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Allow me to be frank
 at the commencement

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You will not like me.

4
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The gentlemen will be envious
 and the ladies will be repelled.

5
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You will not like me now and you will like me
 a good deal less as we go on .

6
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Ladies,

7
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an announcement.

8
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I am up for it.

9
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All the time.

10
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That is not a boast or an opinion .

11
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It is bone-hard medical fact.

12
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I put it round, you know.

13
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And you will watch me putting it round
 and sigh for it.

14
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Don't.

15
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It is a deal of trouble for you

16
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and you are better off watching and drawing
 your conclusions from a distance

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than you would be
 if I got my tarse up your petticoats.

18
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Gentlemen,

19
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do not despair.

20
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I am up for that as well.

21
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And the same warning applies.

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Still your cheesy erections till I've had my say,

23
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but later when you shag,
 and later you will shag,

24
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I shall expect it of you,

25
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and I will know if you have let me down .

26
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I wish you to shag

27
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with my homuncular image
 rattling in your gonads.

28
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Feel...

29
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how it was for me, how it is for me.

30
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And ponder.

31
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Was that shudder
 the same shudder he sensed?

32
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Did he know something more profound?

33
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Or is there some wall of wretchedness
 that we all batter with our heads

34
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at that shining live-long moment?

35
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That is it.

36
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That is my prologue.

37
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Nothing in rhyme.

38
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No protestations of modesty.
 You were not expecting that, I hope.

39
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I am John Wilmot.

40
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Second Earl of Rochester.

41
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And I do not want you to like me.

42
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Wren's upset. The clergy approved
the most conventional design for the cathedral.

43
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Now he feels
 there's no room for artistic manoeuvre.

44
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Put a sub-clause in the warrant.

45
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"Variations in the design
 are to be ornamental rather than essential."

46
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Then he can do what he wants.

47
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Next.

48
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There are representations for you
 to be more careful in public.

49
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Perhaps a bodyguard.

50
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- Whose idea is that?
 - Your brother.

51
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Ha!

52
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No-one's going to kill me
 if it means having him on the throne.

53
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-Next.
- Danby says the army is costing too much.

54
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It's Danby's job to balance the books.

55
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If he thinks it's good economics to disband
 the army and be invaded by the French,

56
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he can look for another position .

57
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Anything else?

58
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You asked me to remind you
 about the Earl of Rochester.

59
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When did I banish him?

60
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Three months ago.

61
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- For how long?
 - A year.

62
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Bring him back. Now.

63
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John .

64
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Be attentive to your wife.
 She's not accustomed to London .

65
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Mother, I shall in all things
endeavour to serve her...

66
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and you .

67
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Serve God.

68
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You must not fear London.

69
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It is not London I fear.

70
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You abducted me in a coach like this
 when I was still a virgin heiress.

71
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And did you like abduction ?

72
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Passionately.

73
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Speak of it.

74
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John ! This is not the place.

75
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Speak to me of abduction .

76
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I was 18.

77
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And worth two and a half thousand a year.

78
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You ambushed me,

79
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bundled me from my coach,

80
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and drove me away.

81
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The King thrust you in the tower for it.

82
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And I dug in my heels
and spurned and shunned the other men .

83
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I would only embrace my dear abductor.

84
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Dryden's new play.

85
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Here, Chas, grab a wodge.

86
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Dryden couldn't write a laundry list.

87
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Rochester!

88
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- Johnny!
 - Johnny.

89
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We were pining for you

90
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Even now we're pining.

91
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When I wake in the country,
 I dream of being in London,

92
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and then when I get here,
 it's full of people like you .

93
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- Johnny.
 - This reign's a shambles, do you not think?

94
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My father risked life and limb
hiding that thing Charles up an oak tree.

95
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Has he forgiven you?

96
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He's forgiven me. I shan't forgive him.

97
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Why did he banish you this time?

98
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Well, it is a fine morning.
 I'm walking through the galleries.

99
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The King is walking through the galleries.
 I'm splendidly alone.

100
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The King is surrounded
 by a slow-moving troop...

101
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..of Mediterraneans.

102
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- The wife's family.
 - And he must make show of me.

103
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Behold, the Earl of Rochester, the wit.

104
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The poet. Pray, let us have some of your muse.

105
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What am I to do?

106
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Then I recall in my pocket I have
 a sketch of something rustic with nymphs.

107
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I pull it out and deliver.

108
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"In the isle of Britain, long since famous grown
 For breeding the best cunts in Christendom..."

109
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Rat me, thinks I, this is not
 the piece of paper I had supposed.

110
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The King's eyes are more piercing
 than I can remember.

111
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The jaws of his entourage
 are decidedly earthbound.

112
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This piece of paper is not covered
 merely with the thump and slop of congress.

113
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This poem is an attack on the monarchy itself.

114
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Culminating in depiction of the royal mistress

115
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striving to flog the flaccid royal member
 into a state of excitement.

116
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"This you'd believe had I but time to tell you,
 The pains it cost to poor laborious Nelly.

117
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Whilst she employs hands,
 fingers, mouth and thighs,

118
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Ere she can raise the member she enjoys.

119
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All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,

120
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From the hector of France to the cully of Britain ."

121
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It's damn good, though, Johnny.

122
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Course it's good. That's not the point.
 The point is he couldn't appreciate it.

123
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It took me nearly an hour to write it,
 just to please him.

124
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Three months in the fucking country at the
 height of the season . Missed all the good plays.

125
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Boring old Rowley. We love you, Johnny.

126
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Give us a stanza
 and we'll laugh in the King's place.

127
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To Etherege, I drink a pledge.

128
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His life has run the gamut.

129
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He's penned naught good
 since She Would If She Could.

130
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He would if he could but he cannot

131
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Well, Johnny, it is a damn well said thing,
 but it ain't true, do you see?

132
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Oh, but it is true, Georgie.

133
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You think you can still enjoy the town's esteem
 for something you wrote seven years ago.

134
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You can't be promising for ever George

135
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Sooner or later you must do something

136
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But that's what I'm saying.
 I have written a new play.

137
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Oh.

138
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Written a new play has he?

139
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All those afternoons he was pretending to slope
 off and roger his mistress like a decent chap,

140
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he was lurking in his rooms,

141
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poking away at a play.

142
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That is disgusting, George.

143
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Disgusting and shameful.

144
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What's it about, your play?

145
00:11:01,587 --> 00:11:03,172
A satire on Dryden ?

146
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Pox o' Dryden . It's about you .

147
00:11:08,552 --> 00:11:11,013
And in your play, do you tell the truth about me?

148
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- Well, I've attempted to show you ...
 - Yes?

149
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- Well, I enjoy your company.
 - You've made me endearing.

150
00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:21,024
- Well, only the public can ...
 - Don't smarm around, George.

151
00:11:21,024 --> 00:11:23,902
You're an endearing sort of...chap.

152
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So, you haven't told the truth.

153
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Good.

154
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We don't want to go frightening people.

155
00:11:36,540 --> 00:11:38,584
Now, how about a real play?

156
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The Duke's have the new Otway.

157
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Oh, I have high hopes of young Tom Otway.

158
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Let me finish him off, sir.

159
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This fellow is my servant. He has just filched
 two shillings from my coat pocket.

160
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A thief and a rogue.

161
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My lord you express i

162
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Haven't quite got the hang of the reign yet,
 have you?

163
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- I will not employ a thief.
 - Then I will.

164
00:12:07,823 --> 00:12:11,160
- How much was your master paying you?
 - Six shillings a week, sir.

165
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Who talks of thieving?

166
00:12:13,496 --> 00:12:15,373
George, give him £5.

167
00:12:15,581 --> 00:12:19,127
Buy a brown livery and report to me
 at the Duke's Theatre.

168
00:12:19,210 --> 00:12:20,628
He will steal your gold.

169
00:12:20,753 --> 00:12:22,589
I hope so.

170
00:12:23,047 --> 00:12:27,594
If he turned honest after coming into my orbit,
 then I am not the malicious planet I had hoped.

171
00:12:27,677 --> 00:12:29,596
Now begone, sir.

172
00:12:38,355 --> 00:12:41,859
- And er...how will your lordship be paying?
 - Credit.

173
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I only use coin vulgarised with the monarch's
 head for transactions with servants.

174
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I am ever your humble servant.

175
00:12:50,159 --> 00:12:54,330
No, Mr Ratcliffe,
 you are the very prince of drapery.

176
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The prince is always happy
 to see the King's head.

177
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But not to carry i around in his pocket

178
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Credit then .

179
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Billy.

180
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Join us.

181
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Johnny.

182
00:13:09,263 --> 00:13:11,849
This is Billy Downs

183
00:13:13,059 --> 00:13:16,521
Billy this is the Earl of Rochester

184
00:13:19,065 --> 00:13:21,276
How old are you, Mr Downs?

185
00:13:22,068 --> 00:13:24,195
1 8, my lord.

186
00:13:31,578 --> 00:13:35,040
Young man, you will die of this company.

187
00:13:36,083 --> 00:13:37,710
Do not laugh. I'm serious.

188
00:13:44,091 --> 00:13:45,927
Mr Ratcliffe, this hangs very well.

189
00:13:46,093 --> 00:13:48,763
My lord, I saw you
 just now with the gent's servant.

190
00:13:49,097 --> 00:13:51,724
Did you think I dispensed wisely in the matter?

191
00:13:51,849 --> 00:13:55,854
If the fool run off with the gold,
then you prove a point, but at your loss.

192
00:13:56,104 --> 00:14:00,901
If he return in your livery, then you've gained
 a servant who is a known cheat.

193
00:14:01,026 --> 00:14:03,695
So you prove a different point,
 but again at your own expense.

194
00:14:05,113 --> 00:14:07,157
You summarise well, Mr Downs.

195
00:14:07,282 --> 00:14:09,785
And in such a manner,
 I deduce you were trained

196
00:14:10,119 --> 00:14:14,415
at one of the "count the angels on a pinhead"
 Cambridge colleges.

197
00:14:14,582 --> 00:14:16,334
King's, was it not?

198
00:14:16,626 --> 00:14:18,669
It was, my lord.

199
00:14:18,878 --> 00:14:20,630
King's, yes.

200
00:14:20,630 --> 00:14:22,924
And yet you do not draw
 the moral of the incident.

201
00:14:23,132 --> 00:14:25,260
Which is?

202
00:14:25,468 --> 00:14:30,557
That any experiment of interest in life will be
 carried out at your own expense. Mark it well.

203
00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:38,524
My lord!

204
00:14:39,984 --> 00:14:42,153
My Lord Rochester.

205
00:14:42,361 --> 00:14:44,196
You've come back.

206
00:14:44,238 --> 00:14:46,532
In your livery, my lord.

207
00:14:46,532 --> 00:14:48,951
Then you are turned honest.
 I cannot support that.

208
00:14:49,035 --> 00:14:51,079
I regret the deed's honesty.

209
00:14:51,537 --> 00:14:52,997
My lord.

210
00:14:53,039 --> 00:14:56,751
But I considered that if I performed it
 and fell into your service,

211
00:14:56,876 --> 00:14:59,838
I would have more...enjoyment of life.

212
00:15:02,174 --> 00:15:04,760
You see, this fellow has the hang of the reign .

213
00:15:04,968 --> 00:15:07,596
I like this fellow exceedingly.
 What is your name?

214
00:15:07,679 --> 00:15:08,889
Alcock.

215
00:15:10,933 --> 00:15:13,436
Like master, like servant.

216
00:15:13,436 --> 00:15:16,105
Well, Alcock,

217
00:15:18,441 --> 00:15:22,528
you shall drink and shag
 more than any serving man in the kingdom.

218
00:15:22,654 --> 00:15:26,991
Go at once and spend the rest of the money
 on a whore, a large, greasy one.

219
00:15:27,158 --> 00:15:29,452
Then when you are done, return here to me.

220
00:15:29,452 --> 00:15:31,496
Now begone.

221
00:15:40,798 --> 00:15:42,842
Rochester!
 Disgrace!

222
00:15:43,008 --> 00:15:45,094
Rochester!

223
00:15:45,302 --> 00:15:48,389
Rochester! Missed you Lord Rochester!

224
00:15:49,307 --> 00:15:51,351
He is risen !

225
00:15:54,312 --> 00:15:56,606
My lord!

226
00:15:56,731 --> 00:15:57,649
My lord!

227
00:15:57,816 --> 00:15:59,859
Impertinent bastard!

228
00:16:12,414 --> 00:16:14,875
Johnny!

229
00:16:14,917 --> 00:16:17,545
My Lord Rochester!

230
00:16:21,924 --> 00:16:24,385
Rochester, you are a cunt, sir!

231
00:16:25,428 --> 00:16:27,472
I smell a rotten odour

232
00:16:29,432 --> 00:16:33,270
I'll suck it for you Johnny
if you promise not to marry me!

233
00:16:52,957 --> 00:16:55,710
Johnny said "cunt" to the King!

234
00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:58,004
I'm going to brazen my arse at them.

235
00:16:58,129 --> 00:17:00,006
They've all seen it.

236
00:17:00,215 --> 00:17:02,634
Well, they can bloody well put up with it again .

237
00:17:02,968 --> 00:17:06,179
Johnny said "cunt" to the King!

238
00:17:06,471 --> 00:17:08,515
Johnny said "cunt" to the King.

239
00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:10,934
Johnny said "cunt" to the King!

240
00:17:15,481 --> 00:17:17,191
My lord.

241
00:17:17,483 --> 00:17:19,527
Dear Jane.

242
00:17:22,989 --> 00:17:25,992
Give you your first London spurt of the summer.

243
00:17:25,992 --> 00:17:28,787
- I brought the wife with me.
 - Bit of a waste.

244
00:17:29,037 --> 00:17:31,206
Shooting good jism up the lawful.

245
00:17:32,207 --> 00:17:34,376
Ladies and gallants all,

246
00:17:34,710 --> 00:17:36,753
the King!

247
00:17:51,811 --> 00:17:55,648
Oh, freeze my piss,
if the royal finger ain't beckoning me.

248
00:17:55,815 --> 00:17:57,150
How exciting.

249
00:18:13,208 --> 00:18:15,252
Did you miss me?

250
00:18:15,461 --> 00:18:17,254
I missed the money.

251
00:18:17,463 --> 00:18:19,256
Good.

252
00:18:19,715 --> 00:18:21,759
Don't like a whore with sentiment.

253
00:18:54,711 --> 00:18:58,965
I could have ignored your poem, Johnny,
 but I made a fuss about it for a reason .

254
00:18:59,215 --> 00:19:01,259
I won't hide anything from you .

255
00:19:01,468 --> 00:19:06,139
The country's on the brink.
 People are still reeling from the fire, the plague.

256
00:19:06,223 --> 00:19:09,810
The Catholics are plotting
 the Dutch are a bunch of bastards

257
00:19:10,227 --> 00:19:13,105
and the French are ten times worse
 and there's no money

258
00:19:13,230 --> 00:19:17,860
I can only get funds by crawling to Parliament
 or plotting against them.

259
00:19:18,069 --> 00:19:21,948
And I don't want to lock antlers with them
 head on in the way my father did.

260
00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:24,534
"Head on ?" That's quite good.

261
00:19:25,743 --> 00:19:30,081
When you first came to court Johnny
 you were a boy of 18

262
00:19:30,248 --> 00:19:34,419
A certain flippancy a whiff of impertinence

263
00:19:34,586 --> 00:19:36,296
This was acceptable

264
00:19:36,755 --> 00:19:40,133
But we're ten years down the road
 and the view is different

265
00:19:40,759 --> 00:19:42,803
The tone has to change.

266
00:19:43,011 --> 00:19:45,598
I have to look responsible, sober.

267
00:19:46,765 --> 00:19:48,601
I want you with me.

268
00:19:48,768 --> 00:19:51,228
That's why I brought you back.

269
00:19:51,270 --> 00:19:53,272
I want you to take on a new role.

270
00:19:53,272 --> 00:19:56,234
Here? In the playhouse?

271
00:19:56,275 --> 00:19:58,319
No, the House of Lords.

272
00:19:58,486 --> 00:20:02,699
Your father spirited me out of England
 when my life was at stake,

273
00:20:02,782 --> 00:20:04,743
so I looked after him and after you .

274
00:20:04,784 --> 00:20:07,621
- You put me in the Tower.
 - And I let you out

275
00:20:07,788 --> 00:20:10,123
The time has come for you to pay your dues.

276
00:20:11,291 --> 00:20:13,335
People listen to you, Johnny.

277
00:20:14,294 --> 00:20:18,007
If you took your seat in the Lords,
 you could make great speeches

278
00:20:18,299 --> 00:20:20,343
that would influence events.

279
00:20:22,803 --> 00:20:24,847
Anyone can oppose.

280
00:20:25,014 --> 00:20:26,849
It's fun to be against things.

281
00:20:26,933 --> 00:20:30,603
But there comes a time when you have
 to start being for things as well.

282
00:20:47,329 --> 00:20:49,373
Your Majesty.

283
00:20:53,336 --> 00:20:55,379
Mr Etherege.

284
00:20:55,546 --> 00:20:57,382
Take a nibble?

285
00:20:58,841 --> 00:21:00,969
I've had my dinner, thank you, madam.

286
00:21:01,052 --> 00:21:02,846
George!

287
00:21:03,346 --> 00:21:05,473
Is this thy plighted faith?

288
00:21:05,599 --> 00:21:07,392
Is this thy truth?

289
00:21:07,559 --> 00:21:09,394
Oh too unkind!

290
00:21:09,853 --> 00:21:12,105
False and unconstant youth!

291
00:21:13,857 --> 00:21:17,111
- Madam, believe not but my brother's just.
 ROCHESTER: Who's she?

292
00:21:17,278 --> 00:21:18,904
She's Lizzie Barry.

293
00:21:19,363 --> 00:21:20,990
And she just won't do.

294
00:21:21,032 --> 00:21:23,534
You wrong his honour by this mean distrust.

295
00:21:23,701 --> 00:21:26,079
Well...

296
00:21:26,204 --> 00:21:32,043
That does alleviate my griefs and give
my wearied soul a soft and kind reprieve.

297
00:21:32,210 --> 00:21:38,175
Which ever to forget would be
 as hard and as impossible as to reward.

298
00:21:39,217 --> 00:21:41,470
Serving you my happiness secures.

299
00:21:44,223 --> 00:21:48,143
Since equally with yours my hopes are crossed.

300
00:21:54,734 --> 00:21:57,153
Of all but sorry and sad despair.

301
00:22:16,131 --> 00:22:18,551
Lizzie. Lizzie!

302
00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:26,684
On stage.

303
00:22:26,809 --> 00:22:28,353
You must take your bow for the public.

304
00:22:28,644 --> 00:22:31,606
Why do you persist in doing
 the opposite of what you are told?

305
00:22:31,648 --> 00:22:36,611
If girls like you do not do what they are told,
 then it is all up with our sex on the stage.

306
00:22:37,654 --> 00:22:40,782
You cannot ignore the advice
of them that know!

307
00:22:41,033 --> 00:22:42,242
Now, acknowledge your audience.

308
00:22:43,660 --> 00:22:45,454
They can kiss my arse.

309
00:22:53,170 --> 00:22:55,214
She's a good fuck, but she costs.

310
00:22:57,675 --> 00:23:01,262
She gives a nice gobble,
 but she won't do the full wibbly-wobbly.

311
00:23:01,471 --> 00:23:03,139
- She does it with me.
 - She does not!

312
00:23:03,181 --> 00:23:05,600
Mary, if I may say so...

313
00:23:08,687 --> 00:23:10,522
..a statuesque performance.

314
00:23:10,689 --> 00:23:12,190
Bursting with Grecian promise.

315
00:23:14,693 --> 00:23:18,364
Mrs Barry, the work we did beforehand,
 did it mean nothing to you?

316
00:23:18,530 --> 00:23:20,241
That is correct, Mr Harris.

317
00:23:20,533 --> 00:23:24,495
Molly, I cannot teach those
 who will not be disposed to learn .

318
00:23:24,537 --> 00:23:26,998
- Mr Etherege, how do you do, sir?
 - Well, Mr Harris.

319
00:23:27,039 --> 00:23:30,043
- Was not my Lord Rochester in wih you?
 - Darted off

320
00:23:30,043 --> 00:23:31,669
Did you care for the play?

321
00:23:31,878 --> 00:23:33,588
The play was well enough.

322
00:23:34,047 --> 00:23:36,633
Most of the acting, too.

323
00:23:47,561 --> 00:23:49,605
Mrs Barry.

324
00:23:50,564 --> 00:23:52,608
She has been dismissed.

325
00:23:53,067 --> 00:23:55,111
I bring word from Mr Betterton .

326
00:23:55,236 --> 00:23:58,573
- I've had such already.
 - This is quite another.

327
00:24:06,373 --> 00:24:08,416
You have obtained a reprieve for me.

328
00:24:08,583 --> 00:24:10,418
Yes, madam, but there is a price.

329
00:24:16,383 --> 00:24:20,095
This is your first season on the London stage.

330
00:24:20,387 --> 00:24:22,014
It is, my lord.

331
00:24:22,097 --> 00:24:23,933
Mrs Barry,

332
00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:27,603
you must acquire the trick
of ignoring those who do not like you .

333
00:24:27,895 --> 00:24:33,401
In my experience, those who do not like you fall
 into two categories, the stupid and the envious.

334
00:24:33,401 --> 00:24:37,572
The stupid will like you in five years' time,
 the envious never.

335
00:24:37,906 --> 00:24:40,534
With my training you will become the best

336
00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:43,495
the most fascinating actress
 on the London stage

337
00:24:44,413 --> 00:24:46,665
I shall come to the theatre tomorrow.

338
00:24:49,418 --> 00:24:52,963
What are you up to, Johnny? She can't act.

339
00:24:53,172 --> 00:24:56,092
She has neither the cadence of the heroic
 nor the posture.

340
00:24:56,425 --> 00:25:01,264
I will wager you 20 guineas she will become
the finest actress on our stage.

341
00:25:01,431 --> 00:25:04,017
This is the prick talking, not the head.

342
00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:05,852
Knob her and have done.

343
00:25:06,144 --> 00:25:07,771
Is it a wager?

344
00:25:07,937 --> 00:25:10,023
My dear friend, you do not have 20 guineas.

345
00:25:10,148 --> 00:25:11,733
Is it a wager?

346
00:25:11,983 --> 00:25:13,735
We've missed the fuck. Can we get a drink?

347
00:25:13,986 --> 00:25:17,531
There's a new toping house hard by
 called Deaf Marion's.

348
00:25:17,781 --> 00:25:21,118
The Cambridge boy knows his books by heart.

349
00:25:21,285 --> 00:25:23,329
Lead on, King's.

350
00:25:35,300 --> 00:25:37,343
Alcock.

351
00:25:37,802 --> 00:25:39,638
My lord.

352
00:25:39,804 --> 00:25:41,973
Something rotten has got into my guts.

353
00:25:42,808 --> 00:25:44,643
I trust it's not me, my lord.

354
00:25:44,810 --> 00:25:47,855
No, Alcock, it is not. Not yet.

355
00:25:48,939 --> 00:25:51,692
We should mark the front lawn at Adderbury
 for pall-mall.

356
00:25:51,859 --> 00:25:53,402
I had always thought it a foolish game.

357
00:25:53,444 --> 00:25:55,279
Depends on who you play with.

358
00:25:55,446 --> 00:25:58,407
The King plays with a common prostitute,
 not his wife.

359
00:25:58,449 --> 00:26:01,744
The Portuguese
 have little flair for outdoor pursuits.

360
00:26:01,953 --> 00:26:04,289
Except navigating, of course.

361
00:26:04,455 --> 00:26:06,916
I mean that the etiquette of it is singular.

362
00:26:07,959 --> 00:26:10,003
I know what you mean .

363
00:26:10,128 --> 00:26:12,631
You must always be
 ace, king and jack, my dear.

364
00:26:12,964 --> 00:26:15,425
But heaven has not disposed your cards so.

365
00:26:15,509 --> 00:26:17,469
ETHEREGE: Johnny! It's your shot!

366
00:26:17,719 --> 00:26:19,388
I'm not playing!

367
00:26:19,638 --> 00:26:21,265
Oh, but you are, John .

368
00:26:21,473 --> 00:26:24,101
You are if I say you are.

369
00:26:32,443 --> 00:26:35,321
The most advanced scientific instrument
 in western Europe.

370
00:26:35,572 --> 00:26:39,993
It costs 60 000 pounds
 It tells the time in every corner of the globe

371
00:26:41,244 --> 00:26:43,288
Understand?

372
00:26:43,663 --> 00:26:45,707
That is achievement.

373
00:26:46,083 --> 00:26:49,878
The man who did that was not continually pissed
 for the last three years.

374
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,214
What do you want from me?

375
00:26:53,215 --> 00:26:57,845
Writing something profound
 that will stand as a monument to my reign .

376
00:26:58,220 --> 00:27:00,264
You're my literary giant.

377
00:27:00,515 --> 00:27:02,266
Dryden ? Plodder.

378
00:27:02,350 --> 00:27:04,269
But look what he's achieved.

379
00:27:04,435 --> 00:27:05,979
Elizabeth had her Shakespeare.

380
00:27:06,229 --> 00:27:08,273
You can be mine.

381
00:27:08,565 --> 00:27:12,736
Give me a major work of literature
 and I'll give you 500 guineas.

382
00:27:13,570 --> 00:27:16,198
When would you like it? Friday?

383
00:27:17,658 --> 00:27:19,701
Don't fuck it up, John .

384
00:27:19,868 --> 00:27:21,704
I love you .

385
00:27:33,216 --> 00:27:35,260
Mrs Barry!

386
00:27:35,635 --> 00:27:38,638
I cannot let you have long.
 I must prepare Tamburlaine.

387
00:27:38,847 --> 00:27:40,473
There's a great deal of setting up

388
00:27:40,932 --> 00:27:42,267
Mrs Barry.

389
00:27:42,392 --> 00:27:43,977
..and a deal of taking down .

390
00:27:47,397 --> 00:27:49,358
My Lord Rochester.

391
00:27:49,483 --> 00:27:51,193
I'm come as I said I would.

392
00:27:51,193 --> 00:27:53,237
Will you have me lift my skirt?

393
00:27:53,696 --> 00:27:57,074
Or do you have a mind
 to raise it by your own endeavours?

394
00:27:58,284 --> 00:28:01,704
I'm come to train you ...in your acting.

395
00:28:01,954 --> 00:28:03,331
So you said when we first met,

396
00:28:03,331 --> 00:28:07,043
but your reputation being what it is,
 I thought you meant something different.

397
00:28:07,210 --> 00:28:09,254
I have, I hope, many reputations.

398
00:28:09,504 --> 00:28:11,798
I am come, I say, to train you ...

399
00:28:11,923 --> 00:28:14,134
in your stage acting

400
00:28:14,509 --> 00:28:17,596
Never in my life
 have I heard you spoken of as an actor.

401
00:28:17,721 --> 00:28:20,808
That does not deter me
 from spreading my insights to others

402
00:28:21,016 --> 00:28:23,978
- I thought it would not.
 - Then we shall begin

403
00:28:25,312 --> 00:28:27,982
You are familiar with the plays of Mr Etherege?

404
00:28:28,232 --> 00:28:30,526
- There are but two my lord
 -Not for long, I fear.

405
00:28:30,818 --> 00:28:33,279
The Comical Revenge or Love In A Tub

406
00:28:33,321 --> 00:28:36,282
Have you seen Mrs Betterton playing Graciana?

407
00:28:36,574 --> 00:28:37,992
Yes, I'm her understudy.

408
00:28:37,992 --> 00:28:40,036
lndeed.

409
00:28:40,370 --> 00:28:42,080
Act Two, Scene Two.

410
00:28:42,289 --> 00:28:44,583
I shall play Beaufort.

411
00:28:44,875 --> 00:28:46,793
Graciana, why do you condemn your love?

412
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,756
Your beauty without that, alas,
 would prove but my destruction .

413
00:28:50,881 --> 00:28:54,802
An unlucky star
 prognosticating ruin and despair.

414
00:28:55,135 --> 00:28:56,762
You mistake.

415
00:28:56,971 --> 00:28:59,724
'Tis not my love I blame, but my discretion .

416
00:29:00,141 --> 00:29:03,728
Here the active flame should yet
a longer time have been concealed.

417
00:29:04,062 --> 00:29:07,065
Too soon too soon I fear i was revealed

418
00:29:07,357 --> 00:29:09,734
Our weaker sex glories in surprise.

419
00:29:09,943 --> 00:29:12,821
We boast the sudden conquests of our eyes.

420
00:29:13,113 --> 00:29:16,074
But men esteem a foe that dares contend

421
00:29:16,241 --> 00:29:19,286
One that with noble courage
 does defend a wounded heart.

422
00:29:19,494 --> 00:29:23,040
The victories they gain, they prize
 by their own hazard and their pain .

423
00:29:23,123 --> 00:29:26,293
That was not Elizabeth Barry.
 That was Mrs Betterton .

424
00:29:26,502 --> 00:29:29,588
An understudy must imiate not create

425
00:29:29,797 --> 00:29:32,049
- Yesterday you created
 - Yesterday I was dismissed.

426
00:29:32,425 --> 00:29:35,803
- But you played truthfully
 - It costs too much to play the truth.

427
00:29:35,928 --> 00:29:38,389
I do not think
 you have considered this speech at all

428
00:29:38,431 --> 00:29:40,475
Well, how would you have me do it?

429
00:29:42,936 --> 00:29:44,980
Let us consider now.

430
00:29:45,939 --> 00:29:49,526
What does it mean, that speech
 that Mrs Betterton mangled so?

431
00:29:49,776 --> 00:29:53,781
Graciana means that she has given away
 the secrets of her heart too freely.

432
00:29:53,989 --> 00:29:56,867
Something that a gentlewoman
 must not do to a gentleman .

433
00:29:56,992 --> 00:29:59,453
- Why not?
 - Because men will take love for granted

434
00:29:59,495 --> 00:30:00,913
and then not prize it.

435
00:30:01,998 --> 00:30:04,542
And is our author right? Do you believe that?

436
00:30:04,917 --> 00:30:07,712
I believe men are hurdles
 that must be negotiated.

437
00:30:08,004 --> 00:30:10,799
Is that all? Do you never feel passion for us?

438
00:30:11,007 --> 00:30:14,761
I've counterfeited passion in gentlemen's beds
 if that is your meaning.

439
00:30:15,053 --> 00:30:17,055
Counterfeit will not serve you on the stage

440
00:30:17,514 --> 00:30:20,517
Yesterday I was jeered and taunted
 by 400 ruffians.

441
00:30:20,517 --> 00:30:22,352
I know that will not serve me.

442
00:30:22,519 --> 00:30:26,607
And so you will take their word against both
 of ours and traffic in falsehood from now on ?

443
00:30:26,732 --> 00:30:28,526
I don't know

444
00:30:28,776 --> 00:30:31,112
Then let us gain knowledge.
To the speech again .

445
00:30:32,655 --> 00:30:34,699
You played it sweetly

446
00:30:34,907 --> 00:30:38,703
Graciana is not innocent
 or she would not have such insight

447
00:30:40,663 --> 00:30:42,707
If you had ever loved a man

448
00:30:42,874 --> 00:30:45,252
you would say that speech with regret

449
00:30:45,418 --> 00:30:47,629
Because you would fear the loss of him.

450
00:30:47,671 --> 00:30:49,715
And supposing I have loved?

451
00:30:51,174 --> 00:30:53,218
Then show me in the speech.

452
00:30:54,803 --> 00:30:57,765
Sir, you mistake.

453
00:30:58,808 --> 00:31:00,518
'Tis not my love I blame.

454
00:31:00,810 --> 00:31:02,853
But my discretion .

455
00:31:03,020 --> 00:31:07,150
Here the active flame should yet
 a longer time have been concealed.

456
00:31:07,316 --> 00:31:10,570
Too soon, too soon I fear it was revealed.

457
00:31:10,737 --> 00:31:15,116
Our weaker sex glories in surprise.
We boast the sudden conquests of our eyes.

458
00:31:15,325 --> 00:31:18,286
But men esteem a foe that dares contend.

459
00:31:18,453 --> 00:31:21,748
One that with noble courage
 does defend a wounded heart.

460
00:31:21,874 --> 00:31:26,003
The victories they gain, they prize
 by their own hazard and their pain .

461
00:31:26,211 --> 00:31:27,922
Well?

462
00:31:28,380 --> 00:31:30,216
Was there improvement?

463
00:31:30,424 --> 00:31:31,717
Did you think so?

464
00:31:31,884 --> 00:31:33,928
I wish to know your thoughts.

465
00:31:36,889 --> 00:31:38,599
It was better.

466
00:31:38,891 --> 00:31:40,560
But now you're too angry.

467
00:31:40,810 --> 00:31:44,230
Of course I'm fucking angry! You walk
 into this theatre in your 30-shilling boots

468
00:31:44,397 --> 00:31:47,651
telling me how I should set about my work!
I warn you, I have a temper.

469
00:31:47,776 --> 00:31:50,862
And I have been known to strike out
 with the first object at hand.

470
00:31:51,029 --> 00:31:55,409
If that be a property blade, some have
 sharper edges than is needful, so have a care.

471
00:31:55,409 --> 00:31:57,453
Ahhh.

472
00:31:57,661 --> 00:32:00,456
To die onstage
 at the hands of a beautiful woman .

473
00:32:00,581 --> 00:32:02,208
I am no such!

474
00:32:04,168 --> 00:32:08,172
I think I can make you an actress of truth,
 not a creature of artifice.

475
00:32:08,172 --> 00:32:10,216
I can do this.

476
00:32:10,383 --> 00:32:13,553
But I cannot train you
 unless you give a little towards me.

477
00:32:17,182 --> 00:32:19,226
It's not in my nature to give.

478
00:32:20,185 --> 00:32:22,312
I have my talent and I'm jealous of it.

479
00:32:22,479 --> 00:32:26,734
And though I give you credit that you
 and you alone in all the town have seen it,

480
00:32:27,192 --> 00:32:31,572
I am not so dazzled by the lord and master
 in you that I cannot resent you .

481
00:32:33,199 --> 00:32:34,825
Yes.

482
00:32:35,201 --> 00:32:36,828
You are right.

483
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,415
I am intent on doing something
 that no other has yet done.

484
00:32:40,707 --> 00:32:43,710
And I lost my purpose yesterday
 with fear of the pit.

485
00:32:43,710 --> 00:32:45,754
But I will conquer them.

486
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,466
And it shall not be said
 when I have my fame and my £2 a week

487
00:32:49,716 --> 00:32:54,012
that Lord Rochester took to me and touched me
 with the shining wing of his genius

488
00:32:54,137 --> 00:32:57,099
and so turned me
 into a little corner of his greatness. No!

489
00:32:57,224 --> 00:33:01,145
I shall be valued for me
 and for what I knew I could do upon this stage!

490
00:33:01,228 --> 00:33:05,441
And for what l, Lizzie Barry...how I...
 I took the heat of my own soul and moulded it

491
00:33:05,733 --> 00:33:08,694
and turned it into a wondrous thing
 and so triumphed.

492
00:33:10,238 --> 00:33:12,282
If I can help you to that triumph,

493
00:33:12,740 --> 00:33:17,203
I'm not so devoted to the trumpeting of
 my own works that I would wish to take credit.

494
00:33:17,245 --> 00:33:18,872
So you say now.

495
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:24,211
But in the ale house, when the play is done,
and the talk is of my Cleopatra,

496
00:33:24,419 --> 00:33:28,257
will you not glide towards your cronies
 with a "l taught her that piece of business"

497
00:33:28,549 --> 00:33:32,595
or "She could not be heard in the gallery
 until I instructed her in a trick or two"?

498
00:33:32,762 --> 00:33:34,388
Madam I offer my services

499
00:33:34,430 --> 00:33:38,976
If you see no advantage in them,
 they can as easy be withdrawn .

500
00:33:39,185 --> 00:33:42,146
You could buy my slit for a pound a night, sir.

501
00:33:43,189 --> 00:33:45,233
I would not mind that.

502
00:33:45,442 --> 00:33:47,736
But I think you would not have it so.

503
00:33:48,695 --> 00:33:52,950
What I think you want is power over me,
 which I do bridle at.

504
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,744
For it is only I who can do what you say I can do.

505
00:33:56,745 --> 00:34:00,165
If you wish to play a part in this
 I would strongly know why

506
00:34:01,250 --> 00:34:03,794
Ask yourself what you want from the theatre.

507
00:34:04,253 --> 00:34:07,048
I want the passionate love of my audience

508
00:34:07,173 --> 00:34:10,259
I want when I make a sweep of my arm
 to carry their hearts away.

509
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,264
And for when I die, for them
 to sigh for never seeing me again .

510
00:34:14,264 --> 00:34:16,516
Till the next afternoon .

511
00:34:17,767 --> 00:34:19,811
There is your answer.

512
00:34:20,771 --> 00:34:23,815
I want to be one of that multitude.

513
00:34:26,276 --> 00:34:28,320
I wish to be moved.

514
00:34:29,780 --> 00:34:31,824
I cannot feel in life.

515
00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:35,077
I must have others do it
for me here in the theatre.

516
00:34:36,329 --> 00:34:39,373
You are spoken of as a man
 with a stomach for life.

517
00:34:39,457 --> 00:34:42,001
I am the cynic of our golden age.

518
00:34:42,835 --> 00:34:46,464
This bounteous dish,
 which our great Charles and our great God

519
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:52,512
have, more or less in equal measure, placed
 before us, sets my teeth permanently on edge.

520
00:34:55,349 --> 00:34:59,061
Life has no purpose.
 It is everywhere undone by arbitrariness.

521
00:34:59,186 --> 00:35:02,189
I do this and it matters not a jot
 if I do the opposite.

522
00:35:03,190 --> 00:35:05,234
But in a playhouse,

523
00:35:05,693 --> 00:35:09,864
every action, good or bad,
 has its consequences.

524
00:35:10,114 --> 00:35:12,951
Drop a handkerchief
and it will return to smother you .

525
00:35:15,829 --> 00:35:17,872
The theatre is my drug.

526
00:35:18,123 --> 00:35:23,545
And my illness is so far advanced
 that my physic must be of the highest quality.

527
00:35:26,340 --> 00:35:28,383
Oh, my lord,

528
00:35:29,843 --> 00:35:34,014
on those conditions,
 I endeavour to do what you want.

529
00:35:37,852 --> 00:35:42,732
What I want is that we meet again tomorrow
 to consider Ophelia.

530
00:35:42,857 --> 00:35:44,901
Ophelia?

531
00:35:46,361 --> 00:35:50,407
Mr Betterton will revive Hamlet next month
 and you will play Ophelia.

532
00:35:52,367 --> 00:35:54,411
Ophelia then if you wish.

533
00:35:55,871 --> 00:35:59,416
But let us not neglect
 the lesson in Mr Etherege's speech.

534
00:35:59,875 --> 00:36:01,919
And what is that?

535
00:36:02,878 --> 00:36:06,382
That women
should ever view men with suspicion .

536
00:36:10,386 --> 00:36:13,306
I shall be happy to return and address our work

537
00:36:13,556 --> 00:36:17,727
with that instruction
 written on the inside of my skull.

538
00:36:25,319 --> 00:36:28,614
- Do me now.
 JANE: How?

539
00:36:28,906 --> 00:36:30,949
Mouth.

540
00:36:47,801 --> 00:36:49,844
Trembling,

541
00:36:50,053 --> 00:36:51,847
confused,

542
00:36:52,806 --> 00:36:54,850
despairing, limber,

543
00:36:55,308 --> 00:36:57,144
dry,

544
00:36:58,312 --> 00:37:00,147
A wishing, weak,

545
00:37:00,814 --> 00:37:02,858
unmoving lump I lie.

546
00:37:05,820 --> 00:37:07,655
This...

547
00:37:08,823 --> 00:37:10,658
..dart of love,

548
00:37:10,825 --> 00:37:12,869
whose piercing point, oft tried,

549
00:37:13,828 --> 00:37:17,165
With virgin blood 1 0,000 maids have dyed,

550
00:37:18,833 --> 00:37:22,838
Now languid lies in this unhappy hour.

551
00:37:23,839 --> 00:37:25,882
Shrunk up...

552
00:37:26,842 --> 00:37:28,886
..and sapless,

553
00:37:29,011 --> 00:37:30,971
like a withered flower.

554
00:37:32,556 --> 00:37:35,643
I have a feeling this is going nowhere

555
00:37:36,060 --> 00:37:38,104
I have that feeling too.

556
00:37:39,063 --> 00:37:41,107
I've met this woman .

557
00:37:42,066 --> 00:37:44,319
Lizzie Barry

558
00:37:44,444 --> 00:37:46,487
That new actress?

559
00:37:46,863 --> 00:37:50,367
- She ain't no looker
 - There is spirit in her.

560
00:37:50,450 --> 00:37:53,411
When a gent sees the spirit
 and not the eyes or the tits,

561
00:37:53,578 --> 00:37:55,622
then a gent is in trouble

562
00:37:58,584 --> 00:38:00,627
Would you call me a cynic, Jane?

563
00:38:00,878 --> 00:38:05,216
I'd call you a man who pretends
 to like life more than he does.

564
00:38:07,468 --> 00:38:09,303
Is that a cynic?

565
00:38:09,470 --> 00:38:12,140
I'm just a moll-sack, I don't do questions

566
00:38:15,476 --> 00:38:17,520
If I am a cynic,

567
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:24,319
how have I fallen in love with a plain woman,
whom I do not know?

568
00:38:24,486 --> 00:38:26,530
You saw her on stage.

569
00:38:26,738 --> 00:38:30,033
All the colours and them poems they say.

570
00:38:30,492 --> 00:38:32,369
Gives them a glow

571
00:38:33,495 --> 00:38:36,248
- You've seen her out of the theatre?
 -No.

572
00:38:36,499 --> 00:38:38,626
Well, then it's not her. It's the theatre.

573
00:38:38,834 --> 00:38:40,544
That or

574
00:38:41,504 --> 00:38:43,464
Or what?

575
00:38:46,467 --> 00:38:48,511
They say men fall three times.

576
00:38:49,971 --> 00:38:52,015
First is calf love.

577
00:38:52,223 --> 00:38:54,100
Second is the one you marry.

578
00:38:55,977 --> 00:38:58,021
And third?

579
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,107
Third

580
00:39:01,984 --> 00:39:04,028
Third is your deathbed bride.

581
00:39:04,987 --> 00:39:07,865
You sniff her, you sniff your own shroud.

582
00:39:07,990 --> 00:39:10,034
Ah.

583
00:39:10,409 --> 00:39:12,411
How you have cheered me.

584
00:39:13,996 --> 00:39:16,040
Go home and sleep.

585
00:39:16,416 --> 00:39:18,543
- I don't want to sleep.
 - Then go home and think.

586
00:39:18,918 --> 00:39:21,171
- I don't ever want to think again .
 - John .

587
00:39:21,504 --> 00:39:23,548
Don't make me care for you .

588
00:39:23,757 --> 00:39:28,053
I'd rather you came your fetch over my face
 than leave me with that,

589
00:39:29,012 --> 00:39:31,056
a lump of caring.

590
00:39:34,518 --> 00:39:36,562
Now go home and forget.

591
00:39:49,367 --> 00:39:52,746
Much wine had passed wih grave discourse

592
00:39:52,954 --> 00:39:55,290
Of who fucks who and who does worse

593
00:39:56,875 --> 00:40:01,463
When I who still take care to see
 Drunkenness relieved by lechery

594
00:40:01,672 --> 00:40:07,678
Went out into St James' Park
 To cool my head and fire my heart

595
00:40:08,971 --> 00:40:14,685
But though St James has the honour on 
 'Tis consecrate to prick and cunt

596
00:40:14,811 --> 00:40:22,944
There by a most incestuous birth
 Strange woods spring from the teeming earth

597
00:40:24,321 --> 00:40:33,831
And nightly now beneath their shade
 Are buggeries rapes and incests made

598
00:41:27,387 --> 00:41:29,431
Mr Huysmans.

599
00:41:30,891 --> 00:41:35,437
Perhaps a bottle and a glass would be
 handsome adornments to your composition?

600
00:41:35,771 --> 00:41:39,108
They are not appropriate objects
 in a family portrait, my lord.

601
00:41:47,408 --> 00:41:51,579
Mr Huysmans, here is another thought.

602
00:41:51,830 --> 00:41:54,082
You see that monkey yonder
 dancing to the fiddle?

603
00:41:54,416 --> 00:41:57,836
Can't help but notice
 how human these creatures are

604
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,883
I would sit that monkey
on a pile of solemn volumes,

605
00:42:03,425 --> 00:42:08,389
and place in her hand a scrap of paper as if
 it were a poem she'd just written, do you see?

606
00:42:08,430 --> 00:42:16,230
And while she is offering the poem to me,
 I am crowning her with the bays.

607
00:42:18,399 --> 00:42:22,695
I find Lady Rochester
 a more elegant and interesting subject.

608
00:42:22,779 --> 00:42:25,323
You are wide of the point, sir.

609
00:42:25,407 --> 00:42:28,535
Elegance, interest, all very well in their way.

610
00:42:28,785 --> 00:42:30,579
But what do they illuminate?

611
00:42:30,662 --> 00:42:33,248
Am I not then an apt partner for you to sit with?

612
00:42:33,332 --> 00:42:35,542
You are apt, Elizabeth. You are very apt.

613
00:42:35,751 --> 00:42:37,670
But you would rather be painted with a monkey?

614
00:42:37,795 --> 00:42:40,256
It is of a muchness.

615
00:42:40,422 --> 00:42:43,551
You are both apt in your different ways.

616
00:42:43,592 --> 00:42:48,639
In this portrait I am no better than a monkey
 who knows the names of his ancestors.

617
00:42:48,806 --> 00:42:51,226
And I?

618
00:42:53,561 --> 00:42:58,233
A gaudy female monkey,
 gloating over the opulence of your cage.

619
00:43:08,118 --> 00:43:10,162
I love London .

620
00:43:11,121 --> 00:43:13,791
Everyone catches its generous spirit so quickly.

621
00:43:14,125 --> 00:43:15,960
lndeed.

622
00:43:17,128 --> 00:43:20,632
I do not mean to upset people, Alcock,
 but I have to speak my mind,

623
00:43:20,632 --> 00:43:23,134
because what is in my mind
 is always more interesting

624
00:43:23,134 --> 00:43:26,054
than what is happening
 in the world outside my mind.

625
00:43:26,137 --> 00:43:29,015
Makes you impossible to live with, though,
 do you see?

626
00:43:32,644 --> 00:43:35,105
Did I once praise you for your blunt manner?

627
00:43:36,148 --> 00:43:38,609
It was your reason for employing me.

628
00:43:40,653 --> 00:43:44,532
It could as easy be your grounds for dismissal.

629
00:43:44,657 --> 00:43:47,827
Now, get me the monkey.

630
00:44:09,683 --> 00:44:11,727
John .

631
00:44:13,187 --> 00:44:17,233
John, I could bear our marriage more easily
 if there were no pretence.

632
00:44:19,193 --> 00:44:22,822
If I were merely a housekeeper
 and a conduit for the noble line.

633
00:44:24,199 --> 00:44:28,244
But when you're away you write
 so beguilingly of how you love me and...

634
00:44:30,205 --> 00:44:32,374
..I do not think you mean to torture me,

635
00:44:32,624 --> 00:44:35,002
but it is a torture
 to be informed of passion from a distance

636
00:44:35,210 --> 00:44:37,337
and then in the flesh to be so reviled.

637
00:44:39,214 --> 00:44:42,301
You know I always mean to be well
 when we are together,

638
00:44:42,635 --> 00:44:45,680
but after a few weeks, I find I have no gift for it.

639
00:44:47,223 --> 00:44:49,517
In my mind I am somewhere else.

640
00:44:50,727 --> 00:44:53,897
Then cut me out of your heart completely
 and have done.

641
00:44:54,230 --> 00:44:57,108
Do not command me to do something
 beyond my power.

642
00:44:58,234 --> 00:45:01,321
Is the fault mine? If I were a better wife...

643
00:45:01,404 --> 00:45:03,532
would you not need
the whorehouse and the inn ?

644
00:45:03,740 --> 00:45:06,201
Every man needs the whorehouse and the inn .

645
00:45:07,244 --> 00:45:11,790
But it's not the inn or a whore that I see
 in your eyes. It's some other creature.

646
00:45:13,250 --> 00:45:15,294
The playhouse.

647
00:45:19,257 --> 00:45:21,300
An actress.

648
00:45:23,261 --> 00:45:27,057
And when your eyes shone the other day,
 they were shining for her.

649
00:45:29,768 --> 00:45:31,812
They were.

650
00:45:35,774 --> 00:45:39,486
I see I am more of an obstacle
 to your London life than I supposed.

651
00:45:41,780 --> 00:45:43,824
I'll be gone by the morning.

652
00:45:56,796 --> 00:45:58,840
My lord.

653
00:46:05,889 --> 00:46:07,933
How is Ophelia in this scene?

654
00:46:09,393 --> 00:46:12,104
Well, she's mad. She's out of her wits.

655
00:46:12,313 --> 00:46:14,231
There are many ways to be out of your wits.

656
00:46:15,399 --> 00:46:17,026
Yes.

657
00:46:17,401 --> 00:46:19,445
Well, there's grief.

658
00:46:19,820 --> 00:46:21,447
And drink.

659
00:46:21,739 --> 00:46:23,449
And love.

660
00:46:23,741 --> 00:46:25,451
So I hear.

661
00:46:25,910 --> 00:46:29,414
These different states,
 how would you show them?

662
00:46:29,414 --> 00:46:31,458
Show them?

663
00:46:32,417 --> 00:46:34,461
Their physical manifestation .

664
00:46:37,923 --> 00:46:39,716
Close your eyes.

665
00:46:42,428 --> 00:46:44,471
Close your eyes.

666
00:47:13,335 --> 00:47:16,213
Oh, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown

667
00:47:16,255 --> 00:47:20,092
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's
 eye, tongue, sword and I

668
00:47:20,259 --> 00:47:21,761
Again

669
00:47:21,761 --> 00:47:24,097
Oh, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown .

670
00:47:25,223 --> 00:47:28,017
- The courtier's, soldier's...
 - Again .

671
00:47:29,561 --> 00:47:34,107
Oh, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown .
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye...

672
00:47:34,316 --> 00:47:35,484
Again

673
00:47:35,567 --> 00:47:37,903
- Eye tongue sword
 - Again!

674
00:47:37,945 --> 00:47:41,240
- Oh, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown.
 is here o'erthrown

675
00:47:41,448 --> 00:47:43,158
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's...

676
00:47:43,158 --> 00:47:45,202
- Again.
 - What was wrong?

677
00:47:45,661 --> 00:47:48,456
You know what was wrong. Again.

678
00:47:48,581 --> 00:47:51,292
She has done this speech
 20 times this afternoon.

679
00:47:51,626 --> 00:47:53,377
And she will do it 20 more.

680
00:47:53,628 --> 00:47:56,965
No-one has worked like this
 in the history of the theatre

681
00:47:57,215 --> 00:48:00,260
- Exactly.
 - Oh, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown

682
00:48:01,636 --> 00:48:04,848
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's,
eye, tongue, sword...

683
00:48:07,142 --> 00:48:09,186
and I

684
00:48:09,478 --> 00:48:11,313
of ladies most deject and wretched

685
00:48:12,147 --> 00:48:15,067
that sucked the honey of his music vows

686
00:49:14,713 --> 00:49:18,843
O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown .

687
00:49:20,219 --> 00:49:22,263
The courtier's,

688
00:49:22,513 --> 00:49:24,265
soldier's, scholar's,

689
00:49:24,515 --> 00:49:26,267
eye, tongue,

690
00:49:26,726 --> 00:49:28,770
sword,

691
00:49:29,729 --> 00:49:31,773
and I,

692
00:49:32,023 --> 00:49:34,818
of ladies most deject and wretched

693
00:49:36,736 --> 00:49:40,657
that sucked the honey of his music vows

694
00:49:43,285 --> 00:49:45,329
O, woe is me.

695
00:49:47,790 --> 00:49:49,834
To see what I have seen .

696
00:49:51,294 --> 00:49:53,337
O, see what I see.

697
00:49:54,297 --> 00:49:57,842
And there's some fennel for you
 and columbine.

698
00:49:57,967 --> 00:49:59,844
And there's rue for you .

699
00:50:03,306 --> 00:50:05,350
And here's some for me.

700
00:50:08,812 --> 00:50:12,733
We may call it herb of grace o' Sundays.

701
00:50:20,324 --> 00:50:25,037
O, you must wear your rue with a difference.

702
00:50:29,834 --> 00:50:31,878
He is gone

703
00:50:32,087 --> 00:50:33,880
He is gone

704
00:50:36,341 --> 00:50:38,385
And we...

705
00:50:38,677 --> 00:50:40,220
cast away, moan .

706
00:50:41,346 --> 00:50:43,390
God have mercy on his soul

707
00:50:45,351 --> 00:50:47,394
And of all ye Christian souls

708
00:50:47,561 --> 00:50:49,855
No-one likes a clever bastard.

709
00:50:51,357 --> 00:50:53,401
I pray God

710
00:50:54,861 --> 00:50:56,904
God be wi' ye

711
00:51:21,180 --> 00:51:25,643
Well, Lizzie, my congratulations.

712
00:51:27,186 --> 00:51:29,689
Thank you, Mr Harris.

713
00:51:34,194 --> 00:51:36,238
Will you take the air with me?

714
00:51:36,529 --> 00:51:38,240
I was thinking...

715
00:51:38,448 --> 00:51:40,242
a drink.

716
00:51:43,203 --> 00:51:46,081
Lord Rochester left at the curtain .

717
00:51:49,210 --> 00:51:51,253
Then I shall take the air alone.

718
00:51:51,420 --> 00:51:53,547
Good night.

719
00:52:02,056 --> 00:52:04,100
Go on!

720
00:52:18,574 --> 00:52:20,618
My lord.

721
00:52:22,078 --> 00:52:24,538
Hurry!

722
00:52:24,580 --> 00:52:25,957
Argh!

723
00:52:41,598 --> 00:52:43,016
John

724
00:52:43,100 --> 00:52:45,144
Madam, this driveway will not do.

725
00:52:45,602 --> 00:52:47,646
Good afternoon, my lord.

726
00:52:47,896 --> 00:52:49,648
You sent no warning of your arrival.

727
00:52:49,815 --> 00:52:52,568
The road is not functional
 and the grounds are a swamp.

728
00:52:52,610 --> 00:52:57,031
If you were here more often,
 you'd know that Oxfordshire is not a dry county.

729
00:52:59,117 --> 00:53:03,997
It is a good thing that John devote himself
 to the House. I will not hear him reproved for it.

730
00:53:04,164 --> 00:53:08,501
lunderstood that he was devoting himself
 to an engagement in the theatre.

731
00:53:08,585 --> 00:53:12,297
That would not be appropriate
 for a man of breeding.

732
00:53:25,603 --> 00:53:27,605
Anyone can drink.

733
00:53:27,605 --> 00:53:31,359
Only a few can match my determination .

734
00:53:31,609 --> 00:53:36,406
We who are nobility
 rise above the calls of the flesh.

735
00:53:36,614 --> 00:53:38,658
It is true.

736
00:53:38,867 --> 00:53:41,578
We have our strength of will, do we not?

737
00:53:41,620 --> 00:53:43,497
I hope we do.

738
00:53:48,127 --> 00:53:50,170
But supposing we are perverse,

739
00:53:51,130 --> 00:53:54,300
and use our will to bad ends?

740
00:53:54,633 --> 00:53:57,345
Then we search deep inside ourselves,

741
00:53:59,138 --> 00:54:02,183
and we tear out the evil.

742
00:54:12,152 --> 00:54:14,279
Tear deeper, Mother.

743
00:54:35,218 --> 00:54:37,262
Lizzie Barry!

744
00:54:39,222 --> 00:54:41,266
Lizzie Barry!

745
00:54:43,602 --> 00:54:45,646
Lizzie Barry!

746
00:54:49,316 --> 00:54:52,862
I ran away from your love
 and now I run towards it

747
00:54:53,821 --> 00:54:56,115
Test my love in any way you see fit!

748
00:54:57,325 --> 00:54:59,368
Test me!

749
00:55:00,703 --> 00:55:01,829
I will not fail!

750
00:55:57,930 --> 00:55:59,682
15.

751
00:56:00,016 --> 00:56:05,063
Get back some of the money I lost
 on Lizzie "Horseface" Barry.

752
00:56:05,230 --> 00:56:07,982
Yes, how is that little caper going, Johnny?

753
00:56:09,275 --> 00:56:11,319
I hear she charges by the minute.

754
00:56:15,782 --> 00:56:18,619
Come on, Johnny. All gentlemen together.

755
00:56:18,785 --> 00:56:20,829
You're not a gentleman, George.

756
00:56:21,789 --> 00:56:25,209
You were trained as a lawyer.
 And you write plays for money.

757
00:56:25,292 --> 00:56:30,131
Oh, yes. And what about your commission
 from the King? Does that not count?

758
00:56:30,298 --> 00:56:32,133
That is quite different.

759
00:56:32,175 --> 00:56:34,218
"Different"? Of course.

760
00:56:36,095 --> 00:56:39,349
May one enquire
 how the great work progresses?

761
00:56:39,599 --> 00:56:42,310
Written the first line yet?

762
00:56:42,519 --> 00:56:48,275
I, at least, do not plagiarise the wit of my friends
 and pass it off as my own .

763
00:56:48,483 --> 00:56:50,027
Come on, Johnny, be fair.

764
00:57:00,892 --> 00:57:02,853
Sit!

765
00:57:08,525 --> 00:57:10,528
<i>What was the wager ?</i>

766
00:57:10,945 --> 00:57:13,447
The wager was 1 5 guineas.

767
00:57:15,950 --> 00:57:19,662
My Lord, the actress Elizabeth Barry's outside.

768
00:57:19,954 --> 00:57:21,998
She will wait.

769
00:57:22,957 --> 00:57:25,251
She's very insistent.

770
00:57:25,377 --> 00:57:27,712
She is a whore and she will wait!

771
00:57:42,061 --> 00:57:44,105
It's a made hand!

772
00:57:44,271 --> 00:57:46,399
I was not good in the play this afternoon .

773
00:57:46,566 --> 00:57:48,609
I craved reassurance.

774
00:57:49,569 --> 00:57:51,613
All I could think about was you .

775
00:57:55,575 --> 00:57:58,995
You see, that is where there is still
 imbalance between us.

776
00:57:59,079 --> 00:58:02,457
Because you demand
 so much of me and so little of yourself.

777
00:58:04,585 --> 00:58:07,671
You took my small gift and polished it
 until it shone.

778
00:58:09,089 --> 00:58:11,926
Yet your own great gift you just throw away.

779
00:58:14,595 --> 00:58:16,639
There.

780
00:58:16,806 --> 00:58:18,641
You see? I went too far.

781
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:23,771
A trait which in you is fascinating,
 but in me is a fault.

782
00:58:45,628 --> 00:58:48,840
ROCHESTER:
 "And wit was his vain, frivolous pretence,

783
00:58:49,132 --> 00:58:52,302
of pleasing others at his own expense."

784
00:59:00,143 --> 00:59:02,187
Lizzie Barry.

785
00:59:08,652 --> 00:59:10,696
Read me some more.

786
01:00:38,831 --> 01:00:40,791
<i>KlNG CHARLES ll:
 I keep coming back to the French</i>

787
01:00:40,916 --> 01:00:44,420
- There they are, the envy of Europe.
- They keep a nice class of brothel.

788
01:00:44,420 --> 01:00:47,340
Of course. They're a bunch of cunts.
 That's not the point.

789
01:00:47,423 --> 01:00:52,053
I need money and they can provide it, and
 I won't hide it from you, Johnny, things are bad.

790
01:00:52,428 --> 01:00:55,473
I can't get money out of Louis
 unless I dissolve Parliament

791
01:00:55,723 --> 01:00:58,476
and I can't get money out of Parliament
 unless I fight Louis.

792
01:00:58,643 --> 01:01:00,437
Well, choose.

793
01:01:00,937 --> 01:01:02,939
lneed money from both of them.

794
01:01:03,148 --> 01:01:04,941
You spoke of a big challenge.

795
01:01:04,941 --> 01:01:07,903
Louis's sent in a new ambassador.
 Cultivated type.

796
01:01:07,945 --> 01:01:09,947
Here's my plan .

797
01:01:10,447 --> 01:01:13,492
Your great work,
we stage it to welcome him to London .

798
01:01:13,659 --> 01:01:15,453
Big gesture of friendship.

799
01:01:15,745 --> 01:01:17,580
And we show we're better than they are.

800
01:01:17,955 --> 01:01:21,000
A spectacle with some really profound writing.

801
01:01:21,167 --> 01:01:22,627
You're the man for it.

802
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:24,963
Will you do it for me?

803
01:01:24,963 --> 01:01:28,216
At Betterton's next spring
 when the season's finished.

804
01:01:28,425 --> 01:01:30,468
You're desperate.

805
01:01:30,468 --> 01:01:33,555
What we need to celebrate is life itself.

806
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:37,601
Well, I'm obviously the man for that.

807
01:01:37,976 --> 01:01:41,230
Good. I'll send Chiffinch
 to talk to you about the money.

808
01:01:41,438 --> 01:01:44,316
Costumes, settings, something really splendid.

809
01:01:44,525 --> 01:01:45,985
Splendid, yes.

810
01:01:46,485 --> 01:01:48,487
And unusual.

811
01:01:49,488 --> 01:01:51,491
There, John .

812
01:01:51,491 --> 01:01:53,493
Fruit.

813
01:01:53,951 --> 01:01:57,038
Fruit from South America...growing here.

814
01:01:57,997 --> 01:02:00,000
Dazzles the mind.

815
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:03,378
Do you see what can be done
 with knowledge and application ?

816
01:02:15,683 --> 01:02:18,436
"I eat to swive and swive to eat again ."

817
01:02:25,693 --> 01:02:27,695
lnk! Ink!

818
01:02:27,695 --> 01:02:29,697
Bring me ink!

819
01:02:36,204 --> 01:02:38,916
Not "drink", lump. Ink!

820
01:02:40,375 --> 01:02:43,420
Alcock, did I not leave you in the country?

821
01:02:43,587 --> 01:02:45,422
I walked back, my lord.

822
01:02:51,137 --> 01:02:53,139
Back again?

823
01:02:53,139 --> 01:02:55,141
Back again.

824
01:02:55,141 --> 01:02:57,143
Sceptres bear. Fear.

825
01:03:11,992 --> 01:03:15,704
I'm worried. This French business
 couldn't be more important.

826
01:03:15,829 --> 01:03:17,832
What's he doing?

827
01:03:19,834 --> 01:03:21,836
He's writing.

828
01:03:21,836 --> 01:03:25,715
<i>- For the first time since I've known him
 - But what?</i>

829
01:03:27,300 --> 01:03:29,344
Sublime thoughts.

830
01:03:29,344 --> 01:03:31,346
Philosophy in verse.

831
01:03:32,347 --> 01:03:34,641
I believe he is on the verge of greatness.

832
01:03:35,851 --> 01:03:37,853
<i>You've read some?</i>

833
01:03:38,854 --> 01:03:40,939
He shares everything with me.

834
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:46,362
You should wear more jewellery.

835
01:03:47,363 --> 01:03:49,949
<i>LlZZlE: I cannot provide for i on my wages</i>

836
01:03:50,366 --> 01:03:52,493
<i>CHARLES ll: Does not the Earl provide?</i>

837
01:03:52,577 --> 01:03:54,579
The Earl is not one of life's providers.

838
01:03:54,787 --> 01:03:56,789
But the King is.

839
01:03:56,789 --> 01:03:59,459
If you want the best, you may receive it from me.

840
01:04:02,295 --> 01:04:04,631
I shall be everything you wish me to be.

841
01:04:04,798 --> 01:04:08,885
I wish you to be my eyes and ears
 on his earlship.

842
01:04:09,803 --> 01:04:11,805
I am his lover.

843
01:04:13,307 --> 01:04:15,309
But I am your true subject.

844
01:04:16,810 --> 01:04:18,813
Then you'll serve me in this matter?

845
01:04:20,815 --> 01:04:22,817
Yes, I will.

846
01:04:25,820 --> 01:04:28,907
And we shall both...profit.

847
01:05:37,062 --> 01:05:42,109
Does the writing of the play go well, my lord?

848
01:05:44,069 --> 01:05:48,282
Alcock, try not to be a cunt.

849
01:05:49,074 --> 01:05:51,619
We will do this until you get it right.

850
01:05:52,578 --> 01:05:54,705
My lord, Alice Twooney has sent word.

851
01:05:55,081 --> 01:05:57,250
Her child is sick and she shan't come.

852
01:05:58,084 --> 01:06:00,086
What was to be her role?

853
01:06:00,587 --> 01:06:03,923
<i>- She was playing little Clytoris.
 - Of course</i>

854
01:06:04,591 --> 01:06:05,967
Alcock!

855
01:06:09,096 --> 01:06:12,140
- This is your moment. You will stand in for her.
 -No, my lord.

856
01:06:12,307 --> 01:06:14,643
- I beg your pardon .
 - I'm Alcock.

857
01:06:15,102 --> 01:06:17,313
Little Clytoris is beyond my range.

858
01:06:18,606 --> 01:06:20,274
Molly.

859
01:06:20,441 --> 01:06:23,402
I am not a visible person .

860
01:06:23,778 --> 01:06:25,822
Do not cross me.

861
01:06:27,448 --> 01:06:32,787
Madam, your dildos
 are not to compare with what I've seen .

862
01:06:32,954 --> 01:06:34,998
lndeed, they're paltry ware.

863
01:06:35,957 --> 01:06:38,960
Short dildos leave the pleasure half undone.

864
01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:41,213
I'm sorry, my lord, I do have a question .

865
01:06:42,464 --> 01:06:48,220
Are you sure this entertainment will be fitting
 for both the occasion and the company?

866
01:06:49,889 --> 01:06:53,643
Molly, the entire piece has been devised
 with the French in mind.

867
01:06:53,809 --> 01:06:58,272
In Paris, fornication in the streets
 with total strangers is compulsory.

868
01:06:59,399 --> 01:07:02,861
Oh, beg pardon, my lord,
 my most southerly venture is Epsom.

869
01:07:03,403 --> 01:07:05,196
<i>HARRlS: My lord!</i>

870
01:07:05,322 --> 01:07:06,698
I asked for no interruptions.

871
01:07:06,907 --> 01:07:08,909
My suit is one of the utmost urgency.

872
01:07:09,201 --> 01:07:12,037
The stage direction
 at the end of this scene requires,

873
01:07:12,412 --> 01:07:15,124
in my opinion, some authorial exposition .

874
01:07:15,415 --> 01:07:17,418
It seems straightforward enough.

875
01:07:17,418 --> 01:07:19,295
Yes. Um...

876
01:07:19,420 --> 01:07:22,214
"Then dance six naked men and women,

877
01:07:22,423 --> 01:07:26,010
the men doing obedience to the women's cunts,

878
01:07:26,135 --> 01:07:27,929
kissing and touching them often .

879
01:07:27,929 --> 01:07:30,890
The women in like manner to the men's pricks,

880
01:07:31,432 --> 01:07:34,102
kissing and dandling their cods,

881
01:07:34,310 --> 01:07:35,937
and then fall to fucking,

882
01:07:35,937 --> 01:07:40,275
after which the women sigh
 and the men look simple, and so sneak off."

883
01:07:41,443 --> 01:07:43,779
<i>The end of the second act</i>

884
01:07:43,946 --> 01:07:45,739
A strong scene.

885
01:07:45,906 --> 01:07:49,910
An eminently playable scene,
 and, though I say it myself, a climactic one.

886
01:07:50,870 --> 01:07:54,332
And will the kind of equipment
 that young lady has in her hand

887
01:07:54,874 --> 01:07:56,876
be available to gentlemen for...

888
01:07:58,377 --> 01:08:02,382
..strapping around the middle
 for the execution of this scene?

889
01:08:03,383 --> 01:08:05,802
I had not envisaged you to be so encumbered.

890
01:08:07,387 --> 01:08:12,309
I feel the scene should be given ...in the flesh.

891
01:08:12,476 --> 01:08:16,730
And will we give...two performances on the day?

892
01:08:16,897 --> 01:08:18,732
No, Mr Harris.

893
01:08:18,941 --> 01:08:21,777
Oh, I am glad to hear that from the author.

894
01:08:21,902 --> 01:08:26,616
With the dress rehearsal, the court performance
 and the public showing, I envisage three.

895
01:08:26,657 --> 01:08:31,245
Right. I don't know if you've met
 my regular understudy, Mr Lightman .

896
01:08:31,579 --> 01:08:33,623
He's a most dependable fellow.

897
01:08:33,915 --> 01:08:36,376
Sir, you have the honour
of playing my understudy.

898
01:08:36,584 --> 01:08:41,298
Well, I shall take this opportunity
 to withdraw from the engagement.

899
01:08:42,591 --> 01:08:45,177
You are one of life's understudies!

900
01:08:59,025 --> 01:09:01,944
If tonight goes wrong,
 we'll be at war within a week.

901
01:09:05,698 --> 01:09:08,285
Have faith.

902
01:09:08,451 --> 01:09:12,706
Whatever else may go wrong,
 your words will command admiration .

903
01:09:14,791 --> 01:09:16,793
They always do.

904
01:09:19,296 --> 01:09:22,424
Lizzie. You're looking pale.

905
01:09:22,550 --> 01:09:26,429
Molly, work the magic of your art on Mrs Barry.

906
01:09:36,898 --> 01:09:38,900
There's the French ambassador.

907
01:09:46,575 --> 01:09:48,368
No. Makes me weepy.

908
01:09:50,579 --> 01:09:54,750
* All you ladies of Merrie England
who have been to kiss the duchess's hand

909
01:09:54,917 --> 01:09:58,379
* Pray did you lately observe in the show

910
01:09:58,629 --> 01:10:01,632
* A noble Italian called Signor Dildo?

911
01:10:03,259 --> 01:10:06,054
I weep, but from a different end.

912
01:10:06,095 --> 01:10:10,058
* Who helped to conduct her over the Main

913
01:10:10,517 --> 01:10:13,729
* But now she cries out, "To the Duke I will go"

914
01:10:13,812 --> 01:10:17,733
* "I have no more need for Signor Dildo!"

915
01:10:41,550 --> 01:10:44,469
* The good Lady Southesk broke into a laugh

916
01:10:45,804 --> 01:10:48,098
Very good, this Italian workmanship.

917
01:10:49,475 --> 01:10:51,977
People pay more for quality.

918
01:10:52,144 --> 01:10:55,147
* The fops were undone,
 did their graces but know

919
01:10:55,147 --> 01:10:57,358
* The discretion and vigour of Signor Dildo

920
01:10:57,400 --> 01:10:59,527
I'd like to meet the man who wrote this.

921
01:11:00,903 --> 01:11:04,782
* Then away with these nasty devices and show

922
01:11:05,033 --> 01:11:07,285
* How you rate the just merits of Signor Dildo

923
01:11:07,660 --> 01:11:09,287
* Ooh, aah, Signor Dildo

924
01:11:09,663 --> 01:11:12,332
* Ooh, aah, Signor Dildo

925
01:11:12,457 --> 01:11:14,167
* Ooh, aah, Signor Dildo

926
01:12:18,652 --> 01:12:22,698
Thus in the zenith of my lust I reign .

927
01:12:22,823 --> 01:12:26,494
I eat to swive and swive to eat again .

928
01:12:26,744 --> 01:12:31,916
<i>Let other monarchs who their sceptres bear
 to keep their subjects less in love than fear</i>

929
01:12:31,916 --> 01:12:34,460
<i>be slaves to crowns</i>

930
01:12:34,669 --> 01:12:38,465
My nation shall be free.
My pintle only shall my sceptre be.

931
01:12:39,966 --> 01:12:42,552
<i>My laws shall act more pleasure than command</i>

932
01:12:43,011 --> 01:12:47,599
and with my prick, I'll govern all the land.

933
01:12:47,724 --> 01:12:49,560
Chas, tell me this ain't happening.

934
01:12:49,768 --> 01:12:53,397
He's gonna get his prick out any second.
 I can feel it in my water.

935
01:12:53,522 --> 01:12:57,777
It's very amusing, because in France
 he would be executed for this.

936
01:12:58,027 --> 01:13:02,240
<i>ROCHESTER: The King commands all men
 from humid cunt to humane arsonist</i>

937
01:13:02,490 --> 01:13:05,284
<i>Buggery we choose and buggery we'll allow</i>

938
01:13:05,535 --> 01:13:10,373
<i>I do proclaim the manly arse so firm
shall be the sole recipient</i>

939
01:13:10,540 --> 01:13:12,167
<i>of sperm !</i>

940
01:13:12,334 --> 01:13:15,962
CHARLES ll:
 Lord Rochester, this portrayal of yours...

941
01:13:17,381 --> 01:13:20,133
..would it be based on a particular monarch?

942
01:13:20,259 --> 01:13:22,052
No, Your Highness.

943
01:13:22,386 --> 01:13:27,933
My character is far too fantastic a creation
 ever to have drawn breath.

944
01:13:28,225 --> 01:13:31,228
Now resume your seat.
 You're intruding on my stage.

945
01:13:31,437 --> 01:13:33,147
No, you're intruding on mine.

946
01:13:33,898 --> 01:13:39,070
I hand you a chance to show your shining talent
 and what do you give me in return ?

947
01:13:39,070 --> 01:13:44,951
A pornographic representation of a royal court
where the men deal only in buggery

948
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:49,373
and the women's sole object of interest
 is the dildo!

949
01:13:49,456 --> 01:13:51,667
A monument to your reign .

950
01:13:53,085 --> 01:13:54,378
Johnny!

951
01:14:10,437 --> 01:14:13,315
Disappear? People don't disappear.

952
01:14:17,527 --> 01:14:19,363
Monsieur Barrillon.

953
01:14:19,529 --> 01:14:25,119
Your Majesty, it is with regret that I must
 make my return to France tout de suite.

954
01:14:44,389 --> 01:14:46,391
I hate racing.

955
01:14:46,808 --> 01:14:49,144
The sport of kings? The sport of peasants!

956
01:14:49,269 --> 01:14:52,189
Come on, Georgie. You like it when you win .

957
01:14:52,314 --> 01:14:56,068
I must have seen the backside of £60 today.

958
01:14:56,235 --> 01:14:57,820
<i>I could have bought a horse.</i>

959
01:14:58,320 --> 01:15:03,034
Vanishing Spark. Why did you let me
 bet on a horse called Vanishing Spark?

960
01:15:03,242 --> 01:15:04,368
What the fuck?

961
01:15:05,828 --> 01:15:07,622
Johnny?

962
01:15:08,581 --> 01:15:10,083
<i>Gents</i>

963
01:15:10,250 --> 01:15:13,128
spare a drink for a couple of chums?

964
01:15:14,004 --> 01:15:15,255
Where've you been ?

965
01:15:15,463 --> 01:15:18,467
Our show was such a success in the capital,

966
01:15:19,509 --> 01:15:23,180
we had to undertake
 an extensive tour of the provinces.

967
01:15:23,514 --> 01:15:27,977
Now, where's the fucking drink?

968
01:15:27,977 --> 01:15:30,521
Come on, Charlie, get out your winnings.

969
01:15:30,855 --> 01:15:33,858
<i>CHARLlE: This is i gentlemen !</i>

970
01:15:33,858 --> 01:15:39,530
This is the residence of the whore
 personally recommended by Mr Dryden himself,

971
01:15:39,822 --> 01:15:41,699
<i>who glories in the name of Molly Noakes</i>

972
01:15:41,950 --> 01:15:43,994
Well, what are we waiting for?

973
01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:46,830
<i>- Open up, keepers of the gate!
 - Molly!</i>

974
01:15:46,955 --> 01:15:48,832
Molly!

975
01:15:48,915 --> 01:15:50,959
- Molly...
 - Molly!

976
01:15:51,209 --> 01:15:53,295
- Gentlemen ?
 ROCHESTER: Where's Molly?

977
01:15:53,462 --> 01:15:55,798
DOWNS: We want Molly and we want her fast.

978
01:15:55,964 --> 01:15:59,426
Young man, you are pissing on my top boots.

979
01:15:59,468 --> 01:16:02,513
Yes, fellow.
 But you are a whorehouse doorstep man

980
01:16:02,972 --> 01:16:05,183
and we are the cream of the country.

981
01:16:06,434 --> 01:16:08,478
I am Constable of the Watch.

982
01:16:09,979 --> 01:16:12,315
Dryden can't even write a shag map.

983
01:16:12,482 --> 01:16:15,276
You, sir, are a rogue and a liar.

984
01:16:15,944 --> 01:16:17,821
Murder!

985
01:16:17,946 --> 01:16:19,030
<i>Help!</i>

986
01:16:31,001 --> 01:16:33,379
Now, then, gentlemen ...

987
01:16:34,505 --> 01:16:38,885
I do believe there's been
 a small species of error.

988
01:16:38,968 --> 01:16:41,346
<i>We are Johnny! Johnny!</i>

989
01:16:41,512 --> 01:16:43,097
Johnny!

990
01:16:43,431 --> 01:16:45,016
No!

991
01:16:46,935 --> 01:16:47,561
Argh!

992
01:16:48,436 --> 01:16:49,604
Argh!

993
01:16:49,938 --> 01:16:52,149
My eyes!

994
01:17:16,049 --> 01:17:18,093
Johnny, please...

995
01:17:23,056 --> 01:17:25,100
Johnny!

996
01:17:38,573 --> 01:17:40,616
I told you .

997
01:17:45,080 --> 01:17:47,123
<i>CHARLES ll: It's been six months</i>

998
01:17:48,083 --> 01:17:50,877
<i>Where the fuck is he?</i>

999
01:17:51,086 --> 01:17:52,504
<i>Find him</i>

1000
01:17:52,587 --> 01:17:53,797
Your Majesty.

1001
01:18:07,603 --> 01:18:10,356
<i>I find myself at the gates of death</i>

1002
01:18:10,606 --> 01:18:13,193
<i>almost blind and utterly lame</i>

1003
01:18:14,110 --> 01:18:17,489
<i>Scarce wih the reasonable hope
 of ever seeing you again</i>

1004
01:18:18,615 --> 01:18:22,119
<i>With my sickness
it seems the world has turned hateful of me</i>

1005
01:18:22,619 --> 01:18:28,500
<i>But I will rise again to right this injustice
 and take back your heart</i>

1006
01:18:31,629 --> 01:18:36,008
The mercury cures the pox,
 but it scrambles the mind.

1007
01:18:38,135 --> 01:18:40,221
Poses a problem for a gent, does it not?

1008
01:18:40,430 --> 01:18:41,931
The prick or the brain ?

1009
01:18:42,140 --> 01:18:44,934
Shh. Johnny, shush.

1010
01:19:03,329 --> 01:19:08,000
He's been seen in Cheapside,
 accompanied by a serving man and a whore.

1011
01:19:09,836 --> 01:19:12,088
If he's very drunk, he'll be no problem.

1012
01:19:12,338 --> 01:19:14,382
If he's a bit drunk, be careful.

1013
01:19:14,632 --> 01:19:16,885
What if he's sober?

1014
01:19:17,135 --> 01:19:18,261
You've got the wrong man .

1015
01:19:22,349 --> 01:19:24,393
Ladies and gents!

1016
01:19:24,851 --> 01:19:26,603
<i>Gather near !</i>

1017
01:19:26,770 --> 01:19:27,980
Listen well.

1018
01:19:28,355 --> 01:19:32,151
For I got a doctor's cure to sell.

1019
01:19:32,318 --> 01:19:37,073
Mouth, stomach, knees and toes.

1020
01:19:37,365 --> 01:19:41,494
All be cured by Dr Bendo.

1021
01:19:45,874 --> 01:19:48,126
Little chicken.

1022
01:19:56,718 --> 01:19:58,637
Questurino!

1023
01:20:02,182 --> 01:20:03,767
Mayo.

1024
01:20:04,727 --> 01:20:06,187
In honestus.

1025
01:20:07,647 --> 01:20:09,148
Gulpo.

1026
01:20:13,236 --> 01:20:14,279
Poofay.

1027
01:20:38,846 --> 01:20:42,433
In flatuo. In flatuo.

1028
01:20:42,850 --> 01:20:47,105
The French, Parliament, his syphilitic earlship.

1029
01:20:47,605 --> 01:20:51,860
I'm being pissed on
 from half a dozen directions at once,

1030
01:20:52,027 --> 01:20:55,155
and it don't accord with my majestic dignity.

1031
01:20:55,530 --> 01:20:58,951
We have three confirmed sightings.
 Our sources are impeccable.

1032
01:21:00,202 --> 01:21:02,246
Take me to them. Now.

1033
01:21:03,205 --> 01:21:05,249
I've shut up shop for the day.

1034
01:21:05,708 --> 01:21:08,169
I had to turn 40 people away.

1035
01:21:09,211 --> 01:21:13,091
I think it mean work
 cozening citizens of their money.

1036
01:21:13,216 --> 01:21:15,260
We made £80 today.

1037
01:21:15,468 --> 01:21:18,096
We are here for our recreation .

1038
01:21:18,221 --> 01:21:20,682
<i>We're here cos
 we can't show our faces.</i>

1039
01:21:20,724 --> 01:21:24,728
Do you ever think...on our Lord Jesus Christ?

1040
01:21:28,232 --> 01:21:30,484
He was cast like me into the wilderness.

1041
01:21:31,735 --> 01:21:33,779
He was scorned and reviled.

1042
01:21:35,739 --> 01:21:37,992
He was betrayed by his followers.

1043
01:21:38,409 --> 01:21:43,831
I believe that in most respects,
 his life was of a different character from yours.

1044
01:21:43,915 --> 01:21:47,544
He would have brought Billy Downs
back from death.

1045
01:21:47,752 --> 01:21:49,337
Ach, these are wandering thoughts.

1046
01:21:57,763 --> 01:21:59,515
Leave me.

1047
01:22:02,768 --> 01:22:04,770
Go!

1048
01:22:15,615 --> 01:22:16,574
Johnny!

1049
01:22:18,952 --> 01:22:20,453
Johnny!

1050
01:22:20,453 --> 01:22:22,872
<i>Argh ! Johnny!</i>

1051
01:22:25,959 --> 01:22:27,544
Leave him alone!

1052
01:22:28,962 --> 01:22:31,006
On your knees.

1053
01:22:41,976 --> 01:22:44,020
I'm not impressed.

1054
01:22:45,480 --> 01:22:48,983
It has taken you six months to find me.

1055
01:22:49,150 --> 01:22:53,280
You think in six months I've given you
 more than five minutes' thought?

1056
01:22:53,655 --> 01:22:56,366
Those Parliament bastards
 are trying to shaft me again

1057
01:22:56,658 --> 01:22:59,536
<i>wih the new bill to exclude my successors</i>

1058
01:22:59,870 --> 01:23:01,288
Subtle.

1059
01:23:01,455 --> 01:23:05,876
lnstead of chopping kings' heads off,
 you pick and choose the ones you want.

1060
01:23:07,503 --> 01:23:10,589
That's my civil war. Not you .

1061
01:23:18,306 --> 01:23:24,104
Mr Etherege is packing out the Dorset Gardens
 with you as the greatest spark on Earth.

1062
01:23:24,354 --> 01:23:29,067
The East End is throwing down its purse
 for you to be a quack doctor.

1063
01:23:29,359 --> 01:23:34,949
And the town has you branded as a coward
 who leaves his friend to die in a brawl.

1064
01:23:35,074 --> 01:23:36,867
All men would be cowards...

1065
01:23:36,867 --> 01:23:39,161
if they only had the courage.

1066
01:23:39,370 --> 01:23:42,081
The boy died and you ran off.

1067
01:23:42,331 --> 01:23:44,375
I have to go too far, do you see?

1068
01:23:46,336 --> 01:23:49,214
I must always exceed
 or I do not feel like I'm alive.

1069
01:23:49,380 --> 01:23:54,553
And that's why the great epic about my reign
 became a squalid little play about knobbing.

1070
01:23:54,678 --> 01:23:56,555
And that's why Downs died.

1071
01:24:01,894 --> 01:24:04,813
I thought about putting you in the Tower.

1072
01:24:08,901 --> 01:24:12,238
I even considered putting your head on a spike.

1073
01:24:13,823 --> 01:24:16,451
But I've decided on something worse.

1074
01:24:17,827 --> 01:24:19,871
<i>I'm going to ignore you</i>

1075
01:24:21,247 --> 01:24:25,710
I will no longer encourage
 any hope in my breast for you .

1076
01:24:26,962 --> 01:24:29,464
I am condemning you to be you,

1077
01:24:29,506 --> 01:24:31,717
<i>for the rest of your days</i>

1078
01:25:02,374 --> 01:25:04,376
How I hate the country.

1079
01:25:16,889 --> 01:25:18,641
Drink.

1080
01:25:19,893 --> 01:25:21,186
Drink!

1081
01:25:36,410 --> 01:25:37,995
The shelves are empty, my lord.

1082
01:25:38,412 --> 01:25:40,414
Go to the cellars, cunt!

1083
01:25:41,916 --> 01:25:44,585
I said, find me a fucking drink.

1084
01:26:31,176 --> 01:26:34,972
Are you unable to discharge your duties
 as housekeeper?

1085
01:26:35,222 --> 01:26:38,559
<i>ALCOCK: I fear this is the last my lord</i>

1086
01:26:39,727 --> 01:26:42,563
Elizabeth, why has the cellar
 not been replenished?

1087
01:26:42,688 --> 01:26:43,981
Leave us.

1088
01:26:45,233 --> 01:26:46,609
Leave us!

1089
01:26:46,692 --> 01:26:48,820
My lady.

1090
01:27:04,419 --> 01:27:08,132
I am ever your last resort. When your mistress
 has kicked you into the street

1091
01:27:08,215 --> 01:27:11,177
and the last whore in Covent Garden
 refuses to attend to you,

1092
01:27:11,427 --> 01:27:13,262
then and only then do you come to me!

1093
01:27:13,429 --> 01:27:18,601
I think you will never be a contented woman
until you are a much-respected widow.

1094
01:27:18,601 --> 01:27:22,146
And I am hard at work
 on doing you that last good service.

1095
01:27:22,230 --> 01:27:26,234
I don't want you to die!
 I want you to live, and live differently!

1096
01:27:29,529 --> 01:27:31,573
- Ow!
 - Stop it!

1097
01:27:39,373 --> 01:27:41,041
Elizabeth!

1098
01:27:42,626 --> 01:27:46,088
Why? If it's good for you,
 is it not good for me, too?

1099
01:27:46,172 --> 01:27:49,550
- It is not good for me.
 - Why then do you pursue that path?

1100
01:27:52,387 --> 01:27:54,264
When were you last a sober man ?

1101
01:28:00,395 --> 01:28:02,397
Three years...

1102
01:28:03,398 --> 01:28:05,400
No, four...

1103
01:28:06,902 --> 01:28:08,904
Four years ago.

1104
01:28:09,905 --> 01:28:12,783
Five. Five.

1105
01:28:12,908 --> 01:28:14,994
And are you not, John, a rational man ?

1106
01:28:16,913 --> 01:28:19,415
Has not your intellect been widely praised?

1107
01:28:19,916 --> 01:28:22,418
It has.

1108
01:28:22,627 --> 01:28:24,295
So, this man of intellect,

1109
01:28:24,671 --> 01:28:26,673
this rational man,

1110
01:28:26,673 --> 01:28:31,386
knowing that five years of constant drinking
 have rendered his body feeble and his spirit low,

1111
01:28:31,678 --> 01:28:33,680
<i>what would this man of intellect do?</i>

1112
01:28:33,680 --> 01:28:37,142
- You seek to trap me like a cunning lawyer!
 - What would he do?

1113
01:28:37,184 --> 01:28:39,979
He would desist! Cunt!

1114
01:28:40,020 --> 01:28:42,022
Yes, he would desist. And those he loved,

1115
01:28:42,356 --> 01:28:45,234
would they not show their love
 by beseeching him to desist?

1116
01:28:45,359 --> 01:28:47,945
It is not so simple, my darling.

1117
01:29:28,905 --> 01:29:31,533
I've heard men say that the devil is in you .

1118
01:29:31,658 --> 01:29:34,161
If that be so, I know how he made his entrance.

1119
01:29:44,421 --> 01:29:48,593
He has suffered much
 both in sickness and in reputation .

1120
01:29:50,928 --> 01:29:52,972
You're a man of God.

1121
01:29:53,932 --> 01:29:55,850
Bring my son to him.

1122
01:30:04,443 --> 01:30:06,153
My son,

1123
01:30:06,361 --> 01:30:09,239
God has seen fit
 to visit these terrible diseases on you .

1124
01:30:10,449 --> 01:30:14,995
But it torments me less as a mother
 to see you die in agony in the arms of God...

1125
01:30:15,955 --> 01:30:18,249
..than live an atheist.

1126
01:30:18,457 --> 01:30:20,084
Mother.

1127
01:30:46,153 --> 01:30:49,282
If God wants men to have faith,

1128
01:30:51,409 --> 01:30:54,203
why does he not make us
 more disposed to believe?

1129
01:30:54,412 --> 01:30:57,665
Most men are so disposed.

1130
01:30:58,416 --> 01:31:00,126
But not me.

1131
01:31:00,335 --> 01:31:03,338
Because you set your reason against religion .

1132
01:31:03,421 --> 01:31:05,090
I despised reason.

1133
01:31:05,424 --> 01:31:07,467
You clung to reason .

1134
01:31:08,427 --> 01:31:12,056
You laughed in the face of God
 with the aid of reason .

1135
01:31:14,433 --> 01:31:16,477
Speak me that speech again .

1136
01:31:18,437 --> 01:31:20,481
Those words from lsaiah.

1137
01:31:24,444 --> 01:31:28,448
"And he is despised and rejected of men .

1138
01:31:29,949 --> 01:31:31,993
A man of sorrows...

1139
01:31:33,453 --> 01:31:35,497
..and acquainted with grief."

1140
01:31:36,456 --> 01:31:39,334
And we hid our faces from him.

1141
01:31:40,961 --> 01:31:43,464
God, raise me from this bed

1142
01:31:43,756 --> 01:31:45,382
<i>to do what I must do</i>

1143
01:31:48,719 --> 01:31:51,973
We've taken soundings.
It's very close. We may be 1 5 votes short.

1144
01:31:52,140 --> 01:31:54,934
The House cannot give way to the King
 on this matter!

1145
01:31:55,184 --> 01:31:56,853
Then get me 1 5 votes.

1146
01:31:57,312 --> 01:31:59,355
And I believe it will not!

1147
01:31:59,647 --> 01:32:01,232
Hear, hear!

1148
01:32:09,491 --> 01:32:12,578
The Earl of Rochester.

1149
01:32:14,204 --> 01:32:16,248
<i>Coward!</i>

1150
01:32:17,583 --> 01:32:20,336
<i>Coward</i>

1151
01:32:27,343 --> 01:32:29,387
My lord...

1152
01:32:30,847 --> 01:32:36,103
..the bill before us would seek to bar
 the King's brother from succeeding to the throne

1153
01:32:36,353 --> 01:32:39,565
on the grounds that he is a Catholic.

1154
01:32:40,858 --> 01:32:44,320
<i>And for this reason i has been said</i>

1155
01:32:44,695 --> 01:32:48,991
that no good Protestant
 can speak against this bill.

1156
01:32:50,117 --> 01:32:56,207
And yet, sir, I cannot forbear
to offer some objections against it.

1157
01:32:57,625 --> 01:33:04,090
But the question will arise
 in the minds of some lords here present...

1158
01:33:05,133 --> 01:33:07,135
..as to whether I am indeed...

1159
01:33:09,137 --> 01:33:11,139
..a good Protestant.

1160
01:33:14,601 --> 01:33:16,645
No man here

1161
01:33:16,645 --> 01:33:18,647
will question, I hope,

1162
01:33:21,150 --> 01:33:23,152
my goodness...

1163
01:33:24,112 --> 01:33:28,157
..in any one of the three chief pursuits
 of our age,

1164
01:33:28,157 --> 01:33:30,034
the scribbling of verses,

1165
01:33:30,160 --> 01:33:32,579
the emptying of bottles,

1166
01:33:33,663 --> 01:33:35,665
and the filling of wenches.

1167
01:33:38,168 --> 01:33:40,879
There may be those
 with a claim to be as good as I,

1168
01:33:42,172 --> 01:33:46,385
but taking these three pursuits simultaneously...

1169
01:33:47,261 --> 01:33:49,305
..and, sir, I have so taken them,

1170
01:33:49,513 --> 01:33:55,853
and can vouch
 that considerable manual dexterity is required,

1171
01:33:57,021 --> 01:34:02,110
I cannot be equaled, let alone bettered.

1172
01:34:05,030 --> 01:34:11,245
So, let not my goodness be questioned.

1173
01:34:19,545 --> 01:34:23,049
<i>It is not so many years
 since our present king's father</i>

1174
01:34:24,634 --> 01:34:29,556
..was killed on a kind of stage,
 outside the walls of this very building.

1175
01:34:31,724 --> 01:34:38,607
And, in time, his murderers were condemned
 and themselves executed.

1176
01:34:39,483 --> 01:34:41,526
But...

1177
01:34:41,610 --> 01:34:45,823
were they condemned without being heard?

1178
01:34:48,993 --> 01:34:51,037
They were not.

1179
01:34:52,496 --> 01:34:57,710
In spite of the certainty of their guilt
and the horrid weight of their cowardly crime,

1180
01:34:59,504 --> 01:35:03,800
they were allowed the due process of law.

1181
01:35:06,011 --> 01:35:08,472
But what is suggested before this House...

1182
01:35:09,514 --> 01:35:14,103
..is that we condemn
 that murdered king's second son

1183
01:35:14,186 --> 01:35:18,232
with less shrift than was given to his killers.

1184
01:35:20,526 --> 01:35:24,697
My lord, let us have justice.

1185
01:35:26,532 --> 01:35:34,499
<i>When the time arrives for our good
 and present king to be taken from us</i>

1186
01:35:37,043 --> 01:35:42,466
let then his Catholic brother be impeached
 in this House in the normal way.

1187
01:35:44,551 --> 01:35:50,141
And if he be found wanting,
then let his head be chopped off at the neck...

1188
01:35:52,893 --> 01:35:55,855
<i>if the House feel that is what he meris</i>

1189
01:35:58,900 --> 01:36:00,944
<i>For my part</i>

1190
01:36:01,110 --> 01:36:05,448
I shall believe my oath of allegiance
 to the throne to be a thing inviolable...

1191
01:36:06,908 --> 01:36:10,495
..and that whatever the faith
 of the successor to the throne,

1192
01:36:11,413 --> 01:36:17,336
his pre-eminence in the royal lineage
 must hold sway

1193
01:36:17,419 --> 01:36:20,422
over all other considerations.

1194
01:36:22,425 --> 01:36:24,468
Sir,

1195
01:36:24,927 --> 01:36:27,346
my humble motion ...

1196
01:36:28,431 --> 01:36:30,475
..is that the monarchy...

1197
01:36:30,683 --> 01:36:32,477
be upheld...

1198
01:36:33,436 --> 01:36:40,777
..and this meddlesome and fractious bill
 be thrown out forever.

1199
01:36:40,944 --> 01:36:42,988
Hear, hear!

1200
01:36:45,449 --> 01:36:48,243
<i>Kings are kings!
 You can't pick and choose!</i>

1201
01:36:49,453 --> 01:36:51,705
<i>Throw it out! Throw it out!</i>

1202
01:36:52,957 --> 01:36:55,001
<i>He spoke for us all!</i>

1203
01:37:16,064 --> 01:37:18,067
Johnny.

1204
01:37:18,567 --> 01:37:20,569
You did it.

1205
01:37:21,570 --> 01:37:23,572
You finally did something for me.

1206
01:37:24,573 --> 01:37:26,576
I didn't do it for you .

1207
01:37:26,576 --> 01:37:28,578
I did it for me.

1208
01:37:32,081 --> 01:37:34,751
Your Majesty, we won .

1209
01:37:35,085 --> 01:37:36,711
By 40 votes.

1210
01:37:45,012 --> 01:37:47,014
There you are, Johnny.

1211
01:37:48,515 --> 01:37:50,517
You did it.

1212
01:37:54,146 --> 01:37:55,606
Molly.

1213
01:37:55,690 --> 01:37:58,901
I've brought in the Earl to gawp at my triumph.

1214
01:37:59,193 --> 01:38:02,363
Authors have a place, Mr Etherege.
 It is in the garret.

1215
01:38:02,530 --> 01:38:04,616
I do not like them cluttering up my theatre.

1216
01:38:04,657 --> 01:38:08,161
Lizzie won't see him.
She won't see Johnny. This is the only way.

1217
01:38:08,203 --> 01:38:09,996
I don't want her upset.

1218
01:38:10,205 --> 01:38:12,290
I could have written a splendid play.

1219
01:38:12,708 --> 01:38:14,710
No, you couldn't.

1220
01:38:14,710 --> 01:38:16,712
The Man Of Mode.

1221
01:38:16,712 --> 01:38:20,299
The spirit of the age caught for all time.

1222
01:38:20,716 --> 01:38:22,510
I did it.

1223
01:38:22,718 --> 01:38:25,680
You didn't, because you don't have the gift.

1224
01:38:29,225 --> 01:38:30,893
Gentle George.

1225
01:38:37,734 --> 01:38:40,028
- What is he doing here?
 - Don't blame me.

1226
01:38:41,738 --> 01:38:43,991
John, I'll see you after. I'll be at Long's.

1227
01:38:44,199 --> 01:38:47,327
Very well. Lockett's?

1228
01:38:47,744 --> 01:38:50,247
Long's.

1229
01:38:52,750 --> 01:38:54,752
Long's.

1230
01:39:01,759 --> 01:39:03,761
I saw the first two acts.

1231
01:39:05,763 --> 01:39:07,766
And you didn't like me?

1232
01:39:07,766 --> 01:39:09,768
To the contrary.

1233
01:39:09,768 --> 01:39:12,521
I could bear your brilliance no longer.

1234
01:39:16,775 --> 01:39:19,194
Mr Harris, you are playing me.

1235
01:39:19,278 --> 01:39:22,489
The understudy has become the actor.

1236
01:39:22,740 --> 01:39:26,077
My lord, I heard news of your death
 six months ago

1237
01:39:26,202 --> 01:39:27,828
and experienced a spasm of regret.

1238
01:39:28,287 --> 01:39:31,791
But your subsequent resurrection
 has quite cured my grief.

1239
01:39:32,792 --> 01:39:37,464
I am nature, and you are art.

1240
01:39:39,799 --> 01:39:41,843
Let us see how we compare.

1241
01:39:42,177 --> 01:39:45,180
Mr Harris has a quick change
 and you will let him be.

1242
01:39:45,389 --> 01:39:48,058
Here we have him, your Restoration gent.

1243
01:39:48,392 --> 01:39:50,102
He's not pissed his breeches today

1244
01:39:50,394 --> 01:39:56,442
and he can walk in a straight line for 200 yards
 without falling on his face and retching.

1245
01:39:57,401 --> 01:39:59,403
Now,

1246
01:39:59,904 --> 01:40:02,657
look you upon this picture

1247
01:40:02,782 --> 01:40:04,409
<i>and on this</i>

1248
01:40:04,826 --> 01:40:07,162
<i>He has not washed He cannot walk</i>

1249
01:40:07,328 --> 01:40:13,710
And he most certainly will not be able to raise
 either the price of his dinner or his own pintle.

1250
01:40:13,877 --> 01:40:15,712
I must be got into my nightgown .

1251
01:40:15,879 --> 01:40:18,048
This is what I envy in you stage people.

1252
01:40:18,215 --> 01:40:19,925
You make time seem so important.

1253
01:40:19,925 --> 01:40:22,886
<i>I must change my clothes now!</i>

1254
01:40:23,429 --> 01:40:25,264
<i>I must make my entrance now!</i>

1255
01:40:26,932 --> 01:40:29,518
But life is not a succession of urgent nows.

1256
01:40:29,727 --> 01:40:32,355
It is a listless trickle of Why should I's.

1257
01:40:32,438 --> 01:40:34,107
You're on .

1258
01:40:36,943 --> 01:40:39,070
<i>MOLLY: Five minutes only, Mrs Barry.</i>

1259
01:40:45,452 --> 01:40:47,829
lnever wanted you for a mistress, Lizzie.

1260
01:40:49,456 --> 01:40:51,250
I wanted you for my wife.

1261
01:40:54,962 --> 01:40:57,006
You have no understanding, do you?

1262
01:40:59,967 --> 01:41:04,347
It was not being your mistress
 that I was tired of, John .

1263
01:41:04,973 --> 01:41:06,349
I was tired of you .

1264
01:41:07,475 --> 01:41:09,978
I did not wish to be your wife.

1265
01:41:09,978 --> 01:41:12,647
I do not wish to be anyone's wife.

1266
01:41:12,981 --> 01:41:16,068
I wish to continue being the creature I am.

1267
01:41:16,985 --> 01:41:19,655
London walks into this theatre to see me.

1268
01:41:19,988 --> 01:41:23,826
Not George's play, nor Mr Betterton .

1269
01:41:23,909 --> 01:41:26,370
They want me,
 and they want me over and over again .

1270
01:41:27,496 --> 01:41:32,210
I will not swap my certain glory
 for your undependable love.

1271
01:41:36,005 --> 01:41:38,049
I wanted you to have my child.

1272
01:41:38,216 --> 01:41:40,051
I had your child.

1273
01:41:41,011 --> 01:41:43,054
A daughter.

1274
01:41:43,221 --> 01:41:45,557
When the theatres were closed in the summer.

1275
01:41:46,016 --> 01:41:50,437
By the start of the season I was flat enough
 to play Desdemona in a nightgown .

1276
01:41:50,521 --> 01:41:52,773
<i>MOLLY: Two minutes, Mrs Barry, please.</i>

1277
01:41:54,525 --> 01:41:56,569
What is her name?

1278
01:41:57,528 --> 01:41:59,113
Elizabeth.

1279
01:41:59,530 --> 01:42:01,574
Elizabeth?

1280
01:42:03,034 --> 01:42:05,078
The child of our passion .

1281
01:42:07,539 --> 01:42:12,294
When I bred my other children,
 I placed no value on human life at all, and...

1282
01:42:14,546 --> 01:42:16,590
...now you send me away.

1283
01:42:17,549 --> 01:42:20,719
And I cannot go back to where I was before.

1284
01:42:23,055 --> 01:42:26,684
I shall never forgive you
 for teaching me to love life.

1285
01:42:29,061 --> 01:42:32,481
If I taught you that, then our account is settled.

1286
01:42:33,566 --> 01:42:36,194
Your lesson to me was my livelihood.

1287
01:42:36,486 --> 01:42:38,112
And mine to you was life itself.

1288
01:42:39,572 --> 01:42:41,616
We have no need to meet again .

1289
01:42:43,577 --> 01:42:45,787
Lizzie.

1290
01:42:46,079 --> 01:42:48,123
If you are in London,

1291
01:42:48,373 --> 01:42:50,334
and you have half a crown in your pocket,

1292
01:42:50,584 --> 01:42:52,628
you may see me there.

1293
01:42:52,961 --> 01:42:54,630
For the rest,

1294
01:42:55,589 --> 01:42:57,716
I hope I shall always be in your heart,

1295
01:42:58,092 --> 01:43:00,553
sometimes in your thoughts,

1296
01:43:00,594 --> 01:43:03,306
but never in your debt.

1297
01:43:41,221 --> 01:43:43,223
I am 33...

1298
01:43:44,224 --> 01:43:46,226
..years old.

1299
01:43:48,687 --> 01:43:50,731
I am dying.

1300
01:43:53,233 --> 01:43:56,111
I have tried to speak the truth.

1301
01:43:58,239 --> 01:44:00,908
But I have been betrayed.

1302
01:44:10,752 --> 01:44:12,754
Elizabeth...

1303
01:44:15,715 --> 01:44:20,095
..speak to me of abduction .

1304
01:44:24,266 --> 01:44:26,268
I was 18.

1305
01:44:28,771 --> 01:44:32,066
And worth two and a half thousand a year.

1306
01:44:33,776 --> 01:44:35,778
You ambushed me,

1307
01:44:37,739 --> 01:44:40,491
bundled me into your coach
 and rattled me away.

1308
01:44:42,285 --> 01:44:44,287
The King thrust...

1309
01:45:22,494 --> 01:45:32,838
* If underneath death's cold wing

1310
01:45:35,007 --> 01:45:41,222
* His restless soul should fly

1311
01:45:41,514 --> 01:45:44,642
He charmed the tenderest virgins with delight.

1312
01:45:45,518 --> 01:45:49,648
And with his style did fiercest blockheads fright.

1313
01:45:50,023 --> 01:45:55,028
* Beyond the grasp of fools

1314
01:45:55,028 --> 01:46:03,871
* T'would meet with the bliss they deny

1315
01:46:04,038 --> 01:46:07,041
* So stand for him

1316
01:46:07,041 --> 01:46:10,044
* Kneel for him

1317
01:46:10,044 --> 01:46:15,717
* As he lies low in kneaded clay

1318
01:46:16,051 --> 01:46:21,932
* Pray for him who prayed too late

1319
01:46:22,099 --> 01:46:28,022
* That he might shine on Judgement Day

1320
01:46:28,564 --> 01:46:30,733
So, there he lies at the last.

1321
01:46:31,567 --> 01:46:33,611
The deathbed convert.

1322
01:46:33,778 --> 01:46:35,613
The pious debauchee.

1323
01:46:37,573 --> 01:46:40,243
Could not dance half a measure, could I?

1324
01:46:42,078 --> 01:46:46,207
Give me wine, I'd drain the dregs
 and toss the empty bottle at the world.

1325
01:46:47,083 --> 01:46:49,127
Show me our Lord Jesus in agony,

1326
01:46:49,336 --> 01:46:53,715
and I mount the cross
 and steal his nails for my own palms.

1327
01:46:56,093 --> 01:47:03,309
There I go, shuffling from the world,
 my dribble fresh upon a Bible.

1328
01:47:05,102 --> 01:47:09,524
I look upon a pinhead...
 and I see angels dancing.

1329
01:47:12,110 --> 01:47:14,154
Well?

1330
01:47:15,613 --> 01:47:17,657
Do you like me now?

1331
01:47:21,119 --> 01:47:23,163
Do you like me now?

1332
01:47:28,627 --> 01:47:30,671
Do you like me now?

1333
01:47:35,635 --> 01:47:37,678
Do you like me...

1334
01:47:37,803 --> 01:47:39,680
now?

1335
01:47:43,643 --> 01:47:50,734
* Christe Eleison

1336
01:47:52,152 --> 01:47:57,491
* O Domine Deus

1337
01:47:57,741 --> 01:48:03,664
* Dona nobis pacem

1338
01:48:04,165 --> 01:48:11,381
* O Domine Deus

1339
01:48:11,589 --> 01:48:18,013
* Dona nobis pacem

1340
01:48:29,191 --> 01:48:34,739
* O Domine Deus

1341
01:48:34,905 --> 01:48:41,329
* Dona nobis pacem

1342
01:48:41,704 --> 01:48:49,087
* O Domine Deus

1343
01:48:49,212 --> 01:48:56,178
* Dona nobis pacem