1:28:01
Who's to defend us but the Sea Hawks?
1:28:03
Your Majesty, we cannot afford
an open break with Spain.
1:28:06
What makes you think
we will be attacked?
1:28:07
What other reason has Phillip
for building an armada?
1:28:10
But, Your Grace,
these demands are preposterous.
1:28:12
These men are loyal and devoted.
1:28:14
In what way have they offended
but in serving their country?
1:28:17
Spain seeks to strip you
of your one defense upon the seas.
1:28:20
Sir John, we need defense
only if we are attacked.
1:28:22
To disregard Phillip's warning
is to invite an immediate war.
1:28:26
While to heed it is to throw ourselves
at his mercy.
1:28:28
What of that?
1:28:29
He has too many concerns elsewhere
to bother about us.
1:28:32
I believe Phillip's thirst for power...
1:28:34
can only be quenched
in the English Channel.
1:28:36
Even if that were true...
1:28:38
are my Lord Admiral and his privateers
prepared to stop him?
1:28:41
We are ready to try, my lord...
1:28:43
to the last ship and to the last man.
1:28:46
If Phillip is bold enough
to make demands now...
1:28:48
what will he do when the Armada is built?
1:28:54
My lords,
I have considered your opinions earnestly.
1:28:58
My own impulse, like Sir John's,
is to defy Phillip.
1:29:04
But the safety of my subjects
constrains me to caution.
1:29:12
Lord Wolfingham,
you will prepare an order...
1:29:15
authorizing the arrests
of all English privateers...
1:29:19
and the confiscation of their ships
as they put into port.
1:29:24
That will be all, my lords.
1:29:45
My friend, there are times
when a queen must think...
1:29:49
not of right or wrong...
1:29:52
but only of the good of those she rules.
1:29:58
My child, you mustn't weep so.