:07:00
Tell me,
in your own words.
:07:06
I-It's as if my quill is broken,
:07:10
as if the organ of my imagination
has dried up,
:07:14
as if the proud tower of my genius
has collapsed.
:07:18
- Interesting.
- Nothing comes.
:07:20
Most interesting.
:07:21
It's like trying to pick a lock
with a wet herring.
:07:26
Tell me, are you lately humbled
in the act of love?
:07:33
How long has it been?
:07:36
A goodly length in times past,
but lately--
:07:39
No, no. You have a wife, children?
:07:45
Aye.
[ Sighs ]
:07:49
I was a lad of 18.
:07:51
Anne Hathaway was a woman
half as old again.
:07:53
- A woman of property?
- She had a cottage.
:07:56
- One day she was three months
gone with child, so--
- And your relations?
:08:01
- On my mother's side, the Ardens.
- No, your marriage bed.
:08:05
Four years and a hundred miles away
in Stratford.
:08:09
A cold bed, too,
since the twins were born.
:08:12
Banishment was a blessing.
:08:14
- So, now you are free to love--
- Yet cannot love, nor write it.
:08:21
Here is a-- a bangle...
:08:25
found in Psyche's temple
on Olympus.
:08:28
Cheap at four pence.
:08:31
Write your name on a paper
and feed it into the snake.
:08:36
Will it restore my gift?
:08:38
The woman who wears the snake will dream
of you, and your gift will return.
:08:41
Words will
flow like a river.
:08:44
See you next week.
:08:48
- Now where?
- To the palace at Whitehall.
:08:52
All right.
:08:55
- [ Musicians Warming Up ]
- Hello, Will.
:08:58
- Prithee, Mr.Kempe. Break a leg.
- [ Dog Barking, Whining ]