Orlando

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"That fair her seems...

That fair her seems the

less ye see her may.

Lo see soon after how...

Modesty.

There are things that she'll see.

Lo see soon after how... more

bold and free her bared bosom...

A see the virgin rose...

How sweetly she...

...doth peep forth

with bashful modesty."

There can be no

doubt about his sex.

Despite the feminine

appearance that...

...every young man at

the time aspires to.

And there can be no doubt

about his upbringing.

Good food.

Education.

A nanny.

Loneliness and isolation.

And...because this is England...

Orlando would therefore

seem destined...

...to have his

portrait on the wall.

And his name in the history books.

But when he...

That is...

I:

Came into the world.

He was looking for something else.

Though heir to a name that meant

power, land and property...

Surely when Orlando was born...

...it wasn't privilege he sought...

...but company.

Eliza ...

... Eliza's eyes are

blessed stars, ...

... Inducing peace,

subduing wars. ...

... O blessed be each

day and hour ...

... Where sweet Eliza

builds her bower. ...

... O blessed be each

day and hour ...

... Where sweet Eliza

builds her bower. ...

... Eliza ...

... Eliza ...

... Eliza is the

fairest queen ...

... That ever trod

upon the green. ...

... Eliza ...

... Eliza's eyes are

blessed stars, ...

... Inducing peace,

subduing wars. ...

... O blessed be each

day and hour ...

... Where sweet Eliza

builds her bower. ...

... O blessed be each

day and hour ...

... Where sweet Eliza

builds her bower. ...

... Eliza ...

... Eliza ...

... Eliza is the

fairest queen ...

... That ever trod

upon the green. ...

... Eliza ...

... Eliza's breast is

that fair hill, ...

... Where virtue dwells,

and sacred skill. ...

... O blessed be each

day and hour ...

... Where sweet Eliza

builds her bower.

More wine my lord?

A see the virgin rose.

How sweetly she doth

first peep forth

With bashful modesty.

That fair her seems the

less ye see her may.

Lo see soon after how..

more bold and free her bared

bosom she doth broad display

Lo see soon after how she fades...

...and falls away.

so passeth in th..

Is this a worthy topic?

From one so clearly in

the bloom of youth.

To one who would desire it still?

Fair virgo gratious majesty,

Your bloom is legendary,

and these were of course not

the sentiments of our son,

but of a poet.

Now what would please you?

All that is mine is

here for your pleasure.

All you call yours is mine already.

Come.

Your leg.

I want you here in England with me.

You will be the son

of my old age...

...and the limb of my infirmity.

My favourite.

My mascot.

Come.

Aah, this is my victory.

Come, your handsome leg.

For you and for your heirs Orlando.

The house.

Your Majesty.

I'm forever i...

But on one condition.

Do not fade.

Do not wither.

Do not grow old.

Very interesting person.

First the queen and now his father.

It is too sad.

Mourning so becomes him.

One can quite see why

he was the favourite.

My dear friends how can you?

In his time of grief.

That way.

Sasha.

Who's that?

I believe she is the daughter

of the muscovite ambassador.

How the delightful.

If that's to your taste.

What ever can you mean?

Oh, smearing themselves with

candle wax to keep warm.

Wearing beards as they get

older, that kind of thing.

Perhaps in this you're

mistaken, Moray.

Told me on good authority

by Lord Francis Vere.

Does he travel to muscovite.

He knows someone who did.

Aah.

This is the Lady Euphrosyne.

The Lord Winchelsea.

The Lord Orlando.

The Earl of Moray.

Moray....

And I am Lord Francis Vere.

Ochin Liesna.

Sorry?

- Enchant.

Enchanted.

- Aah.

And my name is

Alexandra Menchikova.

But my father calls me Sasha.

Enchant.

Here doing some quail.

Spasiba.

Do they have quail in Russia?

Do you speak French?

A little.

But the most Englishmen

can't, or do...

...not want to speak

other languages.

How do they communicate

with strangers then?

They speak English louder.

Please tell the

ambassador that this,

great frost is the most severe ever

to have visited these islands.

Erh, tell him that in

Norfolk a young country...

...woman was seen to turn

visibly to powder...

...and was blown away in a

puff of dust in the icy blast.

Most amusing.

Don't worry my dear, this absurd

affection will not last the season.

After all..

She's a foreigner.

My Lord Orlando, you're in

danger of becoming a fool.

You're ruining what

could be the finest...

...career in the land and for what?

I no longer care

for a career, Moray.

I'm only interested in love.

Don't you see in courting

a Cossack, you're...

...humiliating not

only your fianc...

...but the entire female

population of this country.

Besides which, they have nothing.

Why do you think they're here?

For your sake I would

hunt wolf instead of...

...rabbit drinking vodka

instead of whiskey.

How generous.

As for marriage to the good

Lady Euphrosyne the thing is...

...so probably absurd that I

scarcely give it a thought.

How gallant.

I feel as if I've been hooked

through the nose and rushed...

...through the waters painfully

yet with my own consent.

How brave.

My Lord, have you quite

forgotten that we are betrothed?

My Lady, I'm being

constantly reminded.

You speak so lightly of it.

You've betrayed me.

The treachery of men.

It would never have worked.

A man must follow his heart.

There.

Where you live?

I do.

By yourself?

Well, yes.

At the moment.

No brother?

No sister?

You Sasha?

If I had brother I

wouldn't be here.

My father only has me.

Nothing thicker than

a knifes blade...

...separates melancholy

from happiness.

Why are you sad?

Because.

Because I can't bear

this happiness to end.

But we are together.

Yes, now.

But what about tomorrow?

And the day after?

Orlando.

I think you suffer from

a strange melancholy.

Which is, you suffer in advance.

Look at me. Look.

You are too serious, Orlando.

And yet not serious enough.

Shadows, you saw shadows.

- You were in his arms.

It was illusion in light.

- Then what were you doing?

He was taking me across deck.

- But I saw you.

May gods destroy me, if I family

Menchikov would lie

in arm of sailor.

Sasha.

I cannot think of

a life without you.

Stay with me.

Don't ever go.

- But it's impossible.

But why?

Because when ice breaks we must go.

But we're linked.

Our destinies are linked.

You're mine.

Why?

Because I adore you.

Meet me at midnight

at London bridge.

We'll fly away as free as birds.

Lots of air, very fresh.

There.

It's decided.

your lessons, speak now his

now his a lot with peace within

Speak of me as I am.

Nothing extenuates nor

sits down aught in malice.

Then speak of one.

Who loved lord wisely but to well

But one whom not easily jealous

But being wrought,

perplexed in the extreme

Of one whose hand, like

the base Indian...

...threw a pearl away.

worth more than all his tribe.

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