The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
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:14:17
Robert...
:14:20
Robert, I don't know
which I hate the most...

:14:25
...you for making me love you...
:14:28
...or myself for needing you so.
:14:47
There has seldom been a man so unwise,
so headstrong...

:14:50
...but he could see the necessity of keeping
friends and not making enemies at court.

:14:55
But you quarrel with the queen because
she wanted peace and you wanted war.

:15:00
War? There is a war with Spain.
:15:02
And such a silly, frightened womanish war
as only a woman would wage.

:15:07
Let me answer that.
:15:08
You are not forthright with yourself. You
wish to complete your record as general...

:15:13
...crush Spain, make a name like Caesar's,
and climb to fame.

:15:16
You won Cádiz and caught
the people's hearts.

:15:19
Caught their voices until the streets
ring with your name when you pass.

:15:23
Take care. You are too popular already.
:15:25
My lord, you are loved better
than the queen.

:15:28
That's your danger.
:15:30
She will not suffer a subject
to eclipse her, she cannot.

:15:33
Make no mistake, she will not.
:15:35
- So I must wait? Hold back?
- Precisely.

:15:38
Why? I come of better
blood than Elizabeth.

:15:41
My name is among the earls
who stood around the oak with King John.

:15:45
What the nobles once taught a king,
a noble may teach a queen.

:15:49
You talk treason and death. The old order is
dead. Your house will die if you cannot learn.

:15:54
This is Elizabeth we deal with.
:15:56
What's a king but a man,
a queen but a woman?

:15:59
There's one man she fears,
and that man's yourself.


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