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(Siwan) The music's over now. |
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(Siwan) There – the last lantern's been put out. |
(1, 0) 7 |
The big lantern up there's still going strong. |
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(Siwan) What a moon. Such a light night. |
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(Siwan) What time is it Alis? |
(1, 0) 11 |
I heard the watch calling midnight as I came here. |
(1, 0) 12 |
Shall I take the crown, ma dame? |
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(Siwan) Yes. Put it away in the chest. |
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(Siwan) Yes. Put it away in the chest. |
(1, 0) 14 |
Wasn't the dancing on the green a delight? |
(1, 0) 15 |
You could see the knights from France were enjoying it all so much … |
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(Siwan) Now this gown. I can't wait to be free of it, Alis. |
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(Siwan) Now this gown. I can't wait to be free of it, Alis. |
(1, 0) 17 |
Yes ma dame. |
(1, 0) 18 |
I heard one of the Frenchmen say how strange |
(1, 0) 19 |
It was to see the courtly dances of Aquitaine |
(1, 0) 20 |
Here on a castle green in North Wales. |
(1, 0) 21 |
They didn't realise how you'd brought |
(1, 0) 22 |
The graces and manners of Toulouse |
(1, 0) 23 |
With you to the wilds of Wales. |
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(Siwan) They shouldn't be surprised at that. |
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(Siwan) Of the contracts we made this evening. |
(1, 0) 32 |
Why didn't you dance, ma dame? |
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(Siwan) With that heavy crown, weighing on me so? |
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(Siwan) In my Prince's absence. |
(1, 0) 39 |
But no one can dance the French steps |
(1, 0) 40 |
As beautifully as you. |
(1, 0) 41 |
You'll have to lead the dancing |
(1, 0) 42 |
Come your son's wedding, just as you've done |
(1, 0) 43 |
When all your other children married. |
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(Siwan) Yes. I'll dance at Dafydd's wedding. |
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(Siwan) I'll dance for Dafydd. |
(1, 0) 47 |
Shall I let down your hair now, |
(1, 0) 48 |
And comb it before you go to bed? |
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(Siwan) Do that, Alis. The crown pressed into my head |
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(1, 0) 54 |
Le roi Marc était corracié |
(1, 0) 55 |
Vers Tristran, son neveu, irié; |
(1, 0) 56 |
Da se terre le congédia |
(1, 0) 57 |
Pour la reine qu'il ama. |
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(Siwan) Not that song, Alis. Not tonight. |
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(Siwan) Not that song, Alis. Not tonight. |
(1, 0) 59 |
It's Marie de France, ma dame. |
(1, 0) 60 |
You taught me the words. |
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(Siwan) As my mother taught them to me. |
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(Siwan) But Tristan and Isault is too sad a story for tonight. |
(1, 0) 63 |
She sings the kind of song I understand. |
(1, 0) 64 |
That moves me. Not like our bards. |
(1, 0) 65 |
Their poetry's too cold and too clever |
(1, 0) 66 |
For a country girl like me. |
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(1, 0) 68 |
En sa contrée en est allé, |
(1, 0) 69 |
En Sud Galles oû il fut né … |
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(Siwan) Let Tristan and Isault rest, Alis … |
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(Siwan) And finish my hair. |
(1, 0) 72 |
Was Tristan a Frenchman then? |
(1, 0) 73 |
How was he born in South Wales? |
(1, 0) 74 |
En Sud Galles oû il fut né. |
(1, 0) 75 |
Brecon's young lord, Gwilym Brewys, has French blood then? |
(1, 0) 76 |
When I was looking at him out there tonight I was thinking of Tristan. |
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|
(1, 0) 78 |
Oh … ma dame! What did I say? |
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(Siwan) Have you finished with my hair girl? |
|
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(Siwan) Have you finished with my hair girl? |
(1, 0) 80 |
Look in the mirror, ma dame. |
(1, 0) 81 |
You'll see two braids, just like Isault's … |
(1, 0) 82 |
My lip's bleeding where your ring caught me. |
|
(Siwan) The taste might teach that tongue of yours a lesson. |
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(Siwan) The wine I left outside, did you give it to the doorkeepers? |
(1, 0) 85 |
Didn't you see them as you came here? |
|
(Siwan) They were both sleeping soundly, |
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(Siwan) One on either side of the door. |
(1, 0) 88 |
The doorkeepers sleeping! |
(1, 0) 89 |
Shall I go wake them? |
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(Siwan) No. Let them sleep. |
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|
(Siwan) Tomorrow's May Day. |
(1, 0) 92 |
It's already May Day. |
(1, 0) 93 |
And already the lads and girls |
(1, 0) 94 |
Are out there in the groves, dancing. |
(1, 0) 95 |
Hands held around the maypole |
(1, 0) 96 |
Then they'll be pairing off, the couples |
(1, 0) 97 |
Creeping away. I don't suppose |
(1, 0) 98 |
That many of them will reappear before dawn. |
(1, 0) 99 |
Oh, those country boys know how to have fun too |
(1, 0) 100 |
Ma dame. |
|
(Siwan) Have you … been with boys Alis? |
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(Siwan) Have you … been with boys Alis? |
(1, 0) 102 |
Of course. The first time was when I was fifteen. |
(1, 0) 103 |
You've never been out under the maypole? |
|
(Siwan) I was a King's daughter. And at fifteen |
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(Siwan) Like every royal daughter. |
(1, 0) 108 |
The trees are so still now. I can't even |
(1, 0) 109 |
Hear the sounds of the sea. It's at its far ebb. |
(1, 0) 110 |
If I were a Princess, on a May Day eve like this |
(1, 0) 111 |
I'd put all my duties aside. |
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(Siwan) You don't know what you're saying Alis. |
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(Siwan) I'll knock on the floor if I need you. |
(1, 0) 116 |
Good night then. God be with you ma dame. |
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(Llywelyn) And lock her up. |
(2, 0) 592 |
Have you woken ma dame? |
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(Siwan) No. Because I haven't slept. |
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(Siwan) No. Because I haven't slept. |
(2, 0) 594 |
All night long? Not slept at all? |
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(Siwan) I'm not used to an iron clamp and chains |
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(Siwan) Feel its weight – the weight of a Prince's anger. |
(2, 0) 599 |
The weight of his disappointment, ma dame. |
(2, 0) 600 |
His disappointment far outweighs his anger. |
(2, 0) 601 |
Does it hurt your leg? |
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(Siwan) It hurts my dignity so much |
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(Siwan) At the indignity of it. |
(2, 0) 607 |
The Prince says you're only to stay in chains |
(2, 0) 608 |
Until today is out. |
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(Siwan) Why today and not tomorrow? |
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(Siwan) What will change today? |
(2, 0) 611 |
I can try to ease your discomfort. |
(2, 0) 612 |
I've brought some wine. |
|
(Siwan) Did he send you here? |
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(Siwan) Did he send you here? |
(2, 0) 614 |
Yes. To attend to you, and do your bidding. I'm free |
(2, 0) 615 |
To come and go – the guard's been told. |
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(Siwan) That guard's a mute. All day yesterday |
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(Siwan) I didn't see a soul. Only that mute beyond the door. |
(2, 0) 618 |
A mute carries no tales. |
|
(Siwan) And can't act as a go between. |
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(Siwan) Has he changed his attitude towards me? |
(2, 0) 623 |
Will you have some wine? |
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(Siwan) This wine's sharp. But it'll quench my thirst. |
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(Siwan) Today's the third of May. Isn't it? |
(2, 0) 626 |
The third, yes. |
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(Siwan) Two days, two nights. This cell's deathly silence |
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(Siwan) Did you ever sleep alone in a bare room Alis? |
(2, 0) 630 |
No, ma dame. I'm not a princess. |
(2, 0) 631 |
I've never even had a room of my own. |
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(Siwan) The solitude of this cell is different. It's a world |
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(Siwan) That dumb guard … These dumb stones. |
(2, 0) 635 |
But you never were a talkative one, ma dame. |
|
(Siwan) I know. But it drives me to distraction, |
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|
(Siwan) What time of morning is it Alis? |
(2, 0) 640 |
The sixth hour. |
|
(Siwan) The sixth since midnight. Add twenty four to that |
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|
(Siwan) It started sometime before dawn. |
(2, 0) 649 |
You haven't slept for three days, ma dame. |
(2, 0) 650 |
You haven't eaten any of the food that's been sent |
(2, 0) 651 |
To you. No wonder your mind's agitated. |
|
(Siwan) So, why were you sent here Alis? |
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|
(Siwan) So, why were you sent here Alis? |
(2, 0) 653 |
I told you, ma dame. |
(2, 0) 654 |
To see if you needed anything. |
|
(Siwan) And the Prince himself sent you? |
|
|
|
(Siwan) And the Prince himself sent you? |
(2, 0) 656 |
Yes ma dame. He did. Otherwise |
(2, 0) 657 |
The guard wouldn't have let me pass. |
|
(Siwan) There's some mystery here. He told you |
|
|
|
(Siwan) To carry messages for me? |
(2, 0) 661 |
I don't know. He mentioned nothing about that. |
|
(Siwan) That's my only need. The only service |
|
|
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(Siwan) Out on the green? |
(2, 0) 666 |
Some military construction – I'm not sure … |
|
(Siwan) You must have seen them working |
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|
(Siwan) As you crossed the yard to come here. |
(2, 0) 669 |
I didn't pause to get a proper look. |
(2, 0) 670 |
A little more wine, ma dame? |
|
(Siwan) Go to the window and look out. This chain |
|
|
|
(Siwan) So what are they building? |
(2, 0) 676 |
It's hard to see properly from this window. |
|
(Siwan) Don't lie to me girl. You can see perfectly well |
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|
(Siwan) Countless times. So tell me. |
(2, 0) 680 |
Ma dame – don't ask me. Please. |
(2, 0) 681 |
I beg of you, let me leave you now. |
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(Siwan) What's wrong with you. You're shaking. |
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(Siwan) Calm down – and tell me what's happening out there. |
(2, 0) 684 |
A gallows, ma dame. A gallows. |
|
(Siwan) Gallows? |
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(Siwan) Alis, don't cry – if that's to be my fate … |
(2, 0) 690 |
Not you ma dame. It's not for you. |
|
(Siwan) What? |
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|
(Siwan) What? |
(2, 0) 692 |
The gibbet … is for Gwilym Brewys. |
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|
(2, 0) 694 |
Ma dame? Ma dame? |
(2, 0) 695 |
Oh Ma dame. |
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|
(2, 0) 697 |
Take a little more wine. |
(2, 0) 698 |
There we are. |
(2, 0) 699 |
You frightened me, my lady. |
|
(Siwan) I'm ashamed of myself. |
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(Siwan) I'm ashamed of myself. |
(2, 0) 701 |
It's not surprising. |
(2, 0) 702 |
What with not having slept or eaten. |
(2, 0) 703 |
And the shock of … |
|
(Siwan) Was I in a faint for long? |
|
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|
(Siwan) Was I in a faint for long? |
(2, 0) 705 |
A few seconds. Why? |
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(Siwan) The hammering's stopped. Has anything happened out there? |
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(Siwan) The hammering's stopped. Has anything happened out there? |
(2, 0) 707 |
Nothing ma dame. |
(2, 0) 708 |
It only stopped a moment ago. |
|
(Siwan) That's good. Whatever happens, I want to be aware of it. |
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|
(Siwan) Have the soldiers finished? Go and look. |
(2, 0) 711 |
Yes. It's finished. |
|
(Siwan) How was he sentenced Alis? By the Court of Law? |
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|
(Siwan) Or by the Prince himself? |
(2, 0) 714 |
Yesterday. At about mid-day. |
(2, 0) 715 |
The Court was alive with rumours all morning. |
(2, 0) 716 |
Bishop Cadwgan had been summoned by the Prince, |
(2, 0) 717 |
And he'd suggested that the young Lord |
(2, 0) 718 |
Had come into your rooms through witchcraft. |
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(Siwan) No doubt the Bishop was trying to placate Llywelyn |
|
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|
(Siwan) That's why real passion is such a rare visitor to our lives. |
(2, 0) 724 |
Your temple's bleeding, ma dame. |
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(Siwan) A little loss of blood might cool me down. |
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|
(Siwan) After the Bishop's visit? |
(2, 0) 727 |
The Royal Court was assembled. |
|
(Siwan) Was my son Dafydd there? |
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|
(Siwan) Was my son Dafydd there? |
(2, 0) 729 |
No. He'd been sent away to Cardigan. |
(2, 0) 730 |
That same morning. |
|
(Siwan) I'm glad. And what was resolved by the Court? |
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(Siwan) I'm glad. And what was resolved by the Court? |
(2, 0) 732 |
It's said that Ednyfed Fychan |
(2, 0) 733 |
Did plead for the young Lord's life, |
(2, 0) 734 |
So as not to antagonise England |
(2, 0) 735 |
And the Marcher lords. That plea failed. The Prince |
(2, 0) 736 |
Wouldn't listen. Not even to a plea |
(2, 0) 737 |
For a beheading rather than a hanging. |
(2, 0) 738 |
He wanted a common thief's execution for Gwilym |
(2, 0) 739 |
In front of a crowd of ghouls, rather than |
(2, 0) 740 |
A death more fitting to a nobleman. |
(2, 0) 741 |
Ednyfed Fychan was shocked by the sentence. |
(2, 0) 742 |
Even when the courtiers filed out |
(2, 0) 743 |
He still sat there, ashen, and silent. |
|
(Siwan) And when was the verdict announced? |
|
|
|
(Siwan) And when was the verdict announced? |
(2, 0) 745 |
Yesterday afternoon, ma dame. |
(2, 0) 746 |
The hanging's set for early morning, now, |
(2, 0) 747 |
Before the hour of mass. |
(2, 0) 748 |
A crowd's been gathering for two hours or more |
(2, 0) 749 |
Outside the fortress gates. |
|
(Siwan) Does he know? |
|
|
|
(Siwan) Does he know? |
(2, 0) 751 |
Yes. |
|
(Siwan) When was he told? |
|
|
|
(Siwan) When was he told? |
(2, 0) 753 |
Bishop Cadwgan was with him for an hour |
(2, 0) 754 |
Last night. He's with him again now. |
|
(Siwan) And have you heard any news about him? |
|
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|
(Siwan) How is he? |
(2, 0) 757 |
No one's allowed near his cell. Not even |
(2, 0) 758 |
Near the dungeon sentries. The knights |
(2, 0) 759 |
Who rode up here with him are also imprisoned. |
(2, 0) 760 |
But last night, ma dame, after the Bishop left his cell, |
(2, 0) 761 |
I walked quietly past the dungeon tower. |
(2, 0) 762 |
I heard him singing. |
|
(Siwan) What was he singing Alis? |
|
|
|
(Siwan) What was he singing Alis? |
(2, 0) 764 |
Marie de France. |
(2, 0) 765 |
"La roi Marc était corracié |
(2, 0) 766 |
Vers Tristran, son neveu …" |
|
(Siwan) Have you ever seen a hanging? |
|
|
|
(Siwan) Have you ever seen a hanging? |
(2, 0) 768 |
Of course, ma dame. Many times. |
(2, 0) 769 |
Brigands and robbers. Have you? |
|
(Siwan) No. Never. Strangely enough. |
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|
(Siwan) No. Never. Strangely enough. |
(2, 0) 771 |
With robbers, it's a big show |
(2, 0) 772 |
Which attracts more people than do fairground fools. |
(2, 0) 773 |
It's best when the man is petrified |
(2, 0) 774 |
And has to be pushed to the top of the ladder. |
(2, 0) 775 |
His hood's pulled down. The priest recites the Ave, |
(2, 0) 776 |
Offers to hear his confession. After that |
(2, 0) 777 |
The hooting and the shouting of the crowd takes over. |
(2, 0) 778 |
I saw a pirate once, in Borth, joking |
(2, 0) 779 |
As he climbed the ladder |
(2, 0) 780 |
And toasting the cheering crowd |
(2, 0) 781 |
Then doing a jig as he dropped |
(2, 0) 782 |
And the rope sprang taut. |
|
(Siwan) How long do they take to die? |
|
|
|
(Siwan) How long do they take to die? |
(2, 0) 784 |
Some a long time. Others quickly. |
(2, 0) 785 |
Some still twitch after hanging for a full half hour |
(2, 0) 786 |
But it depends how the ladder's thrown |
(2, 0) 787 |
And on how the noose has been knotted. |
|
(Siwan) Who throws the ladder? |
|
|
|
(Siwan) Who throws the ladder? |
(2, 0) 789 |
The soldiers or the executioner. |
(2, 0) 790 |
I've heard it said, if the rope is tied very tightly |
(2, 0) 791 |
And the man jumps, he'll kill himself |
(2, 0) 792 |
In a couple of seconds. I never saw that happen. |
(2, 0) 793 |
A girl I knew did. She said the leap |
(2, 0) 794 |
Pushed the tongue back into the throat |
(2, 0) 795 |
And up behind the nostrils. Before the feet stop kicking |
(2, 0) 796 |
The backbone's snapped in two. |
(2, 0) 797 |
But usually you see these robbers swinging wildly |
(2, 0) 798 |
In the noose, and the life's squeezed out of them |
(2, 0) 799 |
Slowly, and the face turns blue. |
|
(Siwan) Holy Mary – let him leap like Gelert. |
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|
|
(Siwan) Go to the window Alis. Tell me what's happening. |
(2, 0) 803 |
Oh - Ma dame. Your lover's there now … |
(2, 0) 804 |
I never thought I'd see a lord go to the gallows. |
(2, 0) 805 |
He'd come here to give away his daughter's hand |
(2, 0) 806 |
And he's so young, so much living left … |
(2, 0) 807 |
More than once he made me laugh out loud, chucked me under the chin, flirted with a courtly kiss … |
(2, 0) 808 |
In Gwynedd's Court there are many who'll mourn after him. |
|
(Siwan) Stay at the window girl – or I'll break this chain. |
|
|
|
(Siwan) Stay at the window girl – or I'll break this chain. |
(2, 0) 811 |
I don't know if I can … |
|
(Siwan) I'm not going to swoon a second time. |
|
|
|
(Siwan) Take up your place. |
(2, 0) 818 |
The soldiers have formed a guard around the gibbet. |
(2, 0) 819 |
Crowds are no better than herds, or packs |
(2, 0) 820 |
Of mindless animal. Look at those faces. |
(2, 0) 821 |
How the human face changes when demons distort the mind. |
(2, 0) 822 |
The choir and church procession |
(2, 0) 823 |
Are going past now. |
|
(Siwan) Saint Francis, let him keep his hands free |
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|
|
(Siwan) Please help my little wolf. |
(2, 0) 829 |
There are so many in now, it's a crush. |
(2, 0) 830 |
Right back to the fortress walls. |
(2, 0) 831 |
The soldiers are pushing them back, to keep the gallows clear. |
|
|
(2, 0) 833 |
The Court Officers of Gwynedd are arriving. |
(2, 0) 834 |
Ednyfed Fychan leading them out. |
|
(Siwan) Is he there? |
|
|
|
(Siwan) Is he there? |
(2, 0) 836 |
The Prince? The great chair's not out on the green |
(2, 0) 837 |
And I can't see him with them. |
(2, 0) 838 |
He can watch it all from his rooms |
(2, 0) 839 |
Up there, out of the rabble's way. |
(2, 0) 840 |
Ednyfed is arranging the ranks of noblemen. |
(2, 0) 841 |
He's taking charge, preparing the stage for the show. |
(2, 0) 842 |
That's why the crowd's quieter now. |
|
|
(2, 0) 844 |
The soldiers are making a passage, flanking |
(2, 0) 845 |
The condemned man's path. |
(2, 0) 846 |
Each with his spear and shield |
(2, 0) 847 |
Keeping a clear space for the last slow walk. |
|
(Siwan) I can't pray. I don't know how to pray. |
|
|
|
(Siwan) He be allowed to leap! |
(2, 0) 853 |
The six French knights who came here |
(2, 0) 854 |
With Gwilym Brewys have been led out |
(2, 0) 855 |
Still manacled. I imagine they'll be allowed |
(2, 0) 856 |
To take the body back to Brecon. |
(2, 0) 857 |
And the Bishop of Bangor is reading the last rites. |
(2, 0) 858 |
Now he – Gwilym Brewys – turns towards the crowd … |
|
(Siwan) How does he look? |
|
|
|
(Siwan) How does he look? |
(2, 0) 860 |
He's in breeches, a shirt. He's barefoot … |
(2, 0) 861 |
The noose is around his neck … |
(2, 0) 862 |
One of the Prince's stewards is holding the other end … |
(2, 0) 863 |
Like some animal on a tether. |
(2, 0) 864 |
But his arms and hands are free. |
|
(Siwan) Free? |
|
|
|
(Siwan) Does he look frightened? |
(2, 0) 868 |
No … He looks |
(2, 0) 869 |
Strangely untroubled. |
(2, 0) 870 |
The crowd are fascinated by him. |
(2, 0) 871 |
The last minute now … The time's come. |
|
(Siwan) All the saints, if you can pray, pray for him. |
|
|
|
(Siwan) All the saints, if you can pray, pray for him. |
(2, 0) 874 |
He's shaking hands with Ednyfed Fychan and Gwynedd's Council, |
(2, 0) 875 |
One by one – like a lord greeting his guests |
(2, 0) 876 |
At a banquet. He's got a word |
(2, 0) 877 |
For each one, and they're laughing … |
(2, 0) 878 |
Now he's kneeling in front of the Bishop. |
(2, 0) 879 |
The crowd's silent. Astonished. |
(2, 0) 880 |
Even the Court dignitaries are staring in disbelief. |
|
(Siwan) Yes? |
|
|
|
(Siwan) Yes? |
(2, 0) 882 |
No one's moving now – except Gwilym. |
(2, 0) 883 |
He's testing the ladder. |
(2, 0) 884 |
Even feeling the noose … |
(2, 0) 885 |
Easing it around his neck. |
(2, 0) 886 |
He's bowing – a farewell bow. And … |
(2, 0) 887 |
Now he's ascending the ladder, like a ship's |
(2, 0) 888 |
Captain to the prow. He's standing |
(2, 0) 889 |
Confident and unbowed … |
|
(Siwan) This hour … The hour of his dying – Amen. |
|
|
|
(Siwan) This hour … The hour of his dying – Amen. |
(2, 0) 891 |
The executioner's not moving, not laying |
(2, 0) 892 |
A hand on that ladder … |
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(Gwilym) Siwan! |
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(Siwan) Is that the end? |
(2, 0) 898 |
But the leap he made, that leap! |
(2, 0) 899 |
The rope whipped taut like a fishing line. |
(2, 0) 900 |
The ladder was knocked sideways |
(2, 0) 901 |
Scattering the councillors … |
(2, 0) 902 |
Now his body's stock still, |
(2, 0) 903 |
Still and limp, hanging there. |
(2, 0) 904 |
The crowd's moving away. Starting to disperse. |
(2, 0) 905 |
For them the show's over. It's been a let down. |
(2, 0) 906 |
What do they care about a widow down in Brecon? |
(2, 0) 907 |
Or a Princess imprisoned here, |
(2, 0) 908 |
Distraught and eaten up by anguish. |
(2, 0) 909 |
Pain's a leprosy. |
(2, 0) 910 |
It cuts off the sufferer from the rest of the tribe. |
(2, 0) 911 |
It's the one dark corner |
(2, 0) 912 |
In their bright and babbling world. |
(2, 0) 913 |
You lot, yes, go dance, go laugh, |
(2, 0) 914 |
Go seek some further entertainment. |
(2, 0) 915 |
Go crowing your Welsh bravado … |
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(2, 0) 917 |
Ma dame! |
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(Llywelyn) Take that chain and fetter from her leg. |
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(Siwan) Llywelyn. |
(3, 0) 929 |
Sir, my Lord, my mistress is getting ready. |
(3, 0) 930 |
She'll be here with you shortly. |
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(Llywelyn) I sent my son to escort her here. |
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(Llywelyn) Is he with her? |
(3, 0) 933 |
Yes, Sir. This is the first time my mistress |
(3, 0) 934 |
Has seen him since his wedding. |
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(Llywelyn) A whole year, yes … Is she well? |
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(Llywelyn) A whole year, yes … Is she well? |
(3, 0) 936 |
As well as can be expected, after |
(3, 0) 937 |
A year's imprisonment. |
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(Llywelyn) Confinement, not imprisonment. She had everything |
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(Llywelyn) Waiting on her every whim, a courtyard for fresh air … |
(3, 0) 941 |
Yes. Everything except her freedom. |
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(Llywelyn) And by that, you're implying – what? |
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(Llywelyn) Tell me girl. |
(3, 0) 944 |
A command, Sir? |
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(Llywelyn) A command, yes. |
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(Llywelyn) A command, yes. |
(3, 0) 946 |
Your son, Prince Dafydd, got married. |
(3, 0) 947 |
His mother wasn't at the wedding. |
(3, 0) 948 |
She didn't lead the dancing afterwards. All that day |
(3, 0) 949 |
She was left on her own with her thoughts. |
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(Llywelyn) My son married Gwilym Brewys's daughter, |
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(Llywelyn) In the hall of Brewys's widow? |
(3, 0) 954 |
The wedding dance is only a ceremony. |
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(Llywelyn) For a royal family life itself |
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(Llywelyn) Is often only a ceremony. |
(3, 0) 957 |
She's changed, my Lord. |
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(Llywelyn) Everybody changes. Even our memories change. |
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(Llywelyn) Tell me what your observed. |
(3, 0) 962 |
This whole year gone, she's not struck me once. |
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(Llywelyn) Have you deserved to be struck? |
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(3, 0) 965 |
I don't know Sir. |
(3, 0) 966 |
Striking servants is done from habit, not desserts. |
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(Llywelyn) And she's let that habit slip? |
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(Llywelyn) And she's let that habit slip? |
(3, 0) 968 |
My Lord, before her confinement |
(3, 0) 969 |
She was young at heart. |
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(Llywelyn) That's not what was on your mind, girl. |
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(Llywelyn) Tell me what was. |
(3, 0) 972 |
I've said all I dare, Sir. |
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(Llywelyn) The hanging of Gwilym Brewys devastated her. |
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(Llywelyn) That's what you're telling me. |
(3, 0) 976 |
That's my worry, Sir. And you did ask me. |
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(Llywelyn) I have to ask someone. A year |
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(Llywelyn) Without a beating has made you impudent. |
(3, 0) 979 |
I'm not a serf or a peasant's daughter. |
(3, 0) 980 |
My father was a freeman. |
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(Llywelyn) You're also married aren't you? |
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(Llywelyn) You're also married aren't you? |
(3, 0) 982 |
A widow these last three years my Lord. |
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(Llywelyn) Forgive me. Yes. One of my retinue. |
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(Llywelyn) A brave lad. |
(3, 0) 986 |
I'd only seen him once before being betrothed to him |
(3, 0) 987 |
And then, after two weeks' marriage, the war … |
(3, 0) 988 |
He went. I never saw him again. And now |
(3, 0) 989 |
It all seems like some young girl's daydream. |
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(Llywelyn) But a daydream, not a nightmare? |
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(Llywelyn) I remember it. D'you remember bidding him goodbye? |
(3, 0) 993 |
In the small hours. |
(3, 0) 994 |
I heated him a cup of milk. |
(3, 0) 995 |
Fresh from the goat's teat. |
(3, 0) 996 |
He gave me a milky kiss, we were laughing … |
(3, 0) 997 |
He was still laughing as he joined the other soldiers. |
(3, 0) 998 |
They saddled, mounted, rode away waving. |
(3, 0) 999 |
We were just starting to get to know each other. |
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(Llywelyn) Every husband and wife |
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(Llywelyn) You're a brave one too. |
(3, 0) 1004 |
Me, Sir? |
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(Llywelyn) You got on with living your life. |
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(Llywelyn) You got on with living your life. |
(3, 0) 1006 |
Did I have a choice? |
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(Llywelyn) There isn't one brave and thinking soul |
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(Llywelyn) To us all, life is a gruelling gift. |
(3, 0) 1011 |
Even for a prince? |
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(Llywelyn) A prince is a man isn't he? |
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(Llywelyn) A prince is a man isn't he? |
(3, 0) 1013 |
Are you going to say that to the Princess, Sir? |
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(Llywelyn) Doesn't she already know? |
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(Llywelyn) Doesn't she already know? |
(3, 0) 1015 |
It would help her to hear you say it. |
(3, 0) 1016 |
Making war, laying plans and all the state's affairs |
(3, 0) 1017 |
Lie like some wide walled-off field |
(3, 0) 1018 |
Around a prince. His greatness sets him apart; |
(3, 0) 1019 |
But to us women – yes, even a woman who's queen – |
(3, 0) 1020 |
The mother's instinct is the root of our love. |
(3, 0) 1021 |
And our first born is the man who married us |
(3, 0) 1022 |
When we're girl brides. When the child in that man is lost |
(3, 0) 1023 |
The woman too loses part of her love. |
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(Llywelyn) Showing a weak side is to show one's humanity – |
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(Llywelyn) Is that it? |
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Gwilym Brewys was a child, Sir. A young child. |
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(Llywelyn) And it's little children who enter the kingdom of love? |
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(Llywelyn) I'll mull over your lessons Alis. |
(3, 0) 1029 |
My Lord, I'm only a maid. You asked me to speak. |
(3, 0) 1030 |
I learnt what I know in these royal halls of Gwynedd. |
(3, 0) 1031 |
I treasure this place, and its lord and lady. |
(3, 0) 1032 |
This lost twelvemonth, this empty husk of a year, |
(3, 0) 1033 |
Has hurt us all. |
(3, 0) 1034 |
The Pope's excommunication would be |
(3, 0) 1035 |
Child's play compared to the inner grief |
(3, 0) 1036 |
All of us have already felt. |
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(Llywelyn) The Pope's excommunication will yet come, |
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(Llywelyn) If that's of any consequence now … |
(3, 0) 1039 |
So the stories are true? |
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(Llywelyn) What rumours have you heard around the court? |
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(Llywelyn) What rumours have you heard around the court? |
(3, 0) 1041 |
That you're going to war |
(3, 0) 1042 |
Against the King of England. |
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(Llywelyn) That issue is to be settled today, |
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(Llywelyn) The fate of Wales lies in her hands. |
(3, 0) 1048 |
Sir – here she is. |
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(Llywelyn) Stay nearby, in the maidservants' room. I may |
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(Llywelyn) Are you there Alis? |
(3, 0) 1533 |
My lord? |
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(Llywelyn) Where's the royal crown of Princess of Gwynedd? |
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(Llywelyn) Where's the royal crown of Princess of Gwynedd? |
(3, 0) 1536 |
Here in ma dame's chest. |
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(Llywelyn) Bring it to me. |
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(Llywelyn) This maid complains about you Siwan. |
(3, 0) 1539 |
Ma dame, I do not. I never complain. |
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(Llywelyn) You haven't struck her for a year, she says. |
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(Llywelyn) She seems to miss the sting of your palm. |
(3, 0) 1542 |
Sir, my Lord, for shame on you. |