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- closing this Cockpit...
- But, Charlie!
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- Sir...
- Silence!
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When my father was alive,
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it had long been illegal
for a woman to perform in public.
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In the Palace, of course,
it was women galore.
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Private musicales, masques...
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No-one gave a damn.
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Except... the clerics.
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One minister,
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a Mr Prynne,
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wrote a pamphlet against all actresses
as lewd women...
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and whores.
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Now
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my mother
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acted in some of those court masques.
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And she felt Mr Prynne's diatribe
was directed at her.
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So, Mr Prynne was tried,
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convicted,
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and sentenced to the stocks.
:35:14
Where his feet were burned,
his ears lopped off,
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and his tongue cut out.
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Yet...
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in spite of all this,
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Mr Prynne never recanted.
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Some say his stoicism
in the face of such excess...
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...is what fanned the flames
of the Puritan revolt.
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And so, off with my father's head.
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And I to Holland for 20 years.
:35:54
I think it might be fun
to see women on the stage.
:35:58
They have had them in France
for a long time now.