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-Dr. Merivel.
-In a moment.

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-Doctor!
-In a moment!

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-Merivel, we must move on.
-I've sprinkled the lavell in to heal.

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This will strengthen the hand. We must
not allow the tendons to atrophy.

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-Merivel!
-I'll return this afternoon.

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Old Mr. Parr is suffering from
an extreme shortness of breath.

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-What do you prescribe?
-Let's try some syrup of sage flower.

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-Doctor! Doctor!
-Citron pills to relieve coughing.

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-Doctor! -I shall be with you
presently, Mr. Watchurst.

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-I'm starving.
-You can't be.

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-I am.
-You've already eaten.

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I had a piece of bread
and scarcely any cheese.

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There's no time to eat!

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For the five years we've worked here,
there is never time to eat.

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There is no time to drink. There is no
time, even, to look after our patients.

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Doctor! Doctor Merivel!

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Samuel needs you.

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Sam-Samuel! Samuel!
Look... Look at me!

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It's Robert. It's Robert. Quiet now.
Be quiet. Be quiet.

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Merivel! You must see to Parr.
He'll only accept comfort from you.

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Give him a complice for his head
and some chamomile.

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Mr. Parr!

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Mr. Parr, tell me
how you're feeling.

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Is there hope
I will get well again?

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There is always hope.

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You must rest and allow
my medicines to do their work.

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Dr. Merivel!
Doctor!

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I-I do what I can
to treat them.

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But our science gives us no hope
of curing most of them,

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and I am frustrated!

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No, I'm... frightened.

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Of what?

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Their faith
and my ignorance.

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That is why you prefer
a life of debauchery.

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Your mother died believing
you were a man of honor.

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And I beg her pardon every night, and
I am at the hospital every day for her.

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You mean your whoring is interrupted
daily by the care of the sick.

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You've not come to me for money
to spend on your medicines.

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Indeed I have, in a sense.

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The five shillings
I require are for...

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well, for a pawnbroker so I can
redeem my case of instruments.

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Father, I am sorry
to confess it.

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-You should be damned for it.
-I should.

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Look. Look at these hands.
Look at them.

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Worked to the bone for
your case of instruments,

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for your teachers and for
the books on your table.

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Or have they
been pawned too?

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So that the son of a glove maker...

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should not be denied
the use of those gifts...

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which marked you as a physician
before you could spell "physic".

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My gifts?

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Your gifts, Robert.

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Oh, yes, my gifts.

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My first patient was a frog.
I cured him of jumping.

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Now I can cure people
of breathing.

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My gifts, Father, bring me
to dark despair in dark rooms...

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so I can hear joy
in the street.

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The King is restored to us,
the theaters are open,

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the tailors and wig makers
are happy as whores...

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and rich men
go to heaven again.

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I would like to shake
the King's hand.

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Take the hand of your
friend Pearce, Robert.

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He is the example
to follow.

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He may dress like a crow,

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but he once infected himself
with scarlet fever,

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the better to study
the disease.

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Well, in my own small way,
I'm doing the same for the clap.

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Look at this glove.
Touch it.

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This glove
is for the King.

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And that is the closest
you will ever get...

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to touching the hand
of the King of England.

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Here are your
five shillings.

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Redeem your case
of instruments.

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And if you've a heart,

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redeem your gift, Robert.

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Thank you, Father.

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And don't spend
the money on women.

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Merivel! I must prevail on you...

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to come to the examining
theater this instant.

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I won't be
a moment, Pearce.

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Merivel!

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He's probably fled
because of your antics.

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Pearce, you must not take
my romping as an affront to you.

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I simply answer
the call of nature.

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Yes, well, your nature,
like mine, is very much fallen.

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That awful truth ought to go somewhere

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towards discouraging your
unsightly bouts of debauchery.

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I suppose you're right.
But I do very much enjoy them.

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This is the fellow.

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Shall I unbuckle?

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Please, yes.

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Good God!

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A fracture of the ribs occasioned
by a fall from his horse...

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was brought to
a terrible suppuration.

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The doctors feared
it would never heal.

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You can see the sconce of
the old ulcer at the edge here.

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Yes.

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Merivel, we are witnessing
a living, beating heart.

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Might a man touch it
with his hand?

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No one has ever dared.

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Yes. Yes?

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Sir?

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I cannot.

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-Pearce, it's just...
-Please! I mean... Just please...

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Perhaps your friend.

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Are you not afraid?

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I'm beyond fear, sir.
Are you?

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You're touching
the organ, sir?

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Can you not feel my grip?

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I feel nothing at all.

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No pain?

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Nothing.

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Tell me, who is
the young doctor?

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Robert Merivel,
Your Majesty.

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You will summon him to the palace
this very afternoon.

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Watch where you're going,
you fool!

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Your stockings.

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It's the young doctor,
Your Majesty.

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Do you know why
I've summoned you here?

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I...

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A great heaviness
hangs over me...

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causing me a most
abject desperation.

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Someone very close to me
is dying.

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Someone without whom
I cannot live.

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My doctors have
bled her repeatedly;

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have tried, without success,
lesions, emetics and purges.

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Shaved the hair off her body
in order to cup her.

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But she does not rally.

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You are my final hope,
Merivel.

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If you can cure her, I will offer you
a place here as a court physician.

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And if I fail?

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You must not fail.

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Her name is Lou Lou.

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"Lou Lou", Your Majesty?

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Your own name, by the way,
has a very pleasing cadence.

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Thank you, Sire.

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Merivel.
Very pretty to the ear.

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Lou Lou?

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Oh, my darling is not well.

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Come, Merivel.

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Call for any medicines,
anything you deem suitable.

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You will stay until the
little creature recovers.

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Of course.

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Do not disappoint me,
Merivel.

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I shall not, Sire.

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There was a time
she would've answered me.

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What have they done to you?

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My dear Pearce,

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by the time you read this letter
my fate will be sealed.

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This morning, my future
never glowed so bright,

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and now it is sputtering out
in the life of a sick spaniel.

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If I save her, my life
will be changed utterly.

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If she dies,
I may as well go with her.

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I think of our great teacher,
William Harvey.

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Though I was often drunk at his
lectures, I remember his cry:

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"Trust in the power of nature".

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Is that the best hope now,
for Lou Lou and me?

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To let her sleep and give nature
a chance to work quietly within her?

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But what if I'm wrong?

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How will I explain this
prescription to His Majesty?

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This is well done.
I like you, Merivel.

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Yours is a curious
and original mind.

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And in this new age,
originality is of great value.

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We shall open our palace
to you, Merivel...

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its treasures
and temptations...

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and we shall see
what you make of yourself.

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Thank you, Sire.

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You have been given an extraordinary
opportunity for one of your rank.

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Haven't I?
I have...

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-You must at every moment
please the King. -That would mean...

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-If you do not, suffice it to say,
I shall be watching. -Good.

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Now it is my task to lay out for you
your life in this place.

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This shall be your lodging.

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The royal tailors will be
continually at your disposal.

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And these shall be
your playfellows.

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This paper sets forth the following
duties for one Robert Merivel, physician:

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The daily care and comfort
of the 18 royal dogs...

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with, as required, the right
to perform operations upon them.

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It's ten years wasted. I'm warning you,
your life will be undone.

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No, not wasted, Pearce, for those years
have brought me to this new life.

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I'm to the palace,
and that's an end of it.

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My dear, we must be
pleased for each other.

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You must be pleased
for my appointment...

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as I am pleased that you have,
uh, given up drinking sack.

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And found my peace
in Quakerism.

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Even so, Pearce.
Even so.

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My dear Pearce,

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a year has passed
most profitably and pleasurably,

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leaving me no moment
in which to write to you.

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All day I am thick
in the affairs of state,

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yet I manage to employ
my medical knowledge...

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especially in anatomy...
in the services of the King,

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who's particularly fond
of my trick of farting at will.

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I am Aeolius,

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King of the Winds!

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That my dear departed father
could see me now,

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for the King shows me
a flattering affection...

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that stems, I suspect,
from my ability to amuse him.

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Our physician
has become our fool.

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What do you make
of the preparations, Merivel?

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Oh, sir. Most wondrous, Sire!
What is it for?

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-A wedding.
-Ohh!

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-A most lavish affair!
-Yes.

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-Who's to be married?
-Celia Clemence.

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Um... I understood
she was your mistress.

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Then you understood
right, Merivel.

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That is generosity indeed.

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Merivel, let me explain.

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Celia Clemence's
presence in my bed...

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continues to be necessity.

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So, too, does that of my grand amour,
Barbara Castlemaine.

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But her tantrums on the
subject of Miss Clemence...

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are making me edgy.

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So... Miss Clemence
is to be married...

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and seemingly dispatched
out of London with her husband,

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while, in fact, I secret her
near the river in Kew,

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the better to sport
with her unobserved.

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And for her husband, I need a man...

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who is far too enamored
of women in general...

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to make the mistake of
loving one in particular.

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Ah! Again, a most superior
aspect of the plan.

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And whom has Your Majesty chosen
for this particular honor?

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Yes, in fact I've decided that you
should be the one to marry her, Merivel.

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Marry, Your Majesty?

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"Marry Merivel". The phrase
is very pretty to my ear.

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But, Sire,
I do not wish to marry...

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I'm not asking you to wish it.
I'm asking you to do it.

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Merivel, have I not done you
very many favors in the past?

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Yes, Sire,
many favors, but...

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-Voila. You owe me
at least one in return.

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I shall, of course,
reward you for it.

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Make you a knight, give you
a most agreeable estate in Suffolk...

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-and my second best bed.
-I would prefer to stay at court.

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No, no.
You will go to Suffolk...

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and you will make something
of the house.

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And, perhaps,
if the time is right,

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we shall favor you
with a visit.

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-Aye.
-Go now.

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Only remember this, Merivel:
If she's over there with you,

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there will be no intimacy
of any kind between you.

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Though she is your wife,
she is yours in name only.

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You are to be
a paper bridegroom.

245
00:20:47,650 --> 00:20:49,330
Voila, mademoiselle.

246
00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:54,540
Un, deux,

247
00:20:54,620 --> 00:20:56,590
troix.

248
00:20:59,710 --> 00:21:03,140
"Sir Robert Merivel, Bidnold".

249
00:21:05,420 --> 00:21:07,640
Nova vel noviter inventa.

250
00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,890
Observationes proprias
et alienas recensere...

251
00:21:10,930 --> 00:21:14,270
ad considerandum
propriam opinionem...

252
00:21:14,390 --> 00:21:16,720
vel obsignatis tabulis...

253
00:21:16,770 --> 00:21:21,070
in aliis animalibus agere
secundum Socratis regulam.

254
00:21:21,150 --> 00:21:25,730
Unde observationes exoticas...

255
00:21:25,820 --> 00:21:28,190
I've come to give you these.

256
00:21:31,450 --> 00:21:35,370
-These are... These are your medical books!
-I know.

257
00:21:35,450 --> 00:21:39,400
-Your copy of Harvey.
-I know.

258
00:21:39,460 --> 00:21:42,670
I have resolved
to abandon medicine.

259
00:21:42,750 --> 00:21:46,000
The King has made
other plans for me.

260
00:21:46,090 --> 00:21:50,040
I have been given a knighthood,
an estate and a wife.

261
00:21:50,090 --> 00:21:53,880
This is my time of preferment, Pearce.
This is my time.

262
00:21:53,970 --> 00:21:56,220
What?

263
00:21:56,260 --> 00:21:58,220
Nothing.

264
00:21:58,270 --> 00:22:00,180
Merivel!

265
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,860
When you stood in this room...

266
00:22:04,930 --> 00:22:07,350
and put your hand
around that man's heart...

267
00:22:07,430 --> 00:22:10,650
something I did not dare do
that day...

268
00:22:10,730 --> 00:22:14,100
your vital flame
was burning.

269
00:22:14,150 --> 00:22:19,120
Now, you see, the light
has gone out of your eyes.

270
00:22:19,150 --> 00:22:22,280
No, my study of medicine
has given me nothing...

271
00:22:22,410 --> 00:22:25,210
but a perpetual and visible
awareness of mortality;

272
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:29,120
that were I to continue, it would
very shortly bring me to despair.

273
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,540
-Very well.
-I must see to my dogs.

274
00:22:31,580 --> 00:22:33,880
Very well!

275
00:22:36,650 --> 00:22:38,570
Merivel!

276
00:22:39,860 --> 00:22:41,780
Merivel!

277
00:22:42,180 --> 00:22:44,090
Merivel!

278
00:22:44,180 --> 00:22:47,570
Harvey revealed his work to us
so that treading in the same path...

279
00:22:47,570 --> 00:22:49,800
we might discover very many things
as yet unknown to others.

280
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,990
-You have a gift for healing, Merivel.
-I do not!

281
00:22:54,060 --> 00:22:58,150
Yes. Oh, yes, you do.
For understanding sickness.

282
00:22:58,230 --> 00:23:01,110
Death is a terrible thing, Pearce.

283
00:23:01,150 --> 00:23:04,280
I need color and light,
not darkness and death.

284
00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:07,210
I feel I've had quite enough
of dark things.

285
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,340
I want bright things
and decorative things.

286
00:23:10,410 --> 00:23:13,830
I am, after all,
a creature of the new age.

287
00:23:15,630 --> 00:23:17,670
I shall pray for you.

288
00:23:20,380 --> 00:23:23,170
Come along, Mr. Bung.

289
00:23:39,460 --> 00:23:41,870
Your bride.

290
00:25:07,460 --> 00:25:10,500
He filled your jar with spice!

291
00:25:10,630 --> 00:25:13,550
To the wedding chamber!

292
00:25:23,370 --> 00:25:26,660
-Bed her well, Merivel!
Bed her well, Merivel!

293
00:25:26,700 --> 00:25:28,830
Bed her well, Merivel!

294
00:25:28,910 --> 00:25:31,870
Bed her well, Merivel!
Bed her well!

295
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,660
Bed her well, Merivel!
Bed her well, Merivel!

296
00:25:35,710 --> 00:25:40,620
Bed her well, Merivel!

297
00:25:45,250 --> 00:25:47,180
Fair thee well!

298
00:25:50,610 --> 00:25:53,960
-I believe our kiss
convinced them, Lady Celia.

299
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:14,000
Well done, Merivel.

300
00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:17,490
Well done!
We fooled 'em all.

301
00:26:20,580 --> 00:26:24,120
You are a most useful fellow, Merivel.
Most useful!

302
00:26:25,790 --> 00:26:29,170
And at the moment you
are most useful to me...

303
00:26:29,260 --> 00:26:31,560
in Suffolk.

304
00:26:36,970 --> 00:26:39,260
Oh. Yes.

305
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,770
Your disguise is behind the pillar.

306
00:27:14,180 --> 00:27:18,430
Pearce, this will make no sense to you,
as it makes no sense to me,

307
00:27:18,470 --> 00:27:23,430
but the moment I saw Lady Celia
I was captivated by her.

308
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,560
When I think of her,
I feel faint, my heart aches...

309
00:27:26,650 --> 00:27:29,270
and I fear
there is no cure for me,

310
00:27:29,350 --> 00:27:32,440
for I cannot stop thinking
of her, even in my sleep.

311
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,460
Sir Robert!

312
00:27:53,790 --> 00:27:56,760
Welcome to Bidnold.

313
00:28:01,050 --> 00:28:04,760
Ah, Will Gates
at your service.

314
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,850
You are alone, sir?

315
00:28:14,930 --> 00:28:18,450
Yes. Lady Merivel desired
that I act as a vanguard...

316
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,620
and see the lay of the land.

317
00:28:20,650 --> 00:28:23,360
I trust that the wedding
went off as planned.

318
00:28:24,860 --> 00:28:29,110
Yes, most well.
Um, I shall now retire.

319
00:28:33,580 --> 00:28:36,420
Oh, could you send up
some strong liquor?

320
00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:38,420
Yes, sir.

321
00:28:45,740 --> 00:28:48,070
Good morning, Sir Robert.

322
00:28:49,950 --> 00:28:52,990
Mr. Gates, I find
the house induces in me...

323
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,330
a most melancholy
frame of mind.

324
00:28:55,410 --> 00:28:58,120
And exceeding dark.

325
00:28:58,170 --> 00:29:00,630
The King confiscated it
from a Puritan.

326
00:29:00,750 --> 00:29:02,670
Oh.

327
00:29:04,090 --> 00:29:06,420
Mr. Gates.

328
00:29:06,510 --> 00:29:09,000
I must be straight
with you.

329
00:29:09,090 --> 00:29:14,340
We shall not expect
Lady Merivel's arrival for some time.

330
00:29:16,930 --> 00:29:18,890
Well...

331
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,820
one cannot stay in bed
indefinitely.

332
00:29:23,850 --> 00:29:28,240
What one needs
is a diversion.

333
00:29:28,310 --> 00:29:31,490
The King told me to make
something of the house.

334
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:35,990
Oh! And you
are monarch here.

335
00:29:38,530 --> 00:29:41,000
We shall have color and light!

336
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,580
With purples and golds
and crimsons and scarlets and carmines.

337
00:29:43,630 --> 00:29:46,480
-What, all together in one place, sir?
-Yes, Mr. Gates.

338
00:29:46,530 --> 00:29:49,320
We will make this house
so beautiful that if Lady Celia

339
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,490
were to pay us a visit,
she would never want to leave.

340
00:29:52,770 --> 00:29:55,010
Ah, the Dutchman.

341
00:29:55,110 --> 00:29:57,010
Yes!

342
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,480
All of it!

343
00:30:03,990 --> 00:30:05,980
Yes!

344
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,710
Mr. Gates, to divert myself further...

345
00:30:14,790 --> 00:30:17,490
and to display
our lavish decoration,

346
00:30:17,550 --> 00:30:20,160
I feel the urge for company.

347
00:30:20,220 --> 00:30:22,370
Perhaps a visit
from the neighbors...

348
00:30:22,470 --> 00:30:25,330
will restore my old
uncontainable nature.

349
00:30:25,430 --> 00:30:28,130
A pox on wisdom!

350
00:30:28,180 --> 00:30:31,130
Let us all be
mares and stallions.

351
00:30:37,730 --> 00:30:39,890
Sir Robert,
someone at the door.

352
00:30:39,990 --> 00:30:44,850
What? At the door? Another man come
to whinny in our festivities!

353
00:30:45,530 --> 00:30:48,320
Why do you not have
a turban?

354
00:30:48,370 --> 00:30:51,070
Guy, supply Mr. Gates
with a turban!

355
00:30:55,380 --> 00:30:58,160
Sir Robert Merivel.

356
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,390
Oh, Lady...

357
00:31:07,410 --> 00:31:09,610
Would you show me
immediately to my rooms?

358
00:31:09,690 --> 00:31:12,240
Yes, of course,
and without delay.

359
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,530
Without delay.

360
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,540
Where am I?

361
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,920
I attempted to take you back
to your room last night, sir,

362
00:31:42,980 --> 00:31:46,560
but you were most
insistent to sleep here.

363
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,140
What...
What's the bird?

364
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,440
A gift from Lady Violet.

365
00:31:55,860 --> 00:31:59,200
Oh, Mr. Gates, I've just had
a most extraordinary dream.

366
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:04,040
I dreamed that Lady Celia did arrive
at Bidnold in the most foul humor.

367
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,160
I'm afraid she did, sir, and she
has now repaired to the garden room.

368
00:32:08,250 --> 00:32:11,170
All right, now, gently. Gently.

369
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,630
Careful! Careful!

370
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,200
I've got it.

371
00:32:22,290 --> 00:32:24,190
Keep it to your left.

372
00:32:26,790 --> 00:32:30,620
Lady Celia.

373
00:32:30,670 --> 00:32:32,910
I have come to bid you
welcome to Bidnold.

374
00:32:32,980 --> 00:32:35,550
No, I do not desire
to be made welcome.

375
00:32:35,650 --> 00:32:39,700
-The King will very soon ask me
back to him. -I'm sure he will.

376
00:32:39,780 --> 00:32:43,440
I'm sure he has of late been
most distracted by the foreign wars.

377
00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:46,320
But in the meantime,
if there's any comfort...

378
00:32:46,410 --> 00:32:48,740
I might provide here at Bidnold
for Your Ladyship...

379
00:32:48,790 --> 00:32:51,740
No, there is nothing.
Nothing.

380
00:32:54,420 --> 00:32:58,330
Well... um, well, then
together we shall wait...

381
00:32:58,420 --> 00:33:01,670
for the return
of the King's love.

382
00:33:01,710 --> 00:33:05,130
Love?
You use that word?

383
00:33:05,220 --> 00:33:07,970
The King and his love for me
made use of you.

384
00:33:08,010 --> 00:33:11,590
He looked around for the stupidest man
he could find, and he found you.

385
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,850
I begged him not to marry me
to such a fool.

386
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,840
I have brought a...

387
00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:21,730
Stay away from me.

388
00:33:26,010 --> 00:33:29,590
"Celia, my loneliness consumes me,

389
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,670
but I see your unhappiness
is as great as mine".

390
00:34:00,620 --> 00:34:03,030
Well, come in, please.

391
00:34:03,130 --> 00:34:06,040
I hope my playing
isn't disturbing you.

392
00:34:06,090 --> 00:34:08,920
No, it is I
who am disturbing you.

393
00:34:09,010 --> 00:34:11,760
I... No.

394
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:13,960
What is the bird?

395
00:34:15,510 --> 00:34:18,800
I am told it is an Indian nightingale.
It was a gift.

396
00:34:18,850 --> 00:34:21,520
-From the King?
-Yes, from the King.

397
00:34:28,740 --> 00:34:31,980
-It's most beautiful.
-Mmm.

398
00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:34,940
-Only it does not sing.
-No.

399
00:34:35,030 --> 00:34:37,270
Perhaps it wants
encouragement.

400
00:34:37,410 --> 00:34:41,530
Now, if it were to hear you play,
for your playing, as I recall,

401
00:34:41,580 --> 00:34:44,740
has about it an exceeding sweetness.

402
00:34:47,330 --> 00:34:50,540
Would it be asking too much
if I were to keep the bird in my room?

403
00:34:50,620 --> 00:34:53,110
No, nothing would be
too much. Will!

404
00:34:53,210 --> 00:34:55,880
No, no. I'll...

405
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,630
And let the garden room
be my private habitation,

406
00:34:59,670 --> 00:35:03,430
where I shall perhaps
from time to time invite you.

407
00:35:06,220 --> 00:35:07,640
Um...

408
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,310
I find much of the decoration
here rather disturbing.

409
00:35:10,390 --> 00:35:12,940
Yes, certain of the servants
regularly complain of it.

410
00:35:13,060 --> 00:35:16,930
Merivel, forgive me if I spoke before
of matters that do not regard me.

411
00:35:16,980 --> 00:35:21,720
We live in an age where many
are made fools and many are deceived.

412
00:35:21,820 --> 00:35:25,740
I, in my faith for the King's love,
am probably as foolish as you.

413
00:35:39,380 --> 00:35:41,290
Oh.

414
00:35:44,220 --> 00:35:46,970
It's from my old friend,
Mr. Pearce.

415
00:35:47,010 --> 00:35:51,390
It seems he's now working
in a hospital with his Quakers.

416
00:35:55,270 --> 00:35:59,140
Will, will you sit down?
Please.

417
00:36:07,620 --> 00:36:09,690
Is there a Mrs. Gates?

418
00:36:09,740 --> 00:36:12,660
Oh, no, sir.

419
00:36:15,290 --> 00:36:18,360
The messy constellations
I see through my telescope...

420
00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:20,580
offer me no clue
to my destiny.

421
00:36:20,670 --> 00:36:24,830
There is, I fear, a great deal
about the world and my role in it...

422
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,920
which, despite all my early learning,
I have utterly failed to understand.

423
00:36:32,020 --> 00:36:36,550
I must restrain my thoughts and do
something altogether more constructive.

424
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,590
What is the matter, sir?

425
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,350
I have done the one thing
forbidden by the King:

426
00:36:42,430 --> 00:36:45,270
I have fallen in love
with my wife.

427
00:37:02,370 --> 00:37:05,490
Merivel, there is
someone to see you.

428
00:37:05,580 --> 00:37:08,460
This is Mr. Finn,
a painter.

429
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,560
A painter?

430
00:37:11,650 --> 00:37:14,270
A painter! Welcome!

431
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,940
A painter! Most excellent.

432
00:37:17,990 --> 00:37:20,030
-Did I send for a painter?
-No, sir.

433
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,620
Never mind.
I'm a keen painter myself.

434
00:37:34,340 --> 00:37:38,380
I call it
"Le Matin de Merivel I'Automne".

435
00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:43,960
What do you make of it,
honestly?

436
00:37:45,770 --> 00:37:48,630
It is an excrescence.

437
00:37:48,690 --> 00:37:52,430
Ah! Perhaps that is
the word for it.

438
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,680
But to me it's a rather
memorable rendering...

439
00:37:55,820 --> 00:37:59,390
of all the colors
I have in my park.

440
00:37:59,490 --> 00:38:01,770
You must not show
this painting to anyone.

441
00:38:01,870 --> 00:38:04,070
-You must, I think, burn it.
-Oh.

442
00:38:04,140 --> 00:38:06,460
Merivel, Mr. Finn has arrived
with a commission.

443
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,310
A commission!
From whom?

444
00:38:10,980 --> 00:38:13,390
Robin Hood?

445
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:17,720
Robin Hood? Oh, yes.
My Lincoln green.

446
00:38:17,780 --> 00:38:20,230
How funny.

447
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,230
Now, if I may,
this letter commands...

448
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,850
the following commission
by one Elias Finn, myself,

449
00:38:25,910 --> 00:38:28,940
a noble and beautiful
portrait of Lady Merivel.

450
00:38:29,070 --> 00:38:32,990
"An excellent painting will earn
Mr. Finn a small place at court".

451
00:38:33,070 --> 00:38:35,950
So, you see,
not Robin Hood... the King.

452
00:38:36,030 --> 00:38:37,940
Shall we go?

453
00:38:39,410 --> 00:38:43,080
My imprisonment is over.
The King means me to return.

454
00:38:53,050 --> 00:38:55,040
-Aw, cherubs.
-Uh-huh.

455
00:38:55,140 --> 00:38:58,500
The King has often told me
he cannot abide the cherub.

456
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,630
I would not depend upon this
for your future, either of you.

457
00:39:01,770 --> 00:39:04,690
-Why not, Merivel?
-It is a commission from the King.

458
00:39:04,730 --> 00:39:07,050
My dear Flinn...
No, Finch...

459
00:39:07,150 --> 00:39:09,980
-Uh, "Finn".
-Oh.

460
00:39:10,050 --> 00:39:12,230
Many portraits are
commissioned by the King,

461
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:15,790
and most of the poor artists
are still waiting to be paid.

462
00:39:15,820 --> 00:39:19,270
Yes, well, we shall have to make the
painting too beautiful to be resisted.

463
00:39:19,330 --> 00:39:23,750
And, Celia, there seems to be
no mention of your returning to court.

464
00:39:23,830 --> 00:39:27,980
-But why else would he ask for a portrait?
-Souvenir, perhaps.

465
00:39:28,580 --> 00:39:30,170
A letter, Sir Robert.

466
00:39:30,230 --> 00:39:31,170
Mmm.

467
00:39:35,930 --> 00:39:37,350
From the King.

468
00:39:38,910 --> 00:39:40,020
If I may!
If I may!

469
00:39:40,030 --> 00:39:43,460
What mention does the King
make of the painting in his letter?

470
00:39:43,790 --> 00:39:46,200
Oh, it's... None.

471
00:39:46,460 --> 00:39:49,410
I would frame some message to him,
but I don't know what to say.

472
00:39:49,460 --> 00:39:53,080
Celia, if I do not set sail now,
I shall not reach London by morning.

473
00:39:53,130 --> 00:39:57,420
And we both know the King regards a
betrayal of time as a betrayal of faith.

474
00:40:29,970 --> 00:40:32,300
...there is a void...

475
00:40:47,740 --> 00:40:49,700
Ah, Merivel.
Is it you?

476
00:40:49,740 --> 00:40:52,410
It is me.

477
00:40:52,450 --> 00:40:55,400
It-It is in fact I, Sire.

478
00:41:09,970 --> 00:41:14,330
Time has changed you,
Merivel.

479
00:41:14,330 --> 00:41:17,170
As with many of my people, some
vital part of you appears to be asleep.

480
00:41:22,610 --> 00:41:25,100
Something has arrived,
Merivel.

481
00:41:25,190 --> 00:41:28,110
Something that may rouse
even you from sleep.

482
00:41:29,530 --> 00:41:33,230
The plague.
La peste.

483
00:41:33,330 --> 00:41:37,400
Deptford, four people
have died. It will spread.

484
00:41:37,500 --> 00:41:40,860
Some of us will be spared
and some will die.

485
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,830
But all of us will awake.

486
00:41:52,510 --> 00:41:55,800
Come along, Merivel.
There is much to discuss.

487
00:41:55,890 --> 00:41:59,050
You see, I have started work
upon this toad.

488
00:41:59,140 --> 00:42:01,390
-Ah.
-Will you help me to dissect it?

489
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,600
Yes, if you
wish me to, Sire.

490
00:42:03,650 --> 00:42:06,270
Yes, I do wish you to,
Merivel.

491
00:42:06,310 --> 00:42:10,940
I have summoned you
to talk about your wife.

492
00:42:12,310 --> 00:42:15,070
Pin, Merivel.

493
00:42:16,730 --> 00:42:19,700
When I married her to you,
it was to hide her...

494
00:42:19,780 --> 00:42:24,910
from the intelligent gaze
of my mistress, Lady Castlemaine.

495
00:42:26,410 --> 00:42:31,150
Now, observe the sheen of the gut.
It's like a jewel.

496
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,800
You may imagine, then, my fury
when she commanded me...

497
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,620
to end my liaison
with Lady Castlemaine...

498
00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:42,750
and likewise
to terminate my amours...

499
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,430
with certain actresses
of the playhouse.

500
00:42:48,350 --> 00:42:51,550
So I banished her
to Suffolk.

501
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,220
Now the grosser part of me...

502
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,470
is uncommonly sensible
to her absence.

503
00:42:57,570 --> 00:43:01,480
The royal tool is waving about
in search of her.

504
00:43:02,860 --> 00:43:06,990
She is skillful and enthusiastic
in these matters.

505
00:43:08,620 --> 00:43:12,530
Merivel, I desire you
to impress upon Celia...

506
00:43:12,620 --> 00:43:16,120
to be content
with what she has.

507
00:43:16,170 --> 00:43:19,790
Tell her to come to me in humility
and she may have it all again:

508
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:24,260
Her house, servants, money and the King
in her bed from time to time.

509
00:43:24,340 --> 00:43:27,500
I desire her
penitent return...

510
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,920
when the portrait
is finished.

511
00:43:30,020 --> 00:43:34,880
Um... he's a slow painter,
Your Majesty, what with all the cherubs.

512
00:43:34,980 --> 00:43:37,850
What is a painting
without cherubs? Hmm?

513
00:43:37,900 --> 00:43:39,930
Precisely, Sire.

514
00:43:40,030 --> 00:43:42,020
Make this clear, Merivel:

515
00:43:42,070 --> 00:43:46,310
I expect her in my bed
when the portrait is complete.

516
00:43:49,620 --> 00:43:53,070
The King would give no promise
whatsoever with regard to you.

517
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,280
But he must
have said something.

518
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,620
He desired that you
stay here at Bidnold...

519
00:43:57,660 --> 00:44:00,870
until you became aware
of the changeful nature of all things.

520
00:44:02,540 --> 00:44:04,780
But how long does he say
this will take?

521
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,380
Months? Years?

522
00:44:07,460 --> 00:44:10,120
Am I to grow old
and see my beauty vanish...

523
00:44:10,170 --> 00:44:12,780
and all that once pleased him
turn to decay?

524
00:44:12,830 --> 00:44:14,960
I'm sure he does not
intend that,

525
00:44:15,010 --> 00:44:17,460
but he has put the matter
into your hands and into mine.

526
00:44:18,180 --> 00:44:20,250
Into your hands?

527
00:44:20,310 --> 00:44:22,210
Yes.

528
00:44:22,310 --> 00:44:25,590
For I am to judge
when you are ready.

529
00:44:25,690 --> 00:44:29,270
And the King has promised to correspond
with me regularly over the matter.

530
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,930
And how shall I arrive
at this wisdom?

531
00:44:32,030 --> 00:44:34,350
He has suggested, perhaps,
that we together...

532
00:44:34,490 --> 00:44:36,980
exercise our gifts
for music.

533
00:44:45,290 --> 00:44:48,370
-Just arrived, sir.
-Will, I need you to do something for me.

534
00:44:48,420 --> 00:44:52,460
-Anything, sir. -You must
forge a letter to me from the King.

535
00:44:52,550 --> 00:44:55,120
Sir.

536
00:44:56,430 --> 00:44:59,880
And, uh, the King makes
no mention of a date...

537
00:44:59,930 --> 00:45:03,130
for me to have, uh,
completed the painting?

538
00:45:03,180 --> 00:45:05,300
-My dear Finch.
-"Finn".

539
00:45:05,350 --> 00:45:07,340
Ah!

540
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,930
He has no interest, it seems,
in the painting whatsoever...

541
00:45:11,020 --> 00:45:14,390
but for his continued
suspicion of cherubs.

542
00:45:14,490 --> 00:45:16,930
So it seems to me
that it is to music...

543
00:45:17,030 --> 00:45:19,400
that His Majesty owes
his greatest affection.

544
00:45:19,490 --> 00:45:22,330
-We are all mere pawns.
-Mmm! Prawns, yes.

545
00:45:22,410 --> 00:45:25,320
No, no, "pawns".
"Pawns"!

546
00:45:30,670 --> 00:45:32,620
Hmm.

547
00:45:37,090 --> 00:45:41,330
Merivel, wake up.
There is something I must tell you.

548
00:45:41,430 --> 00:45:43,670
Celia!

549
00:45:43,770 --> 00:45:45,710
The bird is ill.

550
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:47,180
The bird. The bird.
Oh, the bird!

551
00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:48,740
Please, we must do something.

552
00:45:48,790 --> 00:45:50,870
Birds are not really
my specialty...

553
00:45:50,930 --> 00:45:52,750
But, Merivel,
it is dying!

554
00:46:03,110 --> 00:46:06,440
Merivel, why are you
no longer a physician?

555
00:46:07,780 --> 00:46:09,200
Um...

556
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,480
When I asked the King why
he was marrying me to such a fool,

557
00:46:12,570 --> 00:46:15,580
he said that you had
a great gift for healing.

558
00:46:17,750 --> 00:46:22,540
Perhaps I should stay.
We should watch over the bird together.

559
00:46:22,630 --> 00:46:25,170
Yes, I would like that.

560
00:46:49,780 --> 00:46:51,740
It's dead.

561
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,670
Are you not putting
yourself at terrible risk, sir?

562
00:47:14,720 --> 00:47:17,960
Forging the King's seal
is a hanging offense.

563
00:47:18,020 --> 00:47:20,550
I love her, Will.
I must do all I can...

564
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:23,180
to discourage
completion of the portrait.

565
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,560
Sir Robert?

566
00:47:30,610 --> 00:47:32,890
I'm sure your wife
is greatly dismayed...

567
00:47:32,950 --> 00:47:35,090
at the loss
of her favorite bird.

568
00:47:35,190 --> 00:47:37,110
Inconsolable, I fear.

569
00:47:37,190 --> 00:47:39,730
Which must, in turn,
cause you much distress.

570
00:47:39,820 --> 00:47:42,860
Of course.
I did all that I could.

571
00:47:42,950 --> 00:47:45,860
Sir Robert, now that the painting
is nearly complete,

572
00:47:45,950 --> 00:47:49,650
I feel it is my duty to thank you for
your hospitality during my stay here.

573
00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:52,500
Th-Th-The desire
to finish the work...

574
00:47:52,540 --> 00:47:55,030
has perhaps made me
less than an ideal guest.

575
00:47:55,170 --> 00:47:57,710
-For that I am sorry.
-No, matter, Finn. No matter.

576
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,800
I understand better than
most the lure of court.

577
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:02,970
-Sir Robert.
-Hmm?

578
00:48:03,050 --> 00:48:05,540
May I be forward with you?

579
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,500
During my stay here,
I-I've noticed...

580
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:10,840
that a certain bond
has formed...

581
00:48:10,930 --> 00:48:14,100
between yourself
and Lady Merivel.

582
00:48:14,140 --> 00:48:16,810
A-And that you are perhaps...

583
00:48:16,900 --> 00:48:19,680
although she has warmed
considerably...

584
00:48:19,730 --> 00:48:22,350
unsure how to further
the matter.

585
00:48:23,820 --> 00:48:27,950
Perhaps i-i-i-if I were
to broach the subject with her,

586
00:48:28,030 --> 00:48:31,980
her natural shyness
might find some release?

587
00:48:33,460 --> 00:48:37,320
My God, it's a most
delicate situation.

588
00:48:37,380 --> 00:48:39,780
But that might be
the very thing.

589
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:43,620
I think. Well, I'll do what I can.

590
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,080
I will, of course,
act most subtly.

591
00:49:08,990 --> 00:49:10,900
Merivel!

592
00:49:12,620 --> 00:49:15,490
I have spoken to Lady Celia,
and my impression is...

593
00:49:15,580 --> 00:49:18,490
that your advances
would not be unwelcome.

594
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:57,020
Voila! Venus!
Uncommonly bright!

595
00:49:57,110 --> 00:50:01,320
A good portent. Venus being the
brightest of all the evening stars...

596
00:50:01,410 --> 00:50:04,160
and the reigning planet
of earthly love.

597
00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:06,230
Come and look.

598
00:50:10,500 --> 00:50:13,200
Uh, uh...
Here. Here.

599
00:50:14,670 --> 00:50:16,580
Ah.

600
00:50:18,970 --> 00:50:22,330
-You're right, Merivel. It really
is a beautiful star. -Yes.

601
00:50:22,390 --> 00:50:25,560
And it smiles on us
from on high.

602
00:50:27,390 --> 00:50:29,300
We are blessed.

603
00:50:56,590 --> 00:50:58,490
Merivel?

604
00:50:59,720 --> 00:51:02,250
Merivel!

605
00:51:02,340 --> 00:51:04,710
No!

606
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,550
No! No!

607
00:51:11,100 --> 00:51:13,500
Celia, you must think
no more of the King.

608
00:51:13,610 --> 00:51:16,850
If he is not weary of you now,
he soon will be.

609
00:51:18,980 --> 00:51:22,060
-You're wrong, Merivel.
The King wants me back.

610
00:51:22,150 --> 00:51:26,720
Do you think he will curtail his amours
with the actresses of the playhouse? Never.

611
00:51:26,780 --> 00:51:31,110
He is a loose fish!
He cannot be held or kept.

612
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:36,410
I am your husband, and all that I ask
is that you allow me to love you.

613
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,640
It just arrived
from the palace, sir.

614
00:52:15,910 --> 00:52:17,900
Mr. Finn
has betrayed us.

615
00:52:17,990 --> 00:52:21,080
I-I shall leave for
court in the morning.

616
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:28,160
And, Will, pack
one of our pineapples.

617
00:52:28,250 --> 00:52:31,000
I shall take it
as a gift to the King,

618
00:52:31,050 --> 00:52:33,750
though I fear that...

619
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:35,790
What, sir?

620
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,630
That no offering of this
kind will be enough.

621
00:52:50,610 --> 00:52:53,060
Ah, Merivel!

622
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:59,770
This is my new plan
for our native city, Merivel.

623
00:52:59,870 --> 00:53:02,400
Yes, come along, Merivel.

624
00:53:02,540 --> 00:53:05,360
See how Fleet Street
is thus straightened.

625
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,820
And there is here one straight view
from Ludgate Circus...

626
00:53:08,870 --> 00:53:11,740
past St. Paul's
and on to the Royal Exchange.

627
00:53:11,830 --> 00:53:16,000
And here's another street from
Smithfield down to the river...

628
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:18,660
where, perhaps, the halls
of the lesser companies...

629
00:53:18,750 --> 00:53:21,500
might be built
along Thames Quay.

630
00:53:23,590 --> 00:53:28,250
All for the beauty, ornament
and convenience of the city.

631
00:53:28,300 --> 00:53:30,340
Sit down, Merivel.

632
00:53:30,470 --> 00:53:32,380
Ohh!

633
00:53:33,810 --> 00:53:36,480
I-It is a brave
new plan, Sire.

634
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:38,470
Now, I have...

635
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:42,430
Do you remember we once
made a plan together, Merivel?

636
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:45,530
And in that plan,
love was not asked of you.

637
00:53:45,570 --> 00:53:49,270
Indeed, it was the only thing
specifically forbidden of you.

638
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:52,030
By ignoring what we agreed,

639
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:55,440
you have driven yourself
out of paradise.

640
00:53:56,660 --> 00:53:58,650
Out of paradise?

641
00:53:58,710 --> 00:54:01,120
Well, yes.
For what is your role now?

642
00:54:01,210 --> 00:54:05,700
I had not intended to love Celia.
I do not know how it happened.

643
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,630
It happened because
you allowed it to happen.

644
00:54:08,720 --> 00:54:12,170
By trying to be the thing that you were
charged with pretending to be,

645
00:54:12,300 --> 00:54:15,220
you have rendered yourself
useless to me.

646
00:54:15,270 --> 00:54:18,380
I'm taking Bidnold from you.

647
00:54:24,070 --> 00:54:26,520
What'll I do?

648
00:54:26,570 --> 00:54:30,020
Hmm. What did you do before?

649
00:54:30,070 --> 00:54:33,860
I was... I worked
as a physician.

650
00:54:33,950 --> 00:54:36,440
Ah, yes.
In the hospital.

651
00:54:36,540 --> 00:54:39,210
Well, you can use
that skill again.

652
00:54:39,330 --> 00:54:43,240
-I cannot!
-Why not, Merivel?

653
00:54:45,340 --> 00:54:47,580
Because I'm afraid.

654
00:54:47,630 --> 00:54:52,080
Precisely.
So, au revoir, Merivel.

655
00:54:52,140 --> 00:54:55,740
I shall not say adieu,
for who knows,

656
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:59,760
perhaps in the future, history may have
another role for you.

657
00:55:00,420 --> 00:55:03,560
Your Majesty, you took me
from the Royal College,

658
00:55:03,620 --> 00:55:06,530
gave me your dogs to look after,

659
00:55:06,540 --> 00:55:09,210
liked me for my foolishness.

660
00:55:09,310 --> 00:55:11,300
No, Merivel.

661
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:15,810
I liked you for your skill,

662
00:55:15,860 --> 00:55:18,320
for then the two were in you...
light and dark.

663
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,820
But now, your skill
is fallen away...

664
00:55:20,900 --> 00:55:24,610
and you are one foolish,
quivering mass.

665
00:55:27,830 --> 00:55:30,200
The plague is coming,
Merivel,

666
00:55:30,290 --> 00:55:33,570
and the plague rouses men
from their sleep.

667
00:56:00,740 --> 00:56:03,310
You know, Will,
in my time at Bidnold...

668
00:56:03,410 --> 00:56:07,020
I have grown
uncommonly fond of you.

669
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:11,820
And I... if I may say so, sir...
am uncommonly fond of you.

670
00:56:11,910 --> 00:56:15,910
So you're off to Mr. Pearce
and the Quakers, sir?

671
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,200
I've nowhere else to go.

672
00:56:52,110 --> 00:56:55,110
Ah! How may I
help you, friend?

673
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:58,160
I-I've come to visit
my friend, Pearce.

674
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,950
You must be Robert.

675
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:03,030
Please, enter.

676
00:57:08,170 --> 00:57:10,070
Daniel!

677
00:57:10,170 --> 00:57:14,420
Ah, John told us one day
you would like to join us.

678
00:57:14,510 --> 00:57:18,120
-Ah, did he?
-Get some oats for the horse.

679
00:57:18,180 --> 00:57:20,300
I do not intend
staying long.

680
00:57:20,350 --> 00:57:22,440
I hate being housed up
anywhere for too long, sir.

681
00:57:22,490 --> 00:57:23,750
Robert!

682
00:57:26,930 --> 00:57:28,090
Robert!

683
00:57:28,150 --> 00:57:30,810
Pearce! Pearce!

684
00:57:30,900 --> 00:57:34,150
-John.
-John?

685
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,850
Here in Whittlesea,
I'm John and you're Robert.

686
00:57:36,950 --> 00:57:40,810
I'm bound, after all these years,
to find that difficult.

687
00:57:40,910 --> 00:57:45,740
Come on. Let's get you out of the wet
and up to your room.

688
00:57:45,790 --> 00:57:49,280
It's the size
of one of my linen cupboards.

689
00:57:49,380 --> 00:57:52,210
Here we give prominence
to other things, Robert.

690
00:57:52,300 --> 00:57:56,160
When I saw your life before among the
terrible luxuries of the courts, I, uh...

691
00:57:56,260 --> 00:57:59,750
well, I prayed you
would be taken out of it.

692
00:58:01,850 --> 00:58:05,460
And yet I was uncommonly
fond of it, Pearce.

693
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:09,680
This is our new
friend Robert.

694
00:58:09,770 --> 00:58:11,890
This is Ambrose,

695
00:58:11,980 --> 00:58:13,970
Daniel...

696
00:58:14,030 --> 00:58:16,180
and our dear sisters,

697
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:19,110
Hannah and Eleanor.

698
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:21,350
Robert is well qualified
to help us.

699
00:58:21,450 --> 00:58:24,570
He claims to have forgotten
medicine, but I know he has not.

700
00:58:24,660 --> 00:58:27,190
-I have. Sadly, I have.
-Not.

701
00:58:27,250 --> 00:58:29,810
-Well, regrettably, but in fact...
-Stop it.

702
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:34,160
Lord, send a light
to show Robert the way.

703
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:37,950
Dear Jesus, be with Robert.

704
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:41,620
God in heaven,
take Robert's hand.

705
00:58:41,670 --> 00:58:43,880
Be at his side.

706
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:47,380
And even when night comes,
still be at his side.

707
00:58:47,470 --> 00:58:50,010
Amen.

708
00:58:51,390 --> 00:58:54,800
The inmates are looked after
in a series of barns.

709
00:58:54,850 --> 00:58:57,090
This is the men's barn.

710
00:58:57,140 --> 00:59:01,060
And in the women's barn, the
invalid friends weave sailcloth.

711
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:08,980
The keepers must never
enter the barns alone.

712
00:59:09,070 --> 00:59:11,480
Yes, I certainly
understand.

713
00:59:11,570 --> 00:59:13,700
This is alarming.

714
00:59:13,780 --> 00:59:15,770
This is our work now.

715
00:59:15,870 --> 00:59:18,540
But how has madness
undone so many?

716
00:59:18,620 --> 00:59:20,610
By a hundred different ways.

717
00:59:20,710 --> 00:59:22,950
Madness is a brother
and sister to misfortune.

718
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:25,870
Poverty and abandonment
are prime causes.

719
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:30,010
This is Robert!
He's come to help us in our work.

720
00:59:30,090 --> 00:59:32,300
Say the name to yourselves...

721
00:59:32,340 --> 00:59:35,790
and keep it precious
because he is your friend.

722
00:59:35,890 --> 00:59:37,800
-Robert.
-Robert.

723
00:59:37,890 --> 00:59:41,630
We have one here, a young
Irish woman... Katharine.

724
00:59:41,730 --> 00:59:45,430
She was abandoned one night
by her husband.

725
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:47,810
And now,
she will not sleep.

726
00:59:47,900 --> 00:59:50,570
Are you another man
sent to do me injustice?

727
00:59:52,070 --> 00:59:55,770
Katharine, this is our new friend
Robert. He won't hurt you.

728
01:00:03,950 --> 01:00:06,580
Red may now, having passed
under the hoop,

729
01:00:06,590 --> 01:00:08,320
endeavor to roquet black.

730
01:00:08,370 --> 01:00:11,790
May we not play
a little croquet here, Robert?

731
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:15,120
Um. No. No. The sight
of a croquet hoop...

732
01:00:15,180 --> 01:00:19,300
would produce in John
a most extraordinary reaction.

733
01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:22,590
What is she doing?

734
01:00:22,670 --> 01:00:24,800
She calls it her leaving step.

735
01:00:31,060 --> 01:00:33,020
That's some kind of dance?

736
01:00:35,270 --> 01:00:37,180
-Hello, Robert.
-Hello.

737
01:00:39,690 --> 01:00:43,060
Every man on earth
has his leaving step.

738
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:46,200
If my husband had been
a small man,

739
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:48,230
he would not have been
able to leave.

740
01:00:48,330 --> 01:00:52,370
He was a large man.
Stepped over me as I slept,

741
01:00:52,450 --> 01:00:55,370
in one giant stride.

742
01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:00,080
The king, too, being plagued by fools

743
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:02,370
from whom he wishes to walk away,

744
01:01:02,420 --> 01:01:04,660
has perfected his leaving step

745
01:01:04,670 --> 01:01:06,750
to a walk of unsurpassed elegance.

746
01:01:09,050 --> 01:01:11,460
Show me then that walk.

747
01:01:13,890 --> 01:01:16,380
Um...

748
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:18,390
Well, sort of...

749
01:01:22,690 --> 01:01:24,650
Uh... I cannot.

750
01:01:24,700 --> 01:01:28,270
My imitation is too poor.
The shoes are all wrong and, uh...

751
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:32,150
But you, too, are a man.
Have you not your own leaving step?

752
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:35,120
No. It is others
who leave me.

753
01:01:40,290 --> 01:01:44,760
Lunacy is a devilish liquid thing.

754
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:50,340
It can only be coaxed out
by blood, vomit or feces.

755
01:01:50,430 --> 01:01:53,130
Do you not smell
the choler?

756
01:01:53,220 --> 01:01:55,260
See. She's quiet now.

757
01:01:55,390 --> 01:01:58,470
Of course. She's lost
a lot of blood.

758
01:02:04,230 --> 01:02:06,850
Do you honestly believe that
the bleeding is necessary?

759
01:02:06,950 --> 01:02:09,560
I hope to make her sleep.
Sleep is the best thing for her.

760
01:02:09,660 --> 01:02:11,560
Is there not
some other way?

761
01:02:11,650 --> 01:02:14,140
Robert, you've not seen
the nature of her madness.

762
01:02:14,190 --> 01:02:17,530
She marches up and down at night,
shouting and crying.

763
01:02:17,610 --> 01:02:21,120
-What does she shout?
-That she is not mad.

764
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:23,320
Perhaps she is not mad.

765
01:02:23,450 --> 01:02:26,900
On two occasions she tried
to take her own life.

766
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:29,250
Mightn't that be despair?

767
01:02:29,290 --> 01:02:33,210
What you and I would feel
were we locked away with the mad.

768
01:02:38,260 --> 01:02:40,670
Why do you tear
your clothes?

769
01:02:42,550 --> 01:02:45,590
I'm making windows
for my limbs to see through.

770
01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:49,300
Clothes make me blind and I must
be watchful at all times,

771
01:02:49,350 --> 01:02:52,140
lest someone come
to hurt me again.

772
01:02:52,230 --> 01:02:55,850
This is for you.
The robe of sleep.

773
01:02:55,980 --> 01:02:59,400
To comfort you,
as you comfort your doll.

774
01:02:59,450 --> 01:03:02,150
Robert.

775
01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:04,400
I shall be along shortly.

776
01:03:21,050 --> 01:03:23,080
Why are you afraid
to sleep?

777
01:03:26,100 --> 01:03:29,210
Once I fell asleep,

778
01:03:29,350 --> 01:03:31,590
but the evil in me was wakeful.

779
01:03:31,690 --> 01:03:33,640
And I let slip my little girl.

780
01:03:33,690 --> 01:03:36,180
Your daughter?

781
01:03:39,650 --> 01:03:43,980
My man was an English soldier.
One of Cromwell's.

782
01:03:44,070 --> 01:03:48,480
He was good to my family.

783
01:03:48,580 --> 01:03:51,110
And I was green as a goose.

784
01:03:51,210 --> 01:03:54,240
And fair looking.

785
01:03:56,090 --> 01:03:57,990
It was he who took
you to London?

786
01:04:00,550 --> 01:04:04,540
A little girl was born to us and lived
three years before she was taken.

787
01:04:06,500 --> 01:04:08,910
She liked to see the boats.

788
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:15,090
We watched the river
and the river watched us...

789
01:04:15,140 --> 01:04:18,420
until one day
I closed my eyes...

790
01:04:18,470 --> 01:04:21,430
and the river took her
for drownin'.

791
01:04:23,190 --> 01:04:25,430
You must be watchful
always, Robert.

792
01:04:27,110 --> 01:04:30,110
Do not sleep.

793
01:04:30,190 --> 01:04:33,530
We will be watchful
for each other.

794
01:04:33,570 --> 01:04:35,900
You can sleep.
I will take the first watch.

795
01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:40,020
I cannot.

796
01:04:53,630 --> 01:04:57,170
Across the sea,
in the Land of Mar...

797
01:04:57,260 --> 01:05:01,340
there is a valley where are kept
all the things lost on earth.

798
01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:07,520
Lost kingdoms,
lost riches,

799
01:05:07,610 --> 01:05:10,860
lost hours,
lost loves.

800
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:16,020
The people go there to discover
their lost days and lost deeds.

801
01:05:24,370 --> 01:05:28,360
And often they are surprised
to come across a few of their lost wits.

802
01:05:30,670 --> 01:05:34,000
Simply because they'd never
in the least missed them.

803
01:05:46,810 --> 01:05:51,880
Robert, if you're seen to be
overattentive to one,

804
01:05:51,930 --> 01:05:55,060
you'll be seen to be less than attentive
to the others.

805
01:05:55,100 --> 01:05:57,810
I helped her to sleep.
So perhaps I was near a cure for her.

806
01:05:57,900 --> 01:05:59,730
That is somewhat arrogant.

807
01:05:59,810 --> 01:06:03,230
Cures are not performed by us.
Only Jesus cures.

808
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:05,220
We are merely His agents.

809
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:09,260
But may we not, as His agents,
look to ourselves?

810
01:06:09,260 --> 01:06:12,260
To our own experience
to aid in a cure?

811
01:06:13,660 --> 01:06:16,750
When I am ill,
I will seek out...

812
01:06:16,830 --> 01:06:19,290
at the first sign or footstep
of that illness...

813
01:06:19,380 --> 01:06:23,420
the services of a physician
to help me to a cure.

814
01:06:23,510 --> 01:06:26,800
And the insane man,
on the contrary, is not brought

815
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:29,770
to any bedlam or hospital until
the disease is far advanced.

816
01:06:32,510 --> 01:06:36,050
For all our inmates
there was a time before.

817
01:06:36,140 --> 01:06:38,100
When there was
no madness in them.

818
01:06:38,190 --> 01:06:42,730
We should try to ask each
one of those in our care...

819
01:06:42,770 --> 01:06:45,970
to try to remember how it was
to be in the time before.

820
01:06:46,030 --> 01:06:48,270
And to return them there.

821
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:51,730
Perhaps as sleep returns
Katharine to her time before,

822
01:06:51,830 --> 01:06:53,820
in times of joy,

823
01:06:53,950 --> 01:06:59,320
and in this way
we might discover...

824
01:06:59,420 --> 01:07:02,670
the imprint of the steps
to madness.

825
01:07:02,750 --> 01:07:06,450
There, just
under the surface,

826
01:07:06,510 --> 01:07:09,960
there could be cures
by dancing and laughter.

827
01:07:10,050 --> 01:07:11,960
I see Daniel playing
a tarantella.

828
01:07:12,050 --> 01:07:13,960
I see the women dancing
like happy children.

829
01:07:14,060 --> 01:07:16,970
I see... I see...

830
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:23,470
all the things lost on earth.

831
01:07:23,570 --> 01:07:25,680
Robert!

832
01:07:25,780 --> 01:07:27,810
This is not
the Court Masque.

833
01:07:27,900 --> 01:07:30,300
I know that!

834
01:07:32,940 --> 01:07:34,920
But you cannot banish joy,

835
01:07:34,930 --> 01:07:36,720
for that is the road to madness.

836
01:07:36,780 --> 01:07:39,610
And, and all this...

837
01:07:39,660 --> 01:07:41,780
has come to me
from the Lord...

838
01:07:44,030 --> 01:07:45,950
I suspect.

839
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:54,830
Today, instead of walking round
the tree, we're gonna dance.

840
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:58,620
Or skip. Or gallop.
Anything.

841
01:07:58,710 --> 01:08:02,050
And your keepers
will dance with you.

842
01:08:04,550 --> 01:08:07,590
Um, this is
a twirling dance...

843
01:08:07,680 --> 01:08:11,380
so why do you not twirl
and turn and dance?

844
01:08:36,630 --> 01:08:38,590
Hello, Robert.

845
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:06,160
One, two and three and four.

846
01:09:14,330 --> 01:09:16,240
Yes! Yes!

847
01:09:16,330 --> 01:09:18,410
Ha ha!

848
01:09:33,090 --> 01:09:36,470
-Dance with me!
-Oh, I cannot.

849
01:09:36,550 --> 01:09:38,760
Robert cannot, for he is the music.

850
01:09:38,850 --> 01:09:41,140
Perhaps, uh, John will ask you
to dance with him.

851
01:10:06,170 --> 01:10:08,070
Come on!

852
01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:14,910
Why was this music
not always with us?

853
01:10:22,970 --> 01:10:24,930
Aha!

854
01:10:37,070 --> 01:10:37,940
John?

855
01:10:47,900 --> 01:10:48,780
John.

856
01:10:50,420 --> 01:10:52,370
Robert.

857
01:10:52,420 --> 01:10:55,830
For a month now,

858
01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:59,160
and I'm telling this
to you and nobody else,

859
01:10:59,260 --> 01:11:01,710
I've felt certain symptoms
come upon me.

860
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:06,670
First, you must rest.

861
01:11:06,770 --> 01:11:08,670
Only then, Pearce,
can I prescribe my remedy.

862
01:11:08,770 --> 01:11:10,680
-John.
-Ah, John, then,

863
01:11:10,770 --> 01:11:13,470
but you'll be neither one nor the other
if you allow yourself to die.

864
01:11:13,570 --> 01:11:15,560
I cannot stay in bed,
there's so much work to do...

865
01:11:15,610 --> 01:11:17,600
Please do not make me
lose my temper!

866
01:11:17,740 --> 01:11:20,690
Have I not a hundred times since
we've met allowed you to command me...

867
01:11:20,770 --> 01:11:22,730
and done this or that
thing at your bidding?

868
01:11:22,770 --> 01:11:25,150
I have. So do not even consider
contradicting me!

869
01:11:34,910 --> 01:11:36,820
What do you prescribe?

870
01:11:40,620 --> 01:11:44,570
Syrup of roses to warm your blood
and soothe your coughing.

871
01:11:44,630 --> 01:11:47,090
A burdock poultice
for your head.

872
01:11:47,130 --> 01:11:50,970
-And for the slime in the lung?
-Sal ammoniac.

873
01:11:51,050 --> 01:11:52,960
And a balsam.

874
01:11:53,050 --> 01:11:57,350
Yes, we shall try several dissolved
in boiling water and inhaled.

875
01:11:57,430 --> 01:12:02,140
It's all come back
to you then, Robert?

876
01:12:02,230 --> 01:12:05,150
The right knowledge
at the right time.

877
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:08,770
Perhaps.
We shall see.

878
01:12:47,150 --> 01:12:50,060
Tell me more tales
of the Land of Mar.

879
01:12:54,700 --> 01:12:58,150
In the woods there lived
great families of badger.

880
01:12:58,280 --> 01:13:01,440
And people liked to bring
their children there to see them.

881
01:13:15,040 --> 01:13:18,460
The children are always told that if
they are very quiet, they will see them.

882
01:13:21,630 --> 01:13:23,540
As far as I know,

883
01:13:23,630 --> 01:13:26,040
they are never quiet enough.

884
01:14:01,920 --> 01:14:04,790
This shall be
our meeting place.

885
01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:07,880
Yes.

886
01:14:07,930 --> 01:14:09,890
And I'll wait for ya.

887
01:14:15,190 --> 01:14:18,190
And you'll come to me.

888
01:14:18,270 --> 01:14:20,180
I will.

889
01:14:40,630 --> 01:14:43,190
Merivel?

890
01:14:45,340 --> 01:14:47,250
Why had you go out?

891
01:14:47,340 --> 01:14:50,080
Oh, when I cannot sleep,
sometimes I walk...

892
01:14:50,180 --> 01:14:52,090
in the air at night.

893
01:14:53,970 --> 01:14:55,880
Let's see.

894
01:15:02,510 --> 01:15:04,430
Hmm.

895
01:15:04,470 --> 01:15:06,430
You're burning up.

896
01:15:10,980 --> 01:15:12,890
You called me Merivel.

897
01:15:14,690 --> 01:15:18,360
Since this fever I've...

898
01:15:18,450 --> 01:15:21,320
I've forgotten
your other name.

899
01:15:21,410 --> 01:15:23,310
Robert.

900
01:15:23,410 --> 01:15:25,820
Robert. That's it.

901
01:15:31,250 --> 01:15:34,200
What I do remember is...

902
01:15:34,250 --> 01:15:38,120
how I witnessed
the beating heart.

903
01:15:38,170 --> 01:15:40,130
Yes, I remember.

904
01:15:41,550 --> 01:15:44,890
You put your hand in
and touched it, but I could not.

905
01:15:45,970 --> 01:15:48,300
I remember.

906
01:15:50,640 --> 01:15:53,050
And yet the man
felt nothing.

907
01:15:54,270 --> 01:15:56,180
No, he felt nothing.

908
01:16:00,900 --> 01:16:04,310
Pray for me that I might become
that man and feel no pain.

909
01:16:05,700 --> 01:16:08,400
I shall.

910
01:16:16,960 --> 01:16:19,120
It is not
the plague then?

911
01:16:19,210 --> 01:16:22,830
No. It's his lung.
A potent consumption.

912
01:16:22,930 --> 01:16:26,970
Let us pray for our friend John
in his time of trouble...

913
01:16:27,060 --> 01:16:30,260
that his pain
may be the less.

914
01:16:48,400 --> 01:16:50,320
Stay with me.

915
01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:56,530
The pain is less
when you stay with me.

916
01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:06,990
Blessed be the name of the Lord...

917
01:17:07,090 --> 01:17:10,170
from this time forth
and forever more.

918
01:17:10,260 --> 01:17:12,300
From the rising
of the sun...

919
01:17:12,340 --> 01:17:14,720
and the going down
of the same,

920
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:18,140
the Lord's name
is to be praised.

921
01:17:18,220 --> 01:17:23,430
It troubles me to take with me
to my grave so much that I do not know.

922
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:27,390
I'd rather you did not talk
about the grave, John.

923
01:17:27,480 --> 01:17:30,400
Of course you would.

924
01:17:30,480 --> 01:17:32,940
There are many matters,
ever since I met you,

925
01:17:33,030 --> 01:17:36,940
upon which you would prefer me
to remain silent.

926
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:40,110
But it has
never been my way.

927
01:17:46,670 --> 01:17:48,570
Here.

928
01:17:54,130 --> 01:17:56,800
Your copy of Harvey.

929
01:17:56,930 --> 01:18:00,500
You have a gift,
Merivel. Use it.

930
01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:02,920
Robert!

931
01:18:04,770 --> 01:18:12,600
Robert!

932
01:18:12,740 --> 01:18:18,240
Robert is my lover!

933
01:18:18,320 --> 01:18:20,230
Robert!

934
01:18:20,330 --> 01:18:24,030
He is my lover!

935
01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:29,160
Robert!

936
01:18:32,420 --> 01:18:35,250
He is my lover!

937
01:18:44,170 --> 01:18:47,010
Farewell, my friend.

938
01:19:05,860 --> 01:19:10,850
When the time is right,
Robert shall leave us.

939
01:19:10,990 --> 01:19:13,030
And he will take
Katharine with him.

940
01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:15,020
Why?

941
01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:18,040
Because, Daniel,
she is carrying his child.

942
01:19:31,430 --> 01:19:33,960
-Good-bye, Hannah.
-Good-bye, Robert.

943
01:19:34,060 --> 01:19:36,720
-Good-bye, Ambrose.
-Good-bye, Robert.

944
01:19:38,770 --> 01:19:40,680
Walk on.

945
01:19:56,290 --> 01:19:59,240
He will never teach
me croquet now.

946
01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:11,250
Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross

947
01:20:11,380 --> 01:20:15,290
To see a fine lady
ride on her white horse

948
01:20:15,390 --> 01:20:19,300
With rings on her fingers
and bells on her toes

949
01:20:19,390 --> 01:20:21,340
And she shall have
music wherever...

950
01:20:21,390 --> 01:20:23,680
Are you content now?

951
01:20:23,770 --> 01:20:26,220
Why should I not be?

952
01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:29,220
Will you be Quakerish
all the way to London?

953
01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:34,940
You know, in Ireland,
a man with a horse, a cart,

954
01:20:34,980 --> 01:20:38,230
and a book he knows how to read
is the catch of the county.

955
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:40,520
Well, perhaps when we have
made fire of the cart,

956
01:20:40,610 --> 01:20:43,610
and eaten the horse,
wiped our asses with the book,

957
01:20:43,740 --> 01:20:46,660
you'll have become acquainted
with what you have caught.

958
01:20:57,880 --> 01:20:59,790
Oy! Hop it!

959
01:20:59,880 --> 01:21:02,510
Find the lady.

960
01:21:02,590 --> 01:21:06,540
She's here, she's there,
you seek her everywhere.

961
01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:09,010
She's floating in the air.

962
01:21:09,060 --> 01:21:11,460
Where is she?
Find the lady.

963
01:21:16,650 --> 01:21:18,550
That was my sixpence
if I had played.

964
01:21:18,610 --> 01:21:22,230
-Here is our chance of money.
-Here's your chance

965
01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:24,850
-to be shorn like a sheep.
-Ho, fellow!

966
01:21:24,950 --> 01:21:26,990
Move on or you'll
lose your breeches.

967
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:30,860
Thank you, but I'm not one
of your bog-dwelling Irish bumpkins.

968
01:21:30,910 --> 01:21:33,660
I have had some traffic
with the affairs of men.

969
01:21:33,750 --> 01:21:35,710
We must have money.

970
01:21:35,790 --> 01:21:39,040
There's money
inside my skirt.

971
01:21:39,090 --> 01:21:41,080
Sarah!

972
01:21:41,170 --> 01:21:43,500
She is simple.

973
01:21:45,970 --> 01:21:47,880
We are doctor
and patient.

974
01:21:50,390 --> 01:21:52,550
I am the doctor.

975
01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:54,590
Show me the cards.

976
01:21:58,570 --> 01:22:00,430
Find the lady.

977
01:22:12,370 --> 01:22:15,190
I have lost everything.

978
01:22:15,250 --> 01:22:19,450
Not quite everything, sir.

979
01:22:19,530 --> 01:22:21,910
I cannot. That was
a gift from the King.

980
01:22:21,990 --> 01:22:25,440
Pity.

981
01:22:30,920 --> 01:22:32,910
Once more.

982
01:22:35,130 --> 01:22:37,040
"Sir Robert Merivel.

983
01:22:37,130 --> 01:22:39,710
Master of Bidnold".

984
01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:41,930
Show me the cards.

985
01:22:41,970 --> 01:22:44,810
Find the lady.

986
01:22:44,890 --> 01:22:48,310
She's here, she's there,
she's floating in the air.

987
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:50,300
Find the lady.

988
01:22:53,070 --> 01:22:54,970
Nooo!

989
01:22:57,950 --> 01:23:00,810
Oh, I've made her mad again.

990
01:23:03,870 --> 01:23:06,110
Ah, gold!

991
01:23:07,410 --> 01:23:10,780
Heavy as a hen egg
against everything he's lost.

992
01:23:10,830 --> 01:23:14,170
-And breakfast.
-She's simple.

993
01:23:14,250 --> 01:23:17,450
It's gold.
Even-Stevens, then.

994
01:23:17,510 --> 01:23:19,470
And breakfast.

995
01:23:19,510 --> 01:23:22,080
Oh, shame. To rob
an idiot girl.

996
01:23:22,140 --> 01:23:24,100
That's not kind, Robert.

997
01:23:24,140 --> 01:23:26,100
Find the lady.

998
01:23:33,230 --> 01:23:35,260
No!

999
01:23:37,190 --> 01:23:39,810
Ha!

1000
01:23:46,450 --> 01:23:48,360
But, how?

1001
01:23:48,460 --> 01:23:51,290
Simple.

1002
01:23:53,460 --> 01:23:56,450
Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross

1003
01:23:56,510 --> 01:24:00,280
To see a fine lady
ride on her white horse

1004
01:24:00,380 --> 01:24:04,590
With rings on her fingers
and bells on her toes

1005
01:24:04,720 --> 01:24:08,760
She shall have music
wherever she goes

1006
01:25:01,140 --> 01:25:03,050
Hello?

1007
01:25:10,110 --> 01:25:12,020
Hello?

1008
01:25:12,110 --> 01:25:14,020
Hello!

1009
01:25:24,120 --> 01:25:26,070
I once lived here.

1010
01:25:33,260 --> 01:25:35,670
Put your hand
on my belly.

1011
01:25:42,230 --> 01:25:44,840
I'm frightened that something
might happen to take it away.

1012
01:25:48,480 --> 01:25:51,930
We'll build him a big strong castle
in the Land of Mar,

1013
01:25:52,030 --> 01:25:54,640
and put him in a high tower
where he will be safe.

1014
01:25:57,150 --> 01:26:00,760
Where he will feel
none of the unkindness of the world;

1015
01:26:00,820 --> 01:26:03,990
scheming, ugliness.

1016
01:26:04,070 --> 01:26:06,990
And should he pass
through the valley of lost things,

1017
01:26:07,070 --> 01:26:09,560
nothing of him
will ever be lost.

1018
01:26:11,910 --> 01:26:14,750
And we shall
call him John.

1019
01:26:16,170 --> 01:26:19,840
No one will ever be able
to take him from you.

1020
01:26:29,510 --> 01:26:31,920
Do not enter, sir.

1021
01:26:34,730 --> 01:26:36,630
I've come looking for work.

1022
01:26:36,730 --> 01:26:39,190
I, uh, I attended the college.

1023
01:26:39,270 --> 01:26:42,640
That ward is struck, and once a ward
or a house is struck,

1024
01:26:42,690 --> 01:26:46,360
then all the people
therein are quarantined for 40 days.

1025
01:26:47,860 --> 01:26:50,950
-Both sick and well?
-Both together.

1026
01:26:51,030 --> 01:26:52,940
What happens?

1027
01:26:53,040 --> 01:26:56,650
We leave them.
Mostly they die.

1028
01:27:00,790 --> 01:27:02,990
-What about the physicians?
-All fled.

1029
01:27:03,050 --> 01:27:05,750
Physicians have become
the men most despised.

1030
01:27:10,010 --> 01:27:11,920
Perhaps you'd
like that, sir.

1031
01:27:12,010 --> 01:27:16,010
Physicians used to wear them
to purify the air against the plague.

1032
01:27:16,060 --> 01:27:18,890
Well, you can keep it.

1033
01:27:18,980 --> 01:27:22,640
The physician who wore it
comes here no more.

1034
01:27:22,690 --> 01:27:24,600
Nor does he go anywhere.

1035
01:27:24,730 --> 01:27:27,640
Nor has breath.

1036
01:28:04,350 --> 01:28:06,250
John.

1037
01:28:28,910 --> 01:28:32,580
You have a gift, Merivel. Use it.

1038
01:28:42,340 --> 01:28:44,300
For the child.

1039
01:28:49,850 --> 01:28:52,260
Why do you stay
with me?

1040
01:28:55,480 --> 01:28:59,220
Because the child has weaved
our lives together.

1041
01:28:59,280 --> 01:29:02,140
I know you don't love me
as you've loved others.

1042
01:29:04,570 --> 01:29:09,190
Um, perhaps I do not recognize
love, Katharine. I'm not a wise man.

1043
01:29:24,470 --> 01:29:26,580
In the Land of Mar,

1044
01:29:26,640 --> 01:29:29,460
which lies
just above Africa...

1045
01:29:33,600 --> 01:29:36,220
To help you sleep.

1046
01:29:36,260 --> 01:29:38,390
You must sleep, Robert,

1047
01:29:38,470 --> 01:29:41,470
if you are to heal others
as you've healed me.

1048
01:29:54,860 --> 01:29:57,980
It's all right.
It's all right.

1049
01:30:09,590 --> 01:30:12,080
We can only
wait and pray.

1050
01:30:12,130 --> 01:30:15,580
And then, if she should
start to slip away?

1051
01:30:15,630 --> 01:30:18,580
Then there is only
one thing can be done.

1052
01:30:18,720 --> 01:30:23,020
Katharine. Katharine.

1053
01:30:23,060 --> 01:30:25,020
The baby is large.

1054
01:30:25,060 --> 01:30:27,730
You cannot
push it out of you.

1055
01:30:30,020 --> 01:30:32,810
Is there nothing
can be done to save it?

1056
01:30:32,860 --> 01:30:35,310
I must cut into the womb.

1057
01:30:37,110 --> 01:30:39,560
But if I do,
I shall lose you.

1058
01:30:39,660 --> 01:30:42,580
And I don't want
to lose you, Katharine.

1059
01:30:44,580 --> 01:30:46,820
You must save the child.

1060
01:31:00,600 --> 01:31:02,670
Are you not afraid?

1061
01:31:02,720 --> 01:31:05,170
You're leaving me, I fear.

1062
01:31:07,390 --> 01:31:09,340
Nothing else.

1063
01:31:17,110 --> 01:31:19,510
Be with me now, Pearce.

1064
01:31:26,950 --> 01:31:29,780
Now, help me.
Hold back the flesh...

1065
01:31:29,870 --> 01:31:32,740
while I gently lever
the child out.

1066
01:31:42,340 --> 01:31:45,210
Ah! Oh! Huh!

1067
01:31:47,510 --> 01:31:49,420
Katharine.

1068
01:31:49,510 --> 01:31:53,470
Katharine!

1069
01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:10,600
There's nothing
more I can do.

1070
01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:14,240
Sir!

1071
01:32:17,330 --> 01:32:19,240
Robert.

1072
01:32:25,670 --> 01:32:28,700
It is no John,
it is our little girl.

1073
01:32:31,640 --> 01:32:34,800
We shall call her Margaret.

1074
01:32:35,850 --> 01:32:38,420
Margaret.

1075
01:32:41,730 --> 01:32:44,650
I love you, Robert.

1076
01:32:44,730 --> 01:32:46,640
I love you.

1077
01:32:52,610 --> 01:32:54,770
Keep her safe.

1078
01:32:54,870 --> 01:32:57,150
I will.

1079
01:33:42,990 --> 01:33:47,530
Earth to earth,
ashes to ashes, dust to dust,

1080
01:33:47,580 --> 01:33:51,900
in sure and certain hope
of resurrection to eternal life...

1081
01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:55,030
the Lord, Jesus Christ
who shall...

1082
01:34:00,840 --> 01:34:03,000
I write this for you, dear Margaret,

1083
01:34:03,090 --> 01:34:05,300
to tell you something
of my life.

1084
01:34:05,430 --> 01:34:07,640
Whatever is good in it
I owe to two people...

1085
01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:10,170
whom I could not save.

1086
01:34:10,270 --> 01:34:13,550
Your mother loved you
and gave her life for yours.

1087
01:34:13,600 --> 01:34:16,550
She was the bravest spirit
I ever knew.

1088
01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:24,530
The most compassionate
was my friend John Pearce.

1089
01:34:24,570 --> 01:34:27,980
Now I know I must return
to our work in the hospital,

1090
01:34:28,070 --> 01:34:30,990
and take on the role
that was always meant for me.

1091
01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:33,230
I have arranged
for your safekeeping.

1092
01:34:33,330 --> 01:34:37,370
For if I become ill,
I will not return.

1093
01:35:14,690 --> 01:35:16,600
But they are
tied to the bed.

1094
01:35:16,700 --> 01:35:19,660
Those already affected
with the plague are tied...

1095
01:35:19,780 --> 01:35:21,970
to prevent them going into the streets

1096
01:35:21,970 --> 01:35:23,730
like madmen and infecting other people.

1097
01:35:23,830 --> 01:35:26,660
But the sick and the well
must be separated.

1098
01:35:26,750 --> 01:35:28,990
Open it!

1099
01:35:29,080 --> 01:35:32,840
I can't, sir.
The proclamation. The plague!

1100
01:35:32,920 --> 01:35:34,830
Then I shall open it.

1101
01:36:08,580 --> 01:36:11,610
The sick and
the well they keep quarantined together.

1102
01:36:11,710 --> 01:36:15,330
If I were merely to separate them,
a great many lives would be saved.

1103
01:36:17,510 --> 01:36:20,590
Who do I have to thank
for this kindness?

1104
01:36:20,720 --> 01:36:23,080
One John Pearce.

1105
01:36:24,260 --> 01:36:26,210
The sick I can offer no cure.

1106
01:36:26,270 --> 01:36:28,710
But my presence among them
may bring with it some hope.

1107
01:36:31,100 --> 01:36:33,050
Fear is our greatest enemy.

1108
01:36:33,110 --> 01:36:35,510
And hope our best weapon
against the disease.

1109
01:36:49,830 --> 01:36:52,200
They have mistaken me
for John Pearce.

1110
01:36:52,290 --> 01:36:54,610
A mistake to which
I have contributed.

1111
01:36:54,700 --> 01:36:57,990
I allow them to continue
to honor my friend.

1112
01:36:59,580 --> 01:37:01,540
Dr. Pearce.

1113
01:37:05,920 --> 01:37:07,880
Excellent.

1114
01:37:14,890 --> 01:37:17,460
There you are.
Mary will show you out.

1115
01:37:29,150 --> 01:37:30,860
Margaret.

1116
01:37:31,150 --> 01:37:34,070
-Dr. Pearce.
-Who calls?

1117
01:38:21,580 --> 01:38:24,700
Pearce.

1118
01:38:24,750 --> 01:38:27,910
I give her
into your hands.

1119
01:38:27,960 --> 01:38:31,330
Call for any medicines.
Anything you deem suitable.

1120
01:39:19,170 --> 01:39:21,460
Why have they sent
another doctor to me?

1121
01:39:21,500 --> 01:39:24,450
You must want to live,
Lady Celia.

1122
01:39:24,510 --> 01:39:27,080
No.

1123
01:39:27,180 --> 01:39:29,640
Not in so wretched a state.

1124
01:39:42,270 --> 01:39:44,320
Tell me, Doctor,

1125
01:39:44,440 --> 01:39:46,400
why is it that
those that we love...

1126
01:39:46,530 --> 01:39:48,440
do not love us
in return?

1127
01:39:51,240 --> 01:39:55,370
I once loved a woman
who did not love me.

1128
01:39:55,410 --> 01:39:58,360
Yet I believed
that she did.

1129
01:40:00,790 --> 01:40:04,410
Is it not
equally possible...

1130
01:40:04,510 --> 01:40:08,410
to mistakenly
feel unloved?

1131
01:40:08,510 --> 01:40:10,310
I am one of many.

1132
01:40:10,310 --> 01:40:13,710
I know no special place
in the King's heart.

1133
01:40:13,810 --> 01:40:16,710
The King does love
you, Lady Celia.

1134
01:40:18,190 --> 01:40:21,140
Why would he reveal such intimacies
to you and not to me?

1135
01:40:21,270 --> 01:40:24,850
He told me nothing,
but I recognized in him...

1136
01:40:24,940 --> 01:40:27,610
the very feelings
I myself have known.

1137
01:40:31,570 --> 01:40:34,940
How may I arrive
at such an understanding?

1138
01:40:35,020 --> 01:40:38,030
I used to look to the constellations
for some explanation...

1139
01:40:38,110 --> 01:40:41,070
in mysterious times
of my own life.

1140
01:40:41,160 --> 01:40:44,910
But the stars hold only
part of the answer, Lady Celia.

1141
01:40:44,990 --> 01:40:46,950
Now I look toward myself
and those who believed in me

1142
01:40:47,000 --> 01:40:49,320
and loved me
for the man I was.

1143
01:40:49,370 --> 01:40:52,370
Now I know we have
the power to shape our own destiny.

1144
01:40:52,500 --> 01:40:55,700
Your voice
sounds familiar.

1145
01:40:55,800 --> 01:40:59,630
Perhaps from some other time
in my life, when I was a child.

1146
01:40:59,720 --> 01:41:01,620
Yes.

1147
01:41:01,720 --> 01:41:04,920
Perhaps when
we were children.

1148
01:41:18,360 --> 01:41:22,200
Sire, I am familiar with
the many symptoms of the plague.

1149
01:41:22,280 --> 01:41:25,200
Lady Celia suffers
from a different illness, a fever,

1150
01:41:25,280 --> 01:41:27,980
which I have treated
and from which she will recover.

1151
01:41:28,040 --> 01:41:30,740
And something else...
She is with child.

1152
01:41:35,210 --> 01:41:37,490
Good Doctor,

1153
01:41:37,590 --> 01:41:40,160
you have made my heart
exceeding glad.

1154
01:41:40,260 --> 01:41:43,430
But she is still haunted
by a profound melancholy.

1155
01:41:43,510 --> 01:41:47,290
It can be relieved only
by some assurance of love.

1156
01:41:50,770 --> 01:41:53,170
I do believe
I understand you.

1157
01:41:53,230 --> 01:41:55,720
I believe I do.

1158
01:41:55,770 --> 01:41:59,350
And now you must
remove your headdress...

1159
01:41:59,440 --> 01:42:01,970
and make yourself
known to us.

1160
01:42:02,030 --> 01:42:05,140
That, if Your Majesty will
forgive me, I cannot do.

1161
01:42:05,370 --> 01:42:07,810
I only hope
I've proved useful.

1162
01:42:16,420 --> 01:42:19,870
A large part of the city
is on fire.

1163
01:42:21,970 --> 01:42:25,000
Boatsman!

1164
01:42:37,050 --> 01:42:39,010
Go in!

1165
01:42:39,060 --> 01:42:41,050
All right.

1166
01:42:41,100 --> 01:42:43,220
I must find
my daughter.

1167
01:42:43,310 --> 01:42:45,630
Now, go in closer!

1168
01:43:12,420 --> 01:43:16,010
-Am I not near Cheapside?
-Save yourself, sir.

1169
01:43:16,050 --> 01:43:18,210
Cheapside is gone.

1170
01:43:35,740 --> 01:43:38,490
-Where am I?
-Get away from me!

1171
01:43:38,570 --> 01:43:42,150
-What street is this?
-I don't know!

1172
01:43:42,240 --> 01:43:44,150
Margaret!

1173
01:43:53,880 --> 01:43:56,410
Margaret!

1174
01:45:08,780 --> 01:45:10,740
Someone in there.

1175
01:45:45,060 --> 01:45:50,560
Where am I?

1176
01:45:50,650 --> 01:45:54,060
You have come back
to Bidnold.

1177
01:45:54,160 --> 01:45:56,060
Will.

1178
01:45:59,750 --> 01:46:01,940
I remember the journey.

1179
01:46:02,030 --> 01:46:03,950
I think not, sir.

1180
01:46:04,030 --> 01:46:06,820
You were asleep
for the most part of it.

1181
01:46:07,870 --> 01:46:10,990
They found you
15 miles from here.

1182
01:46:11,080 --> 01:46:14,420
Stuck fast under a tree.

1183
01:46:18,180 --> 01:46:19,700
Margaret?

1184
01:46:20,010 --> 01:46:23,170
No word of Margaret?

1185
01:46:23,300 --> 01:46:25,210
Sir?

1186
01:46:28,600 --> 01:46:30,890
I wish you might
have known her, Will.

1187
01:46:30,930 --> 01:46:34,770
I had a little daughter.
A most beautiful little girl.

1188
01:47:26,360 --> 01:47:30,300
I feel as though old age has
come upon me in the space of a moment.

1189
01:48:24,790 --> 01:48:26,750
I fear I'm dreaming.

1190
01:48:26,790 --> 01:48:29,710
No, Merivel.
You are awake.

1191
01:48:33,750 --> 01:48:37,830
-Lady Celia has recovered.
-She was ill, Sire?

1192
01:48:37,920 --> 01:48:40,840
Yes, and I was led to believe
that a colleague of yours,

1193
01:48:40,890 --> 01:48:44,500
a certain John Pearce,
was responsible for her recovery.

1194
01:48:44,560 --> 01:48:47,720
However, Celia
thinks differently.

1195
01:48:47,810 --> 01:48:49,970
And her suspicions
were confirmed...

1196
01:48:50,020 --> 01:48:52,690
when a midwife carrying
a very young child...

1197
01:48:52,770 --> 01:48:56,640
came to our palace
in search of one...

1198
01:48:56,690 --> 01:48:58,650
Robert Merivel.

1199
01:48:58,740 --> 01:49:02,150
Your child, I believe.

1200
01:49:35,820 --> 01:49:37,720
Merivel.

1201
01:49:44,480 --> 01:49:47,270
I am not mistaken,
am I, Merivel,

1202
01:49:47,360 --> 01:49:50,080
about your love for this place?
-No, Sire.

1203
01:49:50,080 --> 01:49:53,740
There are here in Bidnold
certain combinations of color...

1204
01:49:53,780 --> 01:49:56,070
I do not think exist
anywhere else in the world.

1205
01:49:56,120 --> 01:49:58,790
Yes, quite.

1206
01:49:58,870 --> 01:50:01,410
Yes, your man Gates sent to us
and told us that...

1207
01:50:01,460 --> 01:50:04,620
you had returned
to your house.

1208
01:50:04,710 --> 01:50:06,870
My house, Sire?

1209
01:50:06,960 --> 01:50:08,870
Yes.

1210
01:50:08,960 --> 01:50:11,450
I am giving you Bidnold...

1211
01:50:11,550 --> 01:50:15,380
until my reign is over
and another age comes.

1212
01:50:15,470 --> 01:50:18,840
What was taken from you
is restored to you...

1213
01:50:18,890 --> 01:50:22,140
in return for the lives
you've saved...

1214
01:50:22,230 --> 01:50:25,010
and the man that
you have become.

1215
01:50:26,110 --> 01:50:28,510
It is your house, Merivel.

1216
01:50:28,610 --> 01:50:31,020
And I shall never
take it from you.

1217
01:50:36,950 --> 01:50:40,020
And I have commissioned
a portrait of you.

1218
01:50:43,750 --> 01:50:46,700
And it shall be called
"A Physician".

1219
01:50:51,550 --> 01:50:55,000
The fire in its
fury has consumed the great plague.

1220
01:50:55,090 --> 01:50:57,840
Misfortune may leave behind
unlooked-for blessings,

1221
01:50:57,930 --> 01:51:00,600
none dearer than you,
my little Margaret.

1222
01:51:04,100 --> 01:51:07,430
I will return to the city
to my work as a doctor,

1223
01:51:07,480 --> 01:51:10,640
and the rebuilding
of the King's hospital.

1224
01:51:10,730 --> 01:51:12,640
The stars that
once confused me...

1225
01:51:12,740 --> 01:51:15,400
seem now to light a path
that is clear,

1226
01:51:15,450 --> 01:51:18,400
that I have in truth been traveling
for all these days.

1227
01:51:20,580 --> 01:51:23,010
Where I met what came

1228
01:51:23,020 --> 01:51:24,900
and left behind my sorrows.

1229
01:51:24,960 --> 01:51:27,350
And I'm traveling still.

1230
01:51:36,710 --> 01:51:41,050