The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
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England.
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That is my greatest
and most enduring love.

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And when I think what you would do
to my country if you were king...

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...I will see you dead, yes, and your soul
condemned to eternity forever...

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...before I'd let you do it.
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- You think I don't love England?
- You do.

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But your love does not match
your lust for power.

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For the greater glory of Essex,
you would make war upon the world...

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...drag your country down
and drown her in a sea of debts and blood.

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I had hoped, in prison...
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...you would lose conceit
of yourself a little...

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...for prison's very quiet.
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Be content to reign with me...
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...so we could leave behind us a legacy
to our people of peace and happiness.

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But no.
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You stayed crazed with ambition...
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...and faithless to England
as well as to me to the end.

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Perhaps you're right...
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...and I'd have made a sorry king.
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So then, it's better this way.
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But this I'd have you know.
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If things had been different,
you simply a woman, not a queen...

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...and I a man,
with no crown between us...

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...we could've searched heaven
and earth for two perfect lovers...

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...and ended the search with ourselves.
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Of all the things on this earth
that I'm now to leave...

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...I care about leaving none
of them but you.

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Robert.
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Stay with me. Share with me.
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Give me the ring.
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- Give me the ring.
- No.

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For if I did, I'd be your death
or you'd be mine...

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...and you and England must live.
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Isn't that true?
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- Yes.
- So then, goodbye, my love.


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