:11:20
If the courier comes,
send him to me at once.
:11:23
You may go.
:11:26
I said, that's all.
:11:30
- Well?
- With Your Grace's indulgence...
:11:32
...there's another matter.
- Well, what is it? What's it about?
:11:36
Essex.
:11:38
Did I not forbid his name
to be spoken at court?
:11:41
But Sir Thomas Egerton received a letter
from him from his manor at Wanstead.
:11:48
I knew he'd come to it, Cecil.
:11:50
Begging Egerton to intercede
for him, of course.
:11:54
Well, perhaps I was a little harsh.
:12:02
What did the letter say?
:12:05
- When is he coming home?
- I have it here.
:12:08
Let me see.
:12:10
He says, "I owe to Her Majesty
a duty of allegiance...
:12:14
...in which I never can, never will fail."
:12:18
Poor darling.
:12:20
Of course he's sorry.
:12:22
But a little apprehensive perhaps.
:12:26
Go on. Go on.
:12:27
"But I do not owe her the duty
of attendance upon her.
:12:30
And had I that duty,
Her Majesty's conduct has canceled it.
:12:34
As for asking her pardon, why should I
ask pardon for receiving an insult?"
:12:38
Stop it!
:12:42
No.
:12:44
No, go on. I'll hear it.
:12:46
"When the vilest of indignities is done to
me, not even religion enforces me to sue.
:12:51
I have received the wrong.
Let her seek pardon of me."
:12:59
"And if she refuses, all her power can show
no more strength in oppressing me...