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Lux Radio Theatre - "The Vagabond King" (Old Time Radio, 1944) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: In 15th century Paris, poet and vagabond François Villon encounters
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Speaker 1: King Louis VIII, traveling in disguise, at a tavern. From
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Speaker 1: that meeting, the tavern, the royal court, and a threatened
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Speaker 1: France converge in The Vagabond King, a musical romance adaptation
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Speaker 1: of the 1925 operetta. On Christmas Day, 1944, CBS presented
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Speaker 1: Lux Radio Theater's episode number 463 with Dennis Morgan, Catherine Grayson,
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Speaker 1: and J. Carol Nash. The operetta was based on Justin
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Speaker 1: Huntley McCarthy's If I Were King, with book and lyrics
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Speaker 1: by Brian Hooker and W.H. Post, and music by Rudolph Frimmel. Now,
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Speaker 1: back to the golden age of radio.
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Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood.
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Speaker 3: The Lux Radio Theater brings you The Vagabond King, starring
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Speaker 3: Dennis Morgan, Catherine Grayson, and J.
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Speaker 2: Carol Madge. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille.
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Speaker 4: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. And today I want
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Speaker 4: to add Christmas greetings to each and to all of
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Speaker 4: you with the sincere wish that you'll be listening to
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Speaker 4: the Lux Radio Theater for many Christmases to come. Some
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Speaker 4: 480 Christmases ago, a young gentleman left us probably the
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Speaker 4: world's most unusual list of gifts. He was on his
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Speaker 4: way out of town a few steps ahead of the gendarmes.
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Speaker 4: And as a departing gesture, he bequeathed to the girl
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Speaker 4: he loved a broken heart. He willed that all caged
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Speaker 4: things should have their freedom, that children should have care
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Speaker 4: and warmth, and in a sense that we of the
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Speaker 4: Lux Radio Theater should enjoy tonight's play. For the gentleman
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Speaker 4: was Francois Vior, about to set out from Paris, and
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Speaker 4: as I said, a few steps ahead of the police,
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Speaker 4: on a life as colorful and adventurous as any piece
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Speaker 4: of fiction you could find.
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Speaker 2: He didn't stay away.
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Speaker 4: From Paris long, In fact, he's back there on our
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Speaker 4: stage tonight as Dennis Morgan... in Rudolf Bremmel's tearing operetta,
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Speaker 4: The Vagabond King. Postard with Mr. Morgan is the lovely
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Speaker 4: Catherine Grayson... who will be seen next in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Speaker 4: technical and musical Anchors Away... which was produced by Joe
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Speaker 4: Pasternak and directed by George Sidney. Also in tonight's cast
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Speaker 4: is the talented J. Carol Nash. All of us who've
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Speaker 4: longed to be king for a day... We'll discover tonight
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Speaker 4: what happens to a man who has that dream come
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Speaker 4: true and who at the end of those 24 hours
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Speaker 4: faces either a lifetime with a woman he loves or
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Speaker 4: death upon the gallows. You will see for yourself which
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Speaker 4: perform it. Not only on Christmas Day, but every Monday night,
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Speaker 4: I like to feel that our stage is bringing together
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Speaker 4: a great circle of fellow Americans, young and old, in
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Speaker 4: big cities and country villages, in farms and lonely mountain cabins,
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Speaker 4: and the lighthouse keeper and his family on rugged coasts
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Speaker 4: and rocks at sea, all bound by a common interest
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Speaker 4: in this theater and a common appreciation of the products
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Speaker 4: which make possible these weekly plays. From far off Alaska,
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Speaker 4: a member of this audience writes, I work up here
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Speaker 4: in the frozen north, and to preserve my dainty clothes,
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Speaker 4: I lux them regularly. All our stores, even those down
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Speaker 4: the river, boast of carrying a supply of lux The
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Speaker 4: only rival snowflakes have up here is Lux Flakes.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's a nice Christmas message. I'll switch to ring
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Speaker 2: up our curtain.
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Speaker 4: So here's the first act of The Vagabond King, starring
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Speaker 4: Dennis Morgan as Francois Villon, Catherine Grayson as Lady Catherine,
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Speaker 4: and J.
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Speaker 2: Carol Nash as King Louis.
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Speaker 4: France in the 15th century and Louis XI squirms on
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Speaker 4: a tottering throne. At the city's edge, poised for the
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Speaker 4: siege of Paris, are the invading armies of the Duke
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Speaker 4: of Burgundy. But within the walls, half-loyal citizens grumble and plot.
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Speaker 4: Cutthroats swarm the streets and thieves crowd the taverns. Only
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Speaker 4: a miracle can save France. And while he awaits the miracle,
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Speaker 4: King Loy grows curious about a certain lady in his court.
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Speaker 5: But, sire, how can you think of Catherine when Paris
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Speaker 5: is ready to perish?
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Speaker 2: I am unable to.
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Speaker 6: Save my city, Tristan, but maybe, maybe I can yet
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Speaker 6: win the lady. Isn't one victory better than two defeats? Now,
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Speaker 6: tell me, what is this ridiculous story about Catherine?
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Speaker 5: My men have watched as you ordered. The story is true.
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Speaker 2: Catherine de Vaucelles?
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Speaker 6: Resting with a jailbird at a thieves' tavern?
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Speaker 5: The fur cone tavern, sire, tonight.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I don't believe it. I don't believe it.
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Speaker 5: You told me she does not.
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Speaker 2: Even know the name. True, sire.
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Speaker 8: A curious chain of events, starting this morning when the
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Speaker 8: rogue was flung out of jail.
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Speaker 6: His name.
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Speaker 7: Who is he?
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Speaker 6: How do you know he isn't my Grand Marshal in disguise?
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Speaker 6: Courbet would do anything to win Catherine.
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Speaker 2: Courbet?
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Speaker 5: Surely my men would have recognized the Grand Marshal.
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Speaker 2: No, all we know of the man is that he's
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Speaker 2: a most unusual thief.
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Speaker 5: Who writes a poem as skillfully as he picks a pocket.
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Speaker 2: Go on, go on.
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Speaker 8: As he left the jail with a companion, their destination
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Speaker 8: brought them past the palace wall. It was then that
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Speaker 8: they heard from a far distant corner of the gardens
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Speaker 8: a lady singing.
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Speaker 5: The lady, sire, was Catherine.
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Speaker 7: Oh, get to the point!
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Speaker 5: The rogue has a fatal impudence, sire. Hearing her voice,
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Speaker 5: he climbed the garden walls and perched at the top.
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Speaker 8: Remain there, calm as you please, listening to the sweetest
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Speaker 8: voice in your kingdom.
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Speaker 9: Someday you will seek me and find me Someday of
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Speaker 9: the day that shall.
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Speaker 10: Be Surely you will come and remind me.
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Speaker 11: Of a dream that is.
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Speaker 10: Calling For you and for me Someday when the winter
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Speaker 10: is over One day in the flesh of the sea,
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Speaker 10: my soul will be yours.
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Speaker 11: The man with the heart of a king.
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Speaker 6: François, in the name of heaven, get down from the wall.
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Speaker 2: I see an angel, Tabari.
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Speaker 6: They'll burn out your eyes if they catch you.
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Speaker 2: If they catch me. God shield her, Tabari. The loveliest
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Speaker 2: face in France.
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Speaker 5: And you hang from the loveliest gallows.
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Speaker 6: Francois, jump down from there.
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Speaker 2: The vision fades. She walks away. She enters a house. House?
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Speaker 6: You fool, it's the palace.
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Speaker 2: Go along, Tobari. I'm waiting here until I see her again.
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Speaker 2: Sooner or later, she'll have to come out.
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Speaker 5: Francois, if it's a woman you want to look at,
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Speaker 5: think of Huguette. Who could be prettier than Huguette? She's
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Speaker 5: waiting for you now, all soft and luscious.
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Speaker 6: And besides, she owns a tavern.
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Speaker 2: Tell Huguette I'll be delayed. No, as a thief, Francois,
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Speaker 2: you're a wise and sane man, but when you turn poet,
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Speaker 2: you turn idiot.
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Speaker 6: Poet?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: And the lady who sang shall have a verse. You'd
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Speaker 2: make a poem? For her? Who has a better right?
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Speaker 2: I do not know her name. She's never seen me.
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Speaker 2: But I love her.
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Speaker 5: Oh, what woman in Paris don't you love?
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Speaker 2: Get out of here. Wait for me at Huguette's tavern.
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Speaker 2: A fur cone. A fur cone. I'll be needing a message.
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Speaker 6: And he sent her a verse?
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Speaker 4: That scum?
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Speaker 7: To Catherine de Vaucelles?
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Speaker 12: He did, sire.
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Speaker 5: And then the unbelievable occurred.
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Speaker 8: Reading it, Catherine asked the messenger how she might find
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Speaker 8: the man who wrote it.
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Speaker 2: The answer was at the Furcone Tavern.
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Speaker 5: And the time, tonight.
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Speaker 12: Tonight.
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Speaker 2: Tonight.
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Speaker 5: You take the news very calmly.
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Speaker 2: Oh, do I?
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Speaker 6: Maybe it's because I, too, look forward to a diverting evening.
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Speaker 2: Sir. Yes, Tristan.
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Speaker 7: Catherine will not be the only stranger.
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Speaker 6: There will be two more visitors at the Falcone Tavern tonight.
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Speaker 2: You and I. Well, what news you get? Did you
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Speaker 2: find Tabari?
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Speaker 12: I wish you'd rot it in jail.
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Speaker 2: Answer me.
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Speaker 12: No one has seen Tabari for hours.
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Speaker 2: Tabari's an idiot. I should never have let him take it.
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Speaker 12: Take what?
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Speaker 2: Never mind.
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Speaker 12: Francois, you've been out of jail all day.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 12: Day I've waited here for you.
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Speaker 2: I walked about the city.
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Speaker 12: Not according to Tabari. Your good friend spoke of poetry, Francois.
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Speaker 12: Verses for a lady in the king's palace.
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Speaker 2: Someday Tabari will want to smack his lips and find
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Speaker 2: he has no tongue.
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Speaker 10: What are you afraid of?
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Speaker 12: Afraid to say you're tired of me? But your weariness
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Speaker 12: takes a strange turn.
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Speaker 6: You and the.
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Speaker 12: Lady of the palace.
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Speaker 2: Shut up.
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Speaker 12: Did she hold her dainty nose when she kissed you, Francois?
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Speaker 12: Or can she love a thief with the smell of
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Speaker 12: jail about him and rags on his back?
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Speaker 2: I'll give you a better cause than that to mock me,
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Speaker 2: little one. This lady hasn't even seen me. Now drown
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Speaker 2: your jealousies in your wine.
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Speaker 12: Make love to the whole court for all I care.
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Speaker 2: That's more like you. You know, I... Wait. Those two
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Speaker 2: men in the corner near the door, who are they?
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Speaker 12: They pay for their wine in gold.
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Speaker 13: That's all I know.
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Speaker 2: In gold? Well, perhaps before they leave tonight, the gentleman
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Speaker 2: and I will know each other better.
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Speaker 5: An evil-looking place, sire.
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Speaker 2: A moldy cellar. Well, what did you expect?
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Speaker 7: A bird's nest?
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Speaker 5: And still no sign of Catherine, Your Majesty.
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Speaker 6: Oh, don't say Majesty here, you fool.
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Speaker 2: Plain Louie.
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Speaker 6: Now, what caused you to look so sour? Burgundy is
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Speaker 6: at my gates. My throne sways like a drunkard. Catherine
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Speaker 6: spurned me. But do I pull a long face?
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Speaker 2: You do worse.
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Speaker 5: Sniffing about taverns after a girl.
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Speaker 7: Before I die, Tristan.
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Speaker 6: there are two sights I want to see. One is
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Speaker 6: Burgundy's head on a pikestaff... and the other.
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Speaker 7: Is haughty Catherine de Vaucelles.
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Speaker 6: twisting with a beggar poet in this pigsty.
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Speaker 7: But of course, if you prefer to talk.
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Speaker 2: Politics, Tristan.
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Speaker 6: Last night, I dreamed a dream.
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Speaker 5: Politics dwell far from Greenland.
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Speaker 6: I dreamed that I was a swine, rooting in the
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Speaker 6: streets of Paris and that I found a pearl of
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Speaker 6: great price in the gutter. I took it and set
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Speaker 6: it in my crown where it shone so bright it
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Speaker 6: filled all Paris with its brilliance. And then a great
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Speaker 6: star fell from heaven.
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Speaker 5: Dreams and stars and women while Paris goes to the dogs.
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Speaker 2: Excuse me. But we're being watched. Well, what happened?
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Speaker 7: No one will recognize me in these clothes.
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Speaker 5: That young fellow with the tavern mistress.
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Speaker 2: Who is he? You know him?
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Speaker 13: Aye.
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Speaker 5: Every criminal, every wanted and beggar in Paris calls him king.
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Speaker 2: King?
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Speaker 5: Thief, scholar, swordsman, king of the vagabonds.
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Speaker 6: Well, then bring him here.
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Speaker 7: I'd have a word with my brother Lula.
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Speaker 14: Aye.
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Speaker 2: Call him. Villon.
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Speaker 13: Monsieur Villon.
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Speaker 2: Friends don't shout at me, monsieur. And strangers don't dare.
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Speaker 2: We are strangers with gold.
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Speaker 5: Here, perhaps we can buy your company.
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Speaker 2: My company?
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 2: You could have my soul for less. Hey, all of you. Everyone,
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Speaker 2: come here. Oh, everyone. Good heavens, must they. I must
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Speaker 2: feed my people, as King Louis has forgotten to do
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Speaker 2: these many years. We'll drink, monsieur. Drink to the death
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Speaker 2: of a stranger. Death?
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Speaker 7: A stranger?
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Speaker 2: You grow pale. I mean the stranger at the walls
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Speaker 2: of Paris. Burgundy. Death to Burgundy.
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Speaker 6: Oh, so a patriot.
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Speaker 2: Rather a poet. Death to Burgundy makes good rhyming.
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Speaker 6: And to what use, sir, do you put your rhyme?
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Speaker 12: Use?
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Speaker 2: Only a song, monsieur.
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Speaker 15: Come all ye beggars of Paris, come ye lousy rabble
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Speaker 15: of low degree.
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Speaker 13: Ye rabble of low degree.
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Speaker 15: We're sparking a way to keep this town and save
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Speaker 15: our city from Burgundy.
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Speaker 13: Our city from Burgundy.
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Speaker 15: You and I. are good for nothing but to die.
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Speaker 15: We can die for liberty.
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Speaker 2: Sons of toil and danger.
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Speaker 15: Will you serve a stranger and bow.
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Speaker 2: Down to Burgundy.
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Speaker 15: Sons of shame and sorrow will you cheer tomorrow for
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Speaker 15: the crown of Burgundy. Onward, onward, towards against the foe. Forward, forward,
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Speaker 15: the lily-battered foe.
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Speaker 2: That's the plan to round and break the chain that
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Speaker 2: bound us and to hell with Burgundy.
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Speaker 13: That's the plan to round and break the chain that
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Speaker 13: bound us Forward, forward, the lily-battered shore Sons of ferns
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Speaker 13: around us break the chain That bound us and tore
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Speaker 13: our heads with.
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Speaker 2: A gong.
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Speaker 6: Oh, she's a piggy bargain. He can't hear your rhyme.
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Speaker 12: He has other subjects, too.
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Speaker 6: For his verses, monsieur.
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Speaker 12: Just today, a lady at the court.
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Speaker 16: Tell him, Francois, this glorious vision, this delicate treasure.
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Speaker 2: Yes, the very flower of Louis' court.
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Speaker 5: Catherine de Vaucelles.
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Speaker 2: Well, indeed.
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Speaker 7: You're flitting high, my lyrical jailbird.
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Speaker 12: All Paris knows that the old goat himself.
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Speaker 6: Has grown older chasing her.
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Speaker 12: What's that old goat?
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Speaker 2: The oldest and scurviest in France. Louis XI. Louis is
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Speaker 2: a ludicrous. Perhaps you drink too much, monsieur. What can
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Speaker 2: an honest thief do but drink? With the enemy at
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Speaker 2: our door and a helpless ninny on the throne... No.
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Speaker 6: Doubt you could do better in Louis' place. Francois has
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Speaker 6: a rhyme for that, too.
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Speaker 7: May we not hear it?
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Speaker 2: Why not? But it will cost you a drink for
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Speaker 2: us all. Very well, very well. Begin. The figure on
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Speaker 2: the throne, you see, is nothing but a puppet. Planned
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Speaker 2: to wear the royal bravery of silk and coat and
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Speaker 2: gilded wands. Not so we Frenchmen understand. We'd bid the
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Speaker 2: damned Frecunzian dance. And such a one would take command
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Speaker 2: if beyond were King of France. If beyond were... Francois, look,
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Speaker 2: it's the body. Where have you been, you sniveling gossip?
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Speaker 2: Occupied on your business, Francois. I've news, but only for you.
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Speaker 2: Come with me. What is it?
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Speaker 6: Your verse, Francois.
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Speaker 2: I did as you ordered.
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Speaker 5: I brought it to the lady.
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Speaker 2: And where have you been since? I couldn't leave. She
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Speaker 2: told me to wait.
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Speaker 12: Why?
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Speaker 15: Why?
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Speaker 2: Why should she want you to wait?
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Speaker 6: Francois, she wants to meet you.
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Speaker 2: What you're saying? It's the truth.
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Speaker 5: She's here, Francois.
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Speaker 2: Now, Catherine de Vaucelles.
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Speaker 7: I brought her by the other door.
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Speaker 6: Just go up these stairs.
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Speaker 2: She's waiting for you now in that room up there.
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Speaker 2: If this is a joke to body, I'll kill you. Hurry,
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Speaker 2: before you get seen.
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Speaker 12: Hurry.
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Speaker 2: I was told you wished to see me, my lady.
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Speaker 12: You? You are Francois Villon?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 12: So gloomy a room, monsieur.
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Speaker 2: I'm not one you would want to see, but if
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Speaker 2: you would like a light, I.
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Speaker 12: We'll be back in a moment. Monsieur, you wrote a
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Speaker 12: verse for me.
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Speaker 2: Forgive me, my lady, I.
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Speaker 12: If you are the poet, you'll remember the line.
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Speaker 2: Yes. If I were king, ah, love, if I were king,
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Speaker 2: what tributary nations would I bring to kneel before your
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Speaker 2: scepter and to swear allegiance to your lips, your eyes,
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Speaker 2: your hair? Beneath your feet, what treasures would I fling
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Speaker 2: If I were king.
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Speaker 12: Monsieur, what sort of man are you?
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Speaker 2: One who steals without shame, who runs his sword through
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Speaker 2: his enemy and sleeps on an easy conscience. These are
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Speaker 2: my brief virtues. My vices better stay unnamed.
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Speaker 12: You risk much in writing me, monsieur.
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Speaker 2: My lady, this room is dark as a dream. And
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Speaker 2: like in a dream, I can speak words I never
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Speaker 2: thought you'd hear from me. I worship you. Now, what
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Speaker 2: would you have me do?
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Speaker 12: You say you love me. I love France. Listen, I
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Speaker 12: learned today that the Grand Marshal is betraying France to
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Speaker 12: the Duke of Burgundy. You could stop him. I? You
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Speaker 12: spoke of words and swords, but perhaps you didn't mean
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Speaker 12: to be taken at your word.
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Speaker 2: I didn't hope to be.
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Speaker 12: The Grand Marshal will be here any moment. He is
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Speaker 12: coming to meet some man in that crowd down there.
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Speaker 2: And how shall I know the Grand Marshal?
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Speaker 12: I've been watching from the window. He turned the corner
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Speaker 12: a moment ago. Listen. He's at the door now. Come
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Speaker 12: and you will see him enter.
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Speaker 7: Open up.
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Speaker 13: Open up here.
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Speaker 2: Coming, monsieur.
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Speaker 12: That is the traitor.
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Speaker 1: There's a man here named Rene Cassell.
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Speaker 6: There he is.
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Speaker 2: Send him in here, alone.
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Speaker 6: Yes, monsieur.
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Speaker 2: The Grand Marshal. And I would kill him at your word, milady?
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Speaker 12: There's time for nothing else. If he leaves here tonight,
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Speaker 12: there may not be a France tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: I'll go below and listen. Wait here, my lady.
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Speaker 12: But he will see you.
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Speaker 2: Only when I want him to see me. My lady.
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Speaker 7: Yes?
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Speaker 2: That rose you're wearing. Maybe it will bring me luck.
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Speaker 10: Here.
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Speaker 12: Take it, Monsieur.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, my lady. Thank you.
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Speaker 7: And in exchange for Paris, René, what does Burgundy concede
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Speaker 7: to me?
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Speaker 5: Your demands are met, Excellency.
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Speaker 2: Open the gates of Paris, and in return, Burgundy gives
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Speaker 2: you a dukedom and the maid Catherine de Vaucelles. For
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Speaker 2: three years, Louis denied me the girl.
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Speaker 17: Now she costs him his throne.
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Speaker 2: Stop the chattering and bring me some wine. Who is he?
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Speaker 2: Who is that drunken fool there?
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Speaker 12: Only a man named Bjorn, Excellency.
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Speaker 2: What have you overheard? My ears are large, monsieur. I
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Speaker 2: didn't miss a single word. Throw him a coin, René,
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Speaker 2: and shut him up. Bribery? Why not? But you can
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Speaker 2: win me only with wine. Come inside and open a bottle.
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Speaker 15: Get out of here, you drunken scum!
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Speaker 6: Scum, monsieur?
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Speaker 15: Take your hand off me!
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Speaker 2: After you apologize... Let go! You think I... slap gets
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Speaker 2: rid of me? Can you use that sword you wear, monsieur? Excellency.
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Speaker 2: Beyond the best swordsman in Paris.
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Speaker 5: Stand back and.
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Speaker 15: Close the door.
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Speaker 2: No, Excellency. He'll kill you.
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Speaker 15: Stop him.
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Speaker 14: Stop him.
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Speaker 7: Abraal, sire, we best get out of here. Well, Abraal indeed.
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Speaker 17: Tristan, look.
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Speaker 7: Look who's fighting.
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Speaker 12: Leon.
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Speaker 6: And my Grand Marshal.
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Speaker 2: Sire, it must stop at once.
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Speaker 7: I think Leon's of the same mind.
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Speaker 13: Look.
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Speaker 7: The knave has run him through.
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Speaker 10: Francois, run, Francois, run.
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Speaker 13: The king's archers.
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Speaker 10: The king's archers, they're here.
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Speaker 13: Stay where you are.
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Speaker 5: The king's knave.
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Speaker 2: Excellency, you're wounded.
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Speaker 6: It's nothing.
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Speaker 2: I'm all right.
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Speaker 6: But that devil there.
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Speaker 2: Vion. Francois Vion, monsieur.
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Speaker 14: Take him out and hang him. Hang back.
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Speaker 6: Wait, wait, wait, wait.
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Speaker 2: Now, wait a moment.
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Speaker 5: Who dares delay the king's justice?
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Speaker 7: I am the king's justice.
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Speaker 6: I am the king. Your Majesty.
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Speaker 7: Tristan, bear my Grand Marshal to the surgeon. Now, you here?
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Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: And as for you, Vion, take Master Vion to the
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Speaker 6: palace dungeon.
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Speaker 12: Sire, he only tried to serve your throne.
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Speaker 6: Well, milady, I've wondered when you'd appear.
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Speaker 12: The Grand Marshal is the traitor.
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Speaker 7: Is he? And what, milady Catherine, are you?
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Speaker 6: Who gave you leave to quit the palace for this
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Speaker 6: rat hole?
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Speaker 12: Please, let Vion go, sire.
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Speaker 2: You spoke of France, milady. But was it France you
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Speaker 2: wanted to save from Burgundy? Or was it yourself from
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Speaker 2: the Grand Marshal?
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Speaker 12: Believe me, I didn't know that he plotted for me, too.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
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Speaker 6: And what would Vion do now, monsieur, if Vion were
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Speaker 6: the King of France?
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Speaker 2: He would fight Burgundy. Then, doubtlessly, he would hang Vion.
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Speaker 2: But Vion Ted is still a better man than Louis.
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Speaker 13: Louis do nothing.
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Speaker 2: Louis dare nothing. God's where our battle flag would stand
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Speaker 2: if beyond were King of France.
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Speaker 13: Sons of toil and danger, will you serve a stranger
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Speaker 13: and bow down to Burgundy? Sons of shame and sorrow,
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Speaker 13: will you cheer tomorrow for a crown of Burgundy? Forward!
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Speaker 14: Forward!
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Speaker 13: Towards against the foe!
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Speaker 14: Forward! Forward!
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Speaker 13: The lily banners go! Sons of France are on the strike!
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Speaker 13: The chain that bound us! And to hell with the go!
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Speaker 7: Our stars will return.
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Speaker 17: In Act Two of The Vagabond King in just a moment. Now,
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Speaker 17: here's what happened at the Jones house this morning. Everybody
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Speaker 17: was knee-deep in tissue paper and ribbons when Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Jones said.
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Speaker 16: Oh, what a lovely slip. Just what I wanted.
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Speaker 12: Thank you, Janie, darling.
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Speaker 11: You're welcome, Mom.
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Speaker 12: I hoped you'd like it.
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Speaker 16: Now, you go ahead and open your present. The one
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Speaker 16: over there on the right. I think you'll be surprised.
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Speaker 7: Oh, a slip.
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Speaker 12: Why, Mom, it's just like the one I got you.
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Speaker 16: I guess that proves we both have good taste.
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Speaker 12: I can see we better sew name tags on these
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Speaker 12: so we can tell which is which.
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Speaker 17: And now let's look into a crystal ball and see
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Speaker 17: what's going to happen to those slips in 1945.
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Speaker 12: Oh, Janie. Yes, Mom?
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Speaker 16: Jane, could I borrow one of your slips, dear? I'm
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Speaker 16: going downtown to buy a dress today, and I just
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Speaker 16: can't be seen in this rag.
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Speaker 3: Of course.
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Speaker 12: Look in that bottom drawer.
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Speaker 13: Oh.
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Speaker 16: Oh, here's the one I gave you for Christmas. Why, dear,
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Speaker 16: you haven't worn it.
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Speaker 12: Sure I have. Lots of times.
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Speaker 16: Well, it doesn't look it. The one you gave me
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Speaker 16: is dreadfully faded and the seams are pulling.
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Speaker 12: Sorry, Mom, but I'll bet that's your way of washing. Me,
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Speaker 12: I always stick to Luxe flakes.
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Speaker 16: Well, I'll admit Luxe does make a difference.
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Speaker 12: A lot of difference. Sometimes daughters know best, Mom. When
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Speaker 12: they know Luxe. Eh, Janie?
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Speaker 17: It is surprising what a difference Luxe care makes in
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Speaker 17: the way under things look and wear. If you could
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Speaker 17: see the dozens of slips and nightgowns that were washed
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Speaker 17: by a famous laboratory, you'd never trust under things to
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Speaker 17: wash day methods again. Hot water, strong soap, rough handling
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Speaker 17: soon left under things faded and drab. Straps frayed, too,
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Speaker 17: and seams pulled out. On the other hand, exactly the
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Speaker 17: same kinds of slips given LuxCare stayed lovely and fresh. Yes,
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Speaker 17: through three times as many washings. LuxCare is certainly thrifty care.
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Speaker 2: Now, Mr.
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Speaker 17: DeMille returns to the microphone.
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Speaker 4: Act II of The Vagabond King, starring Dennis Morgan as
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Speaker 4: Francois Villon, Catherine Grayson as Lady Catherine, and J. Carol
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Speaker 4: Nash as Louis XI. It's later the same night. Francois
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Speaker 4: Villon sleeps in a prison cell. But rest doesn't come
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Speaker 4: so easily to the man who put him there. Plagued,
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Speaker 4: plagued with fears and uncertainties, King Louie has sent for
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Speaker 4: the court astrologer. High in the palace tower, they scan
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Speaker 4: the starlit sky with anxious eyes.
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Speaker 18: And in this dream you speak of, sire, you say
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Speaker 18: you found a pearl of great price?
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Speaker 7: Yes, in the gutter. How do the stars interpret it?
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Speaker 18: The position of the moon and Jupiter revealed this was
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Speaker 18: a dream of great significance. They were in that exact
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Speaker 18: same position when Joan of Arc saved your own father.
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Speaker 7: Oh, the maid of Orleans is dead.
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Speaker 6: Who is to help me?
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Speaker 18: Clearly, the pearl in the gutter indicates one of your
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Speaker 18: own subjects, someone from the depths, who may arise and.
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Speaker 7: Save your kingdom.
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Speaker 5: Ah.
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Speaker 6: And the star that fell from heaven.
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Speaker 7: What is the meaning of the star?
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Speaker 2: I cannot answer, sire.
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Speaker 18: Perhaps it means that if this same creature from the
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Speaker 18: depths were exalted to the heights, he would be destined
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Speaker 18: to fall quickly like the star of his own weight.
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Speaker 6: But you're not certain it means this?
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Speaker 7: It's very mysterious.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm not certain. Tristan. Sire.
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Speaker 7: A bag of gold for the astrologer.
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Speaker 2: Good night, sire.
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Speaker 6: Good night, good night, good night. Exalted from the depths.
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Speaker 7: From the depths.
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Speaker 2: Come here, Tristan.
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Speaker 6: You heard what the stars have told us. A person
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Speaker 6: from the depths may yet save France. Tristan, I have
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Speaker 6: just appointed a new Grand Marshal. Francois Villon.
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Speaker 3: Villon.
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Speaker 7: Ah, don't stand there gaping.
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Speaker 6: Go now and see to the flagon of drug wine
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Speaker 6: that's placed in his cell. Let him awake tomorrow morning
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Speaker 6: in the palace, washed and beardless, sumptuously dressed. So changed
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Speaker 6: his very mother would not recognize him. You and I
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Speaker 6: alone will know of this.
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Speaker 12: But.
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Speaker 6: No buts, buts. Joan of Arc saved my father's throne.
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Speaker 6: May not Villon save mine?
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Speaker 5: You'd spare his life? Villon's to live?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 7: For four and twenty hours. Then he sang.
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Speaker 2: You put me in prison, sire. Why can't I remain there?
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Speaker 2: Look what you've done to me. I stare at myself
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Speaker 2: in the mirror and say, Leon, my friend, where are you?
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Speaker 6: By the saints, you smell like a violet.
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Speaker 2: And these clothes, all silk and velvet.
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Speaker 7: As befit the man you now are.
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Speaker 2: What man?
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Speaker 6: The Count de Montcobier, my.
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Speaker 12: New Grand Marshal.
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Speaker 2: Oh, we're both drunk.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I don't joke.
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Speaker 6: Did you joke when you boasted you'd be a better
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Speaker 6: king than I?
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Speaker 2: It was no boast.
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Speaker 6: Well, then, king you shall be, as well as Grand Marshal.
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Speaker 6: King for 24 hours.
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Speaker 2: And after that?
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Speaker 7: Oh, you'll be yourself again. Thief and cutthroat.
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Speaker 6: And your last act as king.
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Speaker 7: Will be to hang the rogue you really are.
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Speaker 5: 24 hours.
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Speaker 6: Well, isn't that enough?
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Speaker 7: Are you so keen to live?
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Speaker 2: I never was until yesterday. Living suddenly becomes a sweet habit.
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Speaker 6: I thought so.
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Speaker 2: Tristan. I was wrong.
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Speaker 6: Take this braggart, strip him of his silks, and whip
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Speaker 6: him back into the gutter again.
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Speaker 2: Then I'm free? Free to run.
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Speaker 6: Howling with your tail between your legs.
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Speaker 5: Your Majesty.
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 5: Lady Catherine is here. She begs an audience with a
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Speaker 5: grand marshal.
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Speaker 2: Lady Catherine?
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Speaker 7: Oh, she'd speak to a man.
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Speaker 6: Not to a cur who calls himself a king.
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Speaker 15: Wait.
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Speaker 2: You say I can rule for a day?
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Speaker 6: Precisely.
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Speaker 2: On your word of honor?
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Speaker 6: Oh, my word is my honor.
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Speaker 2: Agreed, then.
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Speaker 6: In that case, Tristan, the Lady Catherine may have an audience.
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Speaker 6: May she not, Excellency?
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Speaker 2: Yes, and quickly. First, let her know, Tristan, our new
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Speaker 2: Grand Marshal is the Count de Montcobier.
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Speaker 12: I was told I might have an audience with the
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Speaker 12: Grand Marshal.
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Speaker 2: As long as you wish, my lady.
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Speaker 12: I am Catherine de Vaucelles.
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 12: As Grand Marshal, monsieur, you hold the lives of all prisoners.
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Speaker 2: I do? I mean, yes, milady.
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Speaker 12: In prison is a certain Francois Villon. I come to
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Speaker 12: ask that this man's life be spared.
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Speaker 2: What is his crime?
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Speaker 12: He tried to rid France of a traitor.
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Speaker 2: He's so fired with patriotism?
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Speaker 12: He did it because a woman asked it. He thought
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Speaker 12: he loved her.
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Speaker 2: He thought? Why do you plead for his life?
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Speaker 12: Because I am that woman.
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Speaker 2: You risked his race telling me this.
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Speaker 12: He risked his life.
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Speaker 2: You don't by some strange chance think that you love him? I? I?
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Speaker 12: He's of the street. A common thief. But still he
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Speaker 12: does not deserve to die.
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Speaker 2: Does anyone? Well, your wish is granted. Be on as free.
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Speaker 12: Free?
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Speaker 2: As free as I am.
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Speaker 12: Oh, I'm deeply grateful, Excellency.
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Speaker 13: Wait.
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Speaker 2: I'd like a favor also.
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Speaker 12: Yes?
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Speaker 2: My lady, I'm told you're inclined toward the making of ballads.
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Speaker 2: I've given you a man's life. The fee is a song.
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Speaker 12: A song, Excellency?
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Speaker 2: Do I ask too much?
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Speaker 12: No, only you puzzle me. I don't quite understand you.
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Speaker 2: Please sing, my lady. Who knows? Maybe your song will
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Speaker 2: unriddle me.
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Speaker 10: That you'll never.
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Speaker 19: See, now that you're my lovely two. My heart is alone.
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Speaker 19: Only alone you keep me.
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Speaker 10: Only a song I know. Only a smile to keep
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Speaker 10: in memory. Until we meet in another day. Only a
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Speaker 10: rose to respond. Nothing ever Only a rose you give me.
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Speaker 14: Only a rose you give me. Until we meet another
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Speaker 10: BF-WATCH TV 2021.
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Speaker 2: Why does Vion rest his life for you? How he
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Speaker 2: looked at you. As a muddy pool might look at
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Speaker 2: the moon in heaven.
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Speaker 12: Monsieur, I've seen you before, haven't I?
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Speaker 2: Yes. And I think your thief must have felt as
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Speaker 2: I feel now.
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Speaker 12: But how would you know that?
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Speaker 2: How do I know I live? Like him, I also
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Speaker 2: loved a lady. I lost her and with her my world.
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Speaker 2: But I have found her again. In you.
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Speaker 12: I care little to be flattered, monsieur, and less to
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Speaker 12: be wooed.
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Speaker 2: What does a man do to win you?
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Speaker 12: Oh, this is no season for such talk. I had
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Speaker 12: hoped a man had come to court. A man who
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Speaker 12: could free France of Burgundy.
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Speaker 2: And if that man should come?
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Speaker 12: My love is all for France, and him who saved her.
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Speaker 2: Excuse us, friend Louis, Lord Tristan. Oh, we grieve.
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Speaker 6: At shattering this tender interval, but we have a guest.
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Speaker 5: The Duke of Burgundy has sent a herald under truce.
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Speaker 12: I beg your leave, Excellency.
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Speaker 2: You time your interruptions, sire, with all the delicacy of
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Speaker 2: an elephant. Well, you would be king, Vion.
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Speaker 7: And this is the state's business.
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Speaker 2: Then get her over with. How much time do you
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Speaker 2: think I have?
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Speaker 7: Power tastes sweet. Francois, now that you meet her on
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Speaker 7: an equal footing.
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Speaker 2: Shall I thank you again, Majesty?
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Speaker 7: Oh, I've pleased only myself, Francois.
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 6: In these precious hours until tomorrow.
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Speaker 7: Should the fellow you.
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Speaker 6: Now pretend to be, the Count de Montcobier, should the
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Speaker 6: Count win the heart of Lady Catherine, Vion shall escape
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Speaker 6: the gallows, and the Count marry his lady love.
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Speaker 2: Do you know what you're saying, sire?
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Speaker 7: Oh, always, and never better than now.
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Speaker 2: If Lady Catherine offers me her love, I'm free. You'll
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Speaker 2: give your word on this bargain, too?
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Speaker 6: Oh, naturally. Now, go receive the herald.
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Speaker 7: I'll follow in time.
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Speaker 2: At once. Sweet Louis. Kind, generous. What? Say, Louis.
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Speaker 5: This officer, it's inconceivable. You'd give him his life?
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Speaker 6: Only if he should win Lady Catherine. I like my
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Speaker 6: little measure of revenge.
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Speaker 2: Mrs.
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Speaker 6: Catherine has spurred me too long. It will be sport
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Speaker 6: when the lady finds.
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Speaker 7: She's disdained my love to smile.
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Speaker 6: Upon a beggar.
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Speaker 7: I overheard their meeting, Tristan.
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Speaker 6: She spurs him on to great deeds against Burgundy. Oh,
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Speaker 6: he'll fight for her as he would never fight for us.
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Speaker 7: Come now, I'm anxious to hear Vion's answer to Burgundy.
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Speaker 5: The Herald of Burgundy, in the name of the Duke
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Speaker 5: of Burgundy, greetings to Louis of France.
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Speaker 7: Greetings, and be brief.
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Speaker 15: Will it be peace or war?
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Speaker 6: My Lord Grand Marshal will answer that. I, Your Majesty?
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Speaker 7: You, Grand Marshal.
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Speaker 5: Well, is it peace at our terms or war?
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Speaker 7: Wait.
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Speaker 2: There are more pressing matters.
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Speaker 7: Lord Tristan, the.
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Speaker 2: Court grows dull. We give a ball tonight.
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Speaker 5: At a time like this?
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Speaker 2: Dancing in the gardens. Plenty of wine.
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Speaker 5: King Louis, what is this folly?
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Speaker 7: Oh, do what he says. He speaks for France.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Now then, Harold.
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Speaker 5: The Duke of Burgundy summoned you to surrender.
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Speaker 2: If you refuse, it means disaster.
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Speaker 15: Manifold death and slavery.
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Speaker 2: Brave words, Harold. In God's name and the King, go
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Speaker 2: back to your master and say, we are well fed.
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Speaker 2: We are well armed. We lie snug and warm behind
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Speaker 2: our Paris walls. And we laugh at his threats. This
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Speaker 2: is our answer. This and the drawn sword. God and
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Speaker 2: Saint Denis for the King of France. We pause now
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Speaker 2: for station identification.
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Speaker 17: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. We'll return with
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Speaker 17: Act Three of The Vagabond King in just a moment. Now,
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Speaker 17: this morning when a certain young lady was unwrapping a
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Speaker 17: Christmas package, her sister sat watching her, wondering.
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Speaker 20: Oh, I hope she liked those stockings I gave her.
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Speaker 20: Mom said sis needed them, so I got three pairs.
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Speaker 12: Of rayon shears. Hope she likes them. They're the kind
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Speaker 12: I wear myself.
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Speaker 20: Mom did say, though, that if I gave sis stockings,
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Speaker 20: it would be like pouring water down the drain because
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Speaker 20: she gets runs all the time. Wish I could tell
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Speaker 20: her to take care of them without getting her mad.
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Speaker 20: I'd say, now remember, they're sheer and shouldn't be handled
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Speaker 20: like those black monstrosities.
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Speaker 12: We used to wear at school.
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Speaker 20: Luxing them after every wearing really keeps them going a long,
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Speaker 20: long time.
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Speaker 12: Just remember to use lux plates.
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Speaker 20: Don't rub them with whatever cake of soap you have
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Speaker 20: handy at the time, and don't use strong soap. Use
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Speaker 20: lukewarm water, and don't drape them on the radiator for
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Speaker 20: a quick drying job either.
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Speaker 2: That's bad.
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Speaker 20: And don't put them on before they're thoroughly dry. Take
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Speaker 20: at least 24 hours. Maybe Chris knows all this already,
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Speaker 20: but I doubt it, else Mom wouldn't have said she
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Speaker 20: was hard on stockings. If she'll use Luxor, it'll last
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Speaker 20: much longer. But, of course, all I said on the
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Speaker 20: card was love.
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Speaker 12: And a Merry Christmas.
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Speaker 17: Now, if that little sister does lux those nice stockings.
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Speaker 2: She'll get a real gift. Maybe the wear of six.
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Speaker 17: Pairs from three. Because luxing can make stockings last twice
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Speaker 17: as long. Strain tests proved it. Stockings washed with mild
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Speaker 17: lux flakes didn't go into runs nearly so soon as
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Speaker 17: those washed with a strong soap or rubbed with cake soap.
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Speaker 7: Remember, for extra wear, use lux care.
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Speaker 2: Now, Mr. DeMille returns to the microphone.
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Speaker 4: I don't often make public confessions, but... When we chat
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Speaker 4: with our stars after the play tonight, I'll reveal one
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Speaker 4: secret from my past. Now here's Act Three of The
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Speaker 4: Vagabond King, starring Dennis Morgan as Francois Villon, Catherine Grayson
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Speaker 4: as Lady Catherine, and J. Carol Nash as Louis XI.
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Speaker 10: Francois Villon's one day of glory is more than half spent.
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Speaker 4: All afternoon, he was strangely absent from the palace, returning
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Speaker 4: only an hour ago with his friend Tabari.
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Speaker 2: The ball, ordered, is at midnight.
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Speaker 3: What about the king's mercenaries, the archers, the army?
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Speaker 2: They'll be on our flanks. Paris will be defended by
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Speaker 2: the people of Paris. Our people.
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Speaker 5: We'll be ready for you, Francois.
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Speaker 2: In two hours. Ten o'clock tonight. Ten o'clock. The taverns
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Speaker 2: are swarming, Francois. They wait their orders from the new
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Speaker 2: grand marshal who lifted the tax from their wine, opened
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Speaker 2: the prison gates, and gave them food.
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Speaker 12: Oh, it's a new Paris, Francois.
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Speaker 13: Alive, ready, greedy for victory.
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Speaker 2: You've done well, Sabari. Go back now. Keep among them
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Speaker 2: every minute. God shield us all this night, my friend.
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Speaker 12: I've been waiting to find you alone, monsieur.
40:21
Speaker 2: Lady Catherine.
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Speaker 12: All by yourself while the palace dances?
40:25
Speaker 2: I was about to come in to look for you.
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Speaker 12: You know, they do more than dance in there, my lord.
40:30
Speaker 12: They talk of nothing but the wonders you've worked.
40:34
Speaker 2: You've made the.
40:34
Speaker 12: King popular, the people loyal, and the army faithful.
40:37
Speaker 2: Thank you.
40:38
Speaker 12: And now, I think I've guessed the reason for this ball.
40:41
Speaker 2: Let Burgundy think we're soft. At dawn, when their guess
40:45
Speaker 2: is full of wine and sleep, their attack would come.
40:49
Speaker 2: Except our attack will come first, at ten o'clock.
40:52
Speaker 12: So soon, my lord.
40:54
Speaker 2: Hope that is soon enough.
40:55
Speaker 12: Well, that's not what I meant. I.
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Speaker 2: What did you mean?
40:59
Speaker 12: Nothing.
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Speaker 2: Catherine, look at me. No.
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Speaker 12: No, please.
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Speaker 2: What are you thinking?
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Speaker 9: Nothing.
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Speaker 12: Of a man whose life you saved?
41:09
Speaker 2: Villon?
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Speaker 12: Yes. How he must despise me.
41:13
Speaker 2: How can you possibly worry over such a creature?
41:16
Speaker 12: I asked Villon to kill a traitor.
41:18
Speaker 2: Well, at least he exposed him. Courbet has fled to Brittany.
41:22
Speaker 12: But Villon thinks I lied to him.
41:24
Speaker 2: How do you know? He must.
41:27
Speaker 12: It's evil enough to ask a man to kill another.
41:30
Speaker 12: But Villon believes I did it for myself and not
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Speaker 12: for France. The Duke of Burgundy had promised me to Courbet...
41:37
Speaker 12: I didn't know that.
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Speaker 2: I swear I'm not flattered, Catherine, seeing you fret over
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Speaker 2: a rogue from the gutter.
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Speaker 12: Real men are rare in France, monsieur. But think no
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Speaker 12: more of him, for I shall not.
41:50
Speaker 2: And of me? Will you think of me after tomorrow,
41:53
Speaker 2: when I'm rather certain I'll be dead?
41:55
Speaker 12: I pray not with all my heart.
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Speaker 5: My lady, oh, and our grand marshal. Might I suggest, excellency,
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Speaker 5: that you show yourself inside?
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Speaker 12: In a moment.
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Speaker 5: Lady Catherine, His Majesty had hoped you would sing for
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Speaker 5: our guests.
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Speaker 12: Yes, he wishes.
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Speaker 15: He's quite impatient.
42:11
Speaker 2: Now, if you please.
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Speaker 12: Yes, my lord.
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Speaker 7: My lords and ladies, at His Majesty's command, Lady Catherine
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Speaker 7: de Vaucelles.
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Speaker 10: Never try to find me. Never hope to know. Take
42:49
Speaker 10: me as you find me.
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Speaker 14: Love and love.
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Speaker 10: I'll change and fade away Never mind, you.
43:13
Speaker 14: May be mine.
43:28
Speaker 10: When we leave behind us, change and fade away. Never mind,
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Speaker 10: you may be mine.
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Speaker 13: Bye.
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Speaker 2: Your Majesty.
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Speaker 7: Ah, yes, yes, Grand Marshal.
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Speaker 2: May I speak with you outside?
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Speaker 12: This way.
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Speaker 6: Well, beyond?
44:18
Speaker 2: We strike at Burgundy shortly. Oh, excellent, excellent. And as
44:22
Speaker 2: for me... Yes? There's no outwitting you, sire. Build your
44:27
Speaker 2: gallows tree.
44:27
Speaker 7: A gallows tree?
44:29
Speaker 2: You've lost all hope. I've neither time nor heart for
44:32
Speaker 2: your game. She's a lady. Royally proud. I can't trick her.
44:37
Speaker 2: Before I leave, I'll tell her who I really am.
44:40
Speaker 2: That you are the owner?
44:41
Speaker 7: You think you'd win her with honesty?
44:43
Speaker 2: No. I couldn't win her with lies or with truth.
44:47
Speaker 6: Then rest assured you'll swing if you return from battle.
44:51
Speaker 2: Wait.
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Speaker 12: Wait.
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Speaker 7: Someone's coming.
44:53
Speaker 6: Well, the lady herself.
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Speaker 7: Catherine, my dear. I.
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Speaker 2: I....
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Speaker 12: I didn't mean to interrupt.
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Speaker 6: Oh, we merely exchanged some trifling opinions on life and death. Oh,
45:03
Speaker 6: by the way, your song won't be.
45:06
Speaker 5: Much, milady.
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Speaker 12: Thank you. My lord, Grand Marshal.
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Speaker 2: Yes?
45:11
Speaker 12: If I shouldn't see you again tonight, take this if
45:15
Speaker 12: you care to.
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Speaker 7: Well, one of my choiceless roses. I do not grow these, Catherine,
45:20
Speaker 7: to dispense to my army.
45:22
Speaker 12: Perhaps it will bring fortune to the army, sire.
45:24
Speaker 7: Well, maybe, maybe. Take it, Grand Marshal.
45:27
Speaker 2: Thank you, Catherine.
45:29
Speaker 12: I'll still be more shameless, Sire. With it, I give
45:33
Speaker 12: him my hand and my heart.
45:35
Speaker 2: Wait. Oh, charming, charming. Catherine, look at me closely. Don't
45:40
Speaker 2: you see anything to remind you? Last night, a gloomy tavern,
45:43
Speaker 2: a thief who wrote a verse.
45:46
Speaker 12: What happened?
45:48
Speaker 2: Only this. I am that thief.
45:51
Speaker 12: You?
45:52
Speaker 7: Francois Viong. You betrothed yourself to a jailbird, my royal lady.
45:56
Speaker 12: Sire.
45:57
Speaker 6: Oh, Paris will be greatly amused. If I could not
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Speaker 6: have you for a queen, at least France has you
46:03
Speaker 6: to laugh at. Cousin de Vaucelles throws herself at a
46:07
Speaker 6: full-fledged scavenger.
46:08
Speaker 12: And you, Monsieur Villon, why did you do this? Have
46:12
Speaker 12: you nothing to say?
46:13
Speaker 2: I told you once I loved you.
46:16
Speaker 12: And is love a trick to you, too? Oh, go
46:19
Speaker 12: back to your tavern and gloat well, monsieur.
46:22
Speaker 7: Yes, me think you hang, Master Leon.
46:24
Speaker 2: The Burgundians may cheat you yet. Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes.
46:27
Speaker 2: If you'd learn how the battle goes, your messengers can
46:30
Speaker 2: find me at the crossroads.
46:32
Speaker 6: My archers will be at the crossroads.
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Speaker 12: No.
46:35
Speaker 2: Your people will save your throne, not your army. You
46:38
Speaker 2: hear that song? And those who sing will fight for you.
46:42
Speaker 2: The rabble of Paris.
46:43
Speaker 13: Half drunk and all inspired. Goodbye, sire.
47:03
Speaker 2: The battle.
47:04
Speaker 6: What was the battle?
47:05
Speaker 5: At midnight, Burgundy threw his full force at the crossroads.
47:08
Speaker 5: Villon still holds fast.
47:15
Speaker 2: News, news, I say.
47:16
Speaker 5: Three times the enemy attacked. Three times our people wavered.
47:20
Speaker 5: And then stood firm.
47:21
Speaker 2: Oh, God be praised.
47:34
Speaker 6: The dawn is breaking, Christophe.
47:36
Speaker 5: None too tearful of you, Your Majesty.
47:39
Speaker 2: No further news? None, sire. But that hammering.
47:43
Speaker 7: Your gibbet, sire, for Villon.
47:46
Speaker 5: When and if he returns.
47:49
Speaker 12: Your Majesty.
47:50
Speaker 7: Oh, fair Catherine, you arise early.
47:53
Speaker 12: I've been to Mass.
47:54
Speaker 7: To ease your heart.
47:56
Speaker 12: My heart is at the crossroads, sire.
47:57
Speaker 7: Ah, with France, yes, yes, I know.
48:00
Speaker 6: But all of France is a broad target for a
48:02
Speaker 6: little heart. It's time you narrowed down to, say, a Frenchman.
48:08
Speaker 12: I have.
48:09
Speaker 7: Since last night?
48:11
Speaker 12: Oh, I've learned much since then, sire. I've learned the truth.
48:16
Speaker 12: I love him.
48:17
Speaker 7: Dion?
48:18
Speaker 12: But a pointless truth, since I doubt that I shall
48:20
Speaker 12: ever see him again.
48:21
Speaker 7: Ah, yes, it would be kind of far. If he
48:24
Speaker 7: were to die out there.
48:25
Speaker 6: Then dangle on his gallows.
48:27
Speaker 12: Gallows?
48:27
Speaker 7: Well, it's the reward he gambled for. The Johan in
48:30
Speaker 7: marriage or the Engman's loose.
48:32
Speaker 12: But how could you offer my hand in marriage? My
48:35
Speaker 12: rank forbids it.
48:35
Speaker 7: Well, of course it forbids it.
48:37
Speaker 6: That's why I knew I couldn't lose, milady. I.
48:41
Speaker 7: Well?
48:41
Speaker 6: Paris is saved, sire.
48:43
Speaker 15: Your grand marshal and his rabble return in triumph. Oh, victory!
48:46
Speaker 13: They're pouring into the square after him. Paris has gone wild.
48:50
Speaker 6: Summon to the court of the square. We receive the honoree.
49:01
Speaker 2: Here are banners for your carpet, sire. An hour ago,
49:05
Speaker 2: they floated over Burgundy.
49:06
Speaker 13: Speak to your people, Vion.
49:09
Speaker 5: In the king's name.
49:11
Speaker 2: In the king's name, there will be gold for every
49:14
Speaker 2: man who fought and a month's food for all of
49:17
Speaker 2: his family. Ever generous with my... treasury, Vion. To the end, sire.
49:22
Speaker 6: Well, for heaven's sake, speed the end before I'm bankrupt.
49:25
Speaker 2: As you wish. You who have fought with me know
49:29
Speaker 2: me by two names. To some, I am the Count
49:32
Speaker 2: de Montcobier. To most of you, Francois Vion. We've won
49:37
Speaker 2: a battle and I lost a wager. As Grand Marshal,
49:41
Speaker 2: I declare the life of Vion forfeit, and that he
49:44
Speaker 2: be hanged at once on the gibbet that waits for him.
49:48
Speaker 13: Sire, listen to your people.
49:51
Speaker 10: He saved your fans for you.
49:53
Speaker 7: Will you let him die like this?
49:56
Speaker 14: Well, wait.
49:56
Speaker 6: My good people, you've heard Master Vion. Now, if there's
50:01
Speaker 6: one among you here willing to take his place on
50:03
Speaker 6: the gallows, let him speak.
50:05
Speaker 2: And come forward. There is no one Huh.
50:11
Speaker 7: Know what?
50:11
Speaker 2: We're wasting time, friend Louie. Wait.
50:15
Speaker 12: Sire, I claim your promise.
50:17
Speaker 2: Catherine.
50:18
Speaker 6: Oh, but you cannot. You cannot marry him.
50:20
Speaker 7: Your rank forbids it.
50:22
Speaker 12: I renounce my rank. Before you all, I'm Catherine de Vaucelles,
50:28
Speaker 12: Grand Seneschal of Gascony. In my domain, I hold the
50:32
Speaker 12: power of life and death, which I now renounce with
50:36
Speaker 12: all my rank... that I may claim to marry Francois Villon.
50:40
Speaker 13: Oh!
50:43
Speaker 2: A miracle. A star has fallen for me out of heaven.
50:46
Speaker 2: A star!
50:47
Speaker 7: My dream.
50:49
Speaker 6: That was my dream.
50:50
Speaker 2: Catherine, you would do this to save my life?
50:53
Speaker 12: It's a life I love more than my own.
50:55
Speaker 6: Now, wait, wait, wait. Keep your lines and titles, Catherine.
50:58
Speaker 12: Sir.
50:59
Speaker 7: Oh, have no fear.
51:01
Speaker 6: I'm through with jests and trickeries.
51:04
Speaker 4: My dream.
51:05
Speaker 2: Yes.
51:07
Speaker 7: It all comes clear.
51:08
Speaker 12: Your dreams.
51:09
Speaker 6: The stars foretold me of this union. I have no
51:12
Speaker 6: will to question destiny.
51:15
Speaker 2: Francois? Majesty?
51:16
Speaker 6: You have my blessing, both of you. Now get her
51:21
Speaker 6: to the nearest priest and hurry. But first, first, a promise, Catherine.
51:25
Speaker 8: Yes?
51:25
Speaker 6: For heaven's sake, never let this knave play at king again.
51:30
Speaker 12: Never, sire.
51:31
Speaker 2: There are sweeter things than being king, friend Louis.
51:34
Speaker 12: Are there, Francois?
51:37
Speaker 2: They are told with lips, but without words. Like this.
51:43
Speaker 12: Yes, I can see what you mean.
51:47
Speaker 2: That was only the start. Shall I keep on?
51:49
Speaker 10: Please do.
51:55
Speaker 14: Only a rose you give me. Only a rose. Only
52:10
Speaker 14: a smile will keep this memory until we meet another day.
52:30
Speaker 14: Only a rose will we find I'll bring along a
52:50
Speaker 14: smile or a song for any man.
53:18
Speaker 17: I'm sorry we'll return for the curtain falls in just
53:20
Speaker 17: a moment.
53:21
Speaker 2: Now there are.
53:22
Speaker 17: All those dishes from Christmas dinner piled in the center.
53:25
Speaker 2: Do you feel like this?
53:27
Speaker 6: Oh, dear.
53:28
Speaker 16: Dishes, dishes, dishes, dishes. There's never any holiday for Mother.
53:32
Speaker 7: Does dishwashing get you down?
53:34
Speaker 17: Well, there is a way to make it a great
53:36
Speaker 17: deal more pleasant.
53:37
Speaker 16: I'd like it better if it took less time, Mr.
53:39
Speaker 12: Kennedy.
53:39
Speaker 17: It can with Lux Flakes.
53:41
Speaker 2: Here's what you do. Put your dishes in.
53:43
Speaker 17: A big pan full of rich Lux suds and just swish,
53:46
Speaker 17: and they come clean quickly. Then rinse in hot water
53:49
Speaker 17: and let them dry by themselves. Everything but the silver.
53:52
Speaker 12: Even the glasses, Mr.
53:53
Speaker 2: Kennedy?
53:53
Speaker 17: Yes, even the glasses. Put them on a paper towel
53:56
Speaker 17: to drain. They may need a little wiping around the edges,
53:59
Speaker 17: but no more. You see, Lux not only dissolves instantly,
54:02
Speaker 17: never gets lumpy, but it rinses off completely, too. Doesn't
54:06
Speaker 17: leave soapy streaks on china or glassware. They dry beautifully
54:09
Speaker 17: clear without wiping. Of course, there's the other big difference
54:13
Speaker 17: Lux makes.
54:13
Speaker 16: You mean how much easier it is on your hands?
54:16
Speaker 20: Yes.
54:16
Speaker 17: Strong soaps can leave your hands painfully rough and red-looking.
54:20
Speaker 17: Changing to Lux soon takes that rough, red look away, and.
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Speaker 2: Very thriftily, too.
54:25
Speaker 17: Here's why Lux flakes are so inexpensive for dishes. Ounce
54:28
Speaker 17: for ounce, they will wash up to twice as many
54:30
Speaker 17: dishes as other leading soaps tested. Why not try changing
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Speaker 17: from strong soaps to Lux for your dishes to save
54:37
Speaker 17: time and to save your hands?
54:40
Speaker 2: Now, back to Mr. DeMille and our star.
54:43
Speaker 4: And now our thanks to Dennis Morgan, Catherine Gratian, and J.
54:46
Speaker 4: Carol Nash for a most delightful Christmas present in tonight's performance.
54:51
Speaker 4: And since it's Christmas, I'm going to play Santa Claus
54:54
Speaker 4: and give away a secret.
54:56
Speaker 2: We're in a very receptive mood, C.B. What is it?
54:59
Speaker 4: Well, it's the reason why I have a tender spot
55:02
Speaker 4: in my heart for tonight's play.
55:04
Speaker 2: You see, 42 years ago....
55:07
Speaker 4: I was a member of the original company that first
55:10
Speaker 4: presented it.
55:11
Speaker 12: You acted in The Vagabond King, Mr. DeMille?
55:14
Speaker 4: Well, at that time, Catherine, it was called If I
55:16
Speaker 4: Were King. The Eight Southern started it.
55:19
Speaker 7: What part did you play, C.B.
55:21
Speaker 4: I was one of Francois Villon's vagabonds, the worst cutthroat
55:25
Speaker 4: of the lot.
55:26
Speaker 12: Oh, now, that doesn't sound like you, Mr. DeMille.
55:30
Speaker 2: Doesn't sound like me?
55:31
Speaker 12: Oh, thank you, Catherine.
55:33
Speaker 4: But the actors who worked for me say that... That's
55:36
Speaker 4: how I got my start as a producer.
55:40
Speaker 2: Did, uh, did you sing, too, C.B.? Did I sing? Why, certainly.
55:44
Speaker 2: Good heavens.
55:45
Speaker 4: Well, that's what the audience said.
55:51
Speaker 2: Well, if we'd known this earlier, we should have had
55:53
Speaker 2: you in tonight's play, C.B.
55:55
Speaker 4: Well, thank you, Dennis, thank you. It's a little late
55:57
Speaker 4: for that, but, uh, if you'd like.
55:59
Speaker 2: To hear me sing, may as he does. I know, uh, uh, uh.
56:04
Speaker 6: What play do you have on Lux next Monday night, Mr.
56:07
Speaker 3: DeMille?
56:08
Speaker 2: I said if you'd like to hear me sing.
56:13
Speaker 4: Well, as I was saying, for next week we have
56:16
Speaker 4: a brand new comedy, just released by RKO. It's Bride
56:20
Speaker 4: by Mistake, and our stars will be Lorraine Day, John Hodiak,
56:25
Speaker 4: and Marsha Hunt. Miss Day and Miss Hunt will be
56:28
Speaker 4: in their original screen roles. Lorraine as the glamorous and
56:32
Speaker 4: wealthy heiress, who, in order to test the intentions of
56:35
Speaker 4: the man she loves, poses as her own secretary with
56:39
Speaker 4: startling and amusing results.
56:41
Speaker 2: Sounds like an entertaining way to start the new year, C.B.
56:44
Speaker 2: Good night.
56:45
Speaker 12: Good night.
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Speaker 4: Good night. That's a.
56:49
Speaker 7: Sweet music.
56:56
Speaker 10: Tonight.
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Speaker 4: Another Christmas has come and almost gone. And I imagine
57:04
Speaker 4: it came differently to all of us. Here in Hollywood,
57:08
Speaker 4: it passed the sunny skies and summer warmth. Perhaps where
57:11
Speaker 4: you are, it's cold and white and sparkling. But Christmas
57:15
Speaker 4: 1944 has meant one thing to all of us. That
57:21
Speaker 4: for one day at least, the memory of peace on
57:26
Speaker 4: Earth has come to men of goodwill everywhere.
57:31
Speaker 2: Peace on Earth.
57:33
Speaker 4: For the present is a dream in our hearts and
57:36
Speaker 4: a prayer on our lips. But if we can keep
57:39
Speaker 4: our faith and courage through whatever darkness lies ahead, we
57:45
Speaker 4: can look forward with assurance to the day when peace
57:48
Speaker 4: on earth, goodwill to men, will be a permanent reality.
58:05
Speaker 2: Now, wherever you may be, our.
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Speaker 4: Sponsors, the makers of Lux Flakes and Lux Toilet Soap,
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Speaker 4: join me in wishing you every blessing of the Christmas season.
58:16
Speaker 4: And we invite you to be with us again next
58:17
Speaker 4: Monday night when the Lux Radio Theater presents Lorraine Day,
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Speaker 4: John Hodiak, and Marsha Hunt in Bride by Mistake.
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Speaker 2: This is Cecil B.
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Speaker 4: DeMille saying goodnight to you from Hollywood.
58:32
Speaker 2: Hollywood.
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Speaker 17: All of us have one thought in mind this Christmas Day,
58:42
Speaker 17: to speed the victory and bring our boys home sooner.
58:45
Speaker 17: You housewives of America can help in an important way.
58:49
Speaker 17: by saving those waste fats and greases from your kitchen.
58:52
Speaker 17: Don't let up on this essential contribution. Strain your waste
58:55
Speaker 17: fat into a clean can, and as soon as you've
58:57
Speaker 17: saved a pound, hurry it over to your butcher. He'll
59:00
Speaker 17: give you in return four cents and two red ration points.
59:04
Speaker 17: Next week, we'll have a new Monday Night Neighbor. George
59:07
Speaker 17: Burns and Gracie Allen will be on just a half
59:09
Speaker 17: hour before the Lux Radio Theater. You'll hear George and
59:12
Speaker 17: Gracie at their usual time tomorrow, so listen then. It'll
59:15
Speaker 17: be plenty of fun. But next week, tune in a
59:18
Speaker 17: half an hour before we come on, and you'll hear
59:20
Speaker 17: George Burns and Gracie Allen. The Vagabond King was presented
59:24
Speaker 17: through the courtesy of Tam's Whitmark Music Library in New York.
59:27
Speaker 17: Dennis Morgan is currently appearing in the Warner Brothers picture,
59:30
Speaker 17: Hollywood Canteen.
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Speaker 2: Heard in tonight's play were.
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Speaker 17: Walter Bond, Jack Moyles, Beverly Brown, Charles Seal, Tyler McVeigh,
59:37
Speaker 17: Ed Emerson, and Norman Field.
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Speaker 2: Our music was directed by Louis Silver.
59:41
Speaker 17: This program is broadcast to our fighting forces overseas through
59:44
Speaker 17: cooperation with the Armed Forces Radio Service. And this is
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Speaker 17: your announcer, John M. Kennedy, reminding you to tune in
59:50
Speaker 17: again next Monday night to hear Bride by Mistake with
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Speaker 17: Lorraine Day, John Hodiak, and Marsha Hunt.
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Speaker 22: Be sure to listen in next Monday night to the
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Speaker 22: Lux Radio Theater presentation of Fried by Mistake with Lorraine Day,
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Speaker 22: John Hodiak, and Marsha Hunt. This is CBS, the Columbia
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