:51:02
You'd make me swallow insults
from this bookkeeper...
:51:05
...who never waved anything
more dangerous than a quill?
:51:08
Well, were you not wrong at Cádiz?
:51:10
That's not for you to say.
:51:12
And if I go to Ireland,
I'll go alone.
:51:15
Will you?
:51:16
I'll have something to say about that.
Don't you see what they're trying to do?
:51:20
I see what Cecil and his friends
are plainly enough:
:51:23
Yellow rats who only show their teeth
when cornered.
:51:26
- Essex!
- Who bow and smile and scrape...
:51:29
...and spend their nights gnawing the chairs
and floors out from under us all.
:51:33
Madam, this is fantastic!
:51:35
- Lf we're to discuss...
- Do what you wish about Ireland.
:51:38
I wash my hands of it.
:51:40
That we don't doubt.
It's a difficult, dangerous job...
:51:45
...so how can we blame Lord Essex
for refusing to risk it?
:51:48
You challenge me to go?
:51:50
Give me the men I need.
Put me in command.
:51:52
If I fail to crush Tyrone, take my sword.
I'll never use it again.
:51:56
- Oh, you fool!
- They've challenged me!
:51:58
It doesn't matter.
You must not go.
:52:00
- Don't you see?
- Of course I see.
:52:02
I know that once I've gone,
they'll try to strip me here at home.
:52:06
And I say to them, "Try it."
I'll go and I'll return too.
:52:09
More of a problem to the Raleighs
and the Cecils than before I left.
:52:14
We can hardly refuse
this gracious offer now, Your Majesty.
:52:19
No.
:52:22
I suppose not.
:52:26
Council is dismissed.
:52:30
Meet again tomorrow.
:52:32
- And your decision?
- Decision's made. I go to Ireland.
:52:35
Yes, go to Ireland.
:52:37
And go to the devil too!
:52:59
Well?