your Majesty. 379 00:30:30,327 --> 00:30:31,840 One moment. 380 00:30:32,847 --> 00:30:35,407 What of Sir Peter Finchley? 381 00:30:36,007 --> 00:30:39,966 - Is he dead too? - Yes, Your Majesty. He was struck down. 382 00:30:41,327 --> 00:30:43,204 My thanks to you. 383 00:30:43,567 --> 00:30:45,125 Take good care of him. 384 00:30:56,527 --> 00:30:59,200 His nose crinkles when he laughs... 385 00:30:59,727 --> 00:31:02,605 and his eyes blue, like cornflowers. 386 00:31:03,047 --> 00:31:05,117 And when he looked at her... 387 00:31:07,807 --> 00:31:09,320 Oh, Bacon... 388 00:31:09,967 --> 00:31:11,798 I'm only a woman. 389 00:31:12,727 --> 00:31:16,037 Must I carry the weight, the agony of the world... 390 00:31:17,247 --> 00:31:19,966 alone? - Not any longer, Your Majesty. 391 00:31:20,127 --> 00:31:22,800 If you form a new army, you'll need a leader. 392 00:31:23,927 --> 00:31:25,724 - Who? - Essex. 393 00:31:25,887 --> 00:31:28,685 If you demand his return now, he can no longer refuse. 394 00:31:28,847 --> 00:31:31,520 - 'Tis his duty. - What? 395 00:31:31,687 --> 00:31:33,962 And send him to death and ruin in Ireland? 396 00:31:34,127 --> 00:31:36,038 Then make him master of the ordnance. 397 00:31:36,207 --> 00:31:41,235 In that capacity, he'll remain in London and available for consultation. 398 00:31:44,367 --> 00:31:45,846 Go to him. 399 00:31:46,007 --> 00:31:47,679 Tell him I have need of him. 400 00:31:47,847 --> 00:31:49,280 Your Majesty. 401 00:31:49,447 --> 00:31:51,165 Bacon... 402 00:31:51,327 --> 00:31:53,318 as you leave the chamber... 403 00:31:53,487 --> 00:31:56,843 bid Mistress Margaret Radcliffe come to me. 404 00:31:57,007 --> 00:31:59,316 My pleasure, Your Majesty. 405 00:32:06,367 --> 00:32:08,358 Poor child. 406 00:32:08,847 --> 00:32:11,077 Poor child. 407 00:32:29,487 --> 00:32:32,763 Her Majesty does not beg you, my lord. She commands you to return. 408 00:32:32,927 --> 00:32:34,758 What? She commands me? 409 00:32:34,927 --> 00:32:38,124 She insults me in front of the court and now she commands me? 410 00:32:38,287 --> 00:32:39,402 To the devil with her. 411 00:32:39,567 --> 00:32:42,684 If you lose your head now, you'll lose it in earnest later on. 412 00:32:42,847 --> 00:32:44,519 You're talking of your queen. 413 00:32:44,727 --> 00:32:46,365 My queen? 414 00:32:46,527 --> 00:32:48,836 The great-granddaughter of a Welsh pantryman. 415 00:32:49,007 --> 00:32:51,157 To the devil with her. I'll stay here. 416 00:32:51,327 --> 00:32:53,682 Your answer will please those around the queen. 417 00:32:53,847 --> 00:32:55,997 - Why? What do you mean? - Haven't you heard? 418 00:32:56,167 --> 00:32:59,079 Cecil, laden with honors. Coke, appointed attorney general. 419 00:32:59,247 --> 00:33:01,317 And Raleigh, working himself into favor. 420 00:33:01,487 --> 00:33:05,002 Every day, he grows nearer to her in counsel, closer in her affection. 421 00:33:05,167 --> 00:33:06,759 Raleigh, that toad. 422 00:33:06,927 --> 00:33:11,603 She's bought him new silver armor, whose magnificence outshines the sun. 423 00:33:12,287 --> 00:33:14,517 He grows closer to her in affection, you say? 424 00:33:14,687 --> 00:33:16,757 For lack of someone dearer. She loves you. 425 00:33:16,927 --> 00:33:20,715 - But, being a woman, she has her pride. - Her pride. 426 00:33:20,887 --> 00:33:23,685 Look, there's no mystery to handling women. 427 00:33:23,847 --> 00:33:27,044 They're like this lady here. You starve them a little to make them keen. 428 00:33:27,207 --> 00:33:29,198 Starve them too long, they turn and rend you. 429 00:33:29,367 --> 00:33:31,676 - I'll look to myself. - Better look to England. 430 00:33:31,847 --> 00:33:34,520 - Baganold's been defeated in Ireland. - What's that? 431 00:33:34,687 --> 00:33:37,963 - Baganold defeated? - Killed, and his army destroyed. 432 00:33:38,127 --> 00:33:41,756 That is the reason Her Majesty commands you to return. She needs you. 433 00:33:41,927 --> 00:33:43,485 Well, of course she needs me... 434 00:33:43,647 --> 00:33:46,115 with nincompoops like Raleigh around her. 435 00:33:46,287 --> 00:33:48,039 - Mountjoy! - Milord. 436 00:33:48,207 --> 00:33:52,246 Back to Wanstead and pack. We're returning immediately to London. 437 00:33:59,127 --> 00:34:01,197 My dear Sir Walter. 438 00:34:01,367 --> 00:34:03,881 Well, well, well. 439 00:34:04,447 --> 00:34:06,597 You're even more splendid than I'd imagined. 440 00:34:06,767 --> 00:34:09,839 Even in my retreat, news came of that silver armor of yours. 441 00:34:10,007 --> 00:34:12,805 - I was ill. I swear it cured me. - I'm glad you're well. 442 00:34:12,967 --> 00:34:15,276 You should have heard the compliments on you. 443 00:34:15,487 --> 00:34:17,284 "Sir Walter's in silver," they said. 444 00:34:17,447 --> 00:34:19,244 "The world has been outdone." 445 00:34:19,407 --> 00:34:21,716 - You need not repeat them. - Oh, but I insist. 446 00:34:21,887 --> 00:34:24,242 The design. The workmanship. 447 00:34:24,407 --> 00:34:26,318 Look, Bacon. Magnificent, is it not? 448 00:34:26,487 --> 00:34:29,240 And I said to myself, "The great man." 449 00:34:29,407 --> 00:34:31,796 This is what we needed. More silver armor. 450 00:34:31,967 --> 00:34:34,197 Silver everywhere. Oceans of silver. 451 00:34:34,367 --> 00:34:36,961 Sir Walter has set the style. The world will follow. 452 00:34:37,127 --> 00:34:40,437 When I heard Her Majesty herself admired it, I... 453 00:34:40,607 --> 00:34:44,043 Wait, gentlemen. A moment. Ho there, guard attendant! 454 00:34:48,167 --> 00:34:49,805 I sent for the silversmiths... 455 00:34:50,007 --> 00:34:53,636 and had them produce enough armor for the queen's personal guard. 456 00:34:54,327 --> 00:34:56,795 Take care, my lord. I bear insults badly. 457 00:34:57,167 --> 00:34:58,885 Insults? 458 00:34:59,047 --> 00:35:02,039 What insults? You ordered that armor in the queen's service. 459 00:35:02,207 --> 00:35:05,324 - I ordered a dozen more like it. - I've endured much from you! 460 00:35:05,487 --> 00:35:06,966 And will endure more! 461 00:35:07,127 --> 00:35:10,597 There can be no quarreling here. Have you forgotten a certain appointment? 462 00:35:10,767 --> 00:35:13,361 - Bacon, you protect me? - I protect you both. 463 00:35:13,527 --> 00:35:16,837 You may have your laugh, Lord Essex. Come, gentlemen. 464 00:35:21,967 --> 00:35:24,197 Another lecture? Come, schoolmaster. 465 00:35:24,367 --> 00:35:28,076 Essex, when will you realize how vital it is not to make enemies at court? 466 00:35:28,247 --> 00:35:30,602 I'll make friends and enemies to please myself. 467 00:35:30,767 --> 00:35:32,917 Now they'll need friends more than I do. 468 00:35:33,087 --> 00:35:36,159 You have been my friend and patron. My star is fixed to yours. 469 00:35:36,327 --> 00:35:39,763 Since I've no wish to see that star fall, I'll ask you one question: 470 00:35:39,927 --> 00:35:42,043 When you see the queen, what do you intend? 471 00:35:42,207 --> 00:35:45,085 To pacify her? Retain her favors and all that go with it? 472 00:35:45,247 --> 00:35:49,081 Or to set yourself against her and trust your fortunes to the mob? 473 00:35:49,247 --> 00:35:51,841 I'll not answer you directly, but this I will say: 474 00:35:52,007 --> 00:35:54,885 I've never loved nor hated for a policy or a purpose... 475 00:35:55,047 --> 00:35:58,119 and I'll burn in eternity before I'll ever start it. 476 00:35:58,487 --> 00:36:00,557 You understand, do you not? 477 00:36:06,047 --> 00:36:08,766 - Penelope. - My lord. 478 00:36:10,967 --> 00:36:12,116 Have I kept the queen? 479 00:36:12,287 --> 00:36:14,198 Would Her Majesty wait for any man? 480 00:36:14,367 --> 00:36:16,756 - I admire your discretion. - Only my discretion? 481 00:36:16,927 --> 00:36:18,724 Anything you wish. Tell her I'm here. 482 00:36:18,887 --> 00:36:20,605 She's not quite ready. 483 00:36:20,767 --> 00:36:24,203 - May I have one moment, my lord? - Of course. 484 00:36:27,607 --> 00:36:30,280 - Answer honestly. - Honestly. 485 00:36:30,447 --> 00:36:31,721 Do you...? 486 00:36:31,887 --> 00:36:33,764 Do you love the queen? 487 00:36:33,927 --> 00:36:36,805 - I do, my dear. Deeply. - I wish you loved someone... 488 00:36:36,967 --> 00:36:38,525 who loved you better. - Meaning? 489 00:36:38,687 --> 00:36:41,520 No one. Myself perhaps. Anyone who loved you better. 490 00:36:41,687 --> 00:36:43,359 Why? Doesn't the queen love me? 491 00:36:43,527 --> 00:36:47,679 She loves you, she loves you not. She loves you, she loves you not. 492 00:36:48,127 --> 00:36:49,560 Why do you tell me this? 493 00:36:49,727 --> 00:36:51,922 - I'm afraid. - For me? 494 00:36:52,087 --> 00:36:54,999 I've heard her, walking up and down her room at night... 495 00:36:55,167 --> 00:36:56,759 all night long cursing you... 496 00:36:56,927 --> 00:36:59,646 because she must love you and can't help herself... 497 00:36:59,807 --> 00:37:02,844 swearing a terrible revenge for this love she bears you. 498 00:37:03,007 --> 00:37:06,397 Robert, be careful. You anger her too much. 499 00:37:06,567 --> 00:37:08,558 Why? Isn't it the same with all lovers? 500 00:37:08,727 --> 00:37:11,116 Oh, no. I've never cursed you. 501 00:37:11,287 --> 00:37:15,121 But if we were lovers, you might. So thank your lucky stars we're not. 502 00:37:15,287 --> 00:37:16,925 Don't joke. 503 00:37:17,087 --> 00:37:18,679 I'm afraid. 504 00:37:18,847 --> 00:37:22,203 - Promise you'll be careful. - I promise. 505 00:37:24,087 --> 00:37:26,647 - I'll tell her you're here. - There is no need. 506 00:37:57,847 --> 00:38:00,680 When my Penelope passed me just now... 507 00:38:00,847 --> 00:38:03,884 her eyes and her lips looked the softer for kissing. 508 00:38:04,047 --> 00:38:06,003 Was I inopportune? 509 00:38:06,567 --> 00:38:08,922 She's just a thoughtless child. 510 00:38:09,087 --> 00:38:12,602 These little children have their ways with each other. 511 00:38:12,927 --> 00:38:15,805 Do we begin already with hints and accusations? 512 00:38:15,967 --> 00:38:19,357 - Why, you know perfectly well l... - I only know what I see. 513 00:38:19,527 --> 00:38:21,245 Do you find Penelope charming? 514 00:38:21,407 --> 00:38:25,082 Well, there are other men for me, besides yourself, to love and be loved. 515 00:38:25,247 --> 00:38:29,081 There's always Egerton or Sir Walter the handsome, the... 516 00:38:29,247 --> 00:38:30,475 The silver-plated? 517 00:38:30,647 --> 00:38:32,956 Well, he'll wear no more silver at your door. 518 00:38:33,127 --> 00:38:36,164 I knew this silver would draw your fire. 519 00:38:36,327 --> 00:38:38,204 What did you do? 520 00:38:39,087 --> 00:38:40,884 Come on, tell me. What happened? 521 00:38:41,047 --> 00:38:43,925 Nothing. I think the fashion suddenly became too popular. 522 00:38:44,087 --> 00:38:46,442 He's gone to change his clothes. 523 00:38:48,087 --> 00:38:50,885 He'll wear no more silver at your door. 524 00:39:18,967 --> 00:39:23,722 Isn't it strange how one man's kisses can grow to be like any other's? 525 00:39:24,447 --> 00:39:27,484 Yes, yes. Or one woman's to be like any other woman's. 526 00:39:27,647 --> 00:39:30,480 - Not mine for you. - Nor mine for you, you lying villain. 527 00:39:30,647 --> 00:39:33,798 - You deceiver, curse you. - Curse you and double curse you. 528 00:39:33,967 --> 00:39:36,117 - You devil of brass. - Silver, darling. 529 00:39:36,287 --> 00:39:37,845 Let me be a devil in silver. 530 00:39:38,007 --> 00:39:40,077 It reminds me of Raleigh. 531 00:39:40,327 --> 00:39:41,999 Raleigh? 532 00:39:42,807 --> 00:39:45,321 Must you forever be thinking of him? 533 00:39:46,207 --> 00:39:47,606 What else do you expect... 534 00:39:47,767 --> 00:39:51,396 when you prefer the ants and the squirrels of Wanstead to me? 535 00:39:52,447 --> 00:39:54,403 What's today? 536 00:39:54,887 --> 00:39:56,286 Thursday. 537 00:39:56,447 --> 00:39:58,483 Come again when I'm in a better mood. 538 00:39:58,647 --> 00:40:00,080 Next Wednesday, say. 539 00:40:00,247 --> 00:40:02,681 Or any Wednesday later in the summer. 540 00:40:02,847 --> 00:40:04,758 Any summer. 541 00:40:06,847 --> 00:40:08,121 What, you still here? 542 00:40:08,287 --> 00:40:11,677 - If I could only walk out that door. - It's not locked. 543 00:40:11,887 --> 00:40:14,799 If I went, I'd only come back like a fool, and you know it. 544 00:40:15,167 --> 00:40:16,600 Would you? 545 00:40:16,767 --> 00:40:19,361 - Why didn't you write to me? - Why didn't you return? 546 00:40:19,527 --> 00:40:21,836 Return? You let it be known you'd not admit me. 547 00:40:22,007 --> 00:40:24,043 I may have meant it at the time. 548 00:40:24,207 --> 00:40:27,882 If ever a man was possessed of a devil, you're mine. Why I don't knock... 549 00:40:28,047 --> 00:40:31,801 And if ever a devil tortured a woman, you're my devil and torture me! 550 00:40:35,207 --> 00:40:38,836 For pity's sake, let us part now and quickly, or it will grow worse. 551 00:40:39,007 --> 00:40:41,805 - Go, please! - I'll not go! 552 00:40:46,927 --> 00:40:48,485 Darling. 553 00:40:48,647 --> 00:40:50,558 Come here. 554 00:40:54,567 --> 00:40:56,364 Robert. 555 00:40:56,527 --> 00:40:59,519 Robert, let us be kind for a moment. 556 00:40:59,687 --> 00:41:01,723 No, I'll be kind. You needn't be. 557 00:41:02,287 --> 00:41:05,120 You're young and strangely sweet. 558 00:41:05,287 --> 00:41:08,677 And my heart cries out to you wherever you are. 559 00:41:09,047 --> 00:41:12,198 And there's something in me that has drawn you. 560 00:41:12,607 --> 00:41:16,361 But this same lovely, dreadful thing that draws us together... 561 00:41:16,527 --> 00:41:19,360 hurts us and blinds us until we strike at one another. 562 00:41:19,527 --> 00:41:21,006 Yes, dear, but... 563 00:41:21,167 --> 00:41:23,283 This has gone on for a long time... 564 00:41:23,447 --> 00:41:25,563 and it grows worse with the years. 565 00:41:25,727 --> 00:41:28,446 - It will end badly. - What are we to do? 566 00:41:28,607 --> 00:41:32,043 You must go away, darling. I must never see you again. 567 00:41:32,207 --> 00:41:34,357 That's what I said last time and here I am. 568 00:41:34,527 --> 00:41:37,485 You must love someone else. I will forgive you. 569 00:41:37,647 --> 00:41:39,399 You mean you'll try to forgive me. 570 00:41:39,567 --> 00:41:42,445 - But I would. - There'd be nothing to forgive. 571 00:41:42,607 --> 00:41:45,167 I've tried to love others. It's as empty as ashes. 572 00:41:45,847 --> 00:41:47,360 What others? 573 00:41:47,527 --> 00:41:50,325 - Oh, no one. No one. - What others? 574 00:41:50,487 --> 00:41:54,116 Oh, everyone. Hundreds of others. Thousands, if you like. 575 00:41:55,807 --> 00:41:58,879 What are others to me when I can only hear your voice? 576 00:41:59,047 --> 00:42:01,720 Even your laughter, mocking me, defying me. 577 00:42:01,887 --> 00:42:03,479 That's what you've done to me. 578 00:42:03,647 --> 00:42:06,480 You've made everything seem empty away from you. 579 00:42:06,647 --> 00:42:08,842 And with you too. 580 00:42:09,287 --> 00:42:12,643 But what about me when you are gone? 581 00:42:12,807 --> 00:42:15,560 Darling, if we must quarrel when we're together... 582 00:42:15,727 --> 00:42:18,241 why, then let's quarrel. At least when we do, we're together. 583 00:42:19,367 --> 00:42:22,757 If we are to love, sweet, we must be silent. 584 00:42:22,927 --> 00:42:26,886 - For, when we speak... - Then I'll be silent, and you shall speak. 585 00:42:44,527 --> 00:42:47,280 If only sometimes you'd hate me. 586 00:42:48,967 --> 00:42:51,845 If only sometimes, when I'm right, you'd admit it... 587 00:42:52,007 --> 00:42:55,841 instead of instantly flying into opposition, no matter what I say. 588 00:42:56,007 --> 00:42:58,157 But then, my love... 589 00:42:58,767 --> 00:43:01,486 you so seldom are right. 590 00:43:02,247 --> 00:43:05,637 - For example? - For example, Cádiz. 591 00:43:05,847 --> 00:43:07,838 Loss of men. The drain on the treasury. 592 00:43:08,007 --> 00:43:10,441 I might have known you'd try to dig me with that. 593 00:43:10,607 --> 00:43:13,644 No matter what you think, what I did there pleased England. 594 00:43:13,847 --> 00:43:16,407 Is it my fame you think of, my lord, or your own? 595 00:43:16,567 --> 00:43:18,478 Haven't you built your name high enough? 596 00:43:18,647 --> 00:43:22,322 In spite of your blunder at Cádiz, there's no name like yours in England. 597 00:43:22,487 --> 00:43:26,002 If we were to ride in the streets, it's Essex they'd cheer, not me. 598 00:43:26,167 --> 00:43:29,239 Is it for this that you hold me back from a raid on Spain? 599 00:43:29,407 --> 00:43:33,241 It is because I believe in peace and have no faith in what wars bring. 600 00:43:33,407 --> 00:43:36,160 The truth is you fear me, fear what I might become. 601 00:43:36,367 --> 00:43:40,280 I do fear you, because you're flattered by the praise of fools... 602 00:43:40,447 --> 00:43:43,723 until you think you'd make a better king than I a queen. 603 00:43:43,887 --> 00:43:46,765 You think you'd rule England better because you're a man. 604 00:43:46,927 --> 00:43:48,155 I do indeed. 605 00:43:48,367 --> 00:43:51,723 That's exactly where you fail. You can't think and act like a man. 606 00:43:52,087 --> 00:43:55,318 I'll make you sorry for those words! 607 00:43:57,887 --> 00:44:00,037 Think like you is what you mean. 608 00:44:00,207 --> 00:44:03,085 And why should I when my thinking's wiser? 609 00:44:03,847 --> 00:44:05,166 What is your plan? 610 00:44:05,327 --> 00:44:08,125 To take over England? To depose me? 611 00:44:13,447 --> 00:44:15,244 Fiery wench, aren't you? 612 00:44:22,127 --> 00:44:24,197 It's me bringing up. 613 00:44:24,687 --> 00:44:27,599 I never knew from day to day who my mother was. 614 00:44:27,767 --> 00:44:29,837 It shook me nerves. 615 00:44:32,007 --> 00:44:34,362 You're your father's daughter, all right. 616 00:44:34,527 --> 00:44:38,156 The same quick temper, the same hot blood. 617 00:44:43,367 --> 00:44:45,164 Tell me, darling... 618 00:44:45,327 --> 00:44:49,320 don't I sometimes wear on you a little? 619 00:44:50,887 --> 00:44:52,878 Never, darling. 620 00:44:56,687 --> 00:44:58,325 And you won't tire of me? 621 00:44:58,487 --> 00:45:00,045 Tire of you? 622 00:45:00,207 --> 00:45:02,038 How could I? 623 00:45:03,047 --> 00:45:05,481 You'd have to say that, wouldn't you? 624 00:45:05,647 --> 00:45:08,002 I mean, because you wouldn't want to hurt me. 625 00:45:08,687 --> 00:45:11,155 Because I'm your queen. 626 00:45:11,367 --> 00:45:14,484 And so I'll never know till everyone else knows... 627 00:45:14,647 --> 00:45:18,606 and is laughing at me that I've lost you. 628 00:45:18,767 --> 00:45:20,246 Let me finish, sweet. 629 00:45:21,967 --> 00:45:24,197 When the time comes... 630 00:45:24,367 --> 00:45:26,676 and I seem old to you... - You're not old. 631 00:45:26,847 --> 00:45:28,360 I won't have you old. 632 00:45:28,527 --> 00:45:30,722 And you love someone else... 633 00:45:30,887 --> 00:45:32,798 be kind and tell me. 634 00:45:32,967 --> 00:45:34,241 Will you do that? 635 00:45:34,607 --> 00:45:37,075 You may kill me if I ever say it. 636 00:45:37,807 --> 00:45:39,399 Love... 637 00:45:39,567 --> 00:45:43,276 may I say one thing more that may hurt you? 638 00:45:43,447 --> 00:45:44,721 Anything. 639 00:45:44,887 --> 00:45:48,004 Now that you're back and safe in my heart again... 640 00:45:48,167 --> 00:45:51,443 the post I have given you will not content you. 641 00:45:51,607 --> 00:45:56,635 Your blood will be on fire to lead some new command, some far adventure. 642 00:45:56,807 --> 00:46:02,200 If you hear I need a general anywhere, promise me you will not ask to go. 643 00:46:03,847 --> 00:46:07,237 Is this what you wanted? To force me into a cowardly promise? 644 00:46:08,007 --> 00:46:11,556 - Are you afraid I might return in triumph? - Not that, dearest. No. 645 00:46:11,767 --> 00:46:14,440 But there are those here at court, powerful enemies... 646 00:46:14,607 --> 00:46:16,757 who would love to see you gone from me... 647 00:46:16,927 --> 00:46:19,919 and who would stop at nothing to trick you into disaster. 648 00:46:20,087 --> 00:46:23,397 - Am I afraid of such...? - I asked you not to be angry. 649 00:46:23,607 --> 00:46:24,596 Not angry? 650 00:46:24,767 --> 00:46:28,077 When you think I can't outflank such numskulls as Raleigh and his clique? 651 00:46:31,087 --> 00:46:32,236 Very well. 652 00:46:33,207 --> 00:46:35,402 Go, if you like. 653 00:46:35,567 --> 00:46:39,037 Only I love you and say what would be wisest. 654 00:46:39,767 --> 00:46:43,601 The things I love in you most, your honesty, your reckless pride... 655 00:46:43,767 --> 00:46:46,440 are the very things they would play upon, sweet. 656 00:46:46,607 --> 00:46:49,440 All I ask of you is be careful. 657 00:46:49,607 --> 00:46:54,442 Surely you can do so little for one who loves you so well. 658 00:46:54,967 --> 00:46:56,923 Will you promise? 659 00:46:57,087 --> 00:46:59,078 Promise. 660 00:47:02,287 --> 00:47:04,403 I promise. 661 00:47:06,287 --> 00:47:08,357 Now we must go... 662 00:47:08,527 --> 00:47:10,757 and talk of Ireland. 663 00:47:16,527 --> 00:47:18,961 This deficit has grown to alarming proportions. 664 00:47:19,127 --> 00:47:21,641 It's now so large, we can no longer ignore it. 665 00:47:21,807 --> 00:47:23,206 What do you suggest, milord? 666 00:47:23,367 --> 00:47:27,519 Either a drastic increase in our present taxes or a series of additional taxes. 667 00:47:27,687 --> 00:47:30,201 - Kendrick will not endure it. - Milords... 668 00:47:30,767 --> 00:47:32,564 let us leave this question. 669 00:47:32,967 --> 00:47:34,923 Any further business before us? 670 00:47:35,087 --> 00:47:37,601 There is one perpetual subject, Your Majesty... 671 00:47:37,767 --> 00:47:40,998 which we take up time after time and always leave unsettled: 672 00:47:41,167 --> 00:47:43,397 Tyrone's rebellion in Ulster. 673 00:47:43,567 --> 00:47:48,357 It's no longer a smoldering coal. It's a running fire spreading north to south. 674 00:47:48,687 --> 00:47:52,441 - Which means? - Men. Money. Ships. 675 00:47:52,807 --> 00:47:54,559 And more than that, a leader. 676 00:47:54,727 --> 00:47:55,716 A lord protector... 677 00:47:55,887 --> 00:47:59,960 who'll carry fire and sword from end to end till there are no more rebels. 678 00:48:00,527 --> 00:48:02,006 Who is this leader? 679 00:48:02,207 --> 00:48:03,606 Unless I am wrong... 680 00:48:03,767 --> 00:48:05,962 a proved and able general, Lord Essex. 681 00:48:06,167 --> 00:48:08,556 Yes, indeed. Essex, Essex. 682 00:48:08,727 --> 00:48:10,285 Thank you. 683 00:48:10,887 --> 00:48:13,117 Essex is master of the ordnance. 684 00:48:13,287 --> 00:48:14,640 I need him here. 685 00:48:17,327 --> 00:48:18,521 Who else? 686 00:48:18,927 --> 00:48:22,602 Sir Walter told me before the meeting that he'd go if Your Majesty wished. 687 00:48:22,927 --> 00:48:25,122 But we both believe Essex should go with him. 688 00:48:25,407 --> 00:48:26,556 In what capacity? 689 00:48:26,767 --> 00:48:28,280 Leading an equal command. 690 00:48:28,447 --> 00:48:31,917 Two generals, landing north and south, meeting to crush Tyrone. 691 00:48:32,127 --> 00:48:34,322 You'd have two lord protectors in Ireland? 692 00:48:34,527 --> 00:48:37,087 It was our thought to name Raleigh lord protector. 693 00:48:37,727 --> 00:48:38,876 And I under him? 694 00:48:39,527 --> 00:48:41,757 Since your Cádiz adventure ended so lamely... 695 00:48:41,927 --> 00:48:44,202 Raleigh should have first place in this. 696 00:48:44,407 --> 00:48:46,125 My Cá...? 697 00:48:46,287 --> 00:48:49,324 - That's an insult! - I speak for the good of the state. 698 00:48:49,487 --> 00:48:51,955 You never spoke for any cause but your own. 699 00:48:52,167 --> 00:48:54,203 Stop this instantly! 700 00:48:54,367 --> 00:48:57,200 Whoever makes you angry has won already, Essex. 701 00:48:57,407 --> 00:49:00,046 You'd make me swallow insults from this bookkeeper... 702 00:49:00,207 --> 00:49:03,005 who never waved anything more dangerous than a quill? 703 00:49:03,167 --> 00:49:05,158 Well, were you not wrong at Cádiz? 704 00:49:05,367 --> 00:49:06,641 That's not for you to say. 705 00:49:06,807 --> 00:49:09,241 And if I go to Ireland, I'll go alone. 706 00:49:09,407 --> 00:49:10,601 Will you? 707 00:49:10,767 --> 00:49:14,680 I'll have something to say about that. Don't you see what they're trying to do? 708 00:49:14,847 --> 00:49:17,441 I see what Cecil and his friends are plainly enough: 709 00:49:17,607 --> 00:49:20,201 Yellow rats who only show their teeth when cornered. 710 00:49:20,367 --> 00:49:22,835 - Essex! - Who bow and smile and scrape... 711 00:49:23,007 --> 00:49:27,000 and spend their nights gnawing the chairs and floors out from under us all. 712 00:49:27,167 --> 00:49:28,680 Madam, this is fantastic! 713 00:49:28,847 --> 00:49:31,600 - If we're to discuss... - Do what you wish about Ireland. 714 00:49:31,767 --> 00:49:33,200 I wash my hands of it. 715 00:49:34,247 --> 00:49:37,762 That we don't doubt. It's a difficult, dangerous job... 716 00:49:38,287 --> 00:49:41,484 so how can we blame Lord Essex for refusing to risk it? 717 00:49:41,647 --> 00:49:42,875 You challenge me to go? 718 00:49:43,047 --> 00:49:45,038 Give me the men I need. Put me in command. 719 00:49:45,207 --> 00:49:48,677 If I fail to crush Tyrone, take my sword. I'll never use it again. 720 00:49:48,847 --> 00:49:50,803 - Oh, you fool! - They've challenged me! 721 00:49:50,967 --> 00:49:52,685 It doesn't matter. You must not go. 722 00:49:52,847 --> 00:49:54,599 - Don't you see? - Of course I see. 723 00:49:54,767 --> 00:49:58,282 I know that once I've gone, they'll try to strip me here at home. 724 00:49:58,447 --> 00:50:01,519 And I say to them, "Try it." I'll go and I'll return too. 725 00:50:01,687 --> 00:50:05,316 More of a problem to the Raleighs and the Cecils than before I left. 726 00:50:06,127 --> 00:50:10,120 We can hardly refuse this gracious offer now, Your Majesty. 727 00:50:11,567 --> 00:50:13,080 No. 728 00:50:13,687 --> 00:50:15,803 I suppose not. 729 00:50:17,967 --> 00:50:20,242 Council is dismissed. 730 00:50:21,407 --> 00:50:23,079 Meet again tomorrow. 731 00:50:23,247 --> 00:50:25,966 - And your decision? - Decision's made. I go to Ireland. 732 00:50:26,127 --> 00:50:28,038 Yes, go to Ireland. 733 00:50:28,207 --> 00:50:30,198 And go to the devil too! 734 00:50:49,607 --> 00:50:51,120 Well? 735 00:50:51,367 --> 00:50:53,403 My court jester once said: 736 00:50:53,567 --> 00:50:55,922 "All the best fools come from Ireland... 737 00:50:56,087 --> 00:50:58,647 but only a greater fool would go there." 738 00:50:58,807 --> 00:51:01,002 You should have my fool's brain, and he yours. 739 00:51:01,647 --> 00:51:04,036 You'd profit by the exchange. 740 00:51:04,207 --> 00:51:05,686 Thank you, Majesty. 741 00:51:06,167 --> 00:51:07,725 Oh, you! 742 00:51:07,887 --> 00:51:11,596 What malicious star rose in my sky the day you were born? 743 00:51:11,767 --> 00:51:13,598 You're a child in council. 744 00:51:13,767 --> 00:51:17,555 I saw them draw you into this and tried to warn you, but it was no use. 745 00:51:18,127 --> 00:51:19,401 Why not win in Ireland? 746 00:51:19,567 --> 00:51:20,841 No man wins there. 747 00:51:21,007 --> 00:51:24,841 Ireland's been fatal to every commander who risked his fortune there. 748 00:51:25,007 --> 00:51:27,840 Even the cleverest of soldiers would find it difficult. 749 00:51:28,007 --> 00:51:30,282 But you're so dazzled to command an army... 750 00:51:30,447 --> 00:51:33,245 that you'd follow the devil in an assault on heaven. 751 00:51:34,887 --> 00:51:36,923 That's one thing the devil doesn't know. 752 00:51:37,087 --> 00:51:38,918 Heaven's always taken by storm. 753 00:51:43,087 --> 00:51:44,759 Robert... 754 00:51:44,927 --> 00:51:46,804 I can't let you go. 755 00:51:46,967 --> 00:51:49,959 - I'll never see you again. - Foolish fears, my darling. 756 00:51:50,287 --> 00:51:51,561 Remember this: 757 00:51:51,727 --> 00:51:53,877 That when I come back and all turns out well... 758 00:51:54,047 --> 00:51:55,924 you thought all would turn out badly. 759 00:51:56,087 --> 00:51:59,796 Come closer and tell me everything will turn out well. 760 00:51:59,967 --> 00:52:02,845 And so it will. So it will. 761 00:52:03,727 --> 00:52:05,445 Do you really want to go? 762 00:52:05,607 --> 00:52:07,165 Yes. 763 00:52:07,327 --> 00:52:10,000 No. No. 764 00:52:12,567 --> 00:52:14,683 But I've said I would, and I must. 765 00:52:15,367 --> 00:52:17,119 It's not too late yet. 766 00:52:17,287 --> 00:52:18,640 Remember... 767 00:52:18,807 --> 00:52:20,923 if you lose, it will divide us. 768 00:52:21,087 --> 00:52:22,998 If you win, that will divide us too. 769 00:52:23,167 --> 00:52:25,078 I'll win, and nothing will divide us. 770 00:52:25,247 --> 00:52:27,203 Is it so hard to believe in me? 771 00:52:27,367 --> 00:52:29,164 No. 772 00:52:29,527 --> 00:52:32,678 I'll even forgive you if you need it. 773 00:52:35,567 --> 00:52:37,319 Here. 774 00:52:38,127 --> 00:52:39,719 My father gave me this ring... 775 00:52:39,887 --> 00:52:42,526 and said if ever he lost his temper with me... 776 00:52:42,687 --> 00:52:45,326 to bring it to him and he'd forgive me. 777 00:52:45,487 --> 00:52:48,160 And once, long after... 778 00:52:48,327 --> 00:52:51,080 when he'd forgotten and was angry... 779 00:52:51,247 --> 00:52:52,999 it saved my life. 780 00:52:53,167 --> 00:52:55,635 Darling, if you're ever angry, rings won't help. 781 00:52:55,807 --> 00:52:57,877 Yes, this one would. 782 00:52:58,487 --> 00:53:01,240 I'd think of you as you are now... 783 00:53:01,727 --> 00:53:03,797 and it would. 784 00:53:04,367 --> 00:53:06,278 I'll take it... 785 00:53:06,447 --> 00:53:08,039 to remember you in absence. 786 00:53:08,207 --> 00:53:11,517 No. Take it for a better reason. 787 00:53:11,687 --> 00:53:15,726 Take it because the years are long and full of sharp, wearing days... 788 00:53:15,887 --> 00:53:18,685 that change us into people we do not know... 789 00:53:19,007 --> 00:53:22,556 lest you and I, who love each other now... 790 00:53:22,727 --> 00:53:25,878 should wake some morning strangers and enemies... 791 00:53:26,047 --> 00:53:28,436 in an alien world, far off. 792 00:53:28,607 --> 00:53:30,598 You fear you'll not always love me? 793 00:53:30,767 --> 00:53:32,120 No. 794 00:53:32,287 --> 00:53:35,359 That you will not always let me love you. 795 00:54:48,407 --> 00:54:51,001 Close your ranks. You know what happens to stragglers. 796 00:54:51,167 --> 00:54:53,203 Left flank, close in! 797 00:55:05,247 --> 00:55:08,000 Our losses are growing serious, my lord. 798 00:55:08,167 --> 00:55:10,158 Losses I expect and can understand. 799 00:55:10,327 --> 00:55:13,000 It's this forever going on after a retreating enemy... 800 00:55:13,167 --> 00:55:16,921 over these fever bogs, getting further and further from our base. 801 00:55:17,087 --> 00:55:20,966 One bold, swift advance now, and we'd have Tyrone in a trap. 802 00:55:21,127 --> 00:55:24,563 How can we advance lacking arms, ammunition, necessities even? 803 00:55:24,727 --> 00:55:27,002 The queen seems to have forgotten us. 804 00:55:27,167 --> 00:55:29,761 She's worse than forgotten us. 805 00:55:40,047 --> 00:55:44,837 - There's a courier from London, milord. - At last. Where is he? Fetch him here. 806 00:55:52,487 --> 00:55:54,603 Even the water's rotten. 807 00:55:57,767 --> 00:55:59,200 Come. 808 00:56:02,927 --> 00:56:06,203 - Well, is this all? - Yes, milord. 809 00:56:06,367 --> 00:56:09,006 - No letter from Her Majesty? - That's all Cecil gave. 810 00:56:09,167 --> 00:56:11,601 You lie. You lie! 811 00:56:11,767 --> 00:56:14,406 - Who tampered with you? - No, milord, I swear... 812 00:56:14,567 --> 00:56:17,718 - Wait, man. Don't. - He lies, I tell you. 813 00:56:17,887 --> 00:56:21,721 She wouldn't leave us here without one word from her except bare dispatches. 814 00:56:21,887 --> 00:56:25,323 How am I gonna beat these Irish when she denies me men, food, arms... 815 00:56:25,487 --> 00:56:27,557 and doesn't answer my pleas for them? 816 00:56:27,727 --> 00:56:29,957 And not a single word from her except these. 817 00:56:30,127 --> 00:56:31,958 - But you haven't read it yet. - What? 818 00:56:32,127 --> 00:56:33,765 Perhaps she... 819 00:56:34,167 --> 00:56:36,362 Oh, yes. Perhaps. 820 00:56:43,767 --> 00:56:46,565 Essex, what is it? Does she...? 821 00:56:47,527 --> 00:56:50,200 I've endured much, but this caps all. 822 00:56:51,247 --> 00:56:52,680 Listen. 823 00:56:52,847 --> 00:56:54,963 "Lord Essex will disperse his army... 824 00:56:55,127 --> 00:56:58,836 and return immediately to London to give himself up." 825 00:57:00,287 --> 00:57:02,926 I'm to return to London to give myself up. 826 00:57:03,087 --> 00:57:04,361 Do you hear that? 827 00:57:04,527 --> 00:57:06,802 - To give myself up! - But why? 828 00:57:06,967 --> 00:57:10,118 Why? You may well ask. 829 00:57:10,287 --> 00:57:12,084 Is she in league with Tyrone? 830 00:57:12,247 --> 00:57:14,283 She obstructs my campaign in every way. 831 00:57:14,447 --> 00:57:16,085 Now, when I'm to finish him... 832 00:57:16,247 --> 00:57:18,477 I'm to return to London to give myself up. 833 00:57:18,647 --> 00:57:20,683 - She's the queen. - And I'm her subject. 834 00:57:20,847 --> 00:57:23,725 But I'm a man too, which she seems to have forgotten. 835 00:57:27,887 --> 00:57:29,639 Knollys. 836 00:57:29,807 --> 00:57:31,081 - Milord? - Rouse the camp. 837 00:57:31,247 --> 00:57:33,158 Have every man in. We march tonight. 838 00:57:33,327 --> 00:57:34,476 - Tonight? - At once. 839 00:57:34,647 --> 00:57:37,798 - To return to London? - No. To smash Tyrone. 840 00:57:39,207 --> 00:57:42,119 Bugler! Sound the call to arms. 841 00:57:44,887 --> 00:57:46,286 Remember, my lords, I'm not alone in this. 842 00:57:46,527 --> 00:57:48,119 Your proof, let me remind you. 843 00:57:48,287 --> 00:57:50,198 The queen gave you letters to be forwarded. 844 00:57:50,367 --> 00:57:52,198 If Essex did not receive them... 845 00:57:52,367 --> 00:57:54,642 Her Majesty knows your feelings for him... 846 00:57:54,807 --> 00:57:59,403 and would conclude that your jealousy destroyed them. Or am I wrong? 847 00:58:00,047 --> 00:58:01,958 Why did I ever trust you? 848 00:58:02,727 --> 00:58:04,638 You used me. 849 00:58:04,927 --> 00:58:07,395 Tricked me for your own ends. 850 00:58:07,887 --> 00:58:09,605 Well, I won't stand it. I won't. 851 00:58:09,767 --> 00:58:12,600 I'll tell the queen. No matter what, I'll tell her. 852 00:58:12,767 --> 00:58:15,406 That we've intercepted their letters! 853 00:58:15,567 --> 00:58:17,558 You've a lovely head and neck, my lady. 854 00:58:17,727 --> 00:58:21,163 It would be a pity to separate them, but where would you find pity... 855 00:58:21,327 --> 00:58:23,636 in the heart of a jealous queen? 856 00:58:23,807 --> 00:58:25,604 Sir Francis. 857 00:58:26,607 --> 00:58:29,599 - You're going to the queen? - Her Majesty sent for me. 858 00:58:29,767 --> 00:58:31,325 I'll speak with you first. 859 00:58:31,487 --> 00:58:33,876 - If it's to tell me what I already know... - What? 860 00:58:34,047 --> 00:58:37,960 Everything about the suppression of letters written by Essex and the queen. 861 00:58:38,127 --> 00:58:39,958 What do you intend to do? 862 00:58:40,127 --> 00:58:42,561 I'll let the queen question me. I'm late already. 863 00:58:42,727 --> 00:58:44,843 If you make accusations you can't prove... 864 00:58:45,007 --> 00:58:47,919 you'll argue yourself under the headsman's ax. 865 00:58:48,327 --> 00:58:52,923 - If the queen learns nothing? - With us, there's no position you can't fill. 866 00:58:53,087 --> 00:58:55,396 If you need an excuse... 867 00:58:55,567 --> 00:58:57,922 I'll find my own excuses. 868 00:58:58,087 --> 00:59:01,762 The queen loves her kingdom and people above all men and always will. 869 00:59:01,927 --> 00:59:04,646 That is the rock on which Essex's ship will founder. 870 00:59:04,807 --> 00:59:07,037 You need not trouble about what I shall say. 871 00:59:07,207 --> 00:59:08,720 You're quite a weathervane... 872 00:59:08,887 --> 00:59:12,118 always riding whatever wind is fairest. 873 00:59:12,287 --> 00:59:14,198 I am a man of sense. 874 00:59:15,007 --> 00:59:16,679 Penelope! 875 00:59:20,047 --> 00:59:23,437 Where is Master Bacon? I summoned him half an hour ago. 876 00:59:24,447 --> 00:59:26,039 Is this a promenade, gentlemen? 877 00:59:26,207 --> 00:59:28,596 Am I never to look out without seeing you? 878 00:59:28,767 --> 00:59:32,840 - Your pardon, Your Grace, l... - I'm weary of your faces. Get out. 879 00:59:33,007 --> 00:59:34,645 Come with me. 880 00:59:39,727 --> 00:59:41,240 Caution. 881 00:59:42,607 --> 00:59:44,996 Once again, you force me to wait for you. 882 00:59:45,167 --> 00:59:47,556 Your pardon. I was detained by Sir Robert Cecil. 883 00:59:47,727 --> 00:59:50,116 - Are you Cecil's friend? - I have never been. 884 00:59:50,727 --> 00:59:53,799 He is a shrewd man. He is a good man to follow. 885 00:59:53,967 --> 00:59:56,561 - He would stand in well at court. - That may be. 886 00:59:56,727 --> 00:59:58,763 Why are you not his friend, then? 887 00:59:58,927 --> 01:00:00,440 We're not on the same side. 888 01:00:01,607 --> 01:00:03,484 Are you still Essex's friend? 889 01:00:03,807 --> 01:00:05,035 Yes, madam. 890 01:00:05,207 --> 01:00:08,199 - He is a dangerous man to follow. - Dangerous? 891 01:00:08,367 --> 01:00:11,404 - He is no longer in my favor. Forget him. - Your Majesty... 892 01:00:11,567 --> 01:00:14,479 All friends of Essex are going straightaway to the tower. 893 01:00:15,047 --> 01:00:17,322 Are you still his friend? 894 01:00:17,567 --> 01:00:19,876 Yes, madam. Is that all? 895 01:00:21,087 --> 01:00:22,600 - Sit down. - But, Your Majesty... 896 01:00:22,767 --> 01:00:24,325 Sit down. 897 01:00:36,687 --> 01:00:39,759 You don't believe me. Why? 898 01:00:40,127 --> 01:00:41,845 If you intended to imprison me in the tower... 899 01:00:42,007 --> 01:00:44,441 I'd be there now and no talk about it. 900 01:00:44,887 --> 01:00:47,560 You're shrewd. Perhaps too shrewd. 901 01:00:48,047 --> 01:00:51,278 If honesty were shrewd, madam, it would enjoy greater favor. 902 01:00:51,447 --> 01:00:52,641 Honesty. 903 01:00:52,807 --> 01:00:56,163 If I could only be sure of one honest voice. 904 01:00:57,247 --> 01:00:58,680 Tell me... 905 01:00:58,847 --> 01:01:01,680 He wouldn't, couldn't fail me, could he? 906 01:01:01,847 --> 01:01:04,566 - No, Your Grace. - Then why hasn't he written me? 907 01:01:04,727 --> 01:01:08,163 I've written him my love time and time again. 908 01:01:08,327 --> 01:01:11,239 Tell me truly, bitter or not. 909 01:01:11,407 --> 01:01:12,920 Why hasn't he answered? 910 01:01:13,607 --> 01:01:15,723 Have you angered him, sent him unwelcome orders? 911 01:01:15,887 --> 01:01:17,240 He's very proud, you know. 912 01:01:17,447 --> 01:01:19,563 I've cut off all revenue and supplies... 913 01:01:19,727 --> 01:01:21,843 ordered him to disband his forces and return. 914 01:01:22,007 --> 01:01:24,999 To send a leader out with an army and then to desert him... 915 01:01:25,167 --> 01:01:27,476 heap disgrace upon him. - But before that... 916 01:01:27,647 --> 01:01:29,956 I wrote him lovingly many times. 917 01:01:30,127 --> 01:01:32,402 - And he answered? - Nothing. 918 01:01:33,247 --> 01:01:37,763 Well, that, frankly, madam, as Essex's friend, that can hardly be tolerated. 919 01:01:37,927 --> 01:01:40,964 - Nor will it be. - But I don't wish to turn you against him. 920 01:01:41,127 --> 01:01:43,083 Perhaps there was some misunderstanding. 921 01:01:43,287 --> 01:01:44,959 Misunderstanding? 922 01:01:45,127 --> 01:01:47,083 He had my letters, didn't he? 923 01:01:47,927 --> 01:01:49,360 Didn't he? 924 01:01:49,527 --> 01:01:51,961 If you sent them, he should have received them. 925 01:01:52,127 --> 01:01:54,004 He'd tell you if they didn't arrive. 926 01:01:54,167 --> 01:01:56,601 You've had word from him, haven't you? 927 01:01:56,767 --> 01:02:01,124 - Yes, but l... - Yes! He wrote you, but not me. 928 01:02:01,447 --> 01:02:03,165 Or are you lying? 929 01:02:03,807 --> 01:02:05,286 I think you are. 930 01:02:05,447 --> 01:02:07,244 I think you lie to me. 931 01:02:07,407 --> 01:02:08,681 That's it! 932 01:02:08,847 --> 01:02:11,077 Lies, lies, lies! 933 01:02:11,847 --> 01:02:15,237 Trapped and strangling in a jungle of lies and deceit. 934 01:02:15,407 --> 01:02:20,322 You! You, too, at the first, making me believe you wouldn't betray him. 935 01:02:20,487 --> 01:02:22,045 No. 936 01:02:22,647 --> 01:02:24,877 No. I've gone mad. 937 01:02:27,927 --> 01:02:30,282 Night after night, pacing my room. 938 01:02:30,447 --> 01:02:32,597 Sleepless, tortured... 939 01:02:32,767 --> 01:02:35,520 saying, " He loves me, he loves me not." 940 01:02:35,687 --> 01:02:39,600 He loves me not and has never loved me. 941 01:02:39,887 --> 01:02:42,447 He thought he'd break me by not writing. 942 01:02:42,767 --> 01:02:45,327 Break me till I'd say, " I'm yours. 943 01:02:45,487 --> 01:02:49,036 All that I am and have is yours. Body, soul and throne." 944 01:02:49,207 --> 01:02:51,675 That's it. He never wanted me. 945 01:02:51,847 --> 01:02:53,997 He wanted my kingdom. 946 01:02:56,247 --> 01:03:00,479 But I am queen still, and that he shall never take from me. 947 01:03:00,647 --> 01:03:02,717 I'm not broken yet... 948 01:03:02,887 --> 01:03:04,525 am I, Bacon? 949 01:03:05,407 --> 01:03:07,557 No, Your Majesty, nor ever will be. 950 01:03:07,727 --> 01:03:09,479 No, no. 951 01:03:10,047 --> 01:03:12,845 No, we must follow him no longer. 952 01:03:14,287 --> 01:03:16,517 See him no more, my friend. 953 01:03:16,687 --> 01:03:19,406 He walks on quicksand. Avoid him. 954 01:03:19,567 --> 01:03:20,841 Yes, Your Majesty. 955 01:03:21,007 --> 01:03:22,645 And go now. 956 01:03:23,487 --> 01:03:25,523 You have done well. I trust you. 957 01:03:26,287 --> 01:03:28,084 Your Grace. 958 01:04:52,967 --> 01:04:55,117 - What is it? - A truce party, milord. 959 01:04:55,287 --> 01:04:56,845 Fetch them here. 960 01:04:57,167 --> 01:04:58,361 Sound the cease-fire. 961 01:05:22,087 --> 01:05:25,159 - You be Lord of Essex? - I am. What is it? 962 01:05:25,327 --> 01:05:27,204 I have a message from our general, Tyrone. 963 01:05:27,367 --> 01:05:29,756 - Well? - He has a wish for to talk submission. 964 01:05:30,207 --> 01:05:31,720 Submission? 965 01:05:32,767 --> 01:05:36,396 Very well, but on one condition. That all resistance ends immediately. 966 01:05:36,567 --> 01:05:38,478 It's already ceased, worst luck. 967 01:05:38,927 --> 01:05:40,121 Lead the way. 968 01:06:12,367 --> 01:06:13,766 You're the Earl of Tyrone? 969 01:06:13,927 --> 01:06:15,997 If you like. Plain Hugh O'Neill will do. 970 01:06:16,167 --> 01:06:19,716 - You're Essex, I take it? - I am. Plain Robert Devereux will do. 971 01:06:19,887 --> 01:06:22,526 You've a sense of humor, which you'll need. 972 01:06:22,687 --> 01:06:24,803 - Submission? - Aye, submission. 973 01:06:26,127 --> 01:06:27,719 You're a great fighter, Tyrone. 974 01:06:27,887 --> 01:06:30,196 It's a pleasure to meet you at last. 975 01:06:30,807 --> 01:06:32,206 Now, let's get down to it. 976 01:06:32,367 --> 01:06:33,720 - My terms... - Your terms. 977 01:06:33,887 --> 01:06:37,163 You have a sense of humor. It is me that's granting terms... 978 01:06:37,327 --> 01:06:42,196 or maybe you misunderstood what I meant. I meant yours, certainly not mine. 979 01:06:42,367 --> 01:06:44,835 Come now, man. I've no time for jests. 980 01:06:45,007 --> 01:06:46,963 - You're on the run. - Oh, are we now? 981 01:06:47,127 --> 01:06:50,642 The boys are skipping over the bogs for exercise, showing you the way. 982 01:06:50,807 --> 01:06:53,958 To where? Into the very heart of Ulster, I suppose? 983 01:06:54,127 --> 01:06:55,765 No, that won't do. 984 01:06:55,927 --> 01:06:57,326 - You're beaten. - Sure. 985 01:06:57,487 --> 01:07:00,763 You've the whole of Ireland before you now, but... 986 01:07:01,247 --> 01:07:03,477 Take a squint at the sky. 987 01:07:03,647 --> 01:07:07,037 The smoke you see, me friend, is the smoke of your burning camp. 988 01:07:09,447 --> 01:07:12,200 Your ordnance, your food and precious little you had... 989 01:07:12,367 --> 01:07:14,676 and supplies is warming the hearts of Ireland. 990 01:07:14,847 --> 01:07:17,441 The road's tore up. Your guides came back to me. 991 01:07:17,607 --> 01:07:18,596 My guides? 992 01:07:18,767 --> 01:07:20,917 They're my men. Glad to lend them to you. 993 01:07:21,607 --> 01:07:24,041 Me whole army's drawn up betwixt you and the sea. 994 01:07:24,207 --> 01:07:26,118 In short, Lord Essex, you're trapped. 995 01:07:26,447 --> 01:07:29,166 Now maybe you understand what I meant by submission. 996 01:07:29,327 --> 01:07:31,795 I'll not do it while I have an army. I'll fight. 997 01:07:31,967 --> 01:07:33,480 Without food or munitions? 998 01:07:33,647 --> 01:07:36,719 You'd only get yourselves butchered or drowned. 999 01:07:36,887 --> 01:07:39,924 Throw down your arms and save your lives the whilst you can. 1000 01:07:40,087 --> 01:07:42,043 If I'm trapped, why do you spare us? 1001 01:07:42,207 --> 01:07:45,677 Am I a fool to believe that if I destroyed you, I'd destroy England? 1002 01:07:45,847 --> 01:07:48,805 If we fought it out now, I'd finish you to the last man. 1003 01:07:48,967 --> 01:07:50,480 But I'd lose men too... 1004 01:07:50,647 --> 01:07:54,003 men that I need to fight your successor when he comes in spring. 1005 01:07:54,167 --> 01:07:59,002 Throw down your arms and I'll lend you the guides to take you safe to the coast. 1006 01:07:59,167 --> 01:08:00,520 And if I refuse? 1007 01:08:00,687 --> 01:08:03,884 It'll be your pride against the life of every one of your men. 1008 01:08:04,047 --> 01:08:06,925 Come now, Essex. What do you say? Will you not disarm? 1009 01:08:08,407 --> 01:08:11,524 Between you here and betrayal at Whitehall... 1010 01:08:11,687 --> 01:08:13,518 it seems I've no choice. 1011 01:08:13,887 --> 01:08:15,923 Then here's me hand on it... 1012 01:08:17,007 --> 01:08:19,965 and a message to the queen, thanking her for victory... 1013 01:08:20,127 --> 01:08:22,925 for you're the most dangerous foe I've had to face. 1014 01:08:23,087 --> 01:08:25,760 If she'd given you the support your campaign deserved... 1015 01:08:25,927 --> 01:08:27,565 without the word of a lie, man... 1016 01:08:27,727 --> 01:08:31,561 it would be me and not you that would be surrendering this day. 1017 01:08:31,807 --> 01:08:33,445 I'll give her your message... 1018 01:08:33,607 --> 01:08:35,484 with my whole army. 1019 01:08:39,607 --> 01:08:41,643 The mob does nothing but cry the name of Essex. 1020 01:08:41,807 --> 01:08:45,004 It was your intellect that got us into this. We are grateful. 1021 01:08:45,167 --> 01:08:49,046 Don't be a fool. How did I know that Essex would rise and revolt? 1022 01:08:49,207 --> 01:08:51,960 - I thought he'd be killed. - Instead, he lands in Wales... 1023 01:08:52,127 --> 01:08:55,802 rearms his men, and even now, marches through London on the palace. 1024 01:08:56,687 --> 01:08:58,917 That means we're in grave trouble. 1025 01:08:59,087 --> 01:09:02,762 Which means you pulled down more upon your ears than you bargained for. 1026 01:09:02,927 --> 01:09:04,724 One. If Essex prevails, you're lost. 1027 01:09:04,887 --> 01:09:06,878 Two. If he becomes reconciled to her... 1028 01:09:07,047 --> 01:09:10,960 and there are explanations about their letters, then you're doubly lost. 1029 01:09:12,007 --> 01:09:15,716 I'll see her. She'll listen to me. We've got to keep them apart. 1030 01:09:15,887 --> 01:09:18,799 - Make this a war between them. - Absolutely. 1031 01:09:18,967 --> 01:09:22,926 Bacon is right. If Essex is allowed to speak to her, it's our end. 1032 01:09:23,087 --> 01:09:24,520 Guard, right wheel. 1033 01:09:28,127 --> 01:09:29,242 What is this, Armand? 1034 01:09:29,407 --> 01:09:32,524 Her Majesty ordered a guard for the throne. 1035 01:09:35,447 --> 01:09:37,642 She's holding court at this hour of night? 1036 01:09:37,807 --> 01:09:39,559 - It seems so. - She is mad. 1037 01:09:39,727 --> 01:09:43,322 This is no time for assembly, with Essex leading an army on the palace. 1038 01:09:43,487 --> 01:09:45,364 Can't you order troops out? 1039 01:09:45,527 --> 01:09:49,486 There's no precedent, but this is an emergency without precedent. I'll try. 1040 01:10:53,967 --> 01:10:58,643 I show myself for the first time for days and meet nothing but glum faces. 1041 01:10:59,127 --> 01:11:01,641 Burghley, you at least should be merry. 1042 01:11:01,807 --> 01:11:04,321 I hear you've been attending the theater. 1043 01:11:04,847 --> 01:11:05,916 No, madam. 1044 01:11:06,087 --> 01:11:07,805 You forbid the performance of Richard II... 1045 01:11:07,967 --> 01:11:11,516 by Master Shakespeare and his players without consulting me. 1046 01:11:11,687 --> 01:11:15,282 - Why? - The play is treasonous, Your Majesty. 1047 01:11:15,447 --> 01:11:17,403 It shows the dethronement of a king. 1048 01:11:18,087 --> 01:11:22,399 What then? Are my people so easily led that they would run from the theater... 1049 01:11:22,567 --> 01:11:25,206 to pull their queen out of her chair? 1050 01:11:26,607 --> 01:11:29,758 Who is there here fears a rebellion against me? 1051 01:11:30,487 --> 01:11:31,886 Not myself, certainly. 1052 01:11:32,047 --> 01:11:33,878 There are mutterings, Your Grace. 1053 01:11:34,767 --> 01:11:37,327 Let them mutter. Let them cry out. 1054 01:11:37,487 --> 01:11:40,365 When they've worn themselves weary, they'll get drunk... 1055 01:11:40,527 --> 01:11:42,802 sleep soundly, wake up the wiser. 1056 01:11:45,487 --> 01:11:48,684 Your Majesty, I beg you to speak with me alone a moment. 1057 01:11:48,847 --> 01:11:50,758 I answered your request earlier. 1058 01:11:50,927 --> 01:11:53,236 If Your Majesty knew what it was about... 1059 01:11:53,407 --> 01:11:55,284 I do know. 1060 01:11:55,807 --> 01:11:58,241 Lord Essex is on his way here. 1061 01:11:58,407 --> 01:12:01,717 Let him come. I should be glad to see him. 1062 01:12:02,247 --> 01:12:04,681 Let him bring his revolution with him. 1063 01:12:04,847 --> 01:12:08,362 How long do you think it will last when I have looked on it? 1064 01:12:08,847 --> 01:12:11,884 Please. There are plenty of troops available. Let me post... 1065 01:12:12,047 --> 01:12:15,642 With your gracious permission, I will not. 1066 01:12:15,847 --> 01:12:19,476 Burghley, stay where you are, all of you. 1067 01:12:19,687 --> 01:12:21,803 This court wriggles like a mess of eels. 1068 01:12:21,967 --> 01:12:25,755 There will be no troops posted, no guard, no defense steps taken, none. 1069 01:12:25,927 --> 01:12:28,282 Your Grace, there's a mob rising in the city. 1070 01:12:28,447 --> 01:12:29,960 It's true, I've come from there. 1071 01:12:30,127 --> 01:12:33,756 They've stormed Fleet Street and broken into a wine merchant's cellar. 1072 01:12:33,927 --> 01:12:37,476 It's said they'll attack Fleet Prison and set free the prisoners. 1073 01:12:37,647 --> 01:12:41,322 They've broken into a wine cellar. They'll go no farther. 1074 01:12:41,487 --> 01:12:43,557 We're a marvelous people, we English... 1075 01:12:43,727 --> 01:12:46,560 but we cannot hold our liquor. - But, Your Majesty... 1076 01:12:46,727 --> 01:12:49,321 What do they say, these wine drinkers? 1077 01:12:49,487 --> 01:12:52,001 - "Up Essex, down Elizabeth"? - Yes, Your Majesty. 1078 01:12:52,167 --> 01:12:55,125 Of course. What else would they be crying? 1079 01:12:55,287 --> 01:12:59,565 "Up Essex. Viva! Down Elizabeth. En bas. 1080 01:12:59,727 --> 01:13:02,764 The queen is dead. Long live the king." 1081 01:13:02,927 --> 01:13:05,646 If I were there, I'd be crying it myself. 1082 01:13:05,807 --> 01:13:07,638 It has a wonderful ring. 1083 01:13:07,807 --> 01:13:09,957 "Up Essex, down Elizabeth." 1084 01:13:15,727 --> 01:13:17,160 - Your Majesty. - Well? 1085 01:13:17,327 --> 01:13:19,397 Lord Essex has entered. He's on his way. 1086 01:13:20,447 --> 01:13:24,520 - I've ordered your guard to hold the stair. - You ordered them against my wishes? 1087 01:13:24,687 --> 01:13:25,961 I had to, Your Grace. 1088 01:13:26,127 --> 01:13:28,846 - They wait for your signal... - Which I'll never give. 1089 01:13:29,007 --> 01:13:31,237 This is madness. The whole town's behind him. 1090 01:13:31,407 --> 01:13:33,125 So I've been told. 1091 01:13:33,487 --> 01:13:35,717 What are you considering, me or your hide? 1092 01:13:35,887 --> 01:13:37,161 Your Majesty, if we do nothing... 1093 01:13:37,327 --> 01:13:40,524 both you and your kingdom are at the mercy of Essex. 1094 01:13:41,487 --> 01:13:44,047 Little man, little man, leave me alone. 1095 01:13:50,167 --> 01:13:53,557 Stand back, milords! Stand back, I tell you! 1096 01:13:55,847 --> 01:13:57,405 Let him enter. 1097 01:14:13,087 --> 01:14:15,476 You come with armed men at your back... 1098 01:14:15,647 --> 01:14:18,036 into my throne room, my Lord of Essex? 1099 01:14:18,927 --> 01:14:22,158 - Do I need them, Your Majesty? - You do not. 1100 01:14:22,927 --> 01:14:24,326 That we shall see. 1101 01:14:32,527 --> 01:14:36,202 - They told me you wouldn't see me. - They were wrong. 1102 01:14:36,887 --> 01:14:38,718 I will see you. 1103 01:14:39,887 --> 01:14:42,447 State your grievance if you have any. 1104 01:14:43,007 --> 01:14:46,124 Myself, I have a great affection for rebels... 1105 01:14:46,287 --> 01:14:48,243 being frequently one myself. 1106 01:14:49,167 --> 01:14:52,079 Your Majesty thinks me a rebel? Why, no. 1107 01:14:52,247 --> 01:14:55,922 I'm but come from Ireland bringing you news of your loyal subjects there. 1108 01:14:56,127 --> 01:14:58,436 But you have your army here with you. 1109 01:14:58,607 --> 01:15:00,438 I but bring my men home to London. 1110 01:15:00,607 --> 01:15:04,156 Didn't you receive my orders directing you to disband? 1111 01:15:04,607 --> 01:15:07,724 Is Your Majesty aware that an army turned loose becomes a mob? 1112 01:15:08,207 --> 01:15:10,596 Your revenues were suspended. 1113 01:15:11,047 --> 01:15:13,607 - Who is paying them? - I am. 1114 01:15:13,847 --> 01:15:16,042 They're in your service now? 1115 01:15:16,207 --> 01:15:17,435 In my service. 1116 01:15:17,847 --> 01:15:20,725 Well, an honest answer at any rate. 1117 01:15:20,927 --> 01:15:22,406 Why should I lie? 1118 01:15:23,327 --> 01:15:25,716 And Ireland. What of Ireland? 1119 01:15:26,247 --> 01:15:29,842 I left it worse than I found it, for which Tyrone sends you his thanks. 1120 01:15:30,007 --> 01:15:32,601 - If you'd supported my plans... - Plans? What plans? 1121 01:15:32,767 --> 01:15:35,759 Am I a mind reader to know what goes on across the sea? 1122 01:15:35,927 --> 01:15:38,282 - Why do you think I ordered you home? - I wrote. 1123 01:15:38,447 --> 01:15:42,235 Yes, masterly letters. Brief, to the point, wasting no words. 1124 01:15:42,407 --> 01:15:43,726 In short, nothing. 1125 01:15:47,367 --> 01:15:48,800 That's not true. 1126 01:15:48,967 --> 01:15:51,037 I wrote many times, giving you details... 1127 01:15:51,567 --> 01:15:54,604 asking your aid and trust, and in reply, I got nothing. 1128 01:15:54,767 --> 01:15:56,519 No men, no arms, no food. Nothing. 1129 01:15:56,687 --> 01:16:00,566 If you gave me support, I'd have beaten Tyrone and forced peace in a month. 1130 01:16:01,287 --> 01:16:02,606 You wrote me letters? 1131 01:16:02,767 --> 01:16:04,678 Not once but many times. 1132 01:16:04,847 --> 01:16:07,281 - And received no letters from me? - None. 1133 01:16:07,447 --> 01:16:09,403 Before heaven... 1134 01:16:09,927 --> 01:16:12,316 if our letters have been tampered with... 1135 01:16:12,487 --> 01:16:15,047 there will be heads lopped off aplenty here. 1136 01:16:16,247 --> 01:16:19,045 I wish to speak to my Lord of Essex alone. 1137 01:16:20,207 --> 01:16:24,883 - Your Majesty, do you think it's safe? - Leave us, all of you! 1138 01:16:38,567 --> 01:16:39,966 Wait outside. 1139 01:16:40,127 --> 01:16:42,561 Post guards in all the corridors. See that no one enters or leaves. 1140 01:16:42,727 --> 01:16:43,716 Yes, milord. 1141 01:16:44,927 --> 01:16:46,758 Follow me. 1142 01:16:48,687 --> 01:16:51,565 Robert, what did you write to me? 1143 01:16:51,727 --> 01:16:54,241 At first, I wrote my love. 1144 01:16:54,407 --> 01:16:57,080 Then when I didn't hear from you, I wrote angrily... 1145 01:16:57,247 --> 01:16:59,556 but always I ended by telling you the same. 1146 01:16:59,727 --> 01:17:01,638 That I love you. 1147 01:17:01,807 --> 01:17:04,640 - And you? - I, too, wrote my love. 1148 01:17:04,807 --> 01:17:06,843 And God keep you safe. 1149 01:17:07,287 --> 01:17:09,323 Then when I received no answer... 1150 01:17:09,487 --> 01:17:12,718 I wrote you heaven knows what madness... 1151 01:17:12,887 --> 01:17:16,118 because I thought you faithless. - I should have known. 1152 01:17:16,287 --> 01:17:17,640 Forgive me. 1153 01:17:17,807 --> 01:17:19,638 You never should have gone. 1154 01:17:19,807 --> 01:17:21,160 I hated you... 1155 01:17:21,327 --> 01:17:24,842 planned to put you to the torture. - I've been tortured enough. 1156 01:17:25,007 --> 01:17:27,567 When I didn't hear from you... 1157 01:17:28,447 --> 01:17:29,960 I... 1158 01:17:31,247 --> 01:17:33,363 I can't think yet. 1159 01:17:34,207 --> 01:17:35,925 Can't breathe. 1160 01:17:37,367 --> 01:17:39,961 Put your arms around me. 1161 01:17:42,607 --> 01:17:44,802 Can we ever believe again? 1162 01:17:45,407 --> 01:17:48,205 Can it ever be as it used to be? 1163 01:17:48,807 --> 01:17:52,038 - Do you love me still? - I'll love you always. 1164 01:17:52,927 --> 01:17:54,406 Yes. 1165 01:17:54,567 --> 01:17:57,798 Yes, if this were false, then I would know it now... 1166 01:17:58,807 --> 01:18:00,957 and truly I should die. 1167 01:18:01,687 --> 01:18:03,405 You see... 1168 01:18:03,607 --> 01:18:05,165 I thought... 1169 01:18:05,327 --> 01:18:07,045 because I was older... 1170 01:18:07,567 --> 01:18:11,401 there might be someone else. - No one. Ever. 1171 01:18:11,727 --> 01:18:14,400 - You were not changed? - No. 1172 01:18:14,727 --> 01:18:16,604 - No? - No. 1173 01:18:16,967 --> 01:18:18,798 Yes, a little. 1174 01:18:19,447 --> 01:18:21,722 I think they've changed us a little. 1175 01:18:21,887 --> 01:18:23,320 Not I, sweet. 1176 01:18:23,487 --> 01:18:25,557 In spite of all those horrible months. 1177 01:18:25,727 --> 01:18:28,446 And though I've come back to you in defiance... 1178 01:18:28,607 --> 01:18:31,838 I really came back to find you, who had been lost to me. 1179 01:18:32,007 --> 01:18:33,963 And found again. 1180 01:18:34,847 --> 01:18:38,123 Sweet, these few years we have left... 1181 01:18:38,287 --> 01:18:40,847 let's never distrust each other again. - Never. 1182 01:18:41,007 --> 01:18:43,601 Take me, my life, my world... 1183 01:18:43,767 --> 01:18:46,759 my present and future in your dear hands. 1184 01:18:47,127 --> 01:18:49,163 You shall stand behind my throne... 1185 01:18:49,327 --> 01:18:51,363 and together we shall build up an England... 1186 01:18:51,527 --> 01:18:54,166 that will make the old world wonder. 1187 01:18:59,047 --> 01:19:01,436 What's the matter, my darling? 1188 01:19:03,407 --> 01:19:04,840 I must be honest with you. 1189 01:19:05,527 --> 01:19:09,361 I brought my army here partly from anger, mostly from love. 1190 01:19:09,527 --> 01:19:13,156 What really made me do it was something else, something within myself. 1191 01:19:13,327 --> 01:19:15,477 Something I can't explain. 1192 01:19:16,167 --> 01:19:19,876 If you had shown anger, I could have spoken easily. It's not easy now. 1193 01:19:20,367 --> 01:19:23,006 Perhaps you have no need to tell me. 1194 01:19:23,167 --> 01:19:26,443 Loving you so well, I know you better than yourself. 1195 01:19:26,807 --> 01:19:29,765 This thing. Isn't it ambition... 1196 01:19:29,927 --> 01:19:33,806 a thirst for power? - Yes, that's stronger than myself. 1197 01:19:33,967 --> 01:19:36,527 And deeper than love? 1198 01:19:36,927 --> 01:19:38,645 It's true. 1199 01:19:38,807 --> 01:19:41,162 The throne's yours by descent and possession... 1200 01:19:41,327 --> 01:19:44,205 but if this had been a freer time, if people could elect... 1201 01:19:44,367 --> 01:19:46,164 I'd have swept the country. 1202 01:19:48,487 --> 01:19:51,877 Since we're equal in love, why can't we be equal in power as well? 1203 01:19:52,047 --> 01:19:54,766 - But we are equal. I have made you so. - No. 1204 01:19:54,927 --> 01:19:58,317 It's still all yours to grant me or take away as you see fit. 1205 01:19:58,487 --> 01:20:01,206 - Can it be otherwise? - I ask you this in all devotion. 1206 01:20:01,367 --> 01:20:06,043 Am I not as worthy to be king as you to be queen? Must you rule alone? 1207 01:20:06,807 --> 01:20:08,286 Darling. 1208 01:20:09,567 --> 01:20:12,127 You're so young in policy. 1209 01:20:12,527 --> 01:20:15,485 If I granted you this, do you know what people would say? 1210 01:20:16,167 --> 01:20:19,000 That you had forced it on me by revolution... 1211 01:20:19,167 --> 01:20:21,476 and all the security and safety... 1212 01:20:21,647 --> 01:20:25,526 which I have built for them through years of planning would be blown away. 1213 01:20:26,407 --> 01:20:29,717 Is that your reason, or is it that you wouldn't trust me as king? 1214 01:20:30,447 --> 01:20:32,915 No, I would not trust you. No. 1215 01:20:33,087 --> 01:20:35,317 You're jealous of your rights, your throne. 1216 01:20:35,487 --> 01:20:36,840 Yes. 1217 01:20:37,007 --> 01:20:40,238 So the court's in my hands, the country mine, you my prisoner... 1218 01:20:40,407 --> 01:20:43,285 I must disband my army, give your kingdom back to you? 1219 01:20:44,927 --> 01:20:47,395 I, your prisoner? 1220 01:20:47,567 --> 01:20:50,001 Of course. The throne's mine for the taking. 1221 01:20:50,887 --> 01:20:52,843 So this is your loyalty? 1222 01:20:53,007 --> 01:20:54,884 This is your love? 1223 01:20:55,367 --> 01:21:00,361 Well, at least I know now what it was you wanted. 1224 01:21:02,127 --> 01:21:03,401 You shall have it. 1225 01:21:04,167 --> 01:21:07,398 - Your throne? - Yes, and make the best of it. 1226 01:21:07,727 --> 01:21:09,638 So shall I. 1227 01:21:13,367 --> 01:21:15,403 What are your plans? 1228 01:21:15,727 --> 01:21:18,719 - I have none. - The tower? The block? 1229 01:21:18,887 --> 01:21:22,721 Having been a queen, I realize how useful they are to consolidate power. 1230 01:21:22,887 --> 01:21:27,756 You could hardly take a queen prisoner and have no thought of her destiny. 1231 01:21:28,047 --> 01:21:31,403 My mother walked that path. I can walk it too. 1232 01:21:31,567 --> 01:21:34,604 - You know, you're as free as air. - I am your prisoner. 1233 01:21:34,807 --> 01:21:36,240 My dear prisoner still. 1234 01:21:36,847 --> 01:21:38,565 Let's finish with pretending. 1235 01:21:38,727 --> 01:21:43,005 - You neither love me nor want me. - I do love you, and I want you. 1236 01:21:43,167 --> 01:21:44,759 Yes, and I want power too. 1237 01:21:44,927 --> 01:21:47,157 - But not without you. - No... 1238 01:21:47,327 --> 01:21:50,160 if you wanted me, would you strike at me with an army? 1239 01:21:50,327 --> 01:21:53,399 No. You'd have come to me quietly... 1240 01:21:53,567 --> 01:21:56,400 and talked to me as lovers should at the proper time. 1241 01:21:57,647 --> 01:21:59,603 But now, no. 1242 01:21:59,967 --> 01:22:02,765 What you really wanted, you've taken. 1243 01:22:03,327 --> 01:22:05,602 This is your throne now... 1244 01:22:06,207 --> 01:22:08,516 but I am not yours. 1245 01:22:09,087 --> 01:22:11,885 So put me where I'll do the least harm. 1246 01:22:12,047 --> 01:22:13,719 That you know I'll never do. 1247 01:22:13,887 --> 01:22:16,685 Promise me you'll share your throne with me... 1248 01:22:16,887 --> 01:22:19,765 and I'll disband my army, and you shall be free. 1249 01:22:20,887 --> 01:22:22,479 I promised. 1250 01:22:23,247 --> 01:22:25,556 You shall share my realm with me. 1251 01:22:26,567 --> 01:22:29,127 As I am queen, I promise it. 1252 01:22:31,887 --> 01:22:34,162 Here's the answer then, my queen. 1253 01:22:44,607 --> 01:22:46,006 Mountjoy. 1254 01:22:46,167 --> 01:22:47,361 Dismiss the troops. 1255 01:22:47,527 --> 01:22:51,361 Return the palace to the queen, release the guard, send them to their posts. 1256 01:22:51,527 --> 01:22:54,599 - Essex, are you certain? - All is well, Knollys. 1257 01:23:10,927 --> 01:23:12,155 Darling... 1258 01:23:12,327 --> 01:23:13,726 forgive me now... 1259 01:23:13,887 --> 01:23:18,278 and let this be our last quarrel. - Yes, our last. 1260 01:23:18,447 --> 01:23:21,007 Here's heaven risen out of suffering and pain. 1261 01:23:21,447 --> 01:23:23,244 My sweet. 1262 01:23:27,247 --> 01:23:30,523 No more talk of kingdoms and thrones. Let's talk of you and me. 1263 01:23:30,847 --> 01:23:34,556 Yes. Yes, let us forget the other. 1264 01:23:35,327 --> 01:23:36,965 But have you kept your word? 1265 01:23:37,127 --> 01:23:38,355 My word? 1266 01:23:38,527 --> 01:23:40,882 I mean, if I were to clap my hands now... 1267 01:23:41,047 --> 01:23:44,039 whose guard would come, mine or yours? 1268 01:23:44,207 --> 01:23:48,405 - Yours only, sweet. Shall I call? - No. Wait. 1269 01:23:49,127 --> 01:23:50,560 I will. 1270 01:24:06,447 --> 01:24:09,007 - See? - Your Majesty. 1271 01:24:09,287 --> 01:24:10,766 Captain Armand... 1272 01:24:10,927 --> 01:24:12,838 is the palace again in our hands? 1273 01:24:13,007 --> 01:24:14,599 Yes, Your Majesty. 1274 01:24:14,767 --> 01:24:16,439 And my Lord of Essex's men? 1275 01:24:16,607 --> 01:24:18,165 They have gone, Your Majesty. 1276 01:24:21,327 --> 01:24:25,161 It has taken me many years of ruling England, my Essex... 1277 01:24:25,327 --> 01:24:28,160 to discover that a ruler must be without friendship... 1278 01:24:28,327 --> 01:24:30,887 without mercy, and without love. 1279 01:24:32,087 --> 01:24:33,679 Arrest my Lord of Essex. 1280 01:24:33,847 --> 01:24:36,805 - Arrest? - Arrest him. Take him to the tower. 1281 01:24:38,847 --> 01:24:40,041 Is this a jest? 1282 01:24:40,207 --> 01:24:43,244 I never jest when I play for kingdoms, my Lord of Essex. 1283 01:24:43,447 --> 01:24:44,926 And I trusted you. 1284 01:24:45,487 --> 01:24:47,478 And I trusted you. 1285 01:24:47,647 --> 01:24:50,286 And learned from you that no one can be trusted... 1286 01:24:50,447 --> 01:24:52,722 a lover least of all. 1287 01:24:52,887 --> 01:24:54,286 I will remember that. 1288 01:24:55,247 --> 01:24:57,078 Take care, Your Majesty. 1289 01:24:57,247 --> 01:25:00,080 Lest that be all you ever have to remember. 1290 01:25:01,207 --> 01:25:03,596 I will take care. 1291 01:26:37,167 --> 01:26:40,159 - Is Her Majesty in the tower? - Yes, milord. 1292 01:26:40,327 --> 01:26:43,842 She took residence in her apartment above two nights ago. 1293 01:26:44,007 --> 01:26:47,966 - No...? No word for me? - No, milord. 1294 01:26:53,967 --> 01:26:56,527 It's almost dawn, Your Majesty. You've had no sleep. 1295 01:26:56,727 --> 01:27:00,322 I beg you, retire to your chamber for a little rest. 1296 01:27:02,047 --> 01:27:04,356 I beg Your Majesty's pardon. 1297 01:27:35,887 --> 01:27:38,845 Yes, Your Majesty. It was I who intercepted your letters. 1298 01:27:39,007 --> 01:27:43,159 They couldn't have done it without my help. Essex, thinking himself forgotten... 1299 01:27:43,327 --> 01:27:46,285 turned against you, but it wasn't his fault. 1300 01:27:46,447 --> 01:27:49,120 He didn't know. It was mine. 1301 01:27:49,287 --> 01:27:51,801 You tell me this because you want to save him? 1302 01:27:51,967 --> 01:27:54,481 Yes, yes, I do. But also, it's true. 1303 01:27:54,647 --> 01:27:56,524 You must believe me. 1304 01:27:56,687 --> 01:27:58,484 Send for him. 1305 01:27:58,647 --> 01:28:00,205 If it is true... 1306 01:28:00,367 --> 01:28:03,120 do you realize you've spoken your own death warrant? 1307 01:28:03,287 --> 01:28:05,721 Yes, I know, but it doesn't matter. 1308 01:28:05,887 --> 01:28:09,163 Nothing, nothing matters but him. 1309 01:28:09,687 --> 01:28:13,043 Penelope, come closer. 1310 01:28:18,407 --> 01:28:22,036 - You love him greatly, don't you? - Oh, yes, Your Majesty. 1311 01:28:22,207 --> 01:28:25,324 I, too, but he has never loved me. 1312 01:28:25,487 --> 01:28:27,079 But he does love you. 1313 01:28:27,247 --> 01:28:28,999 I was jealous of you. That's why... 1314 01:28:29,527 --> 01:28:31,358 Jealous? 1315 01:28:32,327 --> 01:28:33,646 You poor child. 1316 01:28:33,807 --> 01:28:36,958 Because he loved you and me not at all. 1317 01:28:37,127 --> 01:28:39,118 He told me so. 1318 01:28:42,127 --> 01:28:43,401 What did he say? 1319 01:28:44,887 --> 01:28:47,685 He said, "I love her more than life." 1320 01:28:47,847 --> 01:28:51,726 And then I warned him against you, but he laughed and went in to you. 1321 01:28:53,487 --> 01:28:56,365 Perhaps I should have trusted him more... 1322 01:28:57,487 --> 01:28:59,443 but it's too late now. 1323 01:29:00,727 --> 01:29:04,117 No one dies happily, queen or no. 1324 01:29:06,607 --> 01:29:09,075 Will he send me the ring, do you think? 1325 01:29:09,247 --> 01:29:10,760 There is still time. 1326 01:29:10,927 --> 01:29:13,521 No, not now. 1327 01:29:14,487 --> 01:29:15,715 This is the end. 1328 01:29:15,887 --> 01:29:17,639 On, no, no. You must send for him. 1329 01:29:17,807 --> 01:29:20,037 He's as proud as you are. He'll say nothing. 1330 01:29:20,207 --> 01:29:22,277 You must send for him. Bring him here. 1331 01:29:22,447 --> 01:29:23,766 No. 1332 01:29:23,927 --> 01:29:27,158 I shall live and he shall die. 1333 01:29:27,327 --> 01:29:31,002 Oh, I shall walk about and give orders... 1334 01:29:31,167 --> 01:29:33,442 for a horrible while. 1335 01:29:33,607 --> 01:29:37,566 But even though my heart goes into his grave along with him... 1336 01:29:37,727 --> 01:29:40,366 I will never send for him. 1337 01:29:41,327 --> 01:29:43,887 He must ask to come to me. 1338 01:29:44,047 --> 01:29:46,925 He will ask. He will. 1339 01:29:49,327 --> 01:29:51,158 I told you. 1340 01:29:51,327 --> 01:29:53,795 He has sent someone to plead. 1341 01:29:53,967 --> 01:29:55,036 Enter. 1342 01:30:03,407 --> 01:30:05,079 - By your leave, Your Grace. - Well? 1343 01:30:05,247 --> 01:30:08,045 All London's outside the tower protesting the execution. 1344 01:30:08,207 --> 01:30:10,562 Haven't I ears? Can't I hear them? What of it? 1345 01:30:10,727 --> 01:30:14,879 The captain of the guard begs permission to use force to scatter them. 1346 01:30:18,167 --> 01:30:21,159 So that's what you came to see me about? 1347 01:30:21,327 --> 01:30:22,806 I thought you brought word. 1348 01:30:22,967 --> 01:30:27,518 Milord of Essex would hardly condescend to plead through me, Your Majesty. 1349 01:30:27,687 --> 01:30:29,598 And for an excellent reason. 1350 01:30:29,767 --> 01:30:33,043 He could never be sure of the form in which you'd deliver it. 1351 01:30:33,207 --> 01:30:35,038 This is your day, Cecil. 1352 01:30:35,207 --> 01:30:37,357 The snake in the grass endures. 1353 01:30:37,527 --> 01:30:39,722 Yes, the snake's mind is best. 1354 01:30:39,887 --> 01:30:42,003 To the end of time, it will be so. 1355 01:30:42,167 --> 01:30:44,522 The snakes and the rats, they shall flourish... 1356 01:30:44,687 --> 01:30:47,281 and those who are noble and free of soul go down. 1357 01:30:47,447 --> 01:30:50,120 But, madam, if you'll pardon me, the crowd is dangerous. 1358 01:30:50,287 --> 01:30:53,245 - If I may order the guard. - You may not. 1359 01:30:55,887 --> 01:30:59,277 But I will give you a task less to your liking. 1360 01:30:59,447 --> 01:31:02,359 Go to my Lord of Essex in his cell and send him here. 1361 01:31:02,527 --> 01:31:04,836 Well, are you struck dumb? 1362 01:31:05,007 --> 01:31:07,760 But, Your Grace, Lord Essex is preparing for execution. 1363 01:31:07,927 --> 01:31:10,760 - Even now, a priest... - Go, I tell you. 1364 01:31:33,807 --> 01:31:35,718 Oh, Your Majesty. 1365 01:31:37,527 --> 01:31:39,245 Penelope... 1366 01:31:39,927 --> 01:31:41,997 look on my face. 1367 01:31:44,527 --> 01:31:48,520 What you see here, he will also see. 1368 01:31:48,687 --> 01:31:50,200 Oh, but, Your Majesty... 1369 01:31:50,367 --> 01:31:52,835 you're tired and worn, and your beauty... 1370 01:31:53,007 --> 01:31:54,122 Has gone... 1371 01:31:54,927 --> 01:31:57,646 and left a bitter, aging mask. 1372 01:31:58,407 --> 01:32:00,841 I need no mirror to tell me now. 1373 01:32:02,847 --> 01:32:05,600 And you are young and lovely still. 1374 01:32:06,767 --> 01:32:09,406 And he, too, is young and beautiful. 1375 01:32:10,447 --> 01:32:12,756 And if he looks at you... 1376 01:32:12,927 --> 01:32:15,077 and then at me... 1377 01:32:16,687 --> 01:32:18,564 Penelope... 1378 01:32:18,727 --> 01:32:20,046 do you mind? 1379 01:32:20,207 --> 01:32:23,836 You must not be here when he comes. 1380 01:33:10,607 --> 01:33:12,484 You sent for me. 1381 01:33:13,327 --> 01:33:14,476 Yes. 1382 01:33:15,207 --> 01:33:17,243 You spoil me for death. 1383 01:33:17,407 --> 01:33:20,956 Wouldn't it have been kinder to have left me with my thoughts? 1384 01:33:21,127 --> 01:33:23,277 Are you so set on dying? 1385 01:33:23,447 --> 01:33:25,278 I can't say I care for it... 1386 01:33:25,447 --> 01:33:28,678 but if it's to come, why then, it's best I go forward quickly. 1387 01:33:29,927 --> 01:33:32,680 You must have known I never meant you to die. 1388 01:33:33,167 --> 01:33:34,919 I've been found guilty of treason. 1389 01:33:35,087 --> 01:33:38,602 - Treason is punishable with death. - Robert. 1390 01:33:38,767 --> 01:33:43,079 Be kind to me just this once. 1391 01:33:43,247 --> 01:33:48,367 I am proud too, and bitter with much cause... 1392 01:33:49,287 --> 01:33:51,278 but I did speak first. 1393 01:33:51,447 --> 01:33:53,961 I sent for you. 1394 01:33:54,127 --> 01:33:56,402 Are you going to degrade me further... 1395 01:33:56,567 --> 01:33:59,320 make me tell you how I have longed for you? 1396 01:34:03,127 --> 01:34:06,961 You can tell me that because you've nothing to gain or lose by it. 1397 01:34:07,767 --> 01:34:10,201 But if I were to tell you that I love you... 1398 01:34:10,367 --> 01:34:12,676 you might suppose I'd do it to save my life. 1399 01:34:13,327 --> 01:34:15,124 You love me still? 1400 01:34:15,527 --> 01:34:17,757 No, you have never loved me. 1401 01:34:17,927 --> 01:34:19,997 I loved you. 1402 01:34:20,167 --> 01:34:22,442 And that was your nearest way to power. 1403 01:34:22,607 --> 01:34:25,963 This is the hour for truth, so let me speak. 1404 01:34:26,767 --> 01:34:30,123 I am older than you, but a queen... 1405 01:34:30,287 --> 01:34:33,962 so perhaps it was natural that you should flatter me and I believe you. 1406 01:34:34,527 --> 01:34:37,200 Why, yes, yes. That's true, if you wish. 1407 01:34:37,367 --> 01:34:39,119 And now, may I go? 1408 01:34:39,287 --> 01:34:42,723 This dying sticks in my mind and makes me poor company. 1409 01:34:44,207 --> 01:34:47,563 But remember this, I did love you. 1410 01:34:48,727 --> 01:34:51,287 - And still do? - Yes. 1411 01:34:51,447 --> 01:34:53,358 Then why didn't you send me the ring? 1412 01:34:53,527 --> 01:34:56,803 I'd have forgiven you everything at any hour of the day or night. 1413 01:34:56,967 --> 01:34:59,481 I waited, thinking of course it would come. 1414 01:34:59,647 --> 01:35:03,640 And the nights went by somehow like the days, and it never came. 1415 01:35:03,807 --> 01:35:06,082 And here it is, the last morning... 1416 01:35:06,247 --> 01:35:08,886 the last quarter-hour. - Even if I believed you... 1417 01:35:09,047 --> 01:35:11,322 I couldn't have sent it. - Why not? 1418 01:35:11,487 --> 01:35:15,082 Because if I'd tried to hold you to your promise and you'd broken it... 1419 01:35:15,247 --> 01:35:18,956 I'd have died more unhappy than I am. - But I'd have kept my promise. 1420 01:35:19,127 --> 01:35:21,004 I'd keep it now. 1421 01:35:22,447 --> 01:35:26,679 If I were to offer you this ring now, you'd pardon me, love me as before? 1422 01:35:26,847 --> 01:35:29,680 Oh, yes. Everything as before. 1423 01:35:29,847 --> 01:35:32,361 And what would happen to your throne? 1424 01:35:32,527 --> 01:35:34,119 My throne? 1425 01:35:35,367 --> 01:35:38,120 - Why, nothing. - Now there you're wrong... 1426 01:35:38,287 --> 01:35:41,484 for I'd try to take it from you. I played for power once... 1427 01:35:41,647 --> 01:35:44,400 and I lost, but if... 1428 01:35:45,767 --> 01:35:47,120 Listen. 1429 01:35:48,807 --> 01:35:50,763 Do you hear that, Elizabeth? 1430 01:35:52,647 --> 01:35:54,444 The people are all with me. 1431 01:35:55,767 --> 01:35:58,884 And if I had another chance, I'd win. 1432 01:36:00,087 --> 01:36:01,918 Why do you tell me this? 1433 01:36:02,087 --> 01:36:04,920 - Don't you know it means...? - My death? 1434 01:36:05,087 --> 01:36:06,440 Yes, I know. 1435 01:36:06,607 --> 01:36:10,998 I only tell you because I've loved you, love you still. 1436 01:36:11,167 --> 01:36:12,725 I can never accept pardon from you... 1437 01:36:12,887 --> 01:36:15,117 without you knowing the truth and facing it. 1438 01:36:15,287 --> 01:36:16,720 So... 1439 01:36:16,887 --> 01:36:18,764 it's best I leave. 1440 01:36:19,447 --> 01:36:22,564 Robert, you can't. 1441 01:36:22,727 --> 01:36:25,321 You can't go like this. I won't let you. 1442 01:36:25,487 --> 01:36:26,761 I love you. 1443 01:36:26,927 --> 01:36:28,883 Then are you ready to give up your throne? 1444 01:36:29,047 --> 01:36:30,639 No, no, no. I cannot. 1445 01:36:30,807 --> 01:36:34,083 And you talk of love. A love that clings to a tinsel throne. 1446 01:36:34,247 --> 01:36:36,363 Robert, wait. Listen. 1447 01:36:36,527 --> 01:36:39,246 I do love you. I'll always love you... 1448 01:36:39,407 --> 01:36:41,159 till life is drained from me... 1449 01:36:41,327 --> 01:36:45,161 no matter how long and lonely the after years may be. 1450 01:36:45,327 --> 01:36:49,161 But there is another love, greater even than that I have for you. 1451 01:36:49,327 --> 01:36:52,399 What's this greater love that lets the lesser go to its death? 1452 01:36:52,567 --> 01:36:54,046 England. 1453 01:36:54,207 --> 01:36:57,404 That is my greatest and most enduring love. 1454 01:36:57,567 --> 01:37:01,037 And when I think what you would do to my country if you were king... 1455 01:37:01,207 --> 01:37:05,280 I will see you dead, yes, and your soul condemned to eternity forever... 1456 01:37:05,447 --> 01:37:07,244 before I'd let you do it. 1457 01:37:07,407 --> 01:37:10,126 - You think I don't love England? - You do. 1458 01:37:10,287 --> 01:37:12,755 But your love does not match your lust for power. 1459 01:37:12,927 --> 01:37:16,363 For the greater glory of Essex, you would make war upon the world... 1460 01:37:16,527 --> 01:37:21,647 drag your country down and drown her in a sea of debts and blood. 1461 01:37:25,727 --> 01:37:27,683 I had hoped, in prison... 1462 01:37:27,847 --> 01:37:31,522 you would lose conceit of yourself a little... 1463 01:37:31,687 --> 01:37:34,360 for prison's very quiet. 1464 01:37:34,527 --> 01:37:36,643 Be content to reign with me... 1465 01:37:36,807 --> 01:37:42,165 so we could leave behind us a legacy to our people of peace and happiness. 1466 01:37:42,327 --> 01:37:43,999 But no. 1467 01:37:44,167 --> 01:37:46,635 You stayed crazed with ambition... 1468 01:37:46,807 --> 01:37:50,038 and faithless to England as well as to me to the end. 1469 01:37:52,287 --> 01:37:54,926 Perhaps you're right... 1470 01:37:55,087 --> 01:37:57,806 and I'd have made a sorry king. 1471 01:37:57,967 --> 01:38:00,401 So then, it's better this way. 1472 01:38:00,567 --> 01:38:02,717 But this I'd have you know. 1473 01:38:02,887 --> 01:38:07,199 If things had been different, you simply a woman, not a queen... 1474 01:38:07,367 --> 01:38:10,040 and I a man, with no crown between us... 1475 01:38:10,207 --> 01:38:13,517 we could've searched heaven and earth for two perfect lovers... 1476 01:38:13,687 --> 01:38:17,077 and ended the search with ourselves. 1477 01:38:19,087 --> 01:38:21,965 Of all the things on this earth that I'm now to leave... 1478 01:38:22,127 --> 01:38:24,880 I care about leaving none of them but you. 1479 01:38:26,087 --> 01:38:27,600 Robert. 1480 01:38:27,767 --> 01:38:30,804 Stay with me. Share with me. 1481 01:38:30,967 --> 01:38:32,286 Give me the ring. 1482 01:38:32,767 --> 01:38:34,883 - Give me the ring. - No. 1483 01:38:35,047 --> 01:38:37,720 For if I did, I'd be your death or you'd be mine... 1484 01:38:37,887 --> 01:38:40,037 and you and England must live. 1485 01:38:40,207 --> 01:38:42,721 Isn't that true? 1486 01:38:42,887 --> 01:38:46,436 - Yes. - So then, goodbye, my love. 1487 01:38:48,927 --> 01:38:50,804 No. 1488 01:38:50,967 --> 01:38:52,286 I'm old. 1489 01:38:52,447 --> 01:38:54,165 I'm old. 1490 01:38:55,207 --> 01:38:58,119 With you, I could've been young again. 1491 01:38:59,887 --> 01:39:04,642 Why can't you love me enough to give me your love and keep me as I was? 1492 01:39:04,807 --> 01:39:08,356 I don't know. I only know I cannot. 1493 01:39:15,407 --> 01:39:16,806 Robert... 1494 01:39:16,967 --> 01:39:18,241 take my throne! 1495 01:39:18,407 --> 01:39:21,319 Take England! It's yours! 1496 01:40:28,607 --> 01:40:30,563 You may loosen my hands. 1497 01:40:52,207 --> 01:40:54,596 I'm ready. 1498 01:41:55,207 --> 01:41:57,198 Subtitles by SDI Media Group 1499 01:41:57,407 --> 01:41:59,398 [ENGLISH]