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Are they?
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The trouble with Scotland
is that it's full of Scots.
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[Chuckling]
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Perhaps the time has come
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to re-institute
an old custom.
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Grant them prima noctes.
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First night.
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When any common girl inhabiting
their lands is married,
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our nobles shall have
sexual rights to her
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on the night
of her wedding.
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If we can't get them out,
we'll breed them out.
:18:57
That should fetch
just the kind of lords
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we want to Scotland,
:19:03
taxes or no taxes, huh?
:19:04
A most excellent
idea, sire.
:19:06
Is it?
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Now in Edinburgh gathered
the Council of Scottish nobles.
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Among these was Robert
the 17th earl of Bruce,
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the leading contender
for the crown of Scotland.
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Ah, I hear that Longshanks
has granted prima noctes.
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Clearly meant to draw more
of his supporters here.
:19:38
My father believes
that we must
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Lull Longshanks
into our confidence
:19:43
by neither supporting his decree
nor opposing it.
:19:45
A wise plan.
:19:47
And how is your father?
We missed him at the Council.
:19:50
His affairs in France
keep him long overdue.
:19:56
But he sends his greetings,
:19:58
and he says that I speak
for all of the Bruces