The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
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1:37:09
You sent for me.
1:37:11
Yes.
1:37:13
You spoil me for death.
1:37:16
Wouldn't it have been kinder
to have left me with my thoughts?

1:37:20
Are you so set on dying?
1:37:22
I can't say I care for it...
1:37:24
...but if it's to come, why then,
it's best I go forward quickly.

1:37:29
You must have known
I never meant you to die.

1:37:32
I've been found guilty of treason.
1:37:34
- Treason is punishable with death.
- Robert.

1:37:38
Be kind to me just this once.
1:37:43
I am proud too,
and bitter with much cause...

1:37:49
...but I did speak first.
1:37:51
I sent for you.
1:37:54
Are you going to degrade me further...
1:37:57
...make me tell you how
I have longed for you?

1:38:03
You can tell me that because
you've nothing to gain or lose by it.

1:38:08
But if I were to tell you
that I love you...

1:38:11
...you might suppose I'd do it
to save my life.

1:38:14
You love me still?
1:38:16
No, you have never loved me.
1:38:19
I loved you.
1:38:21
And that was your nearest
way to power.

1:38:24
This is the hour for truth,
so let me speak.

1:38:28
I am older than you, but a queen...
1:38:32
...so perhaps it was natural that you
should flatter me and I believe you.

1:38:36
Why, yes, yes.
That's true, if you wish.

1:38:39
And now, may I go?
1:38:41
This dying sticks in my mind
and makes me poor company.

1:38:46
But remember this, I did love you.
1:38:51
- And still do?
- Yes.

1:38:54
Then why didn't you send me the ring?
1:38:56
I'd have forgiven you everything
at any hour of the day or night.

1:38:59
I waited, thinking of course
it would come.


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