The Madness of King George
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:02:01
share a frontier?
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Some of my lunatics
fancy themselves kings.

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He...
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is the king.
:02:16
Where shall his fancy
take refuge?

:02:19
We do not use the word lunatic,
sir, in relation to His Majesty.

:02:25
Oh.
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Well, who's to say
what's normal in a king? Hmm?

:02:31
Deferred to, agreed with,
acquiesced in.

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Who can flourish
:02:36
on such a daily diet
of compliance?

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To be curbed... stood up to...
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in a word, thwarted
:02:50
exercises the character,
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elasticates the spirit,
makes it more pliant.

:02:58
It's the want of such exercise
that makes rulers rigid.

:03:01
Sharp, sharp!
The king, the king!

:03:03
This is the king, sir.
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Whom I must cure.
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...As straight as a ruler,
:03:09
straight as a ruler
done by a ruler.

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And another beside that
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until you have
as pretty a ploughed field

:03:15
this side of Cirencester.
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I have a farm.
:03:27
Put us out of our kingdom.
We'd not want for employment.

:03:31
Give me the management
of 50 acres, and I could do it.

:03:35
I said...
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I have a farm, Your Majesty.
:03:40
Ahem.
:03:42
This gentleman, sir,
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has made the illness
under which Your Majesty labours

:03:46
his special study, sir.
:03:52
A mad doctor, is it?
:03:54
I'm not mad, just nervous.
:03:58
I shall endeavour to...

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