:17:12
Where is my son?
:17:14
Your pardon, my lord.
:17:15
He asked me
to come in his stead.
:17:18
I sent for him,
and he sends you.
:17:21
Shall I leave, my lord?
:17:23
If he wants his queen
to rule when I am gone,
:17:27
then, by all means,
stay and learn how.
:17:30
Please.
:17:36
Nobles.
:17:37
Nobles are the key
to the door of Scotland.
:17:41
Grant our nobles
lands in the north,
:17:44
give their nobles
estates here in England,
:17:48
and make them too greedy
to oppose us.
:17:51
But, sire, our nobles
will be reluctant to uproot.
:17:53
New lands
mean new taxes,
:17:55
and they're already taxed
for the war in France.
:17:58
Are they?
:18:00
Are they?
:18:20
The trouble with Scotland
is that it's full of Scots.
:18:24
[Chuckling]
:18:28
Perhaps the time has come
:18:30
to re-institute
an old custom.
:18:33
Grant them prima noctes.
:18:39
First night.
:18:40
When any common girl inhabiting
their lands is married,
:18:44
our nobles shall have
sexual rights to her
:18:48
on the night
of her wedding.
:18:52
If we can't get them out,
we'll breed them out.
:18:57
That should fetch
just the kind of lords