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I had a little trading company.

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The Pelican Company.

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Engravers, printers, a writer,
an actor or two.

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All of us specialised in words.

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We traded in words.

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Words in books.

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Words on the stage.

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And the members of my company

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travelled with their wives

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and their mistresses.

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And my nephew, Eduard.

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And a young woman called Susannah,

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who I once knew, carnally.

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Yes.

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I needed some money
for some business expansion.

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I wanted to make pictures
as well as words.

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Pictures in books.

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Pictures on the stage.

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Every new visual technology
is expensive

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And every new visual technology,

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sooner or later,

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gels into bed with lechery.

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My aim was always
to take a trip to Italy.

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It was winter-time,

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ten years ago.

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We fetched up in Colmar
on the Rhine,

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and I sought an audience
with the local mililary-governor.

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The Margrave.

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By his own account, a libertarian.

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With just a little imagination
we seduced him,

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and we convinced him to part
with his money.

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And maybe also with his dignity.

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Don't be alarmed.

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I am obliged
to lake a public shit at 6 o'clock.

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Whether my digestion demands it, or net.

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To satisfy my courtiers

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that the ceremony
is not completely a farce,

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I've trained my body
to respond as it is asked.

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By long precedence,
relating back to God knows when,

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I am obliged to present my human self

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to the populace as an ordinary man.

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Some ancestor,

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eager to abase himself
as some act of penance

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for some unmentionable crime -

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though it's my feeling also

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as a curious act
of self-indulgent exhibitionism -

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decided that the palace library
was the perfect place for such things.

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Maybe he was thinking
of books as excrement?

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It has become a custom.

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Proceed.

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Your highness.

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Signer.

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Prince,

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Your MajeslY-n

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Sire...

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Sir?

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I am looking to found a new
printing press in The Hague,

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the Netherlands.

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To spread the new learning

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of classical
and biblical knowledge.

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The new Humanisme from Italy

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with a Protestant understanding.

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So, Your Highness, signor, prince,

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Your Majesty, sire, sir...

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we have come to you, devout Christian

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and established humanist
to help us in our endeavour.

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How much do you want?
And what do I get in return?

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Well, what we intend to plan, signor,

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is an illustrated 'Book of Ovid',

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concentrating on the adventures,

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the sensuous adventures, of Jupiter.

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What we might tentatively call
the 'infidelities of Jupiter'.

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Or we could say,
the 'Jealousies of Juno',

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his Wife.

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And what we then conceive of producing

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is an illustrated Old Testament,

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with the familiar moral stories,

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but told with a singular new freedom.

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In other words 'dirty books'?

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How much?

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150,000 crowns for a printing press.

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80,000 crowns for yearly maintenance.

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The sale of prints will pay
for running costs.

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And the Treasury receives 40%
of all profile arising from sales.

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Apple.

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Fruit of knowledge? Hm?

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Entry of evil into the world?

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I never eat apples.

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I peel them for my monkeys.

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Which monkeys
do you peel your apples fol?

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My Pelican Company.

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Pelican Company?

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You have taken up a dangerous task.

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Pelicans.

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Pelicans are a bird that feed their young

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by the blood of their breast.

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We aim to amuse you.

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We will present dramas
of these edifying stories

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to demonstrate
the range of our ambitions

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and the nature of our internals.

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It will be a sort of advertisement

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for our endeavour.

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Concentrate first on the Bible,

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the Old Testament,
to demonstrate our faith.

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And only secondly,
tackle the classical allegories

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to demonstrate our learning.

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Declaration of faith before learning

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will open all manner of permissibilities.

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And you have ten years to manufacture

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the best books of their kind in Europe.

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Exclusively for me.

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And...

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...you entertain us for six-c nights,
and then,

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we can sign a contract

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on your leaving this estate
on Monday next.

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If, that is...

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...all expectations are duly met.

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We are interested in six sexual taboos.

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Surely, in this day and age,
criminal of fences,

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and surely, in any age,
culpable sins.

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Let me introduce -
this might surprise you -

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my wet nurse.

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A most estimable lady,

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who has very little indeed
to learn of love.

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All my servants are black.

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As you can sea, it is fashionable
to have black servants.

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Here,

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black servants disappear in the dark,

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did you know?

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They disappear after sunset.

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They become invisible.

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Invisible servants
have always been very desirable.

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The black does not stop at their necks,

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even their pricks,

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cums and their buttocks are black.

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Though don't mess with them,
one mustn't mess with them.

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Eh, Ebola? It's forbidden.

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We don't want anyone seriously fooled,

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or disappointed, do we?

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It is Ebola's birthday.

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It has been considerable years
since my toothless mouth

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sucked from her warm
and nourishing nipples.

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Just for me, because I know
when you make a thing with all your heart

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you essentially make it
first of all for yourself

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and then for one other person.

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Make your entertainments
for that one other person -

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my royal wet nurse.

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Make her happy
and you will therefore make me happy,

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WW hippy indeed -

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Master Gollzius, engraver...

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...print maker...

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P-Omographer?

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Mind... the steps.

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We had escarpment imported from Paris.

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Please come this way.

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Naughty! Naughty!

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Ladies of the Court, Your Eminencies,

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ladies and gentlemen,

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The Pelican Company
from The Hague in the Netherlands

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is pleased to present to you

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'The Discovery of Original Carnal Sin

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'by Adam and Eva
in the Garden of Eden'.

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This is man.

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God's property-

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The first sin and possible crime

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is vovyeurisme.

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You must of course ask yourself

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what, in fact, will this Colmar audience
be doing now?

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What, in fact, are yvudoing now?

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Is the theatre the legitimate place

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where we permit ourselves
to be licensed Voyeurs?

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This is woman.

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God and man's property.

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So, we had secured a foothold
on their credibility.

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As I hope we have on yours.

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The Creation was much more conceptual.

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God would never have been so vulgar.

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Don't you think, Rabbi,
that it was very beautiful?

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No, I do not.

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This was a display of abject carnality,
fit for a bordellol

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- Genesis is never so explicit.
- Unfortunately not.

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Otherwise we would all believe
with much greater enthusiasm.

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We are going, of course.

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To tell the old, old story,

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in the accustomed manner
of long and venerable repute.

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The slow anticipation
of the business of love

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building up
to its true demonstration.

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Get the nipples to itch,

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the scrotums to tighten,

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the pricks to rise.

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The mound of Venus to swell.

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Min .

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I call you...

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...Adam.

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Adam is an ancient Aramaic word

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meaning many things.

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A beginning. A shirt.

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An ego. An eye.

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An empty space ready to be inked in.

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As I give you a name,
you must now...

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As God gives Adam a name,

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he must new do likewise
to everything else

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in this fresh, clean,
brave new world.

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Choose wisely.

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I had employed an English playwright.

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Boethius.

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Said he knew
all the new English playwrights.

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So many choices.

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So many to choose from.

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Start with the larger concepts

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and move freely down

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through the categories of size.

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That's what I always do.

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Sky!

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Very good.

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English theatre was booming at that time.
Still is.

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I paid him a fee of£8 a play.

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I met him at a theatre in Southwark.

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We were both taking a shit together.

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He noticeably wore no underlinen.

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Tree.

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Yes. Indeed, I see you have
quite grasped the concept.

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You are beginning
to understand God's intentions.

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Well done, Adam! Well done.

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Roughly shoved his prick
into his oodpieoe

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as though it was
a serviceable sword into a scabbard.

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New, I will leave you
in order to spend a little time

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with some abstract values

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that still need attending to.

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Do not exceed yourself.

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I liked this playwright.

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I liked what I saw of his prick
and how he handled it.

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What effronteryl

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You cannot clap God.

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Why ever not?

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- May your palms burn in hell.
- Jesus!

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He was only applauding good works,
like a good Christian.

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- I'm going to clap with him!
- So am I.

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The Biblical Creation of Man
- and woman -

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for painters,
has always presented problems.

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There is just about
enough information in Genesis

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to open possibilities,

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but far too little information

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to expand those possibilities
in any useful descriptive way.

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I am snake!

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It's up to me to name names.

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You name him!
After all, your word is law, Adam.

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In the beginning was the word.

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Who are you quoting?

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Quoting?

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- Why, God of course.
- What about me in all this?

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Susannah was the unbalanced mainstay,

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in more ways than one.

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Let me name names.

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What should I call this?

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Apple.

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Good. Take the apple.

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It can beoome a symbol of the tree
and therefore of knowledge.

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Use it to obtain some wisdom.

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How do I do that?

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Well, Adam could try biting it, Eva.

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An apple a day
keeps the doctor away.

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That's also a quotation.

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Not necessarily from God, though.

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- Bite?
- Yes. Go on.

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Bite.

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B.I.T.E.

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Yah.

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The depiction
of this important moment

270
00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:58,285
is always a little contentious, huh?

271
00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,884
Van Eyck painted
a good version of this.

272
00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,882
It is a question of expectation -

273
00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,403
the entry of sin into the world.

274
00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:28,328
And since in the end
we need to sin in this way,

275
00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:30,807
else you and I would not be here,

276
00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,367
what on earth is God playing at,

277
00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,927
banning that
which is absolutely necessary?

278
00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,725
Makes absolutely no sense, huh?

279
00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,366
Durer made a fine print, yeah.

280
00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,290
Though a little heroic.

281
00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:50,530
And he avoids passing
any sort of judgment.

282
00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:57,444
His Adam and Eva are,
in the end, very impassive.

283
00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:02,211
Now, this model became
a sort of formula.

284
00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:09,240
There is a version
by Comelis Comelis van Haarlem.

285
00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:11,484
Ideal man.

286
00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:13,284
Ideal woman.

287
00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,483
Man a brown triangle.

288
00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:19,046
Woman a white oval.

289
00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:23,402
It was an invention,
a concept that stuck.

290
00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:26,961
Mouth. Breast. Kiss.

291
00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,924
Slow down. You have time.

292
00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,771
All eternity, in fact.

293
00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,202
New, there is a thing
that wants a name.

294
00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,849
What shall we name
what Adam possesses

295
00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:51,201
and Eva does not?

296
00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:56,086
Cock.

297
00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,045
Oh, I have 'II:-

298
00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:01,006
'Pfihisfi

299
00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:04,602
And how about a word
for her hungry mouth?

300
00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:06,404
I can offer you this.

301
00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:07,965
Vagina.

302
00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,128
Penis. Vagina.

303
00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:11,890
The primary apparatus.

304
00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,570
Doing it like that is going to be frowned
upon.

305
00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,562
It will be described as doing it

306
00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:23,364
like a dog.

307
00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,610
Could you imagine history recording

308
00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:29,961
that the first love of Adam and Eva

309
00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,243
<i>accompanied by 'at at at at', baring'?</i>

310
00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:38,803
Dog, a four-legged animal
that runs in a pack.

311
00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:40,570
And, if in any doubt,

312
00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,651
remember that 'dog'
is only 'God' backwards.

313
00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:50,007
And it may be true that only man
in the whole animal kingdom

314
00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:51,770
makes love from the front.

315
00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:54,568
Man, you may say indeed,

316
00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,684
is the odd man out, so to speak.

317
00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,443
So try a reversal.

318
00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,927
Believe me,
reversals can be entertaining.

319
00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,770
Watch her face. See her eyes.

320
00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,329
Feel her stiffened nipples
against your chest.

321
00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:15,445
Hold her body by the hips Adam,
by the pelvis,

322
00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:20,521
by the pelvic bones that will
shelter your eventual little baby.

323
00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:25,606
And now they have all the words,

324
00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:31,363
all 26 to make the very globe itself.

325
00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,961
'In the beginning was the word.'

326
00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:42,686
The world is on its way

327
00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,646
to uncounted millions and millions,

328
00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:49,889
of little Evas and Adams.

329
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,323
Enjoy the pleasure -

330
00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:56,842
to over-population

331
00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:58,246
and beyond.

332
00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:20,890
Nd! bad, huh?

333
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,850
We had only been there a short time.

334
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:29,488
Vile did well,
pulling all these special effects together.

335
00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,127
We are disturbed
by your little play,

336
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:37,890
which is blasphemous.

337
00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,844
We have four counts of blasphemy
that must be addressed.

338
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,043
One - a naked God.

339
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:50,451
Two - a God that speaks
with mortal words.

340
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:55,646
Three - an actor that plays
both God and Satan.

341
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,651
Four - extreme disrespect
for Adam and Eve,

342
00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:01,922
the parents of all mankind.

343
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,167
We agreed to a debate.

344
00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,846
The Margrave was particular.

345
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,770
He had constructed a debating hall

346
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:13,882
for just that very purpose.

347
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,570
I agreed.

348
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,967
I was after a contract.

349
00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,367
Nakedness is vulnerability.

350
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,050
You make God vulnerable.

351
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,561
How can God be vulnerable?

352
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:27,762
Nakedness is also pride,

353
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:29,928
a long way from any mortal shame.

354
00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,966
I need to sell to live and work,

355
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,208
find salaries for six employees,

356
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,403
maintain a printing press,
keep up with developments,

357
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,091
be ahead of the trade,
find new markets.

358
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,487
Make, maintain and market.

359
00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:47,402
God did not make man
in his own image.

360
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,649
But man has made God
in his own image.

361
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,686
Thus necessarily giving him
a penis and an anus.

362
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:55,844
This is extreme blasphemy.

363
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,850
Arrest this man for insufferable pride

364
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,442
for presuming he knows
God's nature and anatomy!

365
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,288
How much theology
do you need to ask

366
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,007
who could have mothered Eve,
if God has a penis but no womb?

367
00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:11,122
A reasonable enough question,

368
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,403
from a pregnant wife to a lustful husband.

369
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,568
A question to you, er, Rabbi.

370
00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:20,567
Were Adam and Eve
technically brother and sistel?

371
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,480
And ifthevy were, is it not unlawful
for them to lie togethel?

372
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:29,128
Put the Holy Stories in the hands
of women and the lay public,

373
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,607
and you have wholesale confusion.

374
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:35,122
And is that not exactly
what Calvinists have done?

375
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:40,848
Margrave, husband?

376
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,369
Why did the serpent deny them
love-making from behind,

377
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:46,891
when that's all we do?

378
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,406
Well new,
with these so eager critics,

379
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:57,923
you are pushing
your good fortune to the edge.

380
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,362
And where is the edge?

381
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:02,561
I never know.

382
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,242
Let us try to find the edge together.

383
00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:08,648
You will be Adam and I will be Eve.

384
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,001
Adam is supposed to be the master

385
00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:14,249
and Eve is certainly his slave.

386
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,287
And give me something of yours to wear

387
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,563
to indicate my lowly position in your life.

388
00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:24,842
<i>Andwecanboardtkfisvewboatoiabed</i>

389
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:26,291
and sail away.

390
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:28,646
“In? corset-.

391
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:34,681
A most restricting garment.

392
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,449
A slave has no arms to protect himself.

393
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,970
Then I will have no arms.

394
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,843
Bind my arms.

395
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,368
I can be armless.

396
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,331
Harmless, like a worm.

397
00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:00,963
You're a stuffed shirt and a lout.

398
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:02,366
Very well.

399
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,724
I ob-BY-

400
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,969
I think of myself as the worm's worm.

401
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:12,445
Like a worm.

402
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,608
All worm.

403
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:20,284
I am worming beyond the worm's
greatest possibility of worming.

404
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,687
I am indeed The Worm.

405
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,406
Well then, silence.

406
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,410
Worms are silent.

407
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,687
I command you to be a silent lover.

408
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,040
Now, I want to sail away.

409
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,891
Lift me up so I can sail away.

410
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,768
My God, gods and goddesses!

411
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,769
I scarcely believe in a God

412
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:48,530
but I miss him
if he is responsible for this.

413
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,051
Blasphemy!

414
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,407
We must arrive
at the same harbour

415
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,204
at the same time.

416
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:57,560
I promise.

417
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,848
I think I promise.

418
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,290
Ebola?

419
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:21,805
Ebola? Quick!

420
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,923
Quick, a letter. A letter.

421
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,004
Dear Madam...

422
00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:30,485
Dear Madam...

423
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,570
Who are you?

424
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,005
A mirage?

425
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,209
So near and yet so far.

426
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,081
So near,

427
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:48,525
I can smell the scent of the soap
that slides between your thighs,

428
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,720
So far,

429
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,328
my fingers can never be
long enough

430
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,444
to brush across your nipples.

431
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,769
Madam, may I approach you?

432
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:02,885
Will you approach me,

433
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,606
shaming me as I am wrapped
in winter furs?

434
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,690
Would you accept the offer
of my warm cloak

435
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:15,045
wrapped around your delightful
soft, pink and cream

436
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,891
most delightful body, Madam?

437
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:20,683
Madam,

438
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,885
I could come to you across
every rooftop in the world.

439
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:27,644
Ebola!

440
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,569
She is going!

441
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,330
She is leaving us!

442
00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:40,203
The Pelican Company
will new present to you

443
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:45,406
a dramatisation of the story
from the Book of Genesis,

444
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,605
describing the efforts of Lot
and his daughters

445
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,644
to continue the human heritage

446
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:59,564
after the destruction
of Sodom and Gomorrah.

447
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,961
The second sexual prohibition

448
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:16,007
of our intended
dramatised six is incest.

449
00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:19,522
The other taboos
may be considered crimes

450
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,961
and sins against society.

451
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:25,163
This taboo shrieks out her objection

452
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,682
in deficient progeny and infertility.

453
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,961
When the fires
at Sodom and Gomorrah raged,

454
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:38,642
Let and his daughters,
grimy, sweating and exhausted,

455
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,843
took refuge in a hostelry across the river

456
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:43,928
from the con?agration.

457
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:49,888
All right! Strike me dead,
like you did my wife!

458
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,451
But God wanted Lot for a purpose

459
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,324
and did not destroy him.

460
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:57,965
I had a mistress.

461
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,720
She washed my feet.

462
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,922
Where is she new?

463
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,169
God, why were you so jealous?

464
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,487
What are these two whispering about?

465
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:15,722
Did they have husbands?

466
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,087
Did they have lovers?

467
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,282
God in Heaven...

468
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:30,611
have come to this to make babies!

469
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,090
And the pleasure of it

470
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,567
is all yours, God.

471
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,727
Or is it the Devil's?

472
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,964
Well it happened. He came.

473
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:55,969
We must have a boy.

474
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,724
This story of Lot and his daughters

475
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:03,401
is one of those subjects
that permits painters

476
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:07,445
to legitimately indulge
in their own lechery

477
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,484
and not be morally condemned.

478
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,361
I could always argue
that I am painting

479
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,926
a moral lesson against incest.

480
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,249
It is legitimate vovyeurisme.

481
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,648
Like Aclraeon spying on Diana,

482
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,240
and the elders spying on Susanna,

483
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,966
and David watching Bathsheba

484
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,401
bathing on the roof of her palace.

485
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:31,885
Euripedima.

486
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,206
We are too old for this.

487
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:40,247
We made our daughters
a long time ago.

488
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:52,809
We must have a boy.

489
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,524
A second boy.

490
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:55,880
And they did.

491
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,329
They did have a boy.

492
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,085
Two boys.

493
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:07,169
That night, these two sisters conceived.

494
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,328
Each with a son.

495
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,082
And the boys were healthy and whole.

496
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,525
No sign of the curse of incest
about them.

497
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,564
Lot's dynasty was preserved.

498
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,649
And the world was allowed
to begin yet again.

499
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,410
Third time lucky?

500
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:53,883
Did God werreact?

501
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,366
And remember, this is the second time
that God got it wrong.

502
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,289
God cannot make mistakes.

503
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,289
The first time was with Noah,

504
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,404
when the world had to be ?ooded
to rid it of the wicked.

505
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,171
And now wickedness
is to be destroyed by fire.

506
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,444
Water and fire.

507
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,404
What will he use next
to demonstrate his wrath?

508
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:14,567
You, it sounds.

509
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,410
Do not laugh.

510
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,602
This man is dangerous.

511
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,768
Can't you impeach
that playwright?

512
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,407
Accuse him of something -
blasphemy, heresy, moral turpitude?

513
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:26,521
We can.

514
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,165
- Which?
- All of them.

515
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,561
But you invited debate
in a court of free speech,

516
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,887
and in public any of these accusations

517
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,162
may turn against your reputation
for the same.

518
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,730
Your morality as a man
is a private affair

519
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,808
behnreen you and your God,
may he forgive you!

520
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:47,130
But as a prince,
your morality is a public issue.

521
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,608
Your case with William Boethius
over his ooncubine Adaela

522
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:51,960
will be compared to the case of David

523
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,447
with his concubine Bathsheba.

524
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,483
Only you are no David

525
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,285
and are entirely unlikely
to produce a Solomon,

526
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,971
with that stupid brainless ninny

527
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:03,525
you married to excuse your actions.

528
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,849
Find me a charge, or I'll find one myself.

529
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,562
Tomorrow night's performance

530
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,524
will lake place on the palace roof.

531
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,325
High in the air.

532
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,283
Gollzius.

533
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,526
I cannot play Bathsheba
tomorrow night.

534
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,364
And why ever net?
Are you afraid of heights? Huh?

535
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:29,928
Too much exposure.

536
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,169
On the roof, or of your person?
Come on.

537
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,442
Are you really saying this? Huh?

538
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,129
- Are you really telling me this?
- Yes.

539
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,083
You love being
in front of an audience.

540
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:41,804
There are limits.

541
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,888
And I'm sure
you have not reached them.

542
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,361
It's best I limit my appearances.

543
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,202
I must preserve myself a little.

544
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,851
The Margrave has taken
a personal interest in me.

545
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,651
I'm going to reserve myself for him.

546
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,206
I tried to keep everything under control,

547
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,483
but there are things that just elude you,

548
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,171
escape your jurisdiction.

549
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:12,171
And none more so
than the actor or actress.

550
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:19,849
Your eyes madam,
held the melancholy of the world.

551
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:21,928
Why, thank you, sir.

552
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,520
You are too generous.

553
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:28,042
Though I was not so sure
I understood that last kiss.

554
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,766
A presumption
by our friend the playwright?

555
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:32,644
Oh, on the contrary.

556
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,527
I insisted he should do it

557
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:40,089
to remind him where his duty lay

558
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,965
and my love resided.

559
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,567
I trust we will see you again...

560
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,126
- ...tomorruw night?
- Oh, no.

561
00:34:50,240 --> 00:34:53,722
The role of Bathsheba
is always played by Susannah.

562
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:55,649
It requires a mature woman.

563
00:34:55,760 --> 00:35:01,722
And she has played it with excellence
many times before.

564
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,561
They are the loose cannon
on board the ship.

565
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,604
And whatever you pay them
or charm them with,

566
00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:10,768
or bribe them or threaten them,

567
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,167
if they have made up their minds

568
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,090
you are obliged to go with the ?ow.

569
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,530
Like a dead fish.

570
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,369
Ah, Gollziusl

571
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:26,401
You are here to amuse me,
to amuse my court, goddamn it!

572
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,564
I thought. sire.

573
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:33,605
I thought that you had your own procurer,
your own pandel?

574
00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:36,724
I beg your pardon, madam,
your own procuress.

575
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:38,763
It is not an official title.

576
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,963
Oh, and why ever not?
You must make it one.

577
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,162
The royal body-taster.

578
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,886
If you want such a title Ebola,
you shall have it.

579
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,082
E5P°°i?llY if you persuade
that young lady

580
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:50,850
to rehearse a little with me.

581
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,964
You can offer her
what you think is suitable.

582
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,765
Up to half my kingdom,
I was thinking. Huh!

583
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,565
But only if you think it's suitable.

584
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:04,527
Come, we too have
a stately ship at sea,

585
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,244
and must sail away.

586
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,727
Bon voyage, monsieur.

587
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:15,324
Bon voyage, Gollzius,
mariner!

588
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,129
You have just drowned your ship.

589
00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:26,083
How do I get to fuck that woman?

590
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:28,883
What's stopping you?

591
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,285
Her husband.

592
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,204
Her husband?

593
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,450
Her husband is not her husband.

594
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,245
He does not believe in husbands.

595
00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:45,681
She is his mistress, therefore anybody's.

596
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,762
- Kill him.
- Ha.

597
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:53,847
Govyal, your solutions
are far too real.

598
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:58,807
Darling, death is as simple as it gels.

599
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,241
I'm not fucking my wife in public.

600
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,569
All fight. Then I'll play David
and I can fuck your wife in public.

601
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,569
Out of the fucking question.

602
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,006
Now, give me that peddle box.

603
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:11,406
It's a PW.

604
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,171
Because then I think
we lose our finances

605
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,124
to build the printing press
that you wanted so badly.

606
00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:20,210
That you planned for, drew for,
painted for, for five years.

607
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,846
Planning and work
down the drain, out to sea,

608
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,088
washed up, drowned, swamped.

609
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,363
You really think that the prince
wants to see my wife being fucked

610
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,450
when he can buy
any woman in the world?

611
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,403
Turn it around and shake it.

612
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,405
What happened to Susannah?

613
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,761
If she wants more money
we must find it.

614
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,166
It's Susannah.

615
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,284
It's not the money.
Susannah has seen the light.

616
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,522
She is besdtted with the Margrave.

617
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:50,768
She says he is a great lover,

618
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,008
and she wants to save herself for him,

619
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:54,645
she does not want to lose her chances

620
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,001
by appearing naked in public any more.

621
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,124
She says that the Margrave
is bored with his silly wife

622
00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:03,528
and as seen as he has a sen
he will not fuck with her again,

623
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,722
and then maybe even divorce her.

624
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,168
Susannah's thinking of marriage?
My god that woman is a fool.

625
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,169
Try telling her that.

626
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,604
All fight, orm,
how do you want to do it?

627
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,124
Boethius can be very inventive.

628
00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:23,050
I don't want to do it,
least not in public.

629
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:24,969
Boethius will think of something suitable,

630
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:26,923
so you don't look tolnlly exposed.

631
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,247
<i>How about a suit oi amour'?</i>

632
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,681
For you or for Portia?

633
00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:35,644
Could be exciting,
the metal and the ?esh.

634
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,366
Quadfrey was the master technician.

635
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,563
I always thought, curiously,

636
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:47,401
that Quadfray was a masculine woman

637
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,330
in a oelibatds neuter clothing.

638
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:53,602
Whenever possible,

639
00:38:53,720 --> 00:38:57,850
he went as naked
as normal decency pennitted.

640
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:03,680
Though naked as an innocent child
went naked in the nursery.

641
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,246
Look, you have a decent sized prick!

642
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,442
Beautiful! And... And...

643
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,450
Youmget your buttocks shaved, huh?

644
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,291
And you can show us a kingly arse

645
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:18,644
with some rich royal treasure
dangling beneath.

646
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,683
I'm not doing it and neither is Portia.

647
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,364
I remember in the dunes near Noordvvijk,

648
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,131
you were happy to show
all the world what you had.

649
00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:30,687
Exposure was a happy
slate of affairs for you then.

650
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:32,928
I was drunk and younger.

651
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,249
Be drunk again.

652
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:38,724
David was a Jew and circumcised.

653
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,721
Make sure you keep it erect, huh?

654
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:47,129
Pull the foreskin back hard
and you could wear a phallic ring.

655
00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:50,961
- I've seen them in Brussels.
- Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!

656
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,562
I want a Hungarian Elephant Press

657
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,570
with the whale-boards on the front plates.

658
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:08,124
I don't know what that is exactly,
but, by God, I will get you one,

659
00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:10,686
even if I have to drag it
from Hungary myself.

660
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:12,928
And small-bore sliders

661
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,441
with the cusps
facing the right-hand side.

662
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:19,360
My God, Hendrick,
for small-bore right-handed sliders,

663
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,448
you had better show us
a good trumpet.

664
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,528
And Portia had better be
a good strumpet.

665
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,211
Jesus Christus, Hendrick,

666
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,211
a Hungarian Elephant Press
for the sight of your willy?

667
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:34,723
You know, all this could do your marriage
some good, Hendrick.

668
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,888
We have to fuck in public.

669
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,769
We hardly ever fuck in private

670
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,645
so why should we have
to fuck in public?

671
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,809
To excite the Margrave
to cough up enough money

672
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,844
to keep us all working
for the next five years.

673
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,801
Fucking for money?

674
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,446
Maybe that will turn you on.
How much?

675
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,360
It's said that the only difference
between a whore and a wife

676
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:13,201
is that the first plainly asks
to be paid straight away.

677
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:14,810
And, er, babies?

678
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,809
What about babies?
Will they be part of the equation?

679
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,571
Good lord! Could be.

680
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,728
- If we had any.
- And we don't.

681
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,161
And why?
Because you can't.

682
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,684
Unproven.

683
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,087
Well, it might work!

684
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:34,448
Maybe some public exposure
will stiffen up your lust again.

685
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,324
And...Eduard could watch me!

686
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,125
Bitch! That talentless, lecherous youth.

687
00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:43,924
He has been asking after me, you know?

688
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,202
He's been asking after most women.

689
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,282
And some men, I have heard.

690
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,483
You give me a son
and Eduard disappears from view.

691
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,611
- A challenge?
- I want a child, Quadfruy.

692
00:41:56,720 --> 00:41:57,767
I want a child.

693
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:02,162
You said it would set us up
for five years?

694
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:03,725
Yes.

695
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:35,971
I'll do it.

696
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:37,764
If you'll do it.

697
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,370
But...l want a house

698
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,767
with red and white shutters in The Hague

699
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,089
with a yard of pleached beech trees

700
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,044
and, um...
ten potted orange bushes,

701
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,288
and a red tulip garden,

702
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,927
and a 20-foot long
lavender hedge

703
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,203
with a path of crushed shells
to a gazebo

704
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,402
overlooking a silent canal.

705
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,205
With swans.

706
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:07,765
- Whore.
- Pimp.

707
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,451
We now bring to your attention

708
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:14,770
the true biblical tale
of David and Bathsheba.

709
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:45,603
David and Bathsheba were later
to become the parents

710
00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:48,690
of the most esteemed King of the Jews.

711
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,486
Solomon, the wisest man,

712
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:57,128
it was to be said,
in the whole civilised world.

713
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:00,085
Madam?

714
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:04,885
Sir?

715
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,962
I know your husband.

716
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,886
I hope you should.
Ho's a loyal offioor to all your efforts.

717
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:22,604
A brave man.

718
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:25,769
He serves me well.

719
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:27,564
Very well.

720
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,648
Like a true subject.

721
00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:32,447
Like a true subject should.

722
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,202
Like all my subjects should.

723
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:38,487
You are one of my subjects.

724
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:40,887
I am indeed, Your Majesty.

725
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,201
And you, too, will serve me well?

726
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,442
I am obliged to.

727
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:49,650
Obligation?

728
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:55,484
Your husband, it is true,
serves me from obligation.

729
00:44:55,600 --> 00:45:02,165
But, I am convinced,
for he has given me copious proof,

730
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,045
from also out of love

731
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:09,768
and affection and true personal loyalty.

732
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:15,528
He is eager to please me,
for he knows if he pleases me,

733
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:20,248
he pleases his country
and therefore, he pleases himself.

734
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,402
You see how we all benefit?

735
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,371
The areas of pleasing, Your Majesty,

736
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:32,528
I suspect might not be quite the same.

737
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,961
He's a soldier fighting your battles.

738
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,450
You, too, can be a soldier
fighting my battles.

739
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:43,886
Battles, Your Majesty?

740
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:46,810
The battle of my heart.

741
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:52,449
We did arrange for the exhibition
of the mutilated bloody corpse

742
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,608
of Bathshebds husband

743
00:45:54,720 --> 00:45:58,725
slain in the centre of battle
in which David had placed him.

744
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:00,569
The Old Testament authors

745
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:04,571
being persuaded to condone
adultery abetted by murder.

746
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:08,002
Or was it murder abetted by adultery?

747
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,006
No more talk about your husband.

748
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,488
He is very, very far away-

749
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:21,611
Absent.

750
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,011
Unknowledgeable of our meeting.

751
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,363
Ignorant that we are together.

752
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,651
Innocent of our intimacy.

753
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,129
Proceed.

754
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:38,922
One last thing.

755
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:45,844
If you intend to impregnate me
with your seed,

756
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:50,284
I am, at this time,
at the peak of my receptivity.

757
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:55,211
Then, madam,

758
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,891
you make yourself and your body

759
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:02,324
even more deliciously
and vulnerably desirable.

760
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:08,284
The thought
that my seed could penetrate,

761
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:13,725
re-arrange,
activate and decidedly change

762
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:17,845
the intimate and warm, moist,

763
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:22,682
interior secret spaces
of your delightful body

764
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:27,089
fills me with a very great desire indeed.

765
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:29,928
Madam, you should prepare yourself.

766
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:34,848
Take off your clothes.

767
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:23,287
Here then was the exposition
of the third sexual taboo -

768
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:27,371
adultery, crime against property.

769
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:31,087
Nature could not care less
about the proposition of adultery.

770
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,931
A child is a child, however conceived.

771
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:38,284
And nature has succeeded
with adultery admirably,

772
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:42,405
since it is accompanied
by extremes of excitement

773
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:47,481
that augur well
for a successful outcome - a child.

774
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:26,204
I haven't seen your prick rise
so high or so hard

775
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:28,482
in a very long time.

776
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,445
You, too, opened up for the occasion.

777
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:34,651
Perhaps Portia.

778
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,843
We should again find a way
to perform in private

779
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,281
like we performed in public.

780
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,688
David cannot have used

781
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:48,361
such spite and deoeitfulness
with Bathsheba.

782
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:52,607
God would never have let him
be so predatory.

783
00:49:52,720 --> 00:49:55,291
David is the glory of Judaism,

784
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,562
great King of the Jews.

785
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:03,566
I intensely dislike
the role of the dramaturge,

786
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:06,843
telling you all the time
what you have done wrong,

787
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:10,442
how you could do that better,
that it is net true to life.

788
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,086
That it did not really happen like that.

789
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:14,804
How on earth do they know?

790
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:16,888
Were they there at the foot of the cross?

791
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,526
When they rolled in the Trojan Horse?

792
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,371
When Eva ate the apple?
When Lot fucked his daughters?

793
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,687
When David watched Bathsheba
at her bath?

794
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:27,644
When Povtiphafs wife fucked
or did not fuck Joseph?

795
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:29,762
When Samson had a haircut?

796
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:38,370
And here in Colmar
were too many dramaturges -

797
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:41,006
academics of the church, elders, judges,

798
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:43,521
knowing their Bibles
like the back of their hands,

799
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:45,927
dogmatically declaring
that what they knew

800
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,486
was what the bible knew
and therefore was the truth!

801
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:51,204
First, seduction.

802
00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:53,844
Then, conception.

803
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:57,122
Then the death of the child.

804
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:01,527
Solomon could not have been
conceived out of wedlock.

805
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:06,247
So the first bastard child had to go.

806
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,328
Have you considered

807
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:11,444
it might have been
infanticide perpetuated by him?

808
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,040
- Shame on you!
- Deceit!

809
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,401
And deceit and deceit, and deceit on her.

810
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:18,841
And on her husband,
who was so tirelessly loyal.

811
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,361
He stayed away
because he preferred

812
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:23,767
- the company of his soldiers.
- Hey, what now?

813
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:26,121
Are you seeking excuses for David?

814
00:51:26,240 --> 00:51:28,686
Are you accusing Bathshebds
husband of being a sodomite

815
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,690
to excuse David's miserable behaviour?

816
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,201
- God had a purpose.
- Ah! You may depend he did!

817
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,800
Enough! Take this man
and shut his mouth.

818
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:39,770
Objection, objection.

819
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:43,601
You invited us <i>here</i> because
of your reputation for <i>free</i> speech.

820
00:51:43,720 --> 00:51:46,121
Because you do not like
what he says, you shut him up?

821
00:51:46,240 --> 00:51:47,480
What is that, free speech?

822
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,602
So that he can speak with a dirty mouth?

823
00:51:49,720 --> 00:51:52,690
And you Margrave,
you certainly did enjoy yourself.

824
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,246
Because I saw you smile
and I sawyou sweat a little

825
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:59,251
and I saw you lift your backside
as your prick rose.

826
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:02,170
And when I looked in your
window at half past midnight,

827
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,044
I saw you sucking your wife's nipples

828
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:06,686
and rubbing your fingers into her cunt.

829
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,246
Shut up! You had no business
looking in my vvindowi

830
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:11,840
And why? Because it wasn't
your wife you were abusing,

831
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,884
but her two little 14-year old sisters?

832
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,367
Enough! Shut him up.
Stop this wheel.

833
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:20,123
Get him! Take him away!

834
00:52:20,240 --> 00:52:22,208
Take him away! Arrest him!

835
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:24,004
Get out!

836
00:52:33,720 --> 00:52:38,282
You could say
the story really starts here.

837
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:41,329
Signor Quadfruy?

838
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:43,806
Madam.

839
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:45,968
I have something for you.

840
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:48,847
I am certain it is Herr Gollzius' property.

841
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:52,362
My husband and his brother
had appropriated it.

842
00:52:53,240 --> 00:52:54,401
Good Lord!

843
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:57,888
Gollzius has been looking
for that, believing it stolen.

844
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,002
He will be pleased to have it returned.

845
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:04,449
You see, we are all in it.

846
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:10,126
And with, sometimes,
alarming frankness.

847
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,884
You see madam, here you are,

848
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,765
easily identifiable by your fulsome belly.

849
00:53:18,240 --> 00:53:22,325
I feel that you could touch and hold
and breathe

850
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,887
in the company of a woman
with much care.

851
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,731
Madam, on that stage I was acting.

852
00:53:36,240 --> 00:53:39,210
I am surprised that,

853
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:43,166
though you all profess to be
in the new trade of printing,

854
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,443
you are all so accomplished
on the stage.

855
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:50,447
There are parts of the anatomy, madam,

856
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,370
that appear to know what to do
without rehearsal.

857
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:58,890
Consequently,
there is...much satisfaction

858
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:03,688
in a good natural performance
simply for its own sake.

859
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:06,963
I wish I could believe that of myself.

860
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:11,327
Oh, do I hear of disappointment?

861
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:16,970
Do I detect evidence of a belief
in a poor performance?

862
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,128
That cannot surely be,

863
00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:23,687
otherwise, I imagine madam...

864
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:28,769
...you would not be inhabiting

865
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,611
the fulsome good shape I see before me.

866
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:43,730
I should also say that the printing
presses of the northern world

867
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:48,811
have always been closely associated

868
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,843
with the acting profession.

869
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:53,563
There was, and is, a third reason.

870
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:55,728
Commercial necessity.

871
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:58,241
The Pelican Company was
on short shrift.

872
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:02,126
Vile were only running
so far in advance of our debts.

873
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:04,922
Performing on the stage
was only a way

874
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:08,522
to make it possible for us
to perform in books.

875
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:12,247
The two are not so very,
very, very...

876
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:15,684
...very different.

877
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:19,290
Hey toad.

878
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:21,801
You can be the Margrave.

879
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:26,926
Slimy in character, if not looks.

880
00:55:29,720 --> 00:55:31,290
Sluggish.

881
00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:35,724
Are you sluggish?

882
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:38,769
Amphibious.

883
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:43,360
A watery sort of complexion.

884
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:44,481
And...

885
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:46,765
'um-arty b-o-dy-

886
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:48,769
I wouldn't know.

887
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:52,566
We would have to strip
the Margrave and see.

888
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,081
Persistently living close to water.

889
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:58,001
Hidden genitals, no big prick.

890
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:00,371
No big prick?

891
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:02,767
Come on, show me your prick.

892
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:07,090
I don't see your prick, toady.
So perhaps you're female?

893
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:11,282
Wouldn't know about the Margrave.

894
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:15,803
Don't think he's a female.
He fancies Adaela.

895
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,441
'The Princess and the Toad'!

896
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:24,089
Watch out
you don't turn into a prince, toadyl

897
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,771
<i>Oh, 'Ii you touch my Mash,</i>

898
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:29,167
you'll end up with a shake in your heart.

899
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:31,725
Hey! A croakerl

900
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,084
A croakerl

901
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,409
Does that mean... Does that mean
someone is gonna die?

902
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:40,323
Where is Boethius?

903
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:45,241
You mean the heretic?
In jail, where he belongs

904
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,044
What will happen to him?

905
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,845
For the moment I suspect simply nothing.

906
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:55,164
Later - interrogation, education.

907
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:56,884
Torture.

908
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:59,401
You mean to get him
to change his mind? I doubt it.

909
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:03,002
We wouldn't bother our engineers.
They are expensive.

910
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:06,684
What, anyway, is torture nowadays?

911
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:10,485
Watching that younger daughter of Lot
the other night,

912
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:12,602
not being able to touch her, hold her,

913
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,971
kiss her, stroke her body,
was torture.

914
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:23,404
Signor, on Boethius
your use of torture would not work.

915
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:28,010
You'd be surprised, you really would.

916
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:32,043
Physical pain changes evveryonds mind.

917
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:36,483
I will make you a bargain.

918
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:42,290
Release this man from
the possibility of his torture

919
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:45,131
and I will endeavour to release you

920
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:47,720
from the possibility of your torture.

921
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:49,046
Why on earth

922
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:52,164
would you want to support
a man who denies God?

923
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:56,080
Because, Margrave, he is intelligent,

924
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,850
amusing and he makes me think,

925
00:57:59,960 --> 00:58:01,610
and think hard.

926
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:06,126
He upsets every complacency
and prejudice that is in me,

927
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:07,366
and I like that.

928
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:10,447
That man is valuable to me.

929
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:12,403
And. may I suggest - to you.

930
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,486
Only as a creature
who has introduced me

931
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:20,410
to his mistress's delightful,
desirable body.

932
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:25,321
But, Mr Pornographer,
see what you can do.

933
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:29,487
I give you one day and one night.

934
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:31,921
Then, who knows?

935
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:35,044
Your writer needs his fingers to write.

936
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:45,563
Madam, you are married
to the Margrave of Alsace.

937
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:48,849
A mighty match.

938
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:51,886
And you are very pregnant.

939
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:54,489
Could you be really aware

940
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:57,524
of the time you are spending here
alone with me?

941
00:58:57,640 --> 00:58:59,324
Yes, I am.

942
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:04,843
Why are you prepared
to take such mighty risks?

943
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:10,888
I, I saw you as...
I wanted to see my husband.

944
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:19,081
And I was... I was jealous
of what he was not and you were.

945
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:23,641
Soon, I will give birth to a boy.

946
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:30,321
And then my freedom,
any freedom will be gone.

947
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:33,489
Completely gone.

948
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,361
I will be the Mother Queen.

949
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:41,567
- A
- Hm, oh, yeah!

950
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:45,969
...and very closely watched
and never private woman.

951
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:56,806
Give me a last night of freedom

952
00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:59,969
with a man who could play the ideal...

953
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:05,609
...which I might want to see
in my husband.

954
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,127
Madam, I'm sure and certain...

955
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:40,728
...that your child will be
breast-fed by a wet nurse.

956
01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:44,561
So I will have access.

957
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:49,049
So I, alone, will have access
to suckle your breasls.

958
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:56,288
Roman Charity.

959
01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:01,045
The suckling of an adult male on milk -

960
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:04,528
straight from the source,
so to speak, huh?

961
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:09,046
Classic story is Cimon and Pero.

962
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:14,490
The elderly Cimon is imprisoned
by his political enemies

963
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:16,921
to a death by starvation.

964
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:19,771
His daughter, Pero,
mother of a young baby,

965
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:23,965
visits him in prison
and feeds him from her breast.

966
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:27,803
Supreme sacrifice?

967
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:32,645
A love for a father that knows no limit?

968
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:36,401
Paternal demand
that brooks no disobedience?

969
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:40,129
Belated sublimated incest?

970
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:44,403
Sheer titillation?

971
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:50,643
Successive painters uphold sacrifice,

972
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:55,800
emphasise devotion, expose hypocrisy.

973
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:59,242
Advertise the erotic,

974
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:02,523
debase daughterly concern.

975
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:34,045
Come.

976
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:43,401
Take me,

977
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:46,569
as you took Bathsheba, King David.

978
01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:10,924
Go! Go, Quadfruyl

979
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:13,361
- Quadfrey, for Christ's sake!
- We are discovered.

980
01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:14,686
Get going, swim downstream.

981
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:17,124
Have you been watching us all the time?

982
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:19,322
Yes. You weren't so bad.

983
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:22,603
I've got a bigger prick than you
and her arse looked inviting.

984
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:24,210
I liked the way
she had your prick on reins...

985
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:27,847
- Fucking shut fucking up.
- You'd better get out, and quick!

986
01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:29,962
There's a trapdoor.
Adaela will surely be there.

987
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:32,003
See if you can get her to hide you.

988
01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:35,567
For Christ's sake,
they'll have your prick as a trophy.

989
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:38,411
Gel You will lose your head
if they catch you.

990
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:41,126
His head?
He'll lose his prick first.

991
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:04,767
Have you noticed there are
no black children in this palace?

992
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:07,451
You'd think there should be,
considering the mighty amiy

993
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:10,325
of black servants, male and female.

994
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:14,644
I'd love to have a black baby
with one of them.

995
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:16,728
You can't. It's forbidden.

996
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:19,127
You have to put up with me.

997
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:24,326
And if... If black ?esh excites
you that much, why don't you...

998
01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:27,171
black me over with Quadfrevfs ink?

999
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:30,250
Come.

1000
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:42,444
Quadfreys dead.

1001
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:45,930
Drowned!

1002
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:47,929
Bound to be.

1003
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:52,481
Swept out into the freezing
waters of the Rhine.

1004
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:54,682
It's winter. He'll freeze.

1005
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:56,804
What the hell did you think
you were doing?

1006
01:05:59,360 --> 01:06:00,521
In love?

1007
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:02,563
In love? I don't believe it!

1008
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:04,762
She has no business being in love.

1009
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:06,644
She's a dynastic pawn!

1010
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:09,923
Dynastic pawns don't fall in love.

1011
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:12,042
We could make a fortune.

1012
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:15,481
Deluxe signed copies.

1013
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:18,408
Printed black babies

1014
01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:24,368
in the print shops of Amsterdam,
Rotterdam and Paris.

1015
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:29,521
No pain. No sweat.

1016
01:06:31,040 --> 01:06:33,122
No mess.

1017
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:37,131
No quicker way to populate the world.

1018
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:40,169
Stick them in the ground in Virginia

1019
01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:42,442
alongside tobacco plants.

1020
01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:45,530
And black babies and tobacco could

1021
01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:49,008
grew together, side by side.

1022
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:52,967
A mirage in the water.

1023
01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:59,123
A big scaly white ?eshy fish

1024
01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:02,961
with a Neptune cock
wrapped around with red ribbon.

1025
01:07:03,080 --> 01:07:05,765
And a swordfish nose

1026
01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:09,168
that could tickle me deep inside.

1027
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:15,285
Impotent, by all accounts.
A fishy eunuch.

1028
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:19,571
He can't even get his wife pregnant.

1029
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:23,683
Don't worry.

1030
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:25,564
The baby's yours.

1031
01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:38,560
- Who are these ladies?
- Just white servants dancing.

1032
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:43,327
And not dancing very well.

1033
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:45,568
True, but that's intentional.

1034
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:49,366
I understand unprotected innocence
can be alluring.

1035
01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:51,164
Possibly.

1036
01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:06,044
You see?

1037
01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:09,767
- Oh, dear, what a waste.
- Yes, you could say that.

1038
01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:12,360
<i>Choice - castration or Mash'?</i>

1039
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:14,289
Castration, of course.

1040
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:16,607
But considering the amount of blood

1041
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:20,691
now in my very erect prick,
I will probably bleed to death.

1042
01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:22,643
I have to take to the Margrave

1043
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:25,286
something to prove
you have been tortured.

1044
01:08:25,400 --> 01:08:26,811
- Finger!
- No!

1045
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:27,921
No!

1046
01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:32,006
You fucking fat black nigger bitch.

1047
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:36,322
Pain releases all the greatest
and worst prejudices,

1048
01:08:36,440 --> 01:08:38,408
now doesn't it just?

1049
01:08:40,240 --> 01:08:43,449
L...have a proposition.

1050
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:49,124
I will play Povtiphafs wife.

1051
01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:53,131
My word!
A quick reaction, I wonder why.

1052
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:56,050
Susannah will play
Povtiphafs wife.

1053
01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:58,686
I think that you should ask her
to stand down.

1054
01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:01,087
- I'm sure she won't.
- I won't.

1055
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:05,683
I could easily agree, if I can play Petiphar.

1056
01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:07,848
Of course you can play Potiphar.

1057
01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:12,491
When Joseph, stupid boy,
proves to be reluctant,

1058
01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:16,844
Povtiphafs wife goes to her husband,
who is played by you.

1059
01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:18,928
You put Joseph in jail.

1060
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:21,884
Then I, as Povtiphafs

1061
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:27,369
...sleep with my husband Potiphar,
who is you.

1062
01:09:27,480 --> 01:09:29,403
Easy. Simple.

1063
01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:32,125
And you release Boethius.

1064
01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:36,328
- Is it a bargain?
- Such eagerness, good Lord!

1065
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:40,243
Potiphar, indeed, could do those things.

1066
01:09:40,360 --> 01:09:42,727
And he must.
It's part of the bargaining contract.

1067
01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:46,407
So I, the Margrave, playing Potiphar,

1068
01:09:46,520 --> 01:09:50,161
legitimately, so to speak,
sleeps with his wife.

1069
01:09:56,240 --> 01:09:59,961
You cannot do this.
The Margrave is going to be mine.

1070
01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:03,641
No Susannah. Think, think.
That is never going to happen.

1071
01:10:03,760 --> 01:10:05,410
Yes, it is.

1072
01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:07,443
Yes, it bloody is!

1073
01:10:14,240 --> 01:10:16,811
There's something much more
valuable than a fucking finger!

1074
01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:17,921
You open this door!

1075
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:22,443
Your Madame, madam,

1076
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:25,404
honourable sirs, gentlemen.

1077
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:29,562
This evening, we present to you
for your moral education,

1078
01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:32,604
'The Seduction of Joseph
by Potiphars Wife'.

1079
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:35,326
We are at Luxor,

1080
01:10:35,440 --> 01:10:39,126
in Egypt, home of the Pharaohs.

1081
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:43,370
Most particularly, we are invited
to the house of Potiphar,

1082
01:10:43,480 --> 01:10:45,244
the Pharaoh's chancellor.

1083
01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:48,603
And - ooh! - most pertinently

1084
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:51,724
we have been invited innocently,
like Joseph,

1085
01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:54,605
to the chamber of Povtiphafs wife.

1086
01:10:56,240 --> 01:10:57,730
Like Joseph,

1087
01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:01,447
we can imagine ourselves to be

1088
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:03,642
on an innocent visit,

1089
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:08,448
to supervise some small
domestic pecuniary business,

1090
01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:13,282
to evaluate the cost of repainting
the chamber decorations,

1091
01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:18,725
the importation of new bed-fittings
from Mesopotamia er...

1092
01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:22,411
...the purchase of a new chamber pot.

1093
01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:25,165
Good luck.

1094
01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:30,045
Our next and fourth sexual taboo -

1095
01:11:30,160 --> 01:11:33,164
the seduction of the young.

1096
01:11:34,320 --> 01:11:37,324
Which is a crime against innocence

1097
01:11:37,440 --> 01:11:40,842
and a naked demonstration of power.

1098
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:45,320
Joseph, how much do they pay you?

1099
01:11:45,440 --> 01:11:47,044
I don't get paid.

1100
01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:49,849
I'm a Jewish prisoner-of-war.

1101
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:52,645
I'm a slave
and I have no use for money.

1102
01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:55,161
- God provides.
- Really?

1103
01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:57,609
What does he provide?

1104
01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:00,451
Sunlight. Day and night.

1105
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:01,800
The air.

1106
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:05,606
The ground I walk on.
He is the Great Provider.

1107
01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:08,801
- Be unfaithful, be quiet.
- Yes. Be quiet.

1108
01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:11,651
Be noisy, shout, fall silent,

1109
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:13,808
sleep naked like a hedonist,

1110
01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:15,843
sleep clothed and shaven like a nun.

1111
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:18,042
Sleep naked like a hedonist,

1112
01:12:18,160 --> 01:12:20,970
sleep clothed and shaven like a nun.

1113
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:23,287
Now, there's a thing - nuns.

1114
01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:29,401
Adaela as a shaven nun.
This could be alluring.

1115
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:34,201
Let us talk about your clothes.

1116
01:12:35,440 --> 01:12:38,330
I wear the uniform of a servant,

1117
01:12:38,440 --> 01:12:40,568
the hat and the shoes of a slave,

1118
01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:42,728
and all the necessary
lags and badges

1119
01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:46,447
and the compulsory labels
that say I am a Jew.

1120
01:12:46,560 --> 01:12:48,847
I wear the obligatory yellow Star of David.

1121
01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:52,169
Well, well, I'm sure
I can persuade my husband

1122
01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:56,569
to get rid of all those lags and badges
and compulsory labels.

1123
01:12:57,760 --> 01:13:00,491
The subject of Povtiphafs wife

1124
01:13:00,600 --> 01:13:04,605
is fashionable among painters
and their clients,

1125
01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:06,768
just now in Europa.

1126
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:09,326
And it is curious to see

1127
01:13:09,440 --> 01:13:11,841
how each painter deals with the subject.

1128
01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:15,487
What changes is the, er,

1129
01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:19,571
well new, the degree
of the sexual demand, huh?

1130
01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:24,641
The desire of Povtiphars wife
as read largely on her face.

1131
01:13:25,480 --> 01:13:26,606
Then...

1132
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:30,763
Then the strength of Joseph's resistance.

1133
01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:35,765
How repulsed, in fact, is Joseph?

1134
01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:48,602
Doesn't that feel cooler?

1135
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:52,326
- Yes.
- And you look so much better.

1136
01:13:52,440 --> 01:13:56,411
Not quite so stupid in the clothes
provided by someone else.

1137
01:14:02,520 --> 01:14:04,010
So handsome.

1138
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:07,408
You really are
a handsome young man.

1139
01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:09,363
I'll like Off my shirt.

1140
01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:20,770
That's better.
How about those heavy trousers?

1141
01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:22,962
- No.
-lsayyes.

1142
01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:33,327
I'm told the Jews mark themselves

1143
01:14:33,440 --> 01:14:36,125
as separate human beings
from the rest of us.

1144
01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:39,323
To indicate their separateness,
their superiority.

1145
01:14:39,880 --> 01:14:42,565
That they cut and mutilate themselves

1146
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:44,728
to prove that they are Jews.

1147
01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:46,569
Surely, a contradiction

1148
01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:50,048
for people keen to be
appreciated as 'very civilised'.

1149
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:54,641
Are they doubting that God
fashioned them correctly

1150
01:14:54,760 --> 01:14:58,162
so that they have
to finish the job themselves?

1151
01:14:58,280 --> 01:14:59,964
I'm curious.

1152
01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:02,330
Will you let me see if it's true?

1153
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:04,366
Will you show me?

1154
01:15:12,040 --> 01:15:14,042
There now!

1155
01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:16,686
You must surely
now feel more comfortable?

1156
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:17,961
Cooler?

1157
01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:20,606
- I am.
- Let me look at you.

1158
01:15:28,560 --> 01:15:29,607
Good!

1159
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:31,324
Beautiful!

1160
01:15:31,440 --> 01:15:34,444
And I do believe
that the marks of a Jew

1161
01:15:34,560 --> 01:15:36,369
could not be so bad after all.

1162
01:15:36,480 --> 01:15:39,689
I was expecting something very wounded.

1163
01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:43,885
There are some equivocations here.

1164
01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:47,288
The important question is,

1165
01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:50,882
did I suspect that
the Margravds brother,

1166
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:54,049
and therefore we may presume
the Margrave himself,

1167
01:15:54,160 --> 01:15:56,322
was circumcised?

1168
01:15:57,280 --> 01:15:59,328
Were they Jewish?

1169
01:15:59,440 --> 01:16:03,001
This family
of Holy Roman Empire brethren?

1170
01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:05,088
I doubted it then and I doubt it now.

1171
01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:47,248
You may turn around again.

1172
01:16:49,360 --> 01:16:50,725
Look at me.

1173
01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:52,251
Look at my b-OdY-

1174
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:56,570
Are you pleased with what you see?

1175
01:16:58,640 --> 01:17:00,005
'No, madam!'

1176
01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:01,610
Why ever not?

1177
01:17:02,840 --> 01:17:05,969
Many men would be happy
to see what you're looking at.

1178
01:17:08,920 --> 01:17:11,161
Sulking, unrequited lover.

1179
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:13,123
- But freely, freely.
- spiteful.

1180
01:17:13,240 --> 01:17:14,571
Spiteful.

1181
01:17:14,680 --> 01:17:15,886
Freely.

1182
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:18,241
What in God's name is that?

1183
01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:20,647
Is there anything called freedom?

1184
01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:24,331
I'm the free-est man in this kingdom

1185
01:17:24,440 --> 01:17:26,408
and I do not feel free at all.

1186
01:17:26,520 --> 01:17:29,000
Now, I'm giving you
love and affection.

1187
01:17:29,920 --> 01:17:32,082
Well, let's say affection.

1188
01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:34,604
Physical affection.

1189
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:36,850
Perhaps love, who knows?

1190
01:17:37,640 --> 01:17:40,530
But being a man of God...

1191
01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:45,561
I suspect you would not want
the love of a woman.

1192
01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:48,081
Was Susannah acting her role

1193
01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:51,647
or was she reacting
to what she observed?

1194
01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:55,810
Was she remembering the lines
Mitten for her by Boethius?

1195
01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:57,888
Or was she creating her own lines?

1196
01:17:58,840 --> 01:18:01,127
Either way, she did well.

1197
01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:03,766
- You're a married woman.
- Well, that is true.

1198
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:06,486
- And an infidel.
- Infidel?

1199
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:11,925
- What, I wonder, is that?
- I am a Jewish prisoner-of-war.

1200
01:18:12,040 --> 01:18:15,249
I am to be respected
as a Jewish prisoner-of-war.

1201
01:18:15,360 --> 01:18:16,805
Respected?

1202
01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:21,800
Well, I am always surprised
when people say that.

1203
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:26,084
Respect is never automatic.
It always has to be earned.

1204
01:18:26,200 --> 01:18:29,727
Don't you think you have
to earn that respect? Come on!

1205
01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:31,251
Earn my reaped!-

1206
01:18:32,160 --> 01:18:34,322
I could help you. Bind him.

1207
01:18:35,040 --> 01:18:38,886
And so the conversation
of seduction continued,

1208
01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:42,322
till Povtiphafs wife - or was it Susannah?

1209
01:18:42,440 --> 01:18:45,284
Until she had the poor boy helpless.

1210
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:49,721
However, either way,
he was young and lecherous enough,

1211
01:18:49,840 --> 01:18:54,164
despite himself,
to make his anatomy behave well.

1212
01:18:58,880 --> 01:19:00,211
Mutilated or not,

1213
01:19:01,040 --> 01:19:05,125
Jewish or not,
the responses are certainly familiar.

1214
01:19:06,080 --> 01:19:09,766
No. You have to stop now.
I can't go with women.

1215
01:19:10,680 --> 01:19:12,250
A little jabber?

1216
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:15,089
A rolling pin?

1217
01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:19,731
A comedy in three acls,
two repeatable,

1218
01:19:19,840 --> 01:19:21,365
one explosive?

1219
01:19:30,840 --> 01:19:34,162
Arrest him! He tried to rape me.

1220
01:19:34,280 --> 01:19:37,682
Look at him, all red-faced
and red-pricked.

1221
01:19:37,800 --> 01:19:40,406
His clothes in my bed
and his smell on my sheets!

1222
01:19:40,520 --> 01:19:43,524
I... Where's Adaela?
Wait, this was not the deal.

1223
01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:45,563
I had a contract, where's Adaela?

1224
01:19:45,680 --> 01:19:47,409
What the hell are you doing here?

1225
01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:48,965
I thought Eduard was playing Joseph

1226
01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:51,606
It didn't happen. It did not happen.

1227
01:19:51,720 --> 01:19:53,961
Don't worry, Potiphar.
It did not happen.

1228
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:56,526
- Oh, shut up.
- But it nearly did.

1229
01:19:56,640 --> 01:19:58,642
- Shut up!
- The wretchl

1230
01:19:58,760 --> 01:20:00,922
- The wretchl
- You stupid bitch!

1231
01:20:01,040 --> 01:20:02,451
Shut up!

1232
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:04,729
<i>Where's Mash'?</i>

1233
01:20:04,840 --> 01:20:08,447
Well, we engineered that one
well enough.

1234
01:20:10,320 --> 01:20:14,166
How gullible are those
stretched by lechery?

1235
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:16,681
Get out! All of you!

1236
01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:24,603
I thought
that Eduard was playing Joseph.

1237
01:20:24,720 --> 01:20:29,203
How can I bloody play Potiphar
if my brother is playing Joseph?

1238
01:20:29,320 --> 01:20:32,529
I end up a second substitute
to my bloody brother.

1239
01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:36,006
Get out. Get out, get out.

1240
01:20:40,640 --> 01:20:43,689
And what the hell
did you think you were doing?

1241
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:46,724
Playing the dirty little Vagabond
with your prick out.

1242
01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:49,446
You could see I was playing Joseph
for God's sake.

1243
01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:50,971
A biblical hem!

1244
01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:53,731
It didn't seem like a biblical hero,
the way you were playing him.

1245
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:56,127
But I preserved his innocence.

1246
01:20:56,240 --> 01:20:59,369
Oh, yes, yes, his innocence.
Yes, yes.

1247
01:20:59,920 --> 01:21:02,082
With your erect prick.

1248
01:21:02,200 --> 01:21:04,248
Like a donkey in heat!

1249
01:21:04,360 --> 01:21:06,283
Why, thank you, brother!

1250
01:21:06,400 --> 01:21:09,688
Donkeys are uncommonly well endowed.

1251
01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:12,770
However, as you sew,
the sex was net consummated.

1252
01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:15,645
Oh, no, no, it bloody nearly
was consummated. Yes.

1253
01:21:15,760 --> 01:21:19,321
One more minute and Joseph's
famous reputation for innocence

1254
01:21:19,440 --> 01:21:21,807
would be exploded completely.

1255
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:24,321
What the hell do you think
you were doing?

1256
01:21:24,440 --> 01:21:27,489
Much the same
as you hoped to do, I imagine.

1257
01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:29,682
Don't you understand?

1258
01:21:30,840 --> 01:21:33,764
If I died without a son
you would be the next in line!

1259
01:21:33,880 --> 01:21:38,169
What an exhibition in public, huh?
For the next Margrave of Alsace.

1260
01:21:38,280 --> 01:21:40,647
What about your exhibition of yourself?

1261
01:21:40,760 --> 01:21:42,649
Povtiphafs wife was lonely.

1262
01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:45,445
What? Like hell she was lonely.

1263
01:21:45,560 --> 01:21:48,370
- She wanted company.
- Like hell she did.

1264
01:21:48,480 --> 01:21:52,201
Potiphar was reputed
to be interested in young men.

1265
01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:54,084
- What?
- Which the Rabbi says

1266
01:21:54,200 --> 01:21:57,010
excuses his wife
for trying to seduce Joseph.

1267
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:01,005
What kind of goddamned
sophistry is that?

1268
01:22:01,120 --> 01:22:03,726
If I'm playing Potiphar
what does that make me?

1269
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:05,808
- A fucking sodomite?
- Well...

1270
01:22:05,920 --> 01:22:08,241
- That's what the Rabbi told me.
- Oh, yeah...

1271
01:22:09,560 --> 01:22:11,642
The Rabbi is finding excuses for you

1272
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:13,888
to expose your prick in public?

1273
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:18,881
I think the Rabbi,
between you and me, brother,

1274
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:21,002
will excuse anything
the actress Susannah

1275
01:22:21,120 --> 01:22:23,009
is prepared to do in public.

1276
01:22:23,160 --> 01:22:26,209
It would seem, Master Goltzius,
that your dramas

1277
01:22:26,320 --> 01:22:29,290
begin to encroach
on the well-being of my court.

1278
01:22:29,400 --> 01:22:32,085
Your brother, sir, volunteered.

1279
01:22:32,200 --> 01:22:35,409
As an example of the dutiful reticence

1280
01:22:35,520 --> 01:22:38,967
and repudiation of evil
that this court is capable of.

1281
01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:40,445
Shut up, Gollzius.

1282
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:43,803
I suspect you of insidious entreaties

1283
01:22:43,920 --> 01:22:48,642
to a young man
not at all sure of his sexuality,

1284
01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:51,684
to corner me into a position
of some embarrassment,

1285
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:54,201
and thus, force my arm
to sign your contract.

1286
01:22:54,320 --> 01:22:56,209
A risky stratagem,

1287
01:22:56,320 --> 01:23:00,166
which would have undermined
my credibility if believed.

1288
01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:06,370
What truly surprised me however,
was that I had an unlikely ally.

1289
01:23:06,480 --> 01:23:11,441
This court is replete with stories
of the boy's sexual sophistication.

1290
01:23:11,560 --> 01:23:14,166
I cannot believe for one minute

1291
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:18,046
that Mosaic law would be
so fastidiously sympathetic

1292
01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:19,764
to such exhibited lechery.

1293
01:23:19,880 --> 01:23:23,089
The law of Moses
is sympathetic to women

1294
01:23:23,200 --> 01:23:27,250
in ways that later
and less sophisticated religions

1295
01:23:27,360 --> 01:23:29,249
have not seen fit to be.

1296
01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:31,124
We enjoyed this argument

1297
01:23:31,240 --> 01:23:34,130
between the Margravds
religious servants.

1298
01:23:35,320 --> 01:23:36,890
The freedom of speech in my court,

1299
01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:39,480
which enables you to speak
with such liberality,

1300
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:42,809
may not be found elsewhere
in Christendom.

1301
01:23:42,920 --> 01:23:46,811
Am I, as a Jew,
to be interested in Christendom?

1302
01:23:48,240 --> 01:23:51,084
There are limits to my liberality.

1303
01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:55,122
As an example of these limits,

1304
01:23:55,240 --> 01:23:57,163
you shall be silenced here.

1305
01:23:57,280 --> 01:23:58,645
- Gag him.
- I protest!

1306
01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:01,170
So you do!

1307
01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:04,641
Join the heretic, Boethiusl

1308
01:24:05,240 --> 01:24:07,720
Sir, may I suggest we proceed

1309
01:24:07,840 --> 01:24:10,491
with the entertainment as planned?

1310
01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:13,171
Excuse me, remove ourselves
a little from the heat

1311
01:24:13,280 --> 01:24:14,964
and the affairs of the moment,

1312
01:24:15,080 --> 01:24:18,243
and move to our next
performance in your honoul?

1313
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:23,526
I suggest, sir, that we consider
the story of Samson and Delilah.

1314
01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:27,247
And now we have here
a candidate to play Samson.

1315
01:24:27,360 --> 01:24:31,001
He is hirsute enough to play Samson.

1316
01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:33,600
He's big enough
to play an ogre and a giant.

1317
01:24:33,720 --> 01:24:37,770
A man who over-reaches himself

1318
01:24:37,880 --> 01:24:41,487
to stand up for the actress
who plays Petiphefs wife.

1319
01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:44,570
Let's see if he and his ?esh

1320
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:47,843
can be made to stand up for Delilah.

1321
01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:53,643
I have come, Joachim,
like a good Christian,

1322
01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:55,728
to visit the prisoners in prison.

1323
01:24:56,920 --> 01:24:59,446
Prison visiting is the sixth charity.

1324
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:03,921
Joachim,
I am going to call you Joseph.

1325
01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:05,804
May I call you Joseph?

1326
01:25:07,240 --> 01:25:10,801
That way we can be easier
in our identities.

1327
01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:13,207
I have undertaken to impersonate

1328
01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:15,766
a beaten and disgraced Joseph.

1329
01:25:15,880 --> 01:25:17,166
So why not?

1330
01:25:19,040 --> 01:25:22,567
I am going to set aside
our master-pupil relationship

1331
01:25:22,680 --> 01:25:25,809
in favour of your most
delightful performance.

1332
01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:28,400
I was very impressed.

1333
01:25:28,520 --> 01:25:31,000
I confess that I have never seen you

1334
01:25:31,120 --> 01:25:32,929
so delightfully vulnerable before.

1335
01:25:33,040 --> 01:25:37,250
As you sat before me as a student,

1336
01:25:37,360 --> 01:25:39,931
legs crossed.

1337
01:25:40,040 --> 01:25:41,849
Attentive.

1338
01:25:42,880 --> 01:25:45,042
Mouth a little open.

1339
01:25:46,280 --> 01:25:48,931
Your breaches stretched.

1340
01:25:50,600 --> 01:25:54,730
Your declaration is now nakedly,
Master Cleaver, in the open.

1341
01:25:56,320 --> 01:25:57,924
I dreamt.

1342
01:25:59,320 --> 01:26:02,563
I was tempted by the Devil
in the guise of an angel

1343
01:26:02,680 --> 01:26:06,890
to prove my impervious-mess to sin.

1344
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:10,288
The Devil disguised as an angel
led me to a jail.

1345
01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:13,327
And there to test me...

1346
01:26:15,840 --> 01:26:18,923
...he beat me and he whipped me.

1347
01:26:20,040 --> 01:26:21,690
And then...

1348
01:26:24,280 --> 01:26:27,727
I believe I awoke.
The dream was incomplete.

1349
01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:35,169
Am I ever likely to underslnnd
the outcome?

1350
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:40,207
Well, it is not impossible that
we could remake the dream.

1351
01:26:41,760 --> 01:26:45,924
And maybe I could enact the angel.

1352
01:26:47,240 --> 01:26:50,801
Then you must beat me, a sinner.

1353
01:26:52,080 --> 01:26:57,849
In expectation, I brought
an instrument of punishment.

1354
01:26:58,920 --> 01:27:00,843
Did Boethius write

1355
01:27:00,960 --> 01:27:04,203
that most devastating ending
for the protestant?

1356
01:27:04,320 --> 01:27:06,800
Or was it the natural course of events

1357
01:27:06,920 --> 01:27:10,288
that brought us to this point?
Who was writing the scripts now?

1358
01:27:11,680 --> 01:27:15,207
Master Cleaver wishes
identification with Christ.

1359
01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:16,890
You must be humiliated

1360
01:27:18,120 --> 01:27:22,444
in a way that society holds
most abased.

1361
01:27:22,560 --> 01:27:25,962
And the criminal courts
will take you to the stake

1362
01:27:26,080 --> 01:27:28,128
and burn you

1363
01:27:28,240 --> 01:27:31,801
since you have submitted
to such a humiliation.

1364
01:27:33,960 --> 01:27:37,169
Do you freely submit to such humiliation?

1365
01:27:38,080 --> 01:27:39,081
I do.

1366
01:27:40,240 --> 01:27:44,564
I do. Like my saviour,
I must be unutterably punished.

1367
01:27:44,680 --> 01:27:49,129
Then here is the first passage
to the stake, faggot.

1368
01:27:49,960 --> 01:27:52,770
In your dream,
you thought it was an angel

1369
01:27:52,880 --> 01:27:55,611
impersonating the Devil
to save you from yourself.

1370
01:27:55,720 --> 01:28:00,282
When, in fact, it was the Devil
impersonating an angel

1371
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:04,166
to be certain you abased yourself
beyond all your current hopes.

1372
01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:09,442
There was no reprieve
for the Christ you wanted to be.

1373
01:28:10,600 --> 01:28:12,967
Nobody came to save Christ.

1374
01:28:13,920 --> 01:28:15,046
Nobody!

1375
01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:16,161
Nobody at all.

1376
01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:20,244
So why should anyone
come to save you?

1377
01:28:22,480 --> 01:28:24,289
No reprieve.

1378
01:28:24,920 --> 01:28:26,729
But we can drown you.

1379
01:28:26,840 --> 01:28:30,481
Now you will not burn at the sinks
for permitting sodomy.

1380
01:28:30,600 --> 01:28:32,921
You will drown instead.

1381
01:28:33,040 --> 01:28:35,725
- Can you swim?
- I-l can't. I can't.

1382
01:28:35,840 --> 01:28:37,524
- Master Cleaver...
- I can't swim.

1383
01:28:37,640 --> 01:28:40,769
- You can't swim?
- I don't know.

1384
01:28:41,440 --> 01:28:44,046
No, then you will surely drown.

1385
01:28:46,680 --> 01:28:48,091
F?eqou

1386
01:28:48,880 --> 01:28:52,362
Miserable imitation Christ!

1387
01:28:54,880 --> 01:28:57,724
The fifth sexual taboo -

1388
01:28:57,840 --> 01:28:59,763
prostitution.

1389
01:29:00,560 --> 01:29:03,325
Love exchanged for money.

1390
01:29:03,440 --> 01:29:06,046
Accompanied here by treachery.

1391
01:29:06,160 --> 01:29:10,370
It is a little theatrical
presentation that demonstrates...

1392
01:29:10,480 --> 01:29:11,970
Delilah.

1393
01:29:16,040 --> 01:29:22,525
Delilah is the established
byword for treachery.

1394
01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:24,768
'The treacherous woman.'

1395
01:29:26,040 --> 01:29:28,771
She sells Samson

1396
01:29:28,880 --> 01:29:32,930
for a prophetic thirty pieces of silver.

1397
01:29:33,040 --> 01:29:36,044
What else do you have
that may be described

1398
01:29:36,160 --> 01:29:38,731
as pertinent to Samson, Rabbi Moab?

1399
01:29:38,840 --> 01:29:43,607
- I cannot consort with you.
- I think you can, Rabbi Moab.

1400
01:29:44,800 --> 01:29:46,928
Isn't that
what you have been wanting to do

1401
01:29:47,040 --> 01:29:48,610
these past four evenings?

1402
01:29:48,720 --> 01:29:50,722
And because you are Susannah

1403
01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:54,447
I will not give in to the demands
of other men's lechery.

1404
01:29:54,560 --> 01:29:58,485
I am not in danger of committing
sins of the ?esh with you,

1405
01:29:58,600 --> 01:30:01,251
with my body. but only with my mind.

1406
01:30:01,360 --> 01:30:03,408
Although God can see my mind

1407
01:30:03,520 --> 01:30:05,488
and will excoriate me mercilessly,

1408
01:30:06,360 --> 01:30:07,850
no one else will know.

1409
01:30:08,600 --> 01:30:12,525
My fight will be with God alone,
and He knows that,

1410
01:30:12,640 --> 01:30:14,927
and I know that.

1411
01:30:15,040 --> 01:30:18,647
But it will exist only between us.
No one else will know.

1412
01:30:19,400 --> 01:30:21,084
What is all this whispering?

1413
01:30:21,200 --> 01:30:23,521
Is this your text, Rabbi,
or the heretic's?

1414
01:30:23,640 --> 01:30:25,847
I think the Rabbi is searching, my lord,

1415
01:30:25,960 --> 01:30:29,362
to find words to condone
his lechery for me.

1416
01:30:29,480 --> 01:30:30,720
Lat him.

1417
01:30:30,840 --> 01:30:33,969
And I feel that he will rise
to the occasion

1418
01:30:34,080 --> 01:30:36,242
and we shall all be entertained.

1419
01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:39,330
Let us begin as accustomed levers do.

1420
01:30:39,840 --> 01:30:42,411
Come here. Let me kiss you.

1421
01:30:46,200 --> 01:30:48,726
Ooh, you stink!

1422
01:30:48,840 --> 01:30:51,889
Susannah,
it is the dead Calvinist who stinks!

1423
01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:53,923
You are in need of a wash.

1424
01:30:54,040 --> 01:30:56,646
- Now, take off your amour.
- I prutest.

1425
01:30:56,760 --> 01:30:59,730
Save your voice, lover,
and let me do the talking.

1426
01:31:00,640 --> 01:31:03,962
God will understand
that you are being forced.

1427
01:31:04,080 --> 01:31:06,890
God will not accept actions
made under torture.

1428
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:08,650
Am I tortured?

1429
01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:11,047
I am tortured.

1430
01:31:13,280 --> 01:31:15,044
What of this body?

1431
01:31:15,920 --> 01:31:18,844
What is it that permits you
your great strength?

1432
01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:21,327
- I believe in God.
- So do I.

1433
01:31:21,800 --> 01:31:23,564
But I am a weak woman.

1434
01:31:23,680 --> 01:31:27,571
Does he make me strong
because I believe in him?

1435
01:31:28,600 --> 01:31:32,685
I see! God believes in me!

1436
01:31:50,440 --> 01:31:53,887
There new.
Are you and your God satisfied?

1437
01:31:54,000 --> 01:31:57,004
You are still Susannah and not Delilah.

1438
01:31:57,120 --> 01:32:01,330
And those two women
are great distances apart.

1439
01:32:01,440 --> 01:32:05,331
Now tell me, Samson,
what is the reason for your strength?

1440
01:32:05,440 --> 01:32:09,286
- I have losl: I't with you.
- That is not the answer I want.

1441
01:32:09,400 --> 01:32:12,722
Tell mel
Tell me the source of your strength.

1442
01:32:14,040 --> 01:32:16,520
In the story of Samson,

1443
01:32:16,640 --> 01:32:20,531
it was said that Samson's hair
gave him his strength.

1444
01:32:20,640 --> 01:32:24,087
Shave it and he would become weak.

1445
01:32:24,200 --> 01:32:26,441
I don't believe in such tales.

1446
01:32:26,560 --> 01:32:28,324
They are symbolic.

1447
01:32:28,440 --> 01:32:29,726
Metaphors.

1448
01:32:29,840 --> 01:32:35,609
His strength, like mine,
relies in a belief in God.

1449
01:32:48,840 --> 01:32:51,844
I have been celibate all of my life.

1450
01:32:53,160 --> 01:32:56,562
I feel already without strength.

1451
01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:02,085
I feel weak and vulnerable.

1452
01:33:02,840 --> 01:33:05,320
- Quickly! He is yours!
- No!

1453
01:33:09,200 --> 01:33:11,487
- Do not blind me!
- Don't touch his eyes!

1454
01:33:11,600 --> 01:33:14,171
- Don't blind him!
- Do not blind me!

1455
01:33:14,280 --> 01:33:17,648
All men are brought low by lechery.

1456
01:33:19,680 --> 01:33:21,205
Now!

1457
01:33:21,720 --> 01:33:24,929
Your critics
have been silenced, Margrave.

1458
01:33:25,040 --> 01:33:29,443
Look at them!
One gagged, one dead, one blinded.

1459
01:33:29,560 --> 01:33:30,686
Bravo!

1460
01:33:31,440 --> 01:33:34,683
What of your reputation now
for liberality of speech?

1461
01:33:36,320 --> 01:33:39,767
In the face of heresy and treason,
I have no choice.

1462
01:33:41,400 --> 01:33:44,085
Of course you have choice!
You are not threatened.

1463
01:33:45,040 --> 01:33:47,964
Why turn these harmless dramas

1464
01:33:48,080 --> 01:33:50,208
into vicious games of politics?

1465
01:33:50,320 --> 01:33:53,449
The games of the ?esh
are small, superficial.

1466
01:33:53,560 --> 01:33:56,564
We are like children
playing games with our anatomy.

1467
01:33:57,600 --> 01:33:59,602
You make these games significant

1468
01:33:59,720 --> 01:34:01,563
in ways that suggest you fear them.

1469
01:34:02,320 --> 01:34:05,130
And do you not think
that the stories of the Bible

1470
01:34:05,240 --> 01:34:07,607
are surely Mitten by men?

1471
01:34:07,720 --> 01:34:11,805
And is not their purpose to guide
and advise by metaphor

1472
01:34:11,920 --> 01:34:14,048
and not by literal truth?

1473
01:34:14,160 --> 01:34:15,366
<i>SOY“! -</i>

1474
01:34:15,480 --> 01:34:17,369
The story of Samson is to show

1475
01:34:17,480 --> 01:34:19,847
how all men can be deceived by women.

1476
01:34:19,960 --> 01:34:23,169
I am one of these pelfidious
women who so deceive.

1477
01:34:23,280 --> 01:34:25,282
And I have a choice to make.

1478
01:34:25,400 --> 01:34:28,404
We are going to make a move
to the New Testament.

1479
01:34:28,520 --> 01:34:31,046
We are going to play the drama

1480
01:34:31,160 --> 01:34:34,960
of John the Baptist and Salome!

1481
01:34:35,080 --> 01:34:37,526
- No, we are not Adaela.
- Gollzius, I decide.

1482
01:34:37,640 --> 01:34:40,325
Ne. Vile are illustrating
the Old Testament in print and drama.

1483
01:34:40,440 --> 01:34:42,647
We are not breaking the conditions
of our commission!

1484
01:34:42,760 --> 01:34:44,922
Oh, Golizius, this time I decide.

1485
01:34:45,040 --> 01:34:48,283
We are performing Jewish tales
and not Christian tales.

1486
01:34:48,400 --> 01:34:50,607
Come, come, Gollziusl
They're all Jews!

1487
01:34:50,720 --> 01:34:52,404
And, therefore, all Jewish tales.

1488
01:34:52,520 --> 01:34:54,727
I'm going to dance for you in recompense

1489
01:34:54,840 --> 01:34:56,729
for the insult you believe
you have received.

1490
01:34:56,840 --> 01:34:58,808
I will play Salome.

1491
01:34:58,920 --> 01:35:00,922
You will play Herod.

1492
01:35:01,040 --> 01:35:04,601
The dance of the seven veils?
You will dance for me?

1493
01:35:04,720 --> 01:35:08,167
- How will you dance for me?
- Oh, you know the story.

1494
01:35:08,280 --> 01:35:11,443
I will dance for you
as Salome danced for Herod.

1495
01:35:12,080 --> 01:35:13,491
Seductive.

1496
01:35:14,200 --> 01:35:17,522
Voluptuous, immoral.

1497
01:35:18,960 --> 01:35:22,169
How can I refuse?
I accept, I will play Herod.

1498
01:35:29,600 --> 01:35:31,284
Ecclesiastical friends

1499
01:35:31,400 --> 01:35:33,528
and companions of religious toleration

1500
01:35:33,640 --> 01:35:36,041
in this liberated country of Alsace,

1501
01:35:36,160 --> 01:35:39,960
tonight we present to you
the last of our biblical dramas,

1502
01:35:40,080 --> 01:35:42,287
all of them tales of morality

1503
01:35:42,400 --> 01:35:45,882
that troubled our Jewish
and Christian forebears,

1504
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:50,085
and laid down examples
for our moral education.

1505
01:35:51,520 --> 01:35:53,443
By special request,

1506
01:35:53,560 --> 01:35:58,600
tonight, we present a tale
from the enlightened New Testament

1507
01:35:58,720 --> 01:36:00,722
that has great moral lessons

1508
01:36:00,840 --> 01:36:03,081
worthy of the Old Testament to teach us.

1509
01:36:03,200 --> 01:36:04,645
The story, no less.

1510
01:36:04,760 --> 01:36:08,003
Of Johannes the Baptist
and Princess Salome,

1511
01:36:08,120 --> 01:36:11,203
the beautiful daughter-in-law
of Hemdus the Great,

1512
01:36:11,320 --> 01:36:13,641
King of the Jews by Roman decree.

1513
01:36:14,680 --> 01:36:18,571
May I present to you
none less than the Margrave of Alsace,

1514
01:36:18,680 --> 01:36:22,844
who has graciously agreed
to play the great King Heredus.

1515
01:36:22,960 --> 01:36:24,485
And this on the day

1516
01:36:24,600 --> 01:36:27,171
when the Margravds
esteemed uncle, Ricardo,

1517
01:36:27,280 --> 01:36:30,124
has been appointed
as Cardinal of Alsace -

1518
01:36:30,240 --> 01:36:32,402
an honour that I am certain,

1519
01:36:32,520 --> 01:36:38,084
will be well received
and appreciated by us all.

1520
01:36:39,520 --> 01:36:41,443
Go away!

1521
01:36:44,440 --> 01:36:46,169
So...

1522
01:36:47,600 --> 01:36:51,525
...the sixth sexual taboo -

1523
01:36:51,640 --> 01:36:53,563
necrophilia.

1524
01:36:55,000 --> 01:37:00,211
Am I to see Salomds love of the dead?

1525
01:38:31,280 --> 01:38:33,567
More! Dance for me again.

1526
01:38:33,680 --> 01:38:36,081
It was too quick.
Dance the same dance again.

1527
01:38:37,480 --> 01:38:40,689
I promised to dance for you, and I did.

1528
01:38:41,720 --> 01:38:43,688
- Enough.
- I will pay you.

1529
01:38:44,840 --> 01:38:47,730
I will pay The Pelican Company well.

1530
01:38:50,280 --> 01:38:53,966
I will grant The Pelican Company
all they want.

1531
01:38:54,080 --> 01:38:56,481
Golizius shall have his printing press.

1532
01:38:56,600 --> 01:38:59,171
I will commission
a thousand books.

1533
01:39:00,400 --> 01:39:03,961
It was me who danced for you,
not The Pelican Company.

1534
01:39:04,080 --> 01:39:05,809
For you, then.

1535
01:39:05,920 --> 01:39:08,890
For you.
What do you want me to give you?

1536
01:39:09,000 --> 01:39:10,923
Ask me a price.

1537
01:39:11,040 --> 01:39:13,486
- Anything?
- Ha ha! Anything!

1538
01:39:14,400 --> 01:39:16,687
Lust makes you untrustworthy,

1539
01:39:16,800 --> 01:39:20,691
as lust makes all men untrustworthy.

1540
01:39:20,800 --> 01:39:22,802
Ask me!

1541
01:39:22,920 --> 01:39:25,844
- Ask me for anything.
- Very well.

1542
01:39:25,960 --> 01:39:27,962
I will dance for you again,

1543
01:39:28,080 --> 01:39:32,642
if you release my lover, Boethius.

1544
01:39:34,240 --> 01:39:36,049
No. Never.

1545
01:39:36,160 --> 01:39:38,527
- He's a heretic.
- Then, no.

1546
01:39:38,640 --> 01:39:41,644
I'm leaving.
The price of my dancing is his freedom.

1547
01:39:41,760 --> 01:39:43,569
- No, stop.
- No.

1548
01:39:43,680 --> 01:39:45,364
I... I'll give you jewels.

1549
01:39:45,480 --> 01:39:47,642
Money. Gold.

1550
01:39:50,200 --> 01:39:52,441
There is only one thing I want.

1551
01:39:52,560 --> 01:39:54,244
Ivvill give you...

1552
01:39:56,280 --> 01:39:58,647
...the county of Haguenau Forest.

1553
01:40:01,080 --> 01:40:06,928
Four cities, three castles,
30,000 citizens, and...

1554
01:40:07,040 --> 01:40:11,204
and... taxes for a year
on the salt from the salt mines.

1555
01:40:16,920 --> 01:40:20,083
I will give you half my kingdom.

1556
01:40:22,200 --> 01:40:26,728
I want my lover, Boethius.

1557
01:40:27,240 --> 01:40:28,321
Nothing else.

1558
01:40:28,440 --> 01:40:32,445
- Nol
- Well then, no more dancing.

1559
01:40:33,120 --> 01:40:34,884
I want my lover.

1560
01:40:35,560 --> 01:40:38,131
Release John the Baptist.

1561
01:40:38,240 --> 01:40:39,844
No! New-war!

1562
01:40:39,960 --> 01:40:42,201
- Never!
- Herod. Herod.

1563
01:40:43,400 --> 01:40:45,323
Margrave, ch?ri.

1564
01:40:45,440 --> 01:40:47,602
Just give her what she wants.

1565
01:40:47,720 --> 01:40:50,644
Fulfil the ending of the story.

1566
01:40:50,760 --> 01:40:52,922
There are plenty more birds in the trees

1567
01:40:53,040 --> 01:40:54,883
and you have me for ever.

1568
01:40:57,400 --> 01:41:00,882
We all know what happened
to John the Baptist.

1569
01:41:01,560 --> 01:41:03,244
Give her what she wants.

1570
01:41:03,360 --> 01:41:07,570
His prick and his head
do not have to remain on his body.

1571
01:41:08,560 --> 01:41:10,562
- Do it.
- Very well.

1572
01:41:11,480 --> 01:41:14,529
- You can have what you want.
- Have him brought here.

1573
01:41:14,640 --> 01:41:16,847
I want him to see me dance as well.

1574
01:41:16,960 --> 01:41:18,086
Bring him! Fetch him!

1575
01:41:44,000 --> 01:41:45,889
Now dance!

1576
01:41:48,280 --> 01:41:49,805
Dance!

1577
01:43:31,480 --> 01:43:34,324
Now, you must pay the price.

1578
01:43:35,800 --> 01:43:38,246
You must let me take what you agreed.

1579
01:43:44,000 --> 01:43:46,571
I will not be intimidated.

1580
01:43:46,680 --> 01:43:48,364
Go on!

1581
01:43:48,480 --> 01:43:50,005
Give it to her.

1582
01:43:50,120 --> 01:43:52,043
Give her the worthless head

1583
01:43:52,160 --> 01:43:55,164
and the pathetic prick she so desires.

1584
01:43:56,720 --> 01:43:59,451
Give her what she asked for.

1585
01:44:05,680 --> 01:44:07,648
No, you wouldn't dare!

1586
01:44:08,960 --> 01:44:09,961
Wait.

1587
01:44:10,560 --> 01:44:12,403
Wait. What about your...

1588
01:44:12,520 --> 01:44:16,730
What about your reputation
for mercy, for clemency?

1589
01:44:18,880 --> 01:44:22,521
If you do it, you will be cursed!

1590
01:44:23,400 --> 01:44:27,325
I will curse you,
and you will die a miserable death.

1591
01:44:27,440 --> 01:44:30,250
You will be eaten by worms.

1592
01:44:30,360 --> 01:44:32,249
Ooh-ho-o, worms!

1593
01:44:33,600 --> 01:44:36,331
<i>Mash, the wordy worm.</i>

1594
01:44:37,680 --> 01:44:39,648
The noisy worms!

1595
01:44:42,200 --> 01:44:47,570
Margrave, her predisposition for worms
needs attention.

1596
01:44:49,000 --> 01:44:52,561
If she says
you will be consumed by worms...

1597
01:44:53,600 --> 01:44:54,931
...then she will be right.

1598
01:44:56,040 --> 01:44:59,203
Shut your noisy mouth, Boethius.

1599
01:44:59,320 --> 01:45:01,448
DoitlDoitlDoitl

1600
01:45:01,560 --> 01:45:05,121
She provokes you. Do it!
She is making a fool of you.

1601
01:45:05,680 --> 01:45:06,806
<i>Do 'M</i>

1602
01:45:15,640 --> 01:45:17,005
Yeah.

1603
01:45:17,600 --> 01:45:20,080
Then the whole thing turned sour.

1604
01:45:21,080 --> 01:45:23,651
It was meant to be
an acted metaphor.

1605
01:45:23,760 --> 01:45:25,888
It became a bloody reality.

1606
01:45:28,320 --> 01:45:30,322
I had transgressed.

1607
01:45:31,240 --> 01:45:35,404
Moving to the New Testament
had shifted my focus.

1608
01:45:44,160 --> 01:45:46,208
Adaela suffered such

1609
01:45:46,320 --> 01:45:47,810
that she could turn her life

1610
01:45:47,920 --> 01:45:49,729
into a personal mythology

1611
01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:51,888
that would always dramatise her

1612
01:45:52,000 --> 01:45:53,240
and give her existence

1613
01:45:53,360 --> 01:45:56,569
a black and melodramatic focus.

1614
01:45:56,680 --> 01:45:58,409
Maybe I was the one

1615
01:45:58,520 --> 01:45:59,851
who suffered most.

1616
01:46:18,760 --> 01:46:20,250
I am the Margravel

1617
01:46:28,440 --> 01:46:31,410
It was time for my best speech.

1618
01:46:32,800 --> 01:46:36,646
My lords, maybe it is the greatest irony

1619
01:46:36,760 --> 01:46:40,651
that the most unrepentant
non-believer, William Boethius,

1620
01:46:40,760 --> 01:46:45,129
a man who has often explained
his beliefs here in this court,

1621
01:46:45,240 --> 01:46:49,564
should play the part of one
of the most prominent true believers

1622
01:46:49,680 --> 01:46:52,889
and prophets of Christianity,
Johannes the Baptist,

1623
01:46:53,000 --> 01:46:55,446
and be executed in his place.

1624
01:46:55,560 --> 01:46:56,846
Shame. Shame.

1625
01:46:56,960 --> 01:47:00,009
Maybe we might take
the metaphor further

1626
01:47:00,120 --> 01:47:02,248
and consider that William Boethius

1627
01:47:02,360 --> 01:47:05,250
is a prophet of the unbelief to come,

1628
01:47:05,360 --> 01:47:09,649
like Johannes was a prophet
of Christus and Christianity.

1629
01:47:09,760 --> 01:47:13,128
Boethius may be an exception new,
but in the future,

1630
01:47:13,240 --> 01:47:16,801
his sort might be the common
and perhaps the ordinary,

1631
01:47:16,920 --> 01:47:19,127
in a way that believing Christians

1632
01:47:19,240 --> 01:47:21,607
are now the common and the ordinary.

1633
01:47:22,920 --> 01:47:25,526
50,000 for a new printing press.

1634
01:47:25,640 --> 01:47:27,802
100,000 for an illustrated
Old Testament.

1635
01:47:27,920 --> 01:47:30,810
Please sign.
Vile expect to see results.

1636
01:47:30,920 --> 01:47:32,843
The Margravds power is not so little.

1637
01:47:32,960 --> 01:47:34,883
His arm of influence
could be considerable.

1638
01:47:35,000 --> 01:47:36,809
All the way to The Hague
in the Netherlands.

1639
01:47:36,920 --> 01:47:40,129
Princes talk not infrequently to princes.

1640
01:47:40,240 --> 01:47:42,322
We had got what we wanted -

1641
01:47:42,440 --> 01:47:44,647
exactly and absolutely.

1642
01:47:44,760 --> 01:47:47,730
And I certainly got what I wanted.

1643
01:47:47,840 --> 01:47:50,286
I new had the time and the freedom

1644
01:47:50,400 --> 01:47:54,564
to afford to do ctly
what I had always wanted to do,

1645
01:47:54,680 --> 01:47:57,206
which is to paint.

1646
01:47:57,840 --> 01:48:00,286
It has not gone unnoticed
that you carry with you

1647
01:48:00,400 --> 01:48:02,562
a book of drawings to which,
if I am not mistaken,

1648
01:48:02,680 --> 01:48:04,125
you constantly make contributions.

1649
01:48:04,240 --> 01:48:07,562
I'm willing to give you, um...
50,000 for it.

1650
01:48:08,680 --> 01:48:10,045
You may take the money now.

1651
01:48:12,320 --> 01:48:14,482
But soon in Rome we will meet.

1652
01:48:16,080 --> 01:48:18,208
I expect you to bring me
your little book.

1653
01:48:20,560 --> 01:48:22,210
You see how I trust you?

1654
01:48:31,960 --> 01:48:34,850
I met Cardinal Ricardo in Rome,

1655
01:48:34,960 --> 01:48:36,928
and Susannah was there.

1656
01:48:37,040 --> 01:48:40,761
Susannah's face slays with us all,

1657
01:48:40,880 --> 01:48:45,363
as indeed do other
characteristics of her anatomy.

1658
01:48:45,480 --> 01:48:49,326
50 copies of the illustrated
Old Testament, as demanded.

1659
01:48:49,440 --> 01:48:53,445
I am to deliver them in person,
and, if satisfactory,

1660
01:48:53,560 --> 01:48:56,689
we enter into the second part
of the commission -

1661
01:48:56,800 --> 01:48:59,690
an illustrated book of Ovid.

1662
01:48:59,800 --> 01:49:01,848
'Leda and the Swan',

1663
01:49:01,960 --> 01:49:04,201
'Ganymedus and the Eagle',

1664
01:49:04,320 --> 01:49:06,163
'Europa and the Bull',

1665
01:49:06,280 --> 01:49:08,203
'Callisto and Diana'.

1666
01:49:08,320 --> 01:49:11,449
Lo, fucked in a cloud of Jupiter.

1667
01:49:11,560 --> 01:49:14,325
And 'Danae and the Shower of Gold'.

1668
01:49:21,240 --> 01:49:25,165
And the Margrave is no longer in charge.

1669
01:49:25,280 --> 01:49:27,123
He is considered insane,

1670
01:49:27,240 --> 01:49:30,608
and ferried about his palaces
on a wheeled bed.

1671
01:49:30,720 --> 01:49:32,324
Don't cry.

1672
01:49:34,520 --> 01:49:36,682
Don't, don't. It's all right.

1673
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:39,604
You see?

1674
01:49:40,960 --> 01:49:43,486
The mood of the court is
entirely changed.

1675
01:49:43,600 --> 01:49:46,649
They say that winter has been banished,

1676
01:49:46,760 --> 01:49:50,367
and the court is gay and infectious.

1677
01:49:53,800 --> 01:49:56,201
I look forward to return.

1678
01:49:56,320 --> 01:49:58,288
And I wish you, of course.

1679
01:49:58,400 --> 01:50:01,563
Every lechery
that you could wish for yourself.