:18:01
# So off goes that cuirass
:18:04
# Behold!
:18:06
My voice.
My voice - I've strained my voice.
:18:10
I've been trying too hard.
:18:13
The smaller the house,
the greater the effort.
:18:15
I'm very cross with myself.
I should know better.
:18:18
One's knocking one's pipes out
in a vain attempt to elicit a response...
:18:22
...from three colonial bishops, two elderly
ladies and an intoxicated costermonger!
:18:27
They're roasting in their own lard,
like the Christmas goose.
:18:30
And the costermonger left at the interval.
:18:32
- Did he?
- Mm.
:18:34
Ha! A man of infinite taste. Clearly!
:18:37
Will you take a wee gargle
of my salt water?
:18:39
No, thank you.
It would put me in mind of my boyhood.
:18:42
Mm. Do forgive me.
:18:44
Not at all.
:18:48
I fear that dear Mr Gilbert
has run out of ideas.
:18:51
- No.
- He doesn't know what to do with me!
:18:54
Ponder this.
:18:55
He thrusts me into
tight-fitting pots and pails...
:18:58
...and poaches me
like a fucking haddock!
:19:00
Forgive my Anglo-Saxon, Mr Butt.
Have a biscuit.
:19:02
Thank you, sir.
I'll take one 'ome with me for me supper.
:19:06
Dickie, it's just this heat.
:19:08
It addles the noodles.
It happened to me in Milan frequently.
:19:11
Ah, Milano. Bellissimo.
:19:14
The heat less hellish.
:19:19
I am humiliated.
:19:22
One might as well be in the chorus.
:19:24
Away wi' you, you wee monkey!
:19:27
Alas, no!
:19:29
The reign of the Emperor Gilbert
is all but at an end.
:19:33
I consider this to be his best piece so far.
:19:36
With all due respect, Durward,
your romantic opinion may be informed...
:19:40
...by the fact that you take a rather good
role, in which you are "trés splendide".
:19:44
- Mm, grazie.
- Prego.
:19:47
But I consider "Princess Ida"
to be their worst.
:19:50
- Do you?
- I do.
:19:51
Where is the panache of "Pirates"?
:19:54
The wit of the "Pinafore"?
:19:56
From such a face and form as mine...