Elizabeth I Page #5
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It is not too late
to turn her.
Oh, tell me that is true,
for I would have it so.
Bess, you have the great weakness
of the clear minded.
think like you.
But...
I will arrange it.
So this is her prison.
Stand down the guard,
my lord.
- Where is she?
- Follow me.
- Mmm.
Well, she's had little else
to do but eat and sleep.
And plot,
Your Majesty.
Let us hope sweet reason
will reason her from her unreason.
Since we both know, my lord,
that the other way will lead
my sister to her death.
And on the other side of that
lies war with Spain...
for which poor England
is ill prepared.
You were not announced.
I'm not here.
Why do you come?
Is it curiosity?
To witness
my confinement?
To see what you
have brought me to?
As you see,
I am not well.
Perhaps this
pleases you.
Was it I who brought
you to this, Mary?
Who else?
I am more your friend
than you imagine.
I am the only thing that stands
between you and destruction.
Royalty stands
with itself, madam.
Who else will stand
with us or for us?
We serve the people, Mary.
I am a little bored
with the people.
I think it is time we sent out
for a different set of subjects.
Well, this is what my dog thinks.
Possibly.
- I am come to warn you.
- Of what?
There are those on my council
who would have you dead.
They say you conspire
against my life.
Your Majesty knows
I have never...
Sir Francis Walsingham
gathers evidence.
Of what?
And if I am given proof
I will have no choice
but to take the sin of your death...
the death of
a God-anointed queen...
upon my head.
No, you would not dare.
I would have no choice.
There will be war,
cousin, on my death.
A war of Spain
and France
against this little...
Vile country, nest of
Lutheran chickens?
I do not choose
to stay here.
Well, who would have you?
Scotland?
Or your
oh-so-grateful son?
You are hard, madam.
It's the business of living
that has made me so.
Oh?
Oh, you cast a cold eye
upon me, cousin.
We are both prisoners
of the time, you and I.
Both prisoners?
Then shall we two
walk free together?
I say again,
I am come to warn...
No, I am...
I am come to counsel you.
I am come
to implore you.
I am come to beg you
not to persist
in your treason.
I swear to you, cousin,
that I have no
intent against you.
That all I seek
is liberty.
I pray to God the death
of one of us is not
the only way to buy
the freedom of the other.
Oui.
We shall see.
At last I am able
to fight your cause.
The Dutch.
What in God's name do we
have in common with the Dutch?
Our religion, ma'am.
The Dutch have no religion,
they have cheese.
If we do not contain
the Duke of Parma
and his Spanish army
he'll be knocking at our door
by the end of the year.
I can't tell you how I appreciate
this command, madam.
And how I value
your trust in me.
You are a fireside
general, Robin.
- I would have you by my side.
- Bess!
my life and you leave me.
Ah, the Earl of Essex,
my stepson, ma'am.
I have given him
a command.
Is that
Lady Essex's son?
'Tis, ma'am.
He's grown
into a pretty youth.
Your Majesty.
I see a world
in your eyes.
They... they outshine
the stars.
You turn an excellent compliment
for one so young, my lord.
If I may return it,
it is rare to find such...
beauty
gifted with the power
of self-expression.
Come along, sir.
Oh well, off you go.
And don't the pair of you
look valiant indeed?
Farewell, my Bess.
Come back safely.
The Dutch.
Heaven help us.
You have news?
From Holland.
The Earl of Leicester
is safe.
Madam, we have
intercepted a coded letter
from the so-called
Queen of Scots
to Sir Anthony
Babington.
Copy of the original,
and here...
the transcript.
There, and here.
"The affair being thus prepared
and forces in readiness
both within and without
the realm,
then will it be time
to set the six gentlemen...
to work on
the Queen's murder."
She gave me her word.
Proof positive that she...
conspires against you, madam.
How came you
by these letters?
Do we have someone of ours
in her confidence?
And if so, is this
his scheme or hers?
These gentlemen approached her,
Your Majesty.
And she has countenanced their scheme
and given it her encouragement.
This is plain evidence
she seeks your death.
As you do wish for hers, Sir Francis.
You've already marked it with the gallows.
Or did Queen Mary make
that mark herself?
There is no lie or counterfeit
laid here before you, madam.
And though it call down
I say, she should
be dealt with.
I will not move
precipitately, sir.
these last years
and we have none
to put against them.
I will not
move too soon.
I will write to
the Earl of Leicester.
Whatever
the Earl's view, madam,
we must advise you that...
I am subject of plots
and conspiracies
and all I have to defend me
is you and...
sad old Lord Burghley!
I want Leicester!
Bring him home!
The army, madam,
have need of their general.
So... your spy,
our spy...
who is he, Walsingham?
The young man who once
tried to kill you, madam.
We turned him.
I have done what I have
done for your safety, madam.
Mary of Scotland
is a traitor.
So.
Do you think because I am slow
to make war, that I am merciful?
than a man or more gentle?
I'll tell you, gentlemen,
we women have forgotten
could ever remember.
What we do not like is lies.
Why should I not
hang you
as well as the fellow Catholics
you've duped? And I tell you, sir,
we'll hang them not a whit before
we cut them open for a traitor's death.
Shadows
and shadows...
of shadows.
Being alive is punishment enough
for this creature.
For the others,
kill them as I have said.
I want them alive when you cut out
I mourn more for the death
of one good and faithful man
than I do for 20 traitors.
And now with those I love
across the seas
risking their lives
for my life,
I tell you I want to hang
those conspirators myself!
Oh, I am made of
cruel passions, my lord!
And when the time is right will so act
on them as to astonish the world.
I have love
and compassion too.
And as I can punish,
so can I yearn...
for those who are
true and faithful and...
and who love me according
to my true deserts
as their Queen.
Hang him! Hang him!
Queen Mary must be
brought to trial.
To try an anointed
sovereign, sir,
is no light matter.
The Earl of Leicester would
be in favor of a trial, madam.
Oh, really?
Well, shall we ask him?
My lord, how goes
it in Holland?
We seek your opinion
on an urgent matter.
- Madam, we must...
- How busily my subjects
set about to see
a Queen laid low.
Well, let it be done then.
Let it be done.
But I would have it done
with an eye
to the justice
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