:53:01
Who can flourish
:53:02
on such a daily diet
of compliance?
:53:10
To be curbed... stood up to...
:53:15
in a word, thwarted
:53:16
exercises the character,
:53:19
elasticates the spirit,
makes it more pliant.
:53:24
It's the want of such exercise
that makes rulers rigid.
:53:28
Sharp, sharp!
The king, the king!
:53:30
This is the king, sir.
:53:31
Whom I must cure.
:53:33
...As straight as a ruler,
:53:35
straight as a ruler
done by a ruler.
:53:38
And another beside that
:53:39
until you have
as pretty a ploughed field
:53:42
this side of Cirencester.
:53:43
I have a farm.
:53:54
Put us out of our kingdom.
We'd not want for employment.
:53:57
Give me the management
of 50 acres, and I could do it.
:54:01
I said...
:54:02
I have a farm, Your Majesty.
:54:06
Ahem.
:54:08
This gentleman, sir,
:54:09
has made the illness
under which Your Majesty labours
:54:12
his special study, sir.
:54:18
A mad doctor, is it?
:54:20
I'm not mad, just nervous.
:54:24
I shall endeavour to...
:54:27
alleviate some
of the inconveniences
:54:29
from which Your Majesty suffers.
:54:32
Inconveniences?
:54:35
Insults.
:54:37
Assaults.
:54:40
And salt besides rubbed
into these wounds. Look!
:54:44
By your dress, sir,
and general demeanour,
:54:46
I'd say you were
a minister of God.
:54:49
That's true. I was once
in the service of the church.
:54:53
Now I practice medicine.
:54:56
You've quitted a profession
I've always loved
:54:58
and embraced one
I most heartily detest.