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Allow me to be frank
at the commencement

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You will not like me.

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The gentlemen will be envious
and the ladies will be repelled.

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You will not like me now and you will like me
a good deal less as we go on.

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Ladies,

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an announcement.

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I am up for it.

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All the time.

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That is not a boast or an opinion.

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It is bone-hard medical fact.

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I put it round, you know.

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And you will watch me putting it round
and sigh for it.

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Don't.

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It is a deal of trouble for you

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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.

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Gentlemen,

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do not despair.

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I am up for that as well.

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And the same warning applies.

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Still your cheesy erections till I've had my say,

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but later when you shag,
and later you will shag,

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I shall expect it of you,

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and I will know if you have let me down.

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I wish you to shag

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with my homuncular image
rattling in your gonads.

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Feel...

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how it was for me, how it is for me.

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And ponder.

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Was that shudder
the same shudder he sensed?

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Did he know something more profound?

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Or is there some wall of wretchedness
that we all batter with our heads

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at that shining live-long moment?

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That is it.

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That is my prologue.

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Nothing in rhyme.

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No protestations of modesty.
You were not expecting that, I hope.

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I am John Wilmot.

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Second Earl of Rochester.

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And I do not want you to like me.

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MAN: Wren's upset. The clergy approved
the most conventional design for the cathedral.

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Now he feels
there's no room for artistic manoeuvre.

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SECOND MAN:
Put a sub-clause in the warrant.

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"Variations in the design
are to be ornamental rather than essential. "

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Then he can do what he wants.

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Next.

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MAN: There are representations for you
to be more careful in public.

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Perhaps a bodyguard.

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- Whose idea is that?
- Your brother.

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Ha!

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No-one's going to kill me
if it means having him on the throne.

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- Next.
- Danby says the army is costing too much.

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It's Danby's job to balance the books.

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If he thinks it's good economics to disband
the army and be invaded by the French,

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he can look for another position.

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Anything else?

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You asked me to remind you
about the Earl of Rochester.

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When did I banish him?

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Three months ago.

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- For how long?
- A year.

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Bring him back. Now.

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John.

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Be attentive to your wife.
She's not accustomed to London.

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Mother, I shall in all things
endeavour to serve her...

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and you.

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Serve God.

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You must not fear London.

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It is not London I fear.

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You abducted me in a coach like this
when I was still a virgin heiress.

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And did you like abduction?

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Passionately.

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Speak of it.

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John! This is not the place.

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Speak to me of abduction.

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I was 18.

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And worth two and a half thousand a year.

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You ambushed me,

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bundled me from my coach,

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and drove me away.

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The King thrust you in the tower for it.

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And I dug in my heels
and spurned and shunned the other men.

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I would only embrace my dear abductor.

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Dryden's new play.

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Here, Chas, grab a wodge.

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Dryden couldn't write a laundry list.

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MAN: Rochester!

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- Johnny!
- Johnny.

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We were pining for you

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Even now we're pining.

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When I wake in the country,
I dream of being in London,

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and then when I get here,
it's full of people like you.

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- Johnny.
- This reign's a shambles, do you not think?

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My father risked life and limb
hiding that thing Charles up an oak tree.

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Has he forgiven you?

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He's forgiven me. I shan't forgive him.

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Why did he banish you this time?

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Well, it is a fine morning.
I'm walking through the galleries.

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The King is walking through the galleries.
I'm splendidly alone.

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The King is surrounded
by a slow-moving troop...

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.. of Mediterraneans.

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- The wife's family.
- And he must make show of me.

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Behold, the Earl of Rochester, the wit.

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The poet. Pray, let us have some of your muse.

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What am I to do?

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Then I recall in my pocket I have
a sketch of something rustic with nymphs.

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I pull it out and deliver.

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"In the isle of Britain, long since famous grown
For breeding the best cunts in Christendom... "

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Rat me, thinks I, this is not
the piece of paper I had supposed.

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The King's eyes are more piercing
than I can remember.

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The jaws of his entourage
are decidedly earthbound.

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This piece of paper is not covered
merely with the thump and slop of congress.

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This poem is an attack on the monarchy itself.

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Culminating in depiction of the royal mistress

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striving to flog the flaccid royal member
into a state of excitement.

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"This you'd believe had I but time to tell you,
The pains it cost to poor laborious Nelly.

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Whilst she employs hands,
fingers, mouth and thighs,

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Ere she can raise the member she enjoys.

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All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,

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From the hector of France to the cully of Britain."

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It's damn good, though, Johnny.

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Course it's good. That's not the point.
The point is he couldn't appreciate it.

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It took me nearly an hour to write it,
just to please him.

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Three months in the fucking country at the
height of the season. Missed all the good plays.

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Boring old Rowley. We love you, Johnny.

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Give us a stanza
and we'll laugh in the King's place.

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To Etherege, I drink a pledge.

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His life has run the gamut.

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He's penned naught good
since She Would If She Could.

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He would if he could but he cannot

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Well, Johnny, it is a damn well said thing,
but it ain't true, do you see?

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Oh, but it is true, Georgie.

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You think you can still enjoy the town's esteem
for something you wrote seven years ago.

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You can't be promising for ever George

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Sooner or later you must do something

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But that's what I'm saying.
Ihave written a new play.

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Oh.

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Written a new play has he?

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All those afternoons he was pretending to slope
off and roger his mistress like a decent chap,

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he was lurking in his rooms,

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poking away at a play.

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That is disgusting, George.

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Disgusting and shameful.

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What's it about, your play?

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A satire on Dryden?

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Pox o' Dryden. It's about you.

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And in your play, do you tell the truth about me?

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- Well, I've attempted to show you...
- Yes?

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- Well, I enjoy your company.
- You've made me endearing.

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- Well, only the public can...
- Don't smarm around, George.

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You're an endearing sort of... chap.

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So, you haven't told the truth.

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Good.

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We don't want to go frightening people.

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Now, how about a real play?

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The Duke's have the new Otway.

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Oh, I have high hopes of young Tom Otway.

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Let me finish him off, sir.

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This fellow is my servant. He has just filched
two shillings from my coat pocket.

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A thief and a rogue.

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My lord you express i

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Haven't quite got the hang of the reign yet,
have you?

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- I will not employ a thief.
- Then I will.

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- How much was your master paying you?
- Six shillings a week, sir.

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Who talks of thieving?

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George, give him £5.

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Buy a brown livery and report to me
at the Duke's Theatre.

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He will steal your gold.

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I hope so.

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If he turned honest after coming into my orbit,
then I am not the malicious planet I had hoped.

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Now begone, sir.

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- And er... how will your lordship be paying?
- Credit.

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I only use coin vulgarised with the monarch's
head for transactions with servants.

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I am ever your humble servant.

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No, Mr Ratcliffe,
you are the very prince of drapery.

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The prince is always happy
to see the King's head.

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ROCHESTER:
But not to carry i around in his pocket

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Credit then.

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Billy.

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Join us.

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Johnny.

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This is Billy Downs

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Billy this is the Earl of Rochester

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How old are you, Mr Downs?

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18, my lord.

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Young man, you will die of this company.

186
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Do not laugh. I'm serious.

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Mr Ratcliffe, this hangs very well.

188
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My lord, I saw you
just now with the gent's servant.

189
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Did you think I dispensed wisely in the matter?

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If the fool run off with the gold,
then you prove a point, but at your loss.

191
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If he return in your livery, then you've gained
a servant who is a known cheat.

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So you prove a different point,
but again at your own expense.

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You summarise well, Mr Downs.

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And in such a manner,
I deduce you were trained

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at one of the "count the angels on a pinhead"
Cambridge colleges.

196
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King's, was it not?

197
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It was, my lord.

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King's, yes.

199
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And yet you do not draw
the moral of the incident.

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Which is?

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That any experiment of interest in life will be
carried out at your own expense. Mark it well.

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MAN: My lord!

203
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My Lord Rochester.

204
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You've come back.

205
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In your livery, my lord.

206
00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,029
Then you are turned honest.
I cannot support that.

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00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,076
I regret the deed's honesty.

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My lord.

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But I considered that if I performed it
and fell into your service,

210
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I would have more... enjoyment of life.

211
00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:28,319
You see, this fellow has the hang of the reign.

212
00:14:28,354 --> 00:14:30,918
I like this fellow exceedingly.
What is your name?

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Alcock.

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Like master, like servant.

215
00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,080
Well, Alcock,

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you shall drink and shag
more than any serving man in the kingdom.

217
00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:49,517
Go at once and spend the rest of the money
on a whore, a large, greasy one.

218
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Then when you are done, return here to me.

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Now begone.

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MAN: Rochester!
WOMAN: Disgrace!

221
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MAN: Rochester!

222
00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,038
Rochester! Missed you Lord Rochester!

223
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He is risen!

224
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My lord!

225
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WOMAN: My lord!

226
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MAN: Impertinent bastard!

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MAN: Johnny!

228
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My Lord Rochester!

229
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Rochester you are a cunt sir!

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WOMAN: I smell a rotten odour

231
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I'll suck i for you Johnny
if you promise not to marry me!

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WOMAN: Johnny said "cunt" to the King!

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I'm going to brazen my arse at them.

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They've all seen it.

235
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Well, they can bloody well put up with it again.

236
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WOMAN: Johnny said "cunt" to the King!

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ALL: Johnny said "cunt" to the King.

238
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Johnny said "cunt" to the King!

239
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My lord.

240
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Dear Jane.

241
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Give you your first London spurt of the summer.

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- I brought the wife with me.
- Bit of a waste.

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Shooting good jism up the lawful.

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Ladies and gallants all,

245
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the King!

246
00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:12,075
Oh, freeze my piss,
if the royal finger ain't beckoning me.

247
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How exciting.

248
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Did you miss me?

249
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I missed the money.

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Good.

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00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,116
Don't like a whore with sentiment.

252
00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:12,793
I could have ignored your poem, Johnny,
but I made a fuss about it for a reason.

253
00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:14,925
I won't hide anything from you.

254
00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:19,670
The country's on the brink.
People are still reeling from the fire, the plague.

255
00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:23,196
The Catholics are plotting
the Dutch are a bunch of bastards

256
00:18:23,599 --> 00:18:26,352
and the French are ten times worse
and there's no money

257
00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:30,765
I can only get funds by crawling to Parliament
or plotting against them.

258
00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:34,839
And I don't want to lock antlers with them
head on in the way my father did.

259
00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:37,315
"Head on?" That's quite good.

260
00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:42,632
When you first came to court Johnny
you were a boy of 18

261
00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:46,793
A certain flippancy a whiff of impertinence

262
00:18:46,828 --> 00:18:48,596
This was acceptable

263
00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,271
But we're ten years down the road
and the view is different

264
00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:54,765
The tone has to change.

265
00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,519
I have to look responsible, sober.

266
00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,392
I want you with me.

267
00:19:00,559 --> 00:19:02,914
That's why I brought you back.

268
00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:04,871
I want you to take on a new role.

269
00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,713
Here? In the playhouse?

270
00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:09,645
No, the House of Lords.

271
00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,912
Your father spirited me out of England
when my life was at stake,

272
00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,877
so I looked after him and after you.

273
00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:18,639
- You put me in the Tower.
- And I let you out

274
00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:21,030
The time has come for you to pay your dues.

275
00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,116
People listen to you, Johnny.

276
00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,589
If you took your seat in the Lords,
you could make great speeches

277
00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:30,836
that would influence events.

278
00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:35,085
Anyone can oppose.

279
00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:37,005
It's fun to be against things.

280
00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:40,669
But there comes a time when you have
to start being for things as well.

281
00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:58,676
Your Majesty.

282
00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,418
Mr Etherege.

283
00:20:04,453 --> 00:20:06,356
Take a nibble?

284
00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:09,796
I've had my dinner, thank you, madam.

285
00:20:09,831 --> 00:20:11,591
George!

286
00:20:12,079 --> 00:20:14,115
ACTRESS: Is this thy plighted faih?

287
00:20:14,150 --> 00:20:16,013
Is this thy truth?

288
00:20:16,048 --> 00:20:17,876
Oh too unkind!

289
00:20:18,319 --> 00:20:20,469
False and unconstant youth!

290
00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,277
- Madam, believe not but my brother's just.
ROCHESTER: Who's she?

291
00:20:25,312 --> 00:20:26,996
She's Lizzie Barry.

292
00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:28,845
And she just won't do.

293
00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,440
You wrong his honour by this mean distrust.

294
00:20:31,599 --> 00:20:33,874
Well...

295
00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:39,597
That does alleviate my griefs and give
my wearied soul a soft and kind reprieve.

296
00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:45,471
Which ever to forget would be
as hard and as impossible as to reward.

297
00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,630
Serving you my happiness secures.

298
00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:55,034
Since equally with yours my hopes are crossed.

299
00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:03,669
Of all but sorry and sad despair.

300
00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,189
Lizzie. Lizzie!

301
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:31,925
On stage.

302
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,598
You must take your bow for the public.

303
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,713
Why do you persist in doing
the opposite of what you are told?

304
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:41,515
If girls like you do not do what they are told,
then it is all up with our sex on the stage.

305
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,512
You cannot ignore the advice
of them that know!

306
00:21:45,547 --> 00:21:46,913
Now, acknowledge your audience.

307
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:49,998
They can kiss my arse.

308
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,356
She's a good fuck, but she costs.

309
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:05,156
She gives a nice gobble,
but she won't do the full wibbly-wobbly.

310
00:22:05,191 --> 00:22:06,956
- She does it with me.
- She does not!

311
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,309
Mary, if I may say so...

312
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,032
.. a statuesque performance.

313
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:15,633
Bursting with Grecian promise.

314
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,555
Mrs Barry, the work we did beforehand,
did it mean nothing to you?

315
00:22:21,590 --> 00:22:23,356
That is correct, Mr Harris.

316
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,428
Molly, I cannot teach those
who will not be disposed to learn.

317
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,835
- Mr Etherege, how do you do, sir?
- Well, Mr Harris.

318
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,758
- Was not my Lord Rochester in wih you?
- Darted off

319
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:34,458
Did you care for the play?

320
00:22:34,493 --> 00:22:36,156
The play was well enough.

321
00:22:36,599 --> 00:22:39,067
Most of the acting, too.

322
00:22:49,559 --> 00:22:51,515
Mrs Barry.

323
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,396
MOLLY: She has been dismissed.

324
00:22:54,839 --> 00:22:56,725
I bring word from Mr Betterton.

325
00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:00,116
- I've had such already.
- This is quite another.

326
00:23:07,599 --> 00:23:09,537
You have obtained a reprieve for me.

327
00:23:09,572 --> 00:23:11,476
Yes, madam, but there is a price.

328
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,749
This is your first season on the London stage.

329
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:22,598
It is, my lord.

330
00:23:22,633 --> 00:23:24,365
Mrs Barry,

331
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,949
you must acquire the trick
of ignoring those who do not like you.

332
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:33,519
In my experience, those who do not like you fall
into two categories, the stupid and the envious.

333
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,513
The stupid will like you in five years' time,
the envious never.

334
00:23:37,839 --> 00:23:40,205
Wih my training you will become the best

335
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,198
the most fascinating actress
on the London stage

336
00:23:44,079 --> 00:23:46,229
I shall come to the theatre tomorrow.

337
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,205
What are you up to, Johnny? She can't act.

338
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,277
She has neither the cadence of the heroic
nor the posture.

339
00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:00,230
I will wager you 20 guineas she will become
the finest actress on our stage.

340
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,868
This is the prick talking, not the head.

341
00:24:02,903 --> 00:24:04,636
Knob her and have done.

342
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,325
Is it a wager?

343
00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:08,635
My dear friend, you do not have 20 guineas.

344
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,165
Is it a wager?

345
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,191
We've missed the fuck. Can we get a drink?

346
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,830
There's a new toping house hard by
called Deaf Marion's.

347
00:24:16,079 --> 00:24:19,276
The Cambridge boy knows his books by heart.

348
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,396
Lead on, King's.

349
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,836
Alcock.

350
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,032
My lord.

351
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,270
Something rotten has got into my guts.

352
00:24:40,079 --> 00:24:41,831
I trust it's not me, my lord.

353
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,912
No, Alcock, it is not. Not yet.

354
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,599
We should mark the front lawn at Adderbury
for pall-mall.

355
00:24:48,634 --> 00:24:50,237
I had always thought it a foolish game.

356
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,032
Depends on who you play with.

357
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,033
The King plays with a common prostitute,
not his wife.

358
00:24:55,079 --> 00:24:58,230
The Portuguese
have little flair for outdoor pursuits.

359
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,670
Except navigating, of course.

360
00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:03,194
I mean that the etiquette of it is singular.

361
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,085
I know what you mean.

362
00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:08,680
You must always be
ace, king and jack, my dear.

363
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,355
But heaven has not disposed your cards so.

364
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,317
ETHEREGE: Johnny! It's your shot!

365
00:25:13,559 --> 00:25:14,965
I'm not playing!

366
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,336
Oh, but you are, John.

367
00:25:17,371 --> 00:25:19,673
You are if I say you are.

368
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,365
The most advanced scientific instrument
in western Europe.

369
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,916
It cost £60000
It tells the time in every corner of the globe

370
00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:38,076
Understand?

371
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,325
That is achievement.

372
00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:44,399
The man who did that was not continually pissed
for the last three years.

373
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,635
What do you want from me?

374
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:52,037
Writing something profound
that will stand as a monument to my reign.

375
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,356
You're my literary giant.

376
00:25:54,391 --> 00:25:56,205
Dryden? Plodder.

377
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,036
But look what he's achieved.

378
00:25:58,071 --> 00:25:59,832
Elizabeth had her Shakespeare.

379
00:26:00,079 --> 00:26:02,035
You can be mine.

380
00:26:02,319 --> 00:26:06,312
Give me a major work of literature
and I'll give you 500 guineas.

381
00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:09,634
When would you like it? Friday?

382
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:12,996
Don't fuck it up, John.

383
00:26:13,031 --> 00:26:14,916
I love you.

384
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:27,916
Mrs Barry!

385
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,158
I cannot let you have long.
I must prepare Tamburlaine.

386
00:26:31,193 --> 00:26:32,916
There's a great deal of setting up

387
00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:34,284
Mrs Barry.

388
00:26:34,319 --> 00:26:36,275
.. and a deal of taking down.

389
00:26:39,559 --> 00:26:41,325
My Lord Rochester.

390
00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:43,191
I'm come as I said I would.

391
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,156
Will you have me lift my skirt?

392
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,831
Or do you have a mind
to raise it by your own endeavours?

393
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,276
I'm come to train you... in your acting.

394
00:26:53,311 --> 00:26:54,838
So you said when we first met,

395
00:26:54,839 --> 00:26:58,388
but your reputation being what it is,
I thought you meant something different.

396
00:26:58,559 --> 00:27:00,515
I have, I hope, many reputations.

397
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,955
I am come, I say, to train you...

398
00:27:02,990 --> 00:27:05,194
in your stage acting

399
00:27:05,559 --> 00:27:08,405
Never in my life
have I heard you spoken of as an actor.

400
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,591
That does not deter me
from spreading my insights to others

401
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,633
- I thought it would not.
- Then we shall begin

402
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,284
You are familiar with the plays of Mr Etherege?

403
00:27:18,319 --> 00:27:20,913
- There are but two my lord
- Not for long, I fear.

404
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,555
The Comical Revenge or Love In A Tub

405
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,433
Have you seen Mrs Betterton playing Graciana?

406
00:27:26,468 --> 00:27:28,078
Yes, I'm her understudy.

407
00:27:28,079 --> 00:27:30,035
Indeed.

408
00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:32,377
Act Two, Scene Two.

409
00:27:32,412 --> 00:27:34,394
I shall play Beaufort.

410
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:36,511
Graciana, why do you condemn your love?

411
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,309
Your beauty without that, alas,
would prove but my destruction.

412
00:27:40,344 --> 00:27:44,192
An unlucky star
prognosticating ruin and despair.

413
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:45,925
You mistake.

414
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,918
'Tis not my love I blame, but my discretion.

415
00:27:49,319 --> 00:27:52,755
Here the active flame should yet
a longer time have been concealed.

416
00:27:52,790 --> 00:27:55,652
Too soon too soon I fear i was revealed

417
00:27:55,687 --> 00:27:58,514
Our weaker sex glories in surprise.

418
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,473
We boast the sudden conquests of our eyes.

419
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,485
But men esteem a foe that dares contend

420
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,605
One that with noble courage
does defend a wounded heart.

421
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,269
The victories they gain, they prize
by their own hazard and their pain.

422
00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:14,397
That was not Elizabeth Barry.
That was Mrs Betterton.

423
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,445
LIZZIE: An understudy must imiate not create

424
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,914
- Yesterday you created
- Yesterday I was dismissed.

425
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,511
- But you played truthfully
- It costs too much to play the truth.

426
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,995
I do not think
you have considered this speech at all

427
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:27,996
Well, how would you have me do it?

428
00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:32,316
Let us consider now.

429
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,565
What does it mean, that speech
that Mrs Betterton mangled so?

430
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,752
Graciana means that she has given away
the secrets of her heart too freely.

431
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,713
Something that a gentlewoman
must not do to a gentleman.

432
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,195
- Why not?
- Because men will take love for granted

433
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:47,593
and then not prize it.

434
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,005
And is our author right? Do you believe that?

435
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,112
I believe men are hurdles
that must be negotiated.

436
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,073
Is that all? Do you never feel passion for us?

437
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,875
I've counterfeited passion in gentlemen's beds
if that is your meaning.

438
00:29:00,910 --> 00:29:03,074
Counterfei will not serve you on the stage

439
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,398
Yesterday I was jeered and taunted
by 400 ruffians.

440
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,152
I know that will not serve me.

441
00:29:08,319 --> 00:29:12,232
And so you will take their word against both
of ours and traffic in falsehood from now on?

442
00:29:12,267 --> 00:29:14,005
I don't know

443
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,554
Then let us gain knowledge.
To the speech again.

444
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,925
You played i sweetly

445
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,839
Graciana is not innocent
or she would not have such insight

446
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,605
If you had ever loved a man

447
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,017
you would say that speech wih regret

448
00:29:30,052 --> 00:29:32,395
Because you would fear the loss of him.

449
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,396
And supposing I have loved?

450
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,756
Then show me in the speech.

451
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,113
Sir, you mistake.

452
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,758
'Tis not my love I blame.

453
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:46,925
But my discretion.

454
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:51,112
Here the active flame should yet
a longer time have been concealed.

455
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,125
Too soon, too soon I fear it was revealed.

456
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:58,756
Our weaker sex glories in surprise.
We boast the sudden conquests of our eyes.

457
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,793
But men esteem a foe that dares contend.

458
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,111
One that with noble courage
does defend a wounded heart.

459
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,199
The victories they gain, they prize
by their own hazard and their pain.

460
00:30:09,234 --> 00:30:11,036
Well?

461
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,232
Was there improvement?

462
00:30:13,267 --> 00:30:14,672
Did you think so?

463
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:16,796
I wish to know your thoughts.

464
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,278
It was better.

465
00:30:21,559 --> 00:30:22,965
But now you're too angry.

466
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,675
Of course I'm fucking angry! You walk
into this theatre in your 30-shilling boots

467
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,957
telling me how I should set about my work!
I warn you, I have a temper.

468
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,038
And I have been known to strike out
with the first object at hand.

469
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:37,398
If that be a property blade, some have
sharper edges than is needful, so have a care.

470
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,356
Ahhh.

471
00:30:39,559 --> 00:30:42,232
To die onstage
at the hands of a beautiful woman.

472
00:30:42,267 --> 00:30:43,916
I am no such!

473
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,634
I think I can make you an actress of truth,
not a creature of artifice.

474
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,524
I can do this.

475
00:30:51,559 --> 00:30:54,790
But I cannot train you
unless you give a little towards me.

476
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,236
It's not in my nature to give.

477
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,045
I have my talent and I'm jealous of it.

478
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,437
And though I give you credit that you
and you alone in all the town have seen it,

479
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:12,078
I am not so dazzled by the lord and master
in you that I cannot resent you.

480
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,198
Yes.

481
00:31:15,559 --> 00:31:16,965
You are right.

482
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,549
I am intent on doing something
that no other has yet done.

483
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,718
And I lost my purpose yesterday
with fear of the pit.

484
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:25,605
But I will conquer them.

485
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:29,235
And it shall not be said
when I have my fame and my £2 a week

486
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:33,598
that Lord Rochester took to me and touched me
with the shining wing of his genius

487
00:31:33,633 --> 00:31:36,550
and so turned me
into a little corner of his greatness. No!

488
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:40,434
I shall be valued for me
and for what I knew I could do upon this stage!

489
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,559
And for what I, Lizzie Barry... how I...
I took the heat of my own soul and moulded it

490
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,673
and turned it into a wondrous thing
and so triumphed.

491
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,116
If I can help you to that triumph,

492
00:31:51,559 --> 00:31:55,837
I'm not so devoted to the trumpeting of
my own works that I would wish to take credit.

493
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,438
So you say now.

494
00:31:58,559 --> 00:32:02,365
But in the ale house, when the play is done,
and the talk is of my Cleopatra,

495
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,439
will you not glide towards your cronies
with a "I taught her that piece of business"

496
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,599
or "She could not be heard in the gallery
until I instructed her in a trick or two"?

497
00:32:10,634 --> 00:32:12,311
Madam I offer my services

498
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:16,717
If you see no advantage in them,
they can as easy be withdrawn.

499
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,753
You could buy my slit for a pound a night, sir.

500
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,645
I would not mind that.

501
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,114
But I think you would not have it so.

502
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:30,113
What I think you want is power over me,
which I do bridle at.

503
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,794
For it is only I who can do what you say I can do.

504
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,036
If you wish to play a part in this
I would strongly know why

505
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,514
Ask yourself what you want from the theatre.

506
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,325
I want the passionate love of my audience

507
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,716
I want when I make a sweep of my arm
to carry their hearts away.

508
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,556
And for when I die, for them
to sigh for never seeing me again.

509
00:32:50,559 --> 00:32:52,709
Till the next afternoon.

510
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,876
There is your answer.

511
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,712
I want to be one of that multitude.

512
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,036
I wish to be moved.

513
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,325
I cannot feel in life.

514
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,511
I must have others do it
for me here in the theatre.

515
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,632
You are spoken of as a man
with a stomach for life.

516
00:33:14,667 --> 00:33:17,160
I am the cynic of our golden age.

517
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,430
This bounteous dish,
which our great Charles and our great God

518
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:27,238
have, more or less in equal measure, placed
before us, sets my teeth permanently on edge.

519
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,509
Life has no purpose.
It is everywhere undone by arbitrariness.

520
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,518
I do this and it matters not a jot
if I do the opposite.

521
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,436
But in a playhouse,

522
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,685
every action, good or bad,
has its consequences.

523
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,837
Drop a handkerchief
and it will return to smother you.

524
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,485
The theatre is my drug.

525
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:56,992
And my illness is so far advanced
that my physic must be of the highest quality.

526
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,636
Oh, my lord,

527
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:07,033
on those conditions,
I endeavour to do what you want.

528
00:34:10,720 --> 00:34:15,396
What I want is that we meet again tomorrow
to consider Ophelia.

529
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,476
Ophelia?

530
00:34:18,879 --> 00:34:22,758
Mr Betterton will revive Hamlet next month
and you will play Ophelia.

531
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,596
Ophelia then if you wish.

532
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,390
But let us not neglect
the lesson in Mr Etherege's speech.

533
00:34:31,839 --> 00:34:33,795
And what is that?

534
00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:38,076
That women
should ever view men with suspicion.

535
00:34:41,919 --> 00:34:44,525
I shall be happy to return and address our work

536
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:48,951
with that instruction
written on the inside of my skull.

537
00:34:56,240 --> 00:34:59,391
- Do me now.
JANE: How?

538
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:01,636
Mouth.

539
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,738
Trembling,

540
00:35:19,773 --> 00:35:21,676
confused,

541
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,556
despairing, limber,

542
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,752
dry,

543
00:35:27,879 --> 00:35:29,631
A wishing, weak,

544
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,236
unmoving lump I lie.

545
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:36,832
This...

546
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:39,712
.. dart of love,

547
00:35:39,879 --> 00:35:41,835
whose piercing point, oft tried,

548
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,957
With virgin blood 10,000 maids have dyed,

549
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:51,394
Now languid lies in this unhappy hour.

550
00:35:52,359 --> 00:35:54,315
Shrunk up...

551
00:35:55,240 --> 00:35:57,125
.. and sapless,

552
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,196
like a withered flower.

553
00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:03,678
I have a feeling this is going nowhere

554
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,036
I have that feeling, too.

555
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,916
I've met this woman.

556
00:36:09,839 --> 00:36:11,989
Lizzie Barry

557
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,076
That new actress?

558
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,645
- She ain't no looker
- There is spirit in her.

559
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,717
When a gent sees the spirit
and not the eyes or the tits,

560
00:36:20,879 --> 00:36:22,835
then a gent is in trouble

561
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,565
Would you call me a cynic, Jane?

562
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:32,037
I'd call you a man who pretends
to like life more than he does.

563
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:35,952
Is that a cynic?

564
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,680
I'm just a moll-sack I don't do questions

565
00:36:41,879 --> 00:36:43,835
If I am a cynic,

566
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:50,357
how have I fallen in love with a plain woman,
whom I do not know?

567
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,405
You saw her on stage.

568
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,830
All the colours and them poems they say.

569
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,077
Gives them a glow

570
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,799
- You've seen her out of the theatre?
- No.

571
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,076
Well, then it's not her. It's the theatre.

572
00:37:04,111 --> 00:37:05,916
That or

573
00:37:06,839 --> 00:37:08,716
Or what?

574
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:13,556
They say men fall three times.

575
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:16,844
First is calf love.

576
00:37:16,879 --> 00:37:18,915
Second is the one you marry.

577
00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:22,676
And third?

578
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:24,678
Third

579
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,436
Third is your deathbed bride.

580
00:37:29,359 --> 00:37:32,112
You sniff her, you sniff your own shroud.

581
00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:34,125
Ah.

582
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,469
How you have cheered me.

583
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,884
Go home and sleep.

584
00:37:39,919 --> 00:37:42,399
- I don't want to sleep.
- Then go home and think.

585
00:37:42,434 --> 00:37:44,879
- I don't ever want to think again.
- John.

586
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,085
Don't make me care for you.

587
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:51,477
I'd rather you came your fetch over my face
than leave me with that,

588
00:37:52,399 --> 00:37:54,355
a lump of caring.

589
00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,636
Now go home and forget.

590
00:38:11,919 --> 00:38:15,150
ROCHESTER:
Much wine had passed wih grave discourse

591
00:38:15,185 --> 00:38:17,598
Of who fucks who and who does worse

592
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:24,297
When I who still take care to see
Drunkenness relieved by lechery

593
00:38:24,332 --> 00:38:29,474
Went out into St James's Park
To cool my head and fire my heart

594
00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:36,192
But though St James has the honour on't
'Tis consecrate to prick and cunt

595
00:38:36,319 --> 00:38:44,112
There by a most incestuous birth
Strange woods spring from the teeming earth

596
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:54,553
And nightly now beneath their shade
Are buggeries rapes and incests made

597
00:39:45,919 --> 00:39:47,875
Mr Huysmans.

598
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:53,637
Perhaps a bottle and a glass would be
handsome adornments to your composition?

599
00:39:53,672 --> 00:39:57,149
They are not appropriate objects
in a family portrait, my lord.

600
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,925
Mr Huysmans, here is another thought.

601
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,520
You see that monkey yonder
dancing to the fiddle?

602
00:40:11,839 --> 00:40:15,115
Can't help but notice
how human these creatures are

603
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,948
I would sit that monkey
on a pile of solemn volumes,

604
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:25,235
and place in her hand a scrap of paper as if
it were a poem she'd just written, do you see?

605
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:32,755
And while she is offering the poem to me,
I am crowning her with the bays.

606
00:40:34,839 --> 00:40:38,957
I find Lady Rochester
a more elegant and interesting subject.

607
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,405
You are wide of the point, sir.

608
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,557
Elegance, interest, all very well in their way.

609
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,518
But what do they illuminate?

610
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,068
Am I not then an apt partner for you to sit with?

611
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,205
You are apt, Elizabeth. You are very apt.

612
00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:53,310
But you would rather be painted with a monkey?

613
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,795
It is of a muchness.

614
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,952
You are both apt in your different ways.

615
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,835
In this portrait I am no better than a monkey
who knows the names of his ancestors.

616
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,309
And I?

617
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:13,031
A gaudy female monkey,
gloating over the opulence of your cage.

618
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:24,476
I love London.

619
00:41:25,399 --> 00:41:27,959
Everyone catches its generous spirit so quickly.

620
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,032
Indeed.

621
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:34,516
I do not mean to upset people, Alcock,
but I have to speak my mind,

622
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,909
because what is in my mind
is always more interesting

623
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,718
than what is happening
in the world outside my mind.

624
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,553
Makes you impossible to live with, though,
do you see?

625
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,395
Did I once praise you for your blunt manner?

626
00:41:49,399 --> 00:41:51,754
It was your reason for employing me.

627
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:57,429
It could as easy be your grounds for dismissal.

628
00:41:57,464 --> 00:42:00,595
Now, get me the monkey.

629
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,516
John.

630
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,799
John, I could bear our marriage more easily
if there were no pretence.

631
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:34,150
If I were merely a housekeeper
and a conduit for the noble line.

632
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:39,359
But when you're away you write
so beguilingly of how you love me and...

633
00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:43,125
.. I do not think you mean to torture me,

634
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,833
but it is a torture
to be informed of passion from a distance

635
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,076
and then in the flesh to be so reviled.

636
00:42:49,879 --> 00:42:52,974
You know I always mean to be well
when we are together,

637
00:42:53,009 --> 00:42:56,070
but after a few weeks, I find I have no gift for it.

638
00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,755
In my mind I am somewhere else.

639
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,957
Then cut me out of your heart completely
and have done.

640
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,033
Do not command me to do something
beyond my power.

641
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,657
Is the fault mine? If I were a better wife...

642
00:43:10,692 --> 00:43:13,195
would you not need
the whorehouse and the inn?

643
00:43:13,399 --> 00:43:15,754
Every man needs the whorehouse and the inn.

644
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:21,117
But it's not the inn or a whore that I see
in your eyes. It's some other creature.

645
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:24,476
The playhouse.

646
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,236
An actress.

647
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,749
And when your eyes shone the other day,
they were shining for her.

648
00:43:38,359 --> 00:43:40,315
They were.

649
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,669
I see I am more of an obstacle
to your London life than I supposed.

650
00:43:49,879 --> 00:43:51,835
I'll be gone by the morning.

651
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,236
My lord.

652
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:14,956
How is Ophelia in this scene?

653
00:44:16,359 --> 00:44:18,674
Well, she's mad. She's out of her wits.

654
00:44:18,709 --> 00:44:20,990
There are many ways to be out of your wits.

655
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:23,678
Yes.

656
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:25,996
Well, there's grief.

657
00:44:26,031 --> 00:44:27,933
And drink.

658
00:44:27,968 --> 00:44:29,862
And love.

659
00:44:29,897 --> 00:44:31,756
So I hear.

660
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,556
These different states,
how would you show them?

661
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:37,516
Show them?

662
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,396
Their physical manifestation.

663
00:44:43,720 --> 00:44:45,438
Close your eyes.

664
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:49,996
Close your eyes.

665
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:20,433
LIZZIE:
O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown

666
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:24,155
The courtier's soldier's scholar's
eye tongue sword and I

667
00:45:24,319 --> 00:45:25,752
Again.

668
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:27,990
O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown.

669
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:31,753
- The courtier's, soldier's...
- Again.

670
00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:37,597
O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown.
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye...

671
00:45:37,632 --> 00:45:38,913
Again.

672
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,230
- Eye tongue sword
- Again!

673
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,431
- O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown.
ECHO: is here o'erthrown

674
00:45:44,466 --> 00:45:46,270
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's...

675
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,236
- Again.
- What was wrong?

676
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,045
You know what was wrong. Again.

677
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:54,072
She has done this speech
20 times this afternoon.

678
00:45:54,399 --> 00:45:56,071
And she will do it 20 more.

679
00:45:56,319 --> 00:45:59,516
MOLLY: No-one has worked like this
in the history of the theatre

680
00:45:59,551 --> 00:46:02,670
- Exactly.
- O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown

681
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,072
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's,
eye, tongue, sword...

682
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:11,165
and I

683
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,270
of ladies most deject and wretched

684
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,878
that sucked the honey of his music vows

685
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:18,039
O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown.

686
00:47:19,359 --> 00:47:21,245
The courtier's,

687
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,236
soldier's, scholar's,

688
00:47:23,271 --> 00:47:25,156
eye, tongue,

689
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:27,556
sword,

690
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,365
and I,

691
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,358
of ladies most deject and wretched

692
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,954
that sucked the honey of his music vows

693
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:43,436
O, woe is me.

694
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:47,756
To see what I have seen.

695
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,116
O, see what I see.

696
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,430
And there's some fennel for you
and columbine.

697
00:47:55,465 --> 00:47:57,356
And there's rue for you.

698
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:02,636
And here's some for me.

699
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:09,714
We may call it herb of grace o' Sundays.

700
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:21,516
O, you must wear your rue with a difference.

701
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,076
LIZZIE: He is gone

702
00:48:28,111 --> 00:48:29,996
He is gone

703
00:48:32,359 --> 00:48:34,245
And we...

704
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,077
cast away, moan.

705
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:39,116
God have mercy on his soul

706
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,154
And of all ye Christian souls

707
00:48:43,189 --> 00:48:45,309
No-one likes a clever bastard.

708
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:48,716
I pray God

709
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,076
God be wi' ye

710
00:49:15,359 --> 00:49:19,637
Well, Lizzie, my congratulations.

711
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,509
Thank you, Mr Harris.

712
00:49:27,839 --> 00:49:29,795
Will you take the air with me?

713
00:49:29,830 --> 00:49:31,716
I was thinking...

714
00:49:31,751 --> 00:49:33,636
a drink.

715
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:39,233
Lord Rochester left at the curtain.

716
00:49:42,240 --> 00:49:44,196
Then I shall take the air alone.

717
00:49:44,231 --> 00:49:46,390
Good night.

718
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:56,516
Go on!

719
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:12,356
My lord.

720
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,115
Hurry!

721
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:17,479
Argh!

722
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:33,833
John.

723
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:35,876
Madam, this driveway will not do.

724
00:50:36,319 --> 00:50:38,205
Good afternoon, my lord.

725
00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:40,125
You sent no warning of your arrival.

726
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:42,993
The road is not functional
and the grounds are a swamp.

727
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:47,272
If you were here more often,
you'd know that Oxfordshire is not a dry county.

728
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,956
It is a good thing that John devote himself
to the House. I will not hear him reproved for it.

729
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:58,272
lunderstood that he was devoting himself
to an engagement in the theatre.

730
00:50:58,359 --> 00:51:01,908
That would not be appropriate
for a man of breeding.

731
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,591
Anyone can drink.

732
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:20,195
Only a few can match my determination.

733
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:25,036
We who are nobility
rise above the calls of the flesh.

734
00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:27,125
It is true.

735
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:29,993
We have our strength of will, do we not?

736
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:31,837
I hope we do.

737
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:38,236
But supposing we are perverse,

738
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:42,197
and use our will to bad ends?

739
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:45,114
Then we search deep inside ourselves,

740
00:51:46,839 --> 00:51:49,751
and we tear out the evil.

741
00:51:59,319 --> 00:52:01,355
Tear deeper, Mother.

742
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:23,396
ROCHESTER: Lizzie Barry!

743
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,236
Lizzie Barry!

744
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:31,436
Lizzie Barry!

745
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:38,350
I ran away from your love
and now I run towards i

746
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:41,475
Test my love in any way you see fi!

747
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:44,596
Test me!

748
00:52:45,879 --> 00:52:46,948
I will not fail!

749
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:42,432
15.

750
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:47,595
Get back some of the money I lost
on Lizzie "Horseface" Barry.

751
00:53:47,630 --> 00:53:50,398
Yes, how is that little caper going, Johnny?

752
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:53,596
I hear she charges by the minute.

753
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:00,599
Come on, Johnny. All gentlemen together.

754
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:02,716
You're not a gentleman, George.

755
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:06,916
You were trained as a lawyer.
And you write plays for money.

756
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:11,630
Oh, yes. And what about your commission
from the King? Does that not count?

757
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:13,552
That is quite different.

758
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:15,556
"Different"? Of course.

759
00:54:17,359 --> 00:54:20,476
May one enquire
how the great work progresses?

760
00:54:20,720 --> 00:54:23,085
Written the first line yet?

761
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:29,036
I, at least, do not plagiarise the wit of my friends
and pass it off as my own.

762
00:54:29,240 --> 00:54:30,719
Come on, Johnny, be fair.

763
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:43,437
Sit!

764
00:54:48,860 --> 00:54:50,816
What was the wager?

765
00:54:51,220 --> 00:54:53,609
The wager was 15 guineas.

766
00:54:56,020 --> 00:54:59,569
My Lord, the actress Elizabeth Barry's outside.

767
00:54:59,860 --> 00:55:01,816
She will wait.

768
00:55:02,740 --> 00:55:04,935
She's very insistent.

769
00:55:05,020 --> 00:55:07,295
She is a whore and she will wait!

770
00:55:21,060 --> 00:55:22,945
It's a made hand!

771
00:55:22,980 --> 00:55:25,210
I was not good in the play this afternoon.

772
00:55:25,380 --> 00:55:27,336
I craved reassurance.

773
00:55:28,260 --> 00:55:30,216
All I could think about was you.

774
00:55:34,020 --> 00:55:37,296
You see, that is where there is still
imbalance between us.

775
00:55:37,380 --> 00:55:40,611
Because you demand
so much of me and so little of yourself.

776
00:55:42,659 --> 00:55:45,617
You took my small gift and polished it
until it shone.

777
00:55:46,980 --> 00:55:49,699
Yet your own great gift you just throw away.

778
00:55:52,260 --> 00:55:54,145
There.

779
00:55:54,180 --> 00:55:56,136
You see? I went too far.

780
00:55:57,060 --> 00:56:01,053
A trait which in you is fascinating,
but in me is a fault.

781
00:56:22,020 --> 00:56:25,092
"And wit was his vain, frivolous pretence,

782
00:56:25,380 --> 00:56:28,417
of pleasing others at his own expense. "

783
00:56:35,940 --> 00:56:37,896
Lizzie Barry.

784
00:56:44,100 --> 00:56:46,056
Read me some more.

785
00:58:10,540 --> 00:58:12,451
I keep coming back to the French

786
00:58:12,540 --> 00:58:15,930
- There they are, the envy of Europe.
- They keep a nice class of brothel.

787
00:58:15,965 --> 00:58:18,733
Of course. They're a bunch of cunts.
That's not the point.

788
00:58:18,780 --> 00:58:23,251
Ineed money and they can provide it, and
I won't hide it from you, Johnny, things are bad.

789
00:58:23,580 --> 00:58:26,499
I can't get money out of Louis
unless I dissolve Parliament

790
00:58:26,534 --> 00:58:29,418
and I can't get money out of Parliament
unless I fight Louis.

791
00:58:29,453 --> 00:58:31,296
Well, choose.

792
00:58:31,740 --> 00:58:33,677
Ineed money from both of them.

793
00:58:33,712 --> 00:58:35,545
You spoke of a big challenge.

794
00:58:35,580 --> 00:58:38,458
Louis's sent in a new ambassador.
Cultivated type.

795
00:58:38,460 --> 00:58:40,416
Here's my plan.

796
00:58:40,860 --> 00:58:43,818
Your great work,
we stage it to welcome him to London.

797
00:58:43,853 --> 00:58:45,624
Big gesture of friendship.

798
00:58:45,659 --> 00:58:47,729
And we show we're better than they are.

799
00:58:48,060 --> 00:58:51,018
A spectacle with some really profound writing.

800
00:58:51,053 --> 00:58:52,578
You're the man for it.

801
00:58:52,860 --> 00:58:54,745
Will you do it for me?

802
00:58:54,780 --> 00:58:57,931
At Betterton's next spring
when the season's finished.

803
00:58:58,139 --> 00:59:00,025
You're desperate.

804
00:59:00,060 --> 00:59:03,496
What we need to celebrate is life itself.

805
00:59:03,531 --> 00:59:06,933
Well, I'm obviously the man for that.

806
00:59:07,260 --> 00:59:10,411
Good. I'll send Chiffinch
to talk to you about the money.

807
00:59:10,619 --> 00:59:13,372
Costumes, settings, something really splendid.

808
00:59:13,407 --> 00:59:14,976
Splendid, yes.

809
00:59:15,420 --> 00:59:17,376
And unusual.

810
00:59:18,300 --> 00:59:20,256
There, John.

811
00:59:20,291 --> 00:59:22,176
Fruit.

812
00:59:22,619 --> 00:59:25,577
Fruit from South America... growing here.

813
00:59:26,460 --> 00:59:28,345
Dazzles the mind.

814
00:59:28,380 --> 00:59:31,656
Do you see what can be done
with knowledge and application?

815
00:59:43,420 --> 00:59:46,093
"I eat to swive and swive to eat again."

816
00:59:53,020 --> 00:59:54,958
Ink! Ink!

817
00:59:54,993 --> 00:59:56,896
Bring me ink!

818
01:00:03,100 --> 01:00:05,739
Not "drink", lump. Ink!

819
01:00:07,139 --> 01:00:10,051
Alcock, did I not leave you in the country?

820
01:00:10,086 --> 01:00:11,976
I walked back, my lord.

821
01:00:17,420 --> 01:00:19,358
Back again?

822
01:00:19,393 --> 01:00:21,225
Back again.

823
01:00:21,260 --> 01:00:23,216
Sceptres bear. Fear.

824
01:00:37,460 --> 01:00:41,009
I'm worried. This French business
couldn't be more important.

825
01:00:41,100 --> 01:00:43,056
What's he doing?

826
01:00:44,940 --> 01:00:46,825
He's writing.

827
01:00:46,860 --> 01:00:50,614
- For the first time since I've known him
- But what?

828
01:00:52,139 --> 01:00:54,077
Sublime thoughts.

829
01:00:54,112 --> 01:00:56,016
Philosophy in verse.

830
01:00:56,940 --> 01:00:59,170
I believe he is on the verge of greatness.

831
01:01:00,300 --> 01:01:02,256
You've read some?

832
01:01:03,180 --> 01:01:05,216
He shares everything with me.

833
01:01:08,460 --> 01:01:10,416
You should wear more jewellery.

834
01:01:11,340 --> 01:01:13,854
LIZZIE: I cannot provide for i on my wages

835
01:01:14,220 --> 01:01:16,254
CHARLES ll: Does not the Earl provide?

836
01:01:16,289 --> 01:01:18,289
The Earl is not one of life's providers.

837
01:01:18,460 --> 01:01:20,345
But the King is.

838
01:01:20,380 --> 01:01:22,940
If you want the best, you may receive it from me.

839
01:01:25,660 --> 01:01:27,935
I shall be everything you wish me to be.

840
01:01:28,060 --> 01:01:32,019
I wish you to be my eyes and ears
on his earlship.

841
01:01:32,860 --> 01:01:34,816
I am his lover.

842
01:01:36,220 --> 01:01:38,176
But I am your true subject.

843
01:01:39,580 --> 01:01:41,536
Then you'll serve me in this matter?

844
01:01:43,420 --> 01:01:45,376
Yes, I will.

845
01:01:48,220 --> 01:01:51,212
And we shall both... profit.

846
01:02:56,580 --> 01:03:01,415
Does the writing of the play go well, my lord?

847
01:03:03,300 --> 01:03:07,339
Alcock, try not to be a cunt.

848
01:03:08,100 --> 01:03:10,534
We will do this until you get it right.

849
01:03:11,460 --> 01:03:13,496
My lord, Alice Twooney has sent word.

850
01:03:13,860 --> 01:03:15,930
Her child is sick and she shan't come.

851
01:03:16,740 --> 01:03:18,651
What was to be her role?

852
01:03:19,139 --> 01:03:22,336
- She was playing little Clytoris.
- Of course

853
01:03:22,980 --> 01:03:24,299
Alcock!

854
01:03:27,260 --> 01:03:30,218
- This is your moment. You will stand in for her.
- No, my lord.

855
01:03:30,253 --> 01:03:32,607
- I beg your pardon.
- I'm Alcock.

856
01:03:33,020 --> 01:03:35,170
Little Clytoris is beyond my range.

857
01:03:36,380 --> 01:03:38,018
Molly.

858
01:03:38,180 --> 01:03:41,013
I am not a visible person.

859
01:03:41,380 --> 01:03:43,336
Do not cross me.

860
01:03:44,900 --> 01:03:50,020
Madam, your dildos
are not to compare with what I've seen.

861
01:03:50,180 --> 01:03:52,136
Indeed, they're paltry ware.

862
01:03:53,060 --> 01:03:55,938
Short dildos leave the pleasure half undone.

863
01:03:55,940 --> 01:03:58,090
I'm sorry, my lord, I do have a question.

864
01:03:59,300 --> 01:04:04,818
Are you sure this entertainment will be fitting
for both the occasion and the company?

865
01:04:06,380 --> 01:04:09,705
Molly, the entire piece has been devised
with the French in mind.

866
01:04:09,740 --> 01:04:14,450
In Paris, fornication in the streets
with total strangers is compulsory.

867
01:04:15,500 --> 01:04:18,856
Oh, beg pardon, my lord,
my most southerly venture is Epsom.

868
01:04:19,340 --> 01:04:20,745
HARRIS: My lord!

869
01:04:20,780 --> 01:04:22,532
I asked for no interruptions.

870
01:04:22,700 --> 01:04:24,584
My suit is one of the utmost urgency.

871
01:04:24,619 --> 01:04:27,656
The stage direction
at the end of this scene requires,

872
01:04:27,980 --> 01:04:30,619
in my opinion, some authorial exposition.

873
01:04:30,860 --> 01:04:32,816
It seems straightforward enough.

874
01:04:32,851 --> 01:04:34,611
Yes. Um...

875
01:04:34,700 --> 01:04:37,419
"Then dance six naked men and women,

876
01:04:37,580 --> 01:04:41,050
the men doing obedience to the women's cunts,

877
01:04:41,085 --> 01:04:42,825
kissing and touching them often.

878
01:04:42,860 --> 01:04:45,738
The women in like manner to the men's pricks,

879
01:04:46,220 --> 01:04:48,814
kissing and dandling their cods,

880
01:04:48,849 --> 01:04:50,505
and then fall to fucking,

881
01:04:50,540 --> 01:04:54,738
after which the women sigh
and the men look simple, and so sneak off. "

882
01:04:55,820 --> 01:04:58,095
The end of the second act

883
01:04:58,220 --> 01:04:59,972
A strong scene.

884
01:05:00,139 --> 01:05:03,973
An eminently playable scene,
and, though I say it myself, a climactic one.

885
01:05:04,860 --> 01:05:08,216
And will the kind of equipment
that young lady has in her hand

886
01:05:08,700 --> 01:05:10,656
be available to gentlemen for...

887
01:05:12,060 --> 01:05:15,939
.. strapping around the middle
for the execution of this scene?

888
01:05:16,860 --> 01:05:19,215
I had not envisaged you to be so encumbered.

889
01:05:20,700 --> 01:05:25,196
I feel the scene should be given... in the flesh.

890
01:05:25,231 --> 01:05:29,692
And will we give... two performances on the day?

891
01:05:29,860 --> 01:05:31,465
No, Mr Harris.

892
01:05:31,500 --> 01:05:34,537
Oh, I am glad to hear that from the author.

893
01:05:34,660 --> 01:05:39,176
With the dress rehearsal, the court performance
and the public showing, I envisage three.

894
01:05:39,220 --> 01:05:43,611
Right. I don't know if you've met
my regular understudy, Mr Lightman.

895
01:05:43,940 --> 01:05:45,825
He's a most dependable fellow.

896
01:05:45,860 --> 01:05:48,533
Sir, you have the honour
of playing my understudy.

897
01:05:48,740 --> 01:05:53,256
Well, I shall take this opportunity
to withdraw from the engagement.

898
01:05:54,500 --> 01:05:56,968
You are one of life's understudies!

899
01:06:10,260 --> 01:06:13,058
If tonight goes wrong,
we'll be at war within a week.

900
01:06:16,660 --> 01:06:19,128
Have faith.

901
01:06:19,300 --> 01:06:23,373
Whatever else may go wrong,
your words will command admiration.

902
01:06:25,340 --> 01:06:27,296
They always do.

903
01:06:29,660 --> 01:06:32,697
Lizzie. You're looking pale.

904
01:06:32,780 --> 01:06:36,534
Molly, work the magic of your art on Mrs Barry.

905
01:06:46,540 --> 01:06:48,496
There's the French ambassador.

906
01:06:55,820 --> 01:06:57,572
No. Makes me weepy.

907
01:07:11,820 --> 01:07:14,539
I weep, but from a different end.

908
01:07:52,660 --> 01:07:54,855
Very good, this Italian workmanship.

909
01:07:56,180 --> 01:07:58,425
People pay more for quality.

910
01:08:03,780 --> 01:08:05,816
I'd like to meet the man who wrote this.

911
01:09:21,700 --> 01:09:25,579
Thus in the zenith of my lust I reign.

912
01:09:25,700 --> 01:09:29,215
I eat to swive and swive to eat again.

913
01:09:29,420 --> 01:09:34,414
Let other monarchs who their sceptres bear
to keep their subjects less in love than fear

914
01:09:34,420 --> 01:09:36,785
be slaves to crowns

915
01:09:36,820 --> 01:09:40,699
My nation shall be free.
My pintle only shall my sceptre be.

916
01:09:42,139 --> 01:09:44,607
My laws shall act more pleasure than command

917
01:09:45,020 --> 01:09:49,457
and with my prick, I'll govern all the land.

918
01:09:49,492 --> 01:09:51,330
Chas, tell me this ain't happening.

919
01:09:51,500 --> 01:09:55,015
He's gonna get his prick out any second.
I can feel it in my water.

920
01:09:55,139 --> 01:09:59,212
It's very amusing, because in France
he would be executed for this.

921
01:09:59,460 --> 01:10:03,499
ROCHESTER: The King commands all men
from humid cunt to humane arsonist

922
01:10:03,534 --> 01:10:06,416
Buggery we choose and buggery we'll allow

923
01:10:06,660 --> 01:10:11,290
I do proclaim the manly arse so firm
shall be the sole recipient

924
01:10:11,460 --> 01:10:12,865
of sperm!

925
01:10:12,900 --> 01:10:16,654
CHARLES ll:
Lord Rochester, this portrayal of yours...

926
01:10:18,020 --> 01:10:20,659
.. would it be based on a particular monarch?

927
01:10:20,694 --> 01:10:22,490
No, Your Highness.

928
01:10:22,820 --> 01:10:28,133
My character is far too fantastic a creation
ever to have drawn breath.

929
01:10:28,420 --> 01:10:31,298
Now resume your seat.
You're intruding on my stage.

930
01:10:31,333 --> 01:10:33,135
No, you're intruding on mine.

931
01:10:33,820 --> 01:10:38,814
I hand you a chance to show your shining talent
and what do you give me in return?

932
01:10:38,820 --> 01:10:44,452
A pornographic representation of a royal court
where the men deal only in buggery

933
01:10:44,660 --> 01:10:48,699
and the women's sole object of interest
is the dildo!

934
01:10:48,734 --> 01:10:50,889
A monument to your reign.

935
01:10:52,259 --> 01:10:53,487
Johnny!

936
01:11:08,900 --> 01:11:11,653
CHARLES ll:
Disappear? People don't disappear.

937
01:11:15,700 --> 01:11:17,452
Monsieur Barrillon.

938
01:11:17,620 --> 01:11:22,978
Your Majesty, it is with regret that I must
make my return to France tout de suite.

939
01:11:41,420 --> 01:11:43,376
I hate racing.

940
01:11:43,740 --> 01:11:46,015
The sport of kings? The sport of peasants!

941
01:11:46,139 --> 01:11:48,937
Come on, Georgie. You like it when you win.

942
01:11:49,020 --> 01:11:52,649
I must have seen the backside of £60 today.

943
01:11:52,684 --> 01:11:54,336
I could have bought a horse.

944
01:11:54,780 --> 01:11:59,331
Vanishing Spark. Why did you let me
bet on a horse called Vanishing Spark?

945
01:11:59,366 --> 01:12:00,613
What the fuck?

946
01:12:01,980 --> 01:12:03,732
Johnny?

947
01:12:04,660 --> 01:12:06,093
Gents

948
01:12:06,259 --> 01:12:09,012
spare a drink for a couple of chums?

949
01:12:09,820 --> 01:12:11,048
Where've you been?

950
01:12:11,259 --> 01:12:14,137
Our show was such a success in the capital,

951
01:12:15,100 --> 01:12:18,649
we had to undertake
an extensive tour of the provinces.

952
01:12:18,940 --> 01:12:23,252
Now, where's the fucking drink?

953
01:12:23,259 --> 01:12:25,693
Come on, Charlie, get out your winnings.

954
01:12:26,020 --> 01:12:28,898
CHARLIE: This is i gentlemen!

955
01:12:28,900 --> 01:12:34,338
This is the residence of the whore
personally recommended by Mr Dryden himself,

956
01:12:34,373 --> 01:12:36,409
who glories in the name of Molly Noakes

957
01:12:36,660 --> 01:12:38,505
Well, what are we waiting for?

958
01:12:38,540 --> 01:12:41,338
- Open up, keepers of the gate!
- Molly!

959
01:12:41,420 --> 01:12:43,251
Molly!

960
01:12:43,339 --> 01:12:45,224
- Molly...
- Molly!

961
01:12:45,259 --> 01:12:47,534
- Gentlemen?
ROCHESTER: Where's Molly?

962
01:12:47,660 --> 01:12:49,935
DOWNS: We want Molly and we want her fast.

963
01:12:50,060 --> 01:12:53,416
Young man, you are pissing on my top boots.

964
01:12:53,420 --> 01:12:56,378
Yes, fellow.
But you are a whorehouse doorstep man

965
01:12:56,780 --> 01:12:58,930
and we are the cream of the country.

966
01:13:00,139 --> 01:13:02,095
I am Constable of the Watch.

967
01:13:03,500 --> 01:13:05,775
Dryden can't even write a shag map.

968
01:13:05,900 --> 01:13:08,619
You, sir, are a rogue and a liar.

969
01:13:09,259 --> 01:13:11,056
Murder!

970
01:13:11,179 --> 01:13:12,214
Help!

971
01:13:23,660 --> 01:13:25,969
Now, then, gentlemen...

972
01:13:27,020 --> 01:13:31,252
I do believe there's been
a small species of error.

973
01:13:31,339 --> 01:13:33,614
We are Johnny! Johnny!

974
01:13:33,740 --> 01:13:35,298
Johnny!

975
01:13:35,580 --> 01:13:37,138
No!

976
01:13:38,940 --> 01:13:39,577
Argh!

977
01:13:40,380 --> 01:13:41,529
Argh!

978
01:13:41,820 --> 01:13:43,970
My eyes!

979
01:14:06,900 --> 01:14:08,856
Johnny, please...

980
01:14:13,620 --> 01:14:15,576
Johnny!

981
01:14:28,500 --> 01:14:30,456
I told you.

982
01:14:34,740 --> 01:14:36,696
CHARLES ll: It's been six months

983
01:14:37,620 --> 01:14:40,293
Where the fuck is he?

984
01:14:40,500 --> 01:14:41,853
Find him

985
01:14:41,940 --> 01:14:43,089
Your Majesty.

986
01:14:56,339 --> 01:14:58,978
ROCHESTER:
I find myself at the gates of death

987
01:14:59,219 --> 01:15:01,687
almost blind and utterly lame

988
01:15:02,580 --> 01:15:05,811
Scarce wih the reasonable hope
of ever seeing you again

989
01:15:06,900 --> 01:15:10,256
Wih my sickness
i seems the world has turned hateful of me

990
01:15:10,740 --> 01:15:16,372
But I will rise again to right this injustice
and take back your heart

991
01:15:19,380 --> 01:15:23,578
The mercury cures the pox,
but it scrambles the mind.

992
01:15:25,620 --> 01:15:27,611
Poses a problem for a gent, does it not?

993
01:15:27,646 --> 01:15:29,258
The prick or the brain?

994
01:15:29,460 --> 01:15:32,133
Shh. Johnny, shush.

995
01:15:49,780 --> 01:15:54,251
He's been seen in Cheapside,
accompanied by a serving man and a whore.

996
01:15:56,020 --> 01:15:58,170
If he's very drunk, he'll be no problem.

997
01:15:58,420 --> 01:16:00,376
If he's a bit drunk, be careful.

998
01:16:00,411 --> 01:16:02,705
What if he's sober?

999
01:16:02,740 --> 01:16:04,093
You've got the wrong man.

1000
01:16:08,020 --> 01:16:09,976
Ladies and gents!

1001
01:16:10,420 --> 01:16:11,919
Gather near!

1002
01:16:11,954 --> 01:16:13,418
Listen well.

1003
01:16:13,780 --> 01:16:17,957
For I got a doctor's cure to sell.

1004
01:16:17,992 --> 01:16:22,134
Mouth, stomach, knees and toes.

1005
01:16:22,380 --> 01:16:26,373
All be cured by Dr Bendo.

1006
01:16:30,540 --> 01:16:32,735
Little chicken.

1007
01:16:40,940 --> 01:16:42,817
Questurino!

1008
01:16:46,219 --> 01:16:47,732
Mayo.

1009
01:16:48,620 --> 01:16:50,053
In honestus.

1010
01:16:51,420 --> 01:16:52,899
Gulpo.

1011
01:16:56,820 --> 01:16:57,809
Poofay.

1012
01:17:21,380 --> 01:17:24,816
In flatuo. In flatuo.

1013
01:17:25,219 --> 01:17:29,292
The French, Parliament, his syphilitic earlship.

1014
01:17:29,780 --> 01:17:33,853
I'm being pissed on
from half a dozen directions at once,

1015
01:17:33,888 --> 01:17:37,010
and it don't accord with my majestic dignity.

1016
01:17:37,380 --> 01:17:40,656
We have three confirmed sightings.
Our sources are impeccable.

1017
01:17:41,860 --> 01:17:43,816
Take me to them. Now.

1018
01:17:44,740 --> 01:17:46,696
I've shut up shop for the day.

1019
01:17:47,139 --> 01:17:49,494
I had to turn 40 people away.

1020
01:17:50,500 --> 01:17:54,209
I think it mean work
cozening citizens of their money.

1021
01:17:54,339 --> 01:17:56,224
We made £80 today.

1022
01:17:56,259 --> 01:17:59,012
We are here for our recreation.

1023
01:17:59,139 --> 01:18:01,494
We're here cos
we can't show our faces.

1024
01:18:01,540 --> 01:18:05,374
Do you ever think... on our Lord Jesus Christ?

1025
01:18:08,740 --> 01:18:10,890
He was cast like me into the wilderness.

1026
01:18:12,100 --> 01:18:14,056
He was scorned and reviled.

1027
01:18:15,940 --> 01:18:18,090
He was betrayed by his followers.

1028
01:18:18,500 --> 01:18:23,699
I believe that in most respects,
his life was of a different character from yours.

1029
01:18:23,780 --> 01:18:27,250
He would have brought Billy Downs
back from death.

1030
01:18:27,285 --> 01:18:28,976
Ach, these are wandering thoughts.

1031
01:18:37,020 --> 01:18:38,738
Leave me.

1032
01:18:41,820 --> 01:18:43,776
Go!

1033
01:18:54,179 --> 01:18:55,089
Johnny!

1034
01:18:57,380 --> 01:18:58,813
Johnny!

1035
01:18:58,820 --> 01:19:01,129
Argh! Johnny!

1036
01:19:04,100 --> 01:19:05,613
Leave him alone!

1037
01:19:06,980 --> 01:19:08,936
On your knees.

1038
01:19:19,460 --> 01:19:21,416
I'm not impressed.

1039
01:19:22,820 --> 01:19:26,025
It has taken you six months to find me.

1040
01:19:26,060 --> 01:19:30,292
You think in six months I've given you
more than five minutes' thought?

1041
01:19:30,327 --> 01:19:33,251
Those Parliament bastards
are trying to shaft me again

1042
01:19:33,500 --> 01:19:36,298
wih the new bill to exclude my successors

1043
01:19:36,333 --> 01:19:37,971
Subtle.

1044
01:19:38,139 --> 01:19:42,371
Instead of chopping kings' heads off,
you pick and choose the ones you want.

1045
01:19:43,900 --> 01:19:46,892
That's my civil war. Not you.

1046
01:19:54,299 --> 01:19:59,851
Mr Etherege is packing out the Dorset Gardens
with you as the greatest spark on Earth.

1047
01:20:00,060 --> 01:20:04,611
The East End is throwing down its purse
for you to be a quack doctor.

1048
01:20:04,860 --> 01:20:10,253
And the town has you branded as a coward
who leaves his friend to die in a brawl.

1049
01:20:10,288 --> 01:20:12,289
All men would be cowards...

1050
01:20:12,324 --> 01:20:14,290
if they only had the courage.

1051
01:20:14,460 --> 01:20:17,099
The boy died and you ran off.

1052
01:20:17,339 --> 01:20:19,295
I have to go too far, do you see?

1053
01:20:21,179 --> 01:20:23,932
I must always exceed
or I do not feel like I'm alive.

1054
01:20:24,060 --> 01:20:29,054
And that's why the great epic about my reign
became a squalid little play about knobbing.

1055
01:20:29,089 --> 01:20:30,976
And that's why Downs died.

1056
01:20:36,060 --> 01:20:38,893
I thought about putting you in the Tower.

1057
01:20:42,780 --> 01:20:46,011
I even considered putting your head on a spike.

1058
01:20:47,540 --> 01:20:50,054
But I've decided on something worse.

1059
01:20:51,380 --> 01:20:53,336
I'm going to ignore you

1060
01:20:54,620 --> 01:20:58,932
I will no longer encourage
any hope in my breast for you.

1061
01:21:00,139 --> 01:21:02,528
I am condemning you to be you,

1062
01:21:02,540 --> 01:21:04,690
for the rest of your days

1063
01:21:34,060 --> 01:21:36,016
How I hate the country.

1064
01:21:47,980 --> 01:21:49,698
Drink.

1065
01:21:50,860 --> 01:21:52,134
Drink!

1066
01:22:06,700 --> 01:22:08,258
The shelves are empty, my lord.

1067
01:22:08,620 --> 01:22:10,576
Go to the cellars, cunt!

1068
01:22:11,980 --> 01:22:14,574
I said, find me a fucking drink.

1069
01:22:59,259 --> 01:23:02,888
Are you unable to discharge your duties
as housekeeper?

1070
01:23:03,100 --> 01:23:06,331
ALCOCK: I fear this is the last my lord

1071
01:23:07,420 --> 01:23:10,173
Elizabeth, why has the cellar
not been replenished?

1072
01:23:10,299 --> 01:23:11,527
Leave us.

1073
01:23:12,700 --> 01:23:14,053
Leave us!

1074
01:23:14,139 --> 01:23:16,175
My lady.

1075
01:23:31,139 --> 01:23:34,688
I am ever your last resort. When your mistress
has kicked you into the street

1076
01:23:34,723 --> 01:23:37,617
and the last whore in Covent Garden
refuses to attend to you,

1077
01:23:37,860 --> 01:23:39,612
then and only then do you come to me!

1078
01:23:39,780 --> 01:23:44,729
I think you will never be a contented woman
until you are a much-respected widow.

1079
01:23:44,764 --> 01:23:48,136
And I am hard at work
on doing you that last good service.

1080
01:23:48,219 --> 01:23:52,053
I don't want you to die!
I want you to live, and live differently!

1081
01:23:55,219 --> 01:23:57,175
- Ow!
- Stop it!

1082
01:24:04,660 --> 01:24:06,252
Elizabeth!

1083
01:24:07,740 --> 01:24:10,945
Why? If it's good for you,
is it not good for me, too?

1084
01:24:10,980 --> 01:24:14,416
- It is not good for me.
- Why then do you pursue that path?

1085
01:24:17,139 --> 01:24:18,936
When were you last a sober man?

1086
01:24:24,780 --> 01:24:26,736
Three years...

1087
01:24:27,660 --> 01:24:29,616
No, four...

1088
01:24:31,020 --> 01:24:32,976
Four years ago.

1089
01:24:33,900 --> 01:24:36,698
Five. Five.

1090
01:24:36,780 --> 01:24:38,816
And are you not, John, a rational man?

1091
01:24:40,620 --> 01:24:43,054
Has not your intellect been widely praised?

1092
01:24:43,500 --> 01:24:45,745
It has.

1093
01:24:45,780 --> 01:24:47,736
So, this man of intellect,

1094
01:24:48,060 --> 01:24:49,945
this rational man,

1095
01:24:49,980 --> 01:24:54,531
knowing that five years of constant drinking
have rendered his body feeble and his spirit low,

1096
01:24:54,780 --> 01:24:56,665
what would this man of intellect do?

1097
01:24:56,700 --> 01:25:00,056
- You seek to trap me like a cunning lawyer!
- What would he do?

1098
01:25:00,060 --> 01:25:02,779
He would desist! Cunt!

1099
01:25:02,820 --> 01:25:04,731
Yes, he would desist. And those he loved,

1100
01:25:05,060 --> 01:25:07,813
would they not show their love
by beseeching him to desist?

1101
01:25:07,940 --> 01:25:10,408
It is not so simple, my darling.

1102
01:25:49,700 --> 01:25:52,219
I've heard men say that the devil is in you.

1103
01:25:52,254 --> 01:25:54,739
If that be so, I know how he made his entrance.

1104
01:26:04,580 --> 01:26:08,573
He has suffered much
both in sickness and in reputation.

1105
01:26:10,820 --> 01:26:12,776
You're a man of God.

1106
01:26:13,700 --> 01:26:15,531
Bring my son to him.

1107
01:26:23,780 --> 01:26:25,184
My son,

1108
01:26:25,219 --> 01:26:28,370
God has seen fit
to visit these terrible diseases on you.

1109
01:26:29,540 --> 01:26:33,897
But it torments me less as a mother
to see you die in agony in the arms of God...

1110
01:26:34,820 --> 01:26:37,015
.. than live an atheist.

1111
01:26:37,219 --> 01:26:38,777
Mother.

1112
01:27:03,740 --> 01:27:06,777
If God wants men to have faith,

1113
01:27:08,820 --> 01:27:11,493
why does he not make us
more disposed to believe?

1114
01:27:11,700 --> 01:27:14,817
Most men are so disposed.

1115
01:27:15,540 --> 01:27:16,945
But not me.

1116
01:27:16,980 --> 01:27:20,256
Because you set your reason against religion.

1117
01:27:20,340 --> 01:27:21,932
I despised reason.

1118
01:27:22,259 --> 01:27:24,215
You clung to reason.

1119
01:27:25,139 --> 01:27:28,609
You laughed in the face of God
with the aid of reason.

1120
01:27:30,900 --> 01:27:32,856
Speak me that speech again.

1121
01:27:34,740 --> 01:27:36,696
Those words from Isaiah.

1122
01:27:40,500 --> 01:27:44,334
"And he is despised and rejected of men.

1123
01:27:45,780 --> 01:27:47,736
A man of sorrows...

1124
01:27:49,139 --> 01:27:51,095
.. and acquainted with grief. "

1125
01:27:52,020 --> 01:27:54,773
And we hid our faces from him.

1126
01:27:56,340 --> 01:27:58,458
God, raise me from this bed

1127
01:27:58,493 --> 01:28:00,576
to do what I must do

1128
01:28:03,740 --> 01:28:06,891
We've taken soundings.
It's very close. We may be 15 votes short.

1129
01:28:07,060 --> 01:28:09,733
The House cannot give way to the King
on this matter!

1130
01:28:09,768 --> 01:28:11,576
Then get me 15 votes.

1131
01:28:12,020 --> 01:28:13,976
And I believe it will not!

1132
01:28:14,011 --> 01:28:15,776
Hear, hear!

1133
01:28:23,660 --> 01:28:26,652
The Earl of Rochester.

1134
01:28:28,219 --> 01:28:30,175
MAN: Coward!

1135
01:28:31,460 --> 01:28:34,099
ANOTHER MAN: Coward

1136
01:28:40,820 --> 01:28:42,776
My lord...

1137
01:28:44,179 --> 01:28:49,207
.. the bill before us would seek to bar
the King's brother from succeeding to the throne

1138
01:28:49,460 --> 01:28:52,532
on the grounds that he is a Catholic.

1139
01:28:53,780 --> 01:28:56,985
And for this reason i has been said

1140
01:28:57,020 --> 01:29:01,571
that no good Protestant
can speak against this bill.

1141
01:29:02,620 --> 01:29:08,490
And yet, sir, I cannot forbear
to offer some objections against it.

1142
01:29:09,820 --> 01:29:16,055
But the question will arise
in the minds of some lords here present...

1143
01:29:17,020 --> 01:29:18,976
.. as to whether I am indeed...

1144
01:29:20,860 --> 01:29:22,816
.. a good Protestant.

1145
01:29:26,139 --> 01:29:28,025
No man here

1146
01:29:28,060 --> 01:29:30,016
will question, I hope,

1147
01:29:32,380 --> 01:29:34,336
my goodness...

1148
01:29:35,259 --> 01:29:39,138
.. in any one of the three chief pursuits
of our age,

1149
01:29:39,173 --> 01:29:40,931
the scribbling of verses,

1150
01:29:41,020 --> 01:29:43,375
the emptying of bottles,

1151
01:29:44,380 --> 01:29:46,336
and the filling of wenches.

1152
01:29:48,700 --> 01:29:51,339
There may be those
with a claim to be as good as I,

1153
01:29:52,540 --> 01:29:56,613
but taking these three pursuits simultaneously...

1154
01:29:57,460 --> 01:29:59,416
.. and, sir, I have so taken them,

1155
01:29:59,580 --> 01:30:05,689
and can vouch
that considerable manual dexterity is required,

1156
01:30:06,780 --> 01:30:11,695
I cannot be equalled, let alone bettered.

1157
01:30:14,460 --> 01:30:20,456
So, let not my goodness be questioned.

1158
01:30:28,420 --> 01:30:31,776
It is not so many years
since our present king's father

1159
01:30:33,299 --> 01:30:38,009
.. was killed on a kind of stage,
outside the walls of this very building.

1160
01:30:40,060 --> 01:30:46,693
And, in time, his murderers were condemned
and themselves executed.

1161
01:30:47,540 --> 01:30:49,425
But...

1162
01:30:49,460 --> 01:30:53,612
were they condemned without being heard?

1163
01:30:56,660 --> 01:30:58,616
They were not.

1164
01:31:00,020 --> 01:31:05,014
In spite of the certainty of their guilt
and the horrid weight of their cowardly crime,

1165
01:31:06,740 --> 01:31:10,858
they were allowed the due process of law.

1166
01:31:12,980 --> 01:31:15,335
But what is suggested before this House...

1167
01:31:16,340 --> 01:31:20,731
.. is that we condemn
that murdered king's second son

1168
01:31:20,766 --> 01:31:24,699
with less shrift than was given to his killers.

1169
01:31:26,900 --> 01:31:30,893
My lord, let us have justice.

1170
01:31:32,660 --> 01:31:40,294
When the time arrives for our good
and present king to be taken from us

1171
01:31:42,740 --> 01:31:47,939
let then his Catholic brother be impeached
in this House in the normal way.

1172
01:31:49,940 --> 01:31:55,298
And if he be found wanting,
then let his head be chopped off at the neck...

1173
01:31:57,940 --> 01:32:00,773
if the House feel that is what he meris

1174
01:32:03,700 --> 01:32:05,585
For my part

1175
01:32:05,620 --> 01:32:09,977
I shall believe my oath of allegiance
to the throne to be a thing inviolable...

1176
01:32:11,380 --> 01:32:14,816
.. and that whatever the faith
of the successor to the throne,

1177
01:32:15,700 --> 01:32:21,377
his pre-eminence in the royal lineage
must hold sway

1178
01:32:21,460 --> 01:32:24,338
over all other considerations.

1179
01:32:26,259 --> 01:32:28,215
Sir,

1180
01:32:28,660 --> 01:32:30,969
my humble motion...

1181
01:32:32,020 --> 01:32:33,976
.. is that the monarchy...

1182
01:32:34,011 --> 01:32:35,896
be upheld...

1183
01:32:36,820 --> 01:32:43,851
.. and this meddlesome and fractious bill
be thrown out forever.

1184
01:32:44,020 --> 01:32:45,976
MEMBERS: Hear, hear!

1185
01:32:48,340 --> 01:32:51,013
MAN: Kings are kings!
You can't pick and choose!

1186
01:32:52,179 --> 01:32:54,329
MAN: Throw it out! Throw it out!

1187
01:32:55,540 --> 01:32:57,496
MAN: He spoke for us all!

1188
01:33:17,660 --> 01:33:19,616
Johnny.

1189
01:33:20,060 --> 01:33:22,016
You did it.

1190
01:33:22,940 --> 01:33:24,896
You finally did something for me.

1191
01:33:25,820 --> 01:33:27,776
I didn't do it for you.

1192
01:33:27,811 --> 01:33:29,696
I did it for me.

1193
01:33:33,020 --> 01:33:35,614
Your Majesty, we won.

1194
01:33:35,900 --> 01:33:37,492
By 40 votes.

1195
01:33:45,420 --> 01:33:47,376
There you are, Johnny.

1196
01:33:48,780 --> 01:33:50,736
You did it.

1197
01:33:54,219 --> 01:33:55,618
Molly.

1198
01:33:55,660 --> 01:33:58,777
I've brought in the Earl to gawp at my triumph.

1199
01:33:59,020 --> 01:34:02,092
Authors have a place, Mr Etherege.
It is in the garret.

1200
01:34:02,127 --> 01:34:04,255
I do not like them cluttering up my theatre.

1201
01:34:04,299 --> 01:34:07,655
Lizzie won't see him.
She won't see Johnny. This is the only way.

1202
01:34:07,660 --> 01:34:09,412
I don't want her upset.

1203
01:34:09,580 --> 01:34:11,616
I could have written a splendid play.

1204
01:34:11,980 --> 01:34:13,918
No, you couldn't.

1205
01:34:13,953 --> 01:34:15,785
The Man Of Mode.

1206
01:34:15,820 --> 01:34:19,290
The spirit of the age caught for all time.

1207
01:34:19,660 --> 01:34:21,065
I did it.

1208
01:34:21,100 --> 01:34:24,456
You didn't, because you don't have the gift.

1209
01:34:27,820 --> 01:34:29,458
Gentle George.

1210
01:34:35,980 --> 01:34:38,210
- What is he doing here?
- Don't blame me.

1211
01:34:39,820 --> 01:34:42,015
John, I'll see you after. I'll be at Long's.

1212
01:34:42,219 --> 01:34:45,211
Very well. Lockett's?

1213
01:34:45,580 --> 01:34:48,014
Long's.

1214
01:34:50,380 --> 01:34:52,336
Long's.

1215
01:34:59,020 --> 01:35:00,976
I saw the first two acts.

1216
01:35:02,860 --> 01:35:04,816
And you didn't like me?

1217
01:35:04,851 --> 01:35:06,665
To the contrary.

1218
01:35:06,700 --> 01:35:09,373
I could bear your brilliance no longer.

1219
01:35:13,420 --> 01:35:15,775
Mr Harris, you are playing me.

1220
01:35:15,820 --> 01:35:18,937
The understudy has become the actor.

1221
01:35:19,179 --> 01:35:22,376
My lord, I heard news of your death
six months ago

1222
01:35:22,411 --> 01:35:24,056
and experienced a spasm of regret.

1223
01:35:24,500 --> 01:35:27,856
But your subsequent resurrection
has quite cured my grief.

1224
01:35:28,820 --> 01:35:33,291
I am nature, and you are art.

1225
01:35:35,540 --> 01:35:37,425
Let us see how we compare.

1226
01:35:37,460 --> 01:35:40,691
Mr Harris has a quick change
and you will let him be.

1227
01:35:40,860 --> 01:35:43,454
Here we have him, your Restoration gent.

1228
01:35:43,489 --> 01:35:45,409
He's not pissed his breeches today

1229
01:35:45,660 --> 01:35:51,496
and he can walk in a straight line for 200 yards
without falling on his face and retching.

1230
01:35:52,380 --> 01:35:54,336
Now,

1231
01:35:54,780 --> 01:35:57,453
look you upon this picture

1232
01:35:57,488 --> 01:35:59,135
and on this

1233
01:35:59,500 --> 01:36:01,775
He has not washed He cannot walk

1234
01:36:01,900 --> 01:36:08,055
And he most certainly will not be able to raise
either the price of his dinner or his own pintle.

1235
01:36:08,090 --> 01:36:09,976
I must be got into my nightgown.

1236
01:36:10,139 --> 01:36:12,209
This is what I envy in you stage people.

1237
01:36:12,244 --> 01:36:14,551
You make time seem so important.

1238
01:36:14,586 --> 01:36:16,858
I must change my clothes now!

1239
01:36:17,340 --> 01:36:19,137
I must make my entrance now!

1240
01:36:20,740 --> 01:36:23,338
But life is not a succession of urgent nows.

1241
01:36:23,373 --> 01:36:25,937
It is a listless trickle of Why should I's.

1242
01:36:26,020 --> 01:36:27,612
You're on.

1243
01:36:30,340 --> 01:36:32,376
MOLLY: Five minutes only, Mrs Barry.

1244
01:36:38,500 --> 01:36:40,775
Inever wanted you for a mistress, Lizzie.

1245
01:36:42,340 --> 01:36:44,058
I wanted you for my wife.

1246
01:36:47,620 --> 01:36:49,576
You have no understanding, do you?

1247
01:36:52,420 --> 01:36:56,618
It was not being your mistress
that I was tired of, John.

1248
01:36:57,219 --> 01:36:58,538
I was tired of you.

1249
01:36:59,620 --> 01:37:02,009
I did not wish to be your wife.

1250
01:37:02,020 --> 01:37:04,580
I do not wish to be anyone's wife.

1251
01:37:04,900 --> 01:37:07,858
I wish to continue being the creature I am.

1252
01:37:08,740 --> 01:37:11,300
London walks into this theatre to see me.

1253
01:37:11,620 --> 01:37:14,945
Not George's play, nor Mr Betterton.

1254
01:37:14,980 --> 01:37:17,733
They want me,
and they want me over and over again.

1255
01:37:18,820 --> 01:37:23,336
I will not swap my certain glory
for your undependable love.

1256
01:37:26,980 --> 01:37:28,936
I wanted you to have my child.

1257
01:37:28,971 --> 01:37:30,856
I had your child.

1258
01:37:31,780 --> 01:37:33,665
A daughter.

1259
01:37:33,700 --> 01:37:36,134
When the theatres were closed in the summer.

1260
01:37:36,580 --> 01:37:40,812
By the start of the season I was flat enough
to play Desdemona in a nightgown.

1261
01:37:40,900 --> 01:37:43,050
MOLLY: Two minutes, Mrs Barry, please.

1262
01:37:44,740 --> 01:37:46,696
What is her name?

1263
01:37:47,620 --> 01:37:49,133
Elizabeth.

1264
01:37:49,540 --> 01:37:51,496
Elizabeth?

1265
01:37:52,900 --> 01:37:54,856
The child of our passion.

1266
01:37:57,219 --> 01:38:01,770
When I bred my other children,
I placed no value on human life at all, and...

1267
01:38:03,940 --> 01:38:05,896
...now you send me away.

1268
01:38:06,820 --> 01:38:09,857
And I cannot go back to where I was before.

1269
01:38:12,100 --> 01:38:15,570
I shall never forgive you
for teaching me to love life.

1270
01:38:17,860 --> 01:38:21,136
If I taught you that, then our account is settled.

1271
01:38:22,179 --> 01:38:24,357
Your lesson to me was my livelihood.

1272
01:38:24,392 --> 01:38:26,536
And mine to you was life itself.

1273
01:38:27,940 --> 01:38:29,896
We have no need to meet again.

1274
01:38:31,780 --> 01:38:33,896
Lizzie.

1275
01:38:34,179 --> 01:38:36,065
If you are in London,

1276
01:38:36,100 --> 01:38:38,250
and you have half a crown in your pocket,

1277
01:38:38,500 --> 01:38:40,456
you may see me there.

1278
01:38:40,491 --> 01:38:42,376
For the rest,

1279
01:38:43,300 --> 01:38:45,336
I hope I shall always be in your heart,

1280
01:38:45,700 --> 01:38:48,055
sometimes in your thoughts,

1281
01:38:48,100 --> 01:38:50,694
but never in your debt.

1282
01:39:27,020 --> 01:39:28,976
I am 33...

1283
01:39:29,900 --> 01:39:31,856
.. years old.

1284
01:39:34,219 --> 01:39:36,175
I am dying.

1285
01:39:38,540 --> 01:39:41,338
I have tried to speak the truth.

1286
01:39:43,340 --> 01:39:45,900
But I have been betrayed.

1287
01:39:55,340 --> 01:39:57,296
Elizabeth...

1288
01:40:00,139 --> 01:40:04,337
.. speak to me of abduction.

1289
01:40:08,300 --> 01:40:10,256
I was 18.

1290
01:40:12,620 --> 01:40:15,817
And worth two and a half thousand a year.

1291
01:40:17,420 --> 01:40:19,376
You ambushed me,

1292
01:40:21,259 --> 01:40:23,898
bundled me into your coach
and rattled me away.

1293
01:40:25,580 --> 01:40:27,536
The King thrust...

1294
01:41:22,420 --> 01:41:25,412
He charmed the tenderest virgins with delight.

1295
01:41:26,259 --> 01:41:30,218
And with his style did fiercest blockheads fright.

1296
01:42:07,540 --> 01:42:09,610
So, there he lies at the last.

1297
01:42:10,420 --> 01:42:12,358
The deathbed convert.

1298
01:42:12,393 --> 01:42:14,296
The pious debauchee.

1299
01:42:16,179 --> 01:42:18,739
Could not dance half a measure, could I?

1300
01:42:20,500 --> 01:42:24,459
Give me wine, I'd drain the dregs
and toss the empty bottle at the world.

1301
01:42:25,300 --> 01:42:27,184
Show me our Lord Jesus in agony,

1302
01:42:27,219 --> 01:42:31,656
and I mount the cross
and steal his nails for my own palms.

1303
01:42:33,940 --> 01:42:40,857
There I go, shuffling from the world,
my dribble fresh upon a Bible.

1304
01:42:42,580 --> 01:42:46,812
I look upon a pinhead...
and I see angels dancing.

1305
01:42:49,300 --> 01:42:51,256
Well?

1306
01:42:52,660 --> 01:42:54,616
Do you like me now?

1307
01:42:57,940 --> 01:42:59,896
Do you like me now?

1308
01:43:05,139 --> 01:43:07,095
Do you like me now?

1309
01:43:11,860 --> 01:43:13,816
Do you like me...

1310
01:43:13,851 --> 01:43:15,736
now?