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00:03:00I have no need of their wit to entertain you, my lord.
00:03:04They say, sir, that one of the poor devils in there fell from the roof, trying to escape.
00:03:08Very regrettable. Well, drive on.
00:03:10Your lordship, it seems to me the man was known to you.
00:03:12Eh?
00:03:13I thought I saw him in your company, not a week gone by, sir.
00:03:15Eh, really? Well, let's have a look.
00:03:18You there. You there. You are the light.
00:03:33It is. It is. It is young Master Colby.
00:03:40He fell, trying to escape. Some of our boobies haven't sense enough to keep safe behind their bows.
00:03:45Where's Sims? Fetch him.
00:03:47He is dining out, my lord.
00:03:49Dining out with Colby's blood on his hands. Do you know me?
00:03:52Yes, my lord.
00:03:53Then tell Master Sims to wait upon me in the morning.
00:03:56I have some few words I wish to say to him.
00:03:58Oh, Lord Mortimer's like a pig!
00:04:19Will you remind Lord Mortimer that I am waiting?
00:04:28Well, Pompey, are you a pretty boy this morning?
00:04:45What are you trying to do, Pompey?
00:04:49Lord, I want to look like the visitor in the hallway.
00:04:52Sims! I'd forgotten Sims!
00:04:56You there, clear out!
00:04:57Send in the good Sims.
00:04:59First course for my lord's rage.
00:05:01To beat him with a source of lightning and to the tune of thunder.
00:05:04Send him in. Send him in.
00:05:06Sims! Sims!
00:05:12It's part of me, Mr. Mortimer.
00:05:15I'll come to speak to him.
00:05:16What have I told him?
00:05:17How did he come to be a treasure and whom's hand helped him to his fall?
00:05:21Quiet! I'll tell you why.
00:05:23That you hated him, I knew.
00:05:24That you envied him was known to all.
00:05:27But that you would dare, dare to leave that murderous window open to murder him from spite and envy.
00:05:34Murder, my lord?
00:05:35There was no murder.
00:05:37Colby was my guest.
00:05:39He chose to leave by a window before I could open the door for him.
00:05:43And then that, that monstrous accident.
00:05:46Accident?
00:05:48Master Sims is writing a new dictionary.
00:05:51Are accidents contrived, plotted, executed?
00:05:55Exactly, Mistress Bowen.
00:05:57This was a misadventure contrived by the victim and executed by nature's law that all who lose their grip on gutters must fall.
00:06:05You stick to that story, Master Sims?
00:06:07I could never invent one half so droll.
00:06:10The characters of the tale.
00:06:11Two poets, Colby and myself.
00:06:14But I am not only a poet, but also, by your lordship's favor, the apothecary general of St. Mary's of Bethlehem Hospital.
00:06:21My friend comes to discuss poetry.
00:06:24I am absent.
00:06:25My guards mistake him for a madman.
00:06:27He tries to escape from them and is killed.
00:06:30Like a romance, my lord.
00:06:31It's a romance that cost me twenty guineas in a night of laughter.
00:06:35How so, my lord?
00:06:36Lord Mortimer was foolish enough to pay in advance for poetry promised in the future.
00:06:40Colby was to write a mask for the fate Lord Mortimer is giving.
00:06:44If I might offer my humble talents.
00:06:47Even at the hospital I deal in wit and laughter, madam.
00:06:50Are there any who have come to bedlam and say the entertainment is not worth the tuppence they paid?
00:06:55You do not entertain me, Master Sims.
00:06:57That is because you have a tender heart.
00:06:59Most people laugh at my ugliness.
00:07:01It offends me, sir.
00:07:02To move a lady so beautiful in any way.
00:07:06He's gallant, too.
00:07:07I am as you wish, my lord.
00:07:09And I will make your fate a frolic you will remember.
00:07:12How?
00:07:13Sometimes the success of a play belongs to the players.
00:07:17What if the mask were performed by my company of wits, the bedlamites?
00:07:22Have your loonies performed?
00:07:23The opposition.
00:07:27Not John Wilkes himself nor his whole weak party could think of anything as clever as that, eh, Nell?
00:07:32You didn't think of it, either.
00:07:33Well, it's one of the same thing.
00:07:35My friend here thought of it.
00:07:36Let us say that you inspired the thought, my lord.
00:07:39Do you hear that, Nell?
00:07:40I inspired him.
00:07:41Let us say that you both inspired me.
00:07:43A my lord and the beloved of my lord.
00:07:46I think you misunderstand, Master Sims.
00:07:49I am my lord's protege.
00:07:50I entertain him, and he has no more freedom with me than any other man.
00:07:53In any case, if my lord will but give me the day and hour of the fate, I will prepare a mosque of madness that will set you howling.
00:08:03One week from today at the Vauxhall.
00:08:05The company assembles at eight.
00:08:07By your leave.
00:08:15A merry notion.
00:08:16The lord mayor will roll in the soup with laughter.
00:08:18Capital fellow, this Sims, a capital fellow.
00:08:21If you ask me, my lord, he's a stench in the nostrils, a sewer of ugliness, and a gutter brimming with slump.
00:08:26But witty!
00:08:27So he tells us.
00:08:29Even if his witty is wanting, his bedlamites will set my guests roaring.
00:08:33Everyone who goes to bedlam expires with laughter.
00:08:36Why don't you go and see them, Nell?
00:08:38You'll see how funny they are.
00:08:39Perhaps I will.
00:08:41Nice fresh starby's.
00:08:44Ladies, come and buy my lavender, my sweet seven-year-old.
00:08:51Baby, please do this seven-year-old.
00:08:54Oh!
00:08:55I'm so sorry.
00:08:57Today.
00:08:59I've been posting much of the state you have been still.
00:09:04Number three, lovely love Jane trip.
00:09:08No.
00:09:10No.
00:09:11My darling.
00:09:12Bye.
00:09:12Bye.
00:09:13Bye.
00:09:14Bye.
00:09:14Bye.
00:09:15Bye.
00:09:16Bye.
00:09:16Bye.
00:09:17Bye-bye.
00:09:18Bye.
00:09:19Bye.
00:09:20Good morning, Master Simms.
00:09:25There is a Quaker waiting for you, sir.
00:09:27A Master Stone Mason.
00:09:29Will you have him in?
00:09:32Podge, where is my rhyming lexicon?
00:09:36I need a rhyme for Mortimer.
00:09:38That Quaker, sir.
00:09:40Whatever you're rattling on about, so Podge?
00:09:42I have an important commission, a rhyme comedy for my Lord Mortimer.
00:09:46And you bother me about some snivelling Quaker.
00:09:49He's been waiting so long, sir.
00:09:51Waiting?
00:09:51Three hours, sir.
00:09:53I waited four hours before my Lord Mortimer would give me a dog's word.
00:09:58Let him wait some more.
00:09:59But he will not wait, sir.
00:10:02He's a good workman, and cheap, I'm told.
00:10:05Cheap?
00:10:06Let him in.
00:10:19You may leave us, Podge.
00:10:34My man tells me you'll do the work cheaply.
00:10:38With cut stone, one foot thick, and the best mortar, I can do the work with fifteen guineas.
00:10:42What if I were to give you eighteen guineas?
00:10:44It would be too much.
00:10:45Eighteen guineas, and you are to return to me two.
00:10:49Then you'll have a better price, and I'll have some reason to employ you.
00:10:52My friend, I have forgotten what thee has said.
00:10:54If they do not repeat it, then I can believe no evil of thee.
00:10:57What kind of cant is this?
00:11:00I've asked you for a bribe, man.
00:11:02Have you never been asked before?
00:11:04This is simple business between us two.
00:11:06My friend, about the stonemasonry.
00:11:13I have not looked forward to the pleasure of seeing you again so soon, Mistress Bowen.
00:11:18I have a curiosity to see the loonies in their cages.
00:11:21So you shall.
00:11:23So you shall.
00:11:27Your riding crop, Mistress Bowen, you must hang it here.
00:11:35It's the law of the Institute.
00:11:36No weapon.
00:11:37In heaven's name, why?
00:11:38In one of these plays, a decker, a second-rate dramatist of the last century, wrote of those in there.
00:11:44Fierce as wild bulls, untamable as flies.
00:11:47And these have off from strangers' sides, snatched rapiers suddenly, and done much harm.
00:11:53Strangely, here one forgets you're a man of letters, Master Simms.
00:11:56Our hospital is ancient and well-known, much written on.
00:12:00I dare say no man or woman comes to London from the country who does not pay his tuppence.
00:12:06knock out.
00:12:14Who?
00:12:18Oh!
00:12:20Oh!
00:12:22dessas snags!
00:12:24Oh!
00:12:25No!
00:12:27No!
00:12:27No!
00:12:28Yes!
00:12:29No!
00:12:30Are they not witty, Mistress Boat?
00:12:59Look at the folly this one treats himself to, all day long weaving nets to catch peacocks
00:13:05for the royal dinner.
00:13:07They're all so lonely.
00:13:10They're all in themselves and by themselves.
00:13:13They pay no heed to us.
00:13:15You notice that?
00:13:16They have their world and we have ours.
00:13:19Like separate dreams.
00:13:20Ours is a human world, theirs is a bestial world, without reason, without soul.
00:13:25They're animals.
00:13:29Some are dogs, these I beat.
00:13:36Some are pigs, those I let wallow in their own filth.
00:13:46These are tigers, these I cage.
00:13:53Some like this one are doves.
00:13:57Are doves.
00:13:58I've seen enough.
00:13:59But you haven't seen the other cages.
00:14:01I've seen enough.
00:14:04You have no idea how merry they can be.
00:14:15How much amusement they are for.
00:14:17Amusement?
00:14:19From that mad girl with her staring eyes?
00:14:23If I have offended you, mistress Bowen.
00:14:30I'll get them back.
00:14:31I'll get them back.
00:14:32I'll get them back.
00:14:33Thank you, sir.
00:14:34My valet can plant a tress or twirl a fur below quicker than a handywoman.
00:14:37thank you sir my valley can plant a tress or twirl a fur below quicker than a handywoman
00:14:51but he has no knack with horses i was glad to do thee this little service
00:14:55i saw thee strike sims they shouldn't have done that do you think i'm afraid of him
00:14:59do you think he could harm me thee are able enough it is those poor ones in there i'm thinking of
00:15:05sims will make them suffer for that blow are we lovers that you thee and thou me i've never seen
00:15:11your face before he's a quaker mistress bellerton my name is william hanny i'm one of the society
00:15:16of friends i've heard of them they turn the other cheek there is more to being a quaker than turning
00:15:21the other cheek and saying thee and thou it is feeling pity for those in there as thee did
00:15:26do you think i struck him because i felt pity for the loonies i saw it in thy face pity i had no such
00:15:33feelings sir i struck the man because i wanted to because he's an ugly thing in a pretty world
00:15:39there are many ugly things in this pretty world if he would but see them master quaker i did not
00:15:43always wear velvet i had guessed that but where there is one like thee to rest comfort from a hard
00:15:48world with wit and cleverness there are ten thousand who cannot i have no pity for them let
00:15:54them do as i did but those in there can they help themselves and i have no pity for them either
00:15:59animals without souls that is not thy thought is it not come a week hence to voxall in the evening
00:16:07and you will see me laughing at these same loonies that you think i pity they will not laugh at the
00:16:12poor and the afflicted not thee i've seen great ladies and their hearts were like stone but thee my
00:16:18heart is a flint sir it may strike sparks but they're not warm enough to burn i have no time to
00:16:23make a show of loving kindness before my fellow men not in this life i've too much laughing to do
00:16:29flanked by lunacy and speaking with the voice of youth
00:16:51our golden age of reason will tell you of its brightest adornment lord mortimer
00:17:08come reason you've wit enough to say a word or two what say to this wilkes a mad boy playing reason
00:17:15that's a tory joke for you and only the tories will laugh at it
00:17:19the opposition wonders what the effect may be on that poor sick boy the tories care only for the
00:17:25jest but we wigs have some concern for the humanities do you hear that now give them a
00:17:31jest and the answer with the political tirade he said something about the boy the effect go ask him
00:17:37him he'll make you a speech on the matter to this pretty world pretty world
00:17:46to this pretty world there came
00:17:51came heaven sent divinely inspired good good the great voice of reason the
00:18:00blessing
00:18:03blessing of
00:18:09of our age come on come on i spent all morning beating it into your head you see my lord reason
00:18:19is overcome with emotion is overcome with emotion but it must speak of you probably more
00:18:23i'm serious go on a few more of those golden words i taught you lad
00:18:30somewhere i heard that the human body must breathe through its paws
00:18:34if you shut those paws man
00:18:37set
00:18:41like a jewel another word good gentle reason this
00:18:49this prince of men
00:18:55this
00:18:58paragon
00:19:01lord lord
00:19:03what whatever
00:19:10duck him in the river a bit of canvas a handful of coarse sand would get the guilt off
00:19:15master sims isn't that harsh treatment for a sick lad they have to get the guilt off of his to be well
00:19:21again so you know that know what mistress bowen you know that anyone painted over as thick as that
00:19:27poor lad will die if i understand you properly this boy is dying
00:19:31this boy is dead because his paws are clogged by the guilt
00:19:37well then sweet mistress bowen since you are such a stickler for the correct definition
00:19:42you will grant me the legal fact that this boy died by his own exhalations
00:19:47you might say he poisoned himself
00:19:50my lord have we not had enough of this
00:20:01eh
00:20:01enough of that boring dull man and his cruelty
00:20:04but we're all laughing now
00:20:06i am not laughing my lord
00:20:08he shall make you laugh
00:20:09spare me that
00:20:10but now a boy died tonight a boy who had no mind to guide his thoughts or deeds
00:20:17maybe there'll be some concern about that among the wigs certainly none among the tories
00:20:21you'll find they're laughing too
00:20:24liberty that is a great word you wigs found somewhere but just the same you'll end either with
00:20:30the parks or on the gallows that my lord depends on whether i embrace your sweetheart
00:20:35or your politics
00:20:43here is alfreda queen of the artichokes she will sing for you
00:20:47here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen here's to the widow of fifty
00:20:58here's to the flaunting extravagant queen and here's to the housewife
00:21:10here's to the housewife
00:21:26master hanny
00:21:32this is a strange place to see thee mistress bowen
00:21:35a little dull perhaps but a good enough place to ask the questions i want to ask
00:21:39so far mistress bowen i found thee more ready with answers than with questions
00:21:43don't worry my questions are pert enough
00:21:46first do you think me a woman of kind heart
00:21:49i have told thee so
00:21:50why i saw thy face at bedlam it had kindness and compassion
00:21:55i've never seen that in my mirror
00:21:58but let's say i grant the fact let's say i saw things that moved me to pity
00:22:02what then master quaker perhaps god sent thee here that thee might find guidance
00:22:07from you i have not said so well from whom then perhaps he sent thee here so we might speak together
00:22:18i've seen things tonight i have no liking for
00:22:21my friends laughing at sorry idiots brought out from bedland to amuse them
00:22:25a poor boy they need not tell me it's a bad time for the poor and the people suffer
00:22:31the ones with wit and the ones without and if you feel sorry for them what you do about all this
00:22:36i do what i can i'm a stonemason how does that help people i build well let others build as well and
00:22:42soon this city will become a clean and decent habitation but what of me what can i do i'm only a
00:22:49jester to bring laughter to lord mortimer's dinner table perhaps even in the amusement of mortimer
00:22:54there is a way that he can help the poor people in bedlam is not mortimer a member of the council
00:23:00good you're not such a fool as i thought you
00:23:04but why don't you take off your hat have you no liking for me
00:23:08it is a rule among the friends to uncover only before god
00:23:30my lord we'll see you now master sims
00:23:32good morning mistress bowen good morning oh there sims i'll sit down and wait a bit i have news for
00:23:41you i trust you enjoyed the fate you will hear presently how much i enjoyed it sims you have no
00:23:48idea what we've decided nell has a splendid notion she wants to turn bedlam upside down and make all
00:23:54the loonies happy as linens mistress bowen is very kind you can't imagine what a clever fiction she is
00:24:00and i think that's what i've done with her sister sims thought it all out herself before she even
00:24:03spoke to me beds blankets some to sew some to bake good food a practical lass i can quite understand
00:24:11what mistress bowen wants we've needed good beds good food in bedlam for a long while you forgot to
00:24:17mention good treatment master sims that too i'm sure we could afford that you can't imagine the gratitude
00:24:24i would i bear you mistress bowen these reforms you propose will make my name stand out in the
00:24:29history of bedlam we knew you'd agree i'm overjoyed my lord good good you see it's done now not a bit
00:24:36of trouble there is but one small point the trifling matter of money my lord has already thought of
00:24:42that of course of course the council will vote the fund that's generous of you my lord very generous
00:24:47how so sims what sort of generosity does not my lord have property in more fields a dozen dwelling
00:24:53houses a warehouse two inns you see sims i know my accounts and i know your properties they are
00:24:59taxable by the institute therefore my lord this reform will cost you not less than 500 guineas in
00:25:05additional taxes but what is that to you my lord a mere bagatelle some little gift you gladly give to
00:25:11mistress bowen i will relinquish that little gift master sims i give you no gift now she's merely speaking of
00:25:17a gift she's not going to have now take master wilkes he'd never be so generous he would say
00:25:22loonies don't vote but that's true there's nothing to be had from them you are going to do this as a
00:25:27good deed my lord 500 guineas there would be so much i would have to do without now we'll have to
00:25:34forget this whim of yours it is not a whim my lord it is the first thing i've ever asked of you but my
00:25:39lord has to keep up appearances of court you've no idea what an expense that is to a man that's true
00:25:44you have no idea now what a great responsibility it is to be rich what an expense it's simply this
00:25:50my lord i've asked you to do a good deed and you find the very thought of it too expensive you have
00:25:55no right to speak to me that way now i've all the rights of having put up with you for nearly a year
00:25:59my lord trying to make you laugh and then listening to that fat laugh of yours as it comes rumbling out
00:26:04of your fat throat put up with me put up with me i said so but look what i've done for you you'd be
00:26:09tamping in the rain on strathmore commonly other strolling players if you hadn't caught my eye
00:26:13do you call that weak and watery vessel your eye i would not want to look at the world through it
00:26:19i would not want to be a dull man forever in need of amusement i would not want to bribe and be bribed
00:26:24to fawn upon the king and kick the commoner in short my lord i would not want to be lord mortimer
00:26:30you would not want you would not nor do i want to be with you not for an instant longer maybe being rich
00:26:35and great and powerful is infectious it's a disease i don't want to catch goodbye my lord
00:26:40such angry words
00:26:55of course as i pointed out to you my lord you have every right to take legal steps you've been very
00:27:00helpful since but it grieves me my lord to have been the cause of this quarrel it's not your fault
00:27:05she quarreled with me she insulted me
00:27:15may i guide you to the door master simms
00:27:19you know lord mortimer's signature is this not it
00:27:33i can recognize a pig's tracks when i see them then you know i have the right to remove the furniture
00:27:38which he loaned you loaned as he call it he and that loathsome sims it's all legal all by order
00:27:45oh take the things and get out that's not claude mortimer's that's not claude mortimer's leave
00:27:50pa alone she's no present to be given and taken back she's been with mistress bowen since
00:27:55mistress bowen played aurora in the rivals we were very good in that
00:28:09serves me right barney a kind heart butters no parsnips but what shall we do mistress
00:28:14bone we've got nothing but the clothes we wear and poor paul paul
00:28:23paul's enough and remember my dear if gin is offered you must take wine it's more genteel
00:28:29but i like gin makes me merry he'll be merry enough on wine well you tell me lord mortimer likes a
00:28:38witty girl best leave the wit to me i'll make you seem witty oh i can crack a joke well enough
00:28:44not in good company my dear niece you're not accustomed to it you know i've known some
00:28:49gentlemen but this is a lord a man from whose largesse many blessings can come to the family
00:28:55of sims and just for a little laughter that's all he wants to be amused a fine lord indeed
00:29:02mocked by a parrot but this parrot is our key to open my lord's friendship to you
00:29:07now remember you were offended you offered money you
00:29:18my lord a dreadful thing
00:29:21pardon my lord this is my niece kitty charming person she does your honor
00:29:25sins but have you heard the latest news of my lady brave mistress now what a
00:29:31jest she's hit upon you mean the parrot my lord it is because of that that we are here
00:29:35a great bit of japery sims what a vixen i hardly thought to find you in such humor oh it's only a
00:29:43jest nell has the bird for sale in the marketplace letting it scream that silly ditty lord mortimer is
00:29:51like a pig this braid is small and he's barely big all london's come to laugh at the bird so they
00:29:57have and it does you no good my lord that joke can make your proud name a mockery the bird won't
00:30:02sing too long i've sent pompey to buy it that girl holds the bird at a high enough price my niece
00:30:08knowing of my affection for you tried to buy the bird she offered 20 guineas and was refused oh
00:30:14mistress bowen wants more honey on her bread than that sims poppy has a purse with a hundred guineas in
00:30:19it a hundred guineas for a bird would you have some wine mistress sims oh wine is too french for me
00:30:26my lord it's the way i feel about men i like men to be as big as beer and as strong as gin
00:30:33beer has a head on it you know and you can't say that for wine and gin has muscle in it and you
00:30:39can't say that for wine either bless me i never heard anyone put it that way before there is much
00:30:44to be said for our national institutions come in
00:30:47she refused she said it was not enough what sort of game is this mr spoin told me to tell you the
00:30:58bird would remain for sale and that you could sell every property you own and not have money enough
00:31:04to buy it so that's the way the wind blows my lord malign me the girl digs her spurs too deep
00:31:15my lord we can always make her my guest
00:31:19at pedlum no no she's as sane as you and i was colby mad he was my guest we've been good comrades
00:31:29now and i i'll not do that as you wish my lord here my lord confusion to your enemies it's a shrewd trick
00:31:38you can't restrain a parrot from slander you can't exercise the right of privacy against a bird
00:31:45but i think i have a way my lord another drink my lord it'll make you a lion i'm an angry man there are
00:31:53laws against the depredations of livestock it's not a parrot livestock are you not suffering great loss
00:31:59you know that he who steals my purse steals trash but he heard that at the playhouse what do you
00:32:06suggest we can swear out a writ of seizure send a bailey for the parrot and have it here within the hour
00:32:13we could do that indeed we can arrest a parrot i'll drink on that my lord
00:32:19all right come along come along i told thee no good would come of it we cannot mock thy friends
00:32:27this way mock him you wish i'd only mocked him when i finished softly i swore i'd ring its neck
00:32:32give me that bird barney your gifts you can take back my lord but the parrot was mine is mine and
00:32:37remains mine as long as i want they must be careful of others property curse you man you shall fight me for
00:32:44this draw man draw you can see i carry no weapon i do not fight nor brawl with other men you shall
00:32:52fight me i cannot fight or i'll run you through will you fight my lord my friend he has no quarrel with me
00:33:03let me let me go
00:33:12they must not mock thy friend
00:33:17he can earn an honest living for thyself i had to sew my costumes when i was on the stage two
00:33:32shillings a week and all found for seamstress one can live well on that if one is frugal what would
00:33:37i do with varney who'd have him he has not strength enough for a mason varney you see just the same
00:33:45i'll give varney work he shall sweep up the dust here he has strength enough for that he sweeps and
00:33:51i sell all very fine but not very exciting what do you think about it varney i like a merry life
00:33:57mistress bowen and so by blazes so do i everyone makes his living with his own tricks my tricks are
00:34:05not yours master stonemason if i may say a word mistress bowen you still have many friends that i
00:34:11have it's captain stafford oh but he's always talking about fontenoy it's armiston and wilkes there's
00:34:19wilkes that devil wilkes
00:34:39so far as i am concerned dear mistress bowen you need not teach your parrot any special phrases for
00:34:44my benefit am i to understand from that master wilkes that you're not interested not in bedlam nor
00:34:51in me i did not mean that i meant only that i am a different sort of man from lord mortimer
00:34:57i am not easily pleased
00:35:01i think you expect too much master wilkes i offer more you want to fight the nastiness and corruption
00:35:07of bedlam i offer you political alliance with john wilkes whom his gracious majesty has pleased to call
00:35:14that devil bring me the evidence and i'll be pleased to take it to court let us say that puts a brighter
00:35:20face on matters master wilkes one gives a girl a kiss to seal a certain kind of bargain now
00:35:27this is a rather public place master wilkes but one shakes hands with a comrade and a friend
00:35:33this is a real blow at wilkes that is a blow i leave you to it minister i have one of his to ward away
00:35:45and so you see mistress bowen my lord thought it would be best to make friends again
00:35:50on your advice i suppose and for some purpose of your own my lord speak to the girl every word he
00:35:56says is true and better put than i could say it well so we're friends again you go your way and i go my
00:36:02but friends are not that off-handed with each other mistress bowen my lord would like to be kind
00:36:08to you i'm duly warned go on my lord thinks you've been looking rather pale of late perhaps the waters
00:36:15of bath arrest my lord you know that i have a contempt for certain kinds of money
00:36:25how deep that contempt is i'm about to show you
00:36:28the bank of england thanks you for three hundred pounds
00:36:47tomorrow after the commission for lunacy examines her she'll strike no more blows
00:36:52not at you nor at me here you sign here count farmy simms i can't sign this she's not mad she's not
00:37:02a danger to herself and others as it says here sign the lord she's a danger to my position and your
00:37:07properties alone she means nothing but with wilkes behind her she's more dangerous to us than any mad woman
00:37:22of her
00:37:29well gentlemen here is your lunatic your mel bowen
00:37:34i'm 23 years of age born at rye my parents are dead and i have no husband or child
00:37:39what more would you wish to know the commission of lunacy will frame the questions for you mistress
00:37:43bowen ask away do you know your alphabet i know a from z and i can read and write as readily as any man
00:37:50i see before me perhaps a little better do you know the difference between right and wrong what
00:37:56is right for me is wrong for you that much i know and vice versa
00:38:02oh don't fool yourselves a merry answer does not make me a fool gentleman
00:38:06ask me a sensible question and you shall have a sensible answer
00:38:22i know that i like large sums better than i like small sums
00:38:28bowen is it true that some days past you refuse the sum of 100 gold guineas for a parrot not worth
00:38:34five shillings i had my reasons it was a jest you know your sums if two and two make four i do knowing
00:38:42that one number added to another makes a greater number i presume you know a large sum of money from
00:38:47a small sum i only know that i like large sums better than i like small sums then why did you
00:38:52refuse 100 guineas for a parrot worth five shillings i have told you it was a jest knowing the value of
00:38:59money mistress bowen can you explain why it was you ate a bank note for a jest master simmons knows why
00:39:07i ate the money to show my contempt for it is that how one shows contempt no did that moment was the only
00:39:14way to show contempt i was angry and it was the first thing that occurred to me thoughts like that
00:39:19always occur to you when you're angry surely everyone does foolish things sometimes at a whim
00:39:25for a prank is it wise to eat money but it was a jest gentlemen would you permit me to communicate
00:39:33with master john wilkes he will speak for me
00:39:36this is not a court you are not in need of any witnesses but your own sanity
00:39:44and we shall judge the worth of that
00:39:50mistress bowen you have asked for voluntary commitment to enter saint mary of bethlehem's
00:40:06asylum the charges for your care and keep to be borne by my lord mortimer i have here the commission's
00:40:12approval of your request the commission has adjudged you insane but i made no petition to enter bedlam
00:40:20perhaps you did it as a jest mistress bowen you're not going to put me in bedlam not for a little joke
00:40:27not for playing a trick my lords gentlemen please listen i'm of sound mind i know what i do i know what i say
00:40:37i did not ask for admission to bedlam please please
00:40:50i am
00:40:59i am
00:41:00i am
00:41:03Hello, I'm on my way.
00:41:05Good job.
00:41:10I am ever...
00:41:12doing a moron to the city in the city.
00:41:14I am never...
00:41:15I am never...
00:41:16I am never...
00:41:17I am never...
00:41:21...you're...
00:41:23I'm not offering this...
00:41:24...I'm not offering this...
00:41:25...I'm not offering this...
00:41:26...I'm not offering this...
00:41:33Here in Bedlam, my dear, we can't feed you banknotes.
00:41:43Try chewing on this.
00:41:52I want a biscuit, Barley, I want a biscuit.
00:41:54Barley, want a biscuit?
00:41:56You see, Barley, now that he's mine, I've already taught him a new and original trick.
00:42:00Yes, milord.
00:42:01But Mistress Bowen must have been here.
00:42:07Ah, my love, and how did you spend the night?
00:42:14Going on a voyage, milord?
00:42:15Voyage? Oh, no, not a voyage.
00:42:18Just a trip to the country to ride, to smell the innocent air,
00:42:22to listen to the twitter of the birds, to rusticate.
00:42:26I see. To rusticate.
00:42:28I would invite you, my dear, but it's a bachelor affair.
00:42:32Sports, you know. Manly things.
00:42:37I see.
00:42:39Well, all good things must end, milord.
00:42:42I'll have a bit of the gin.
00:42:43And another little sip, to get rid of the dry taste of piety.
00:42:50Piety?
00:42:52I thought there was precious little of that in this house.
00:42:54There's a Quaker out there who wants to see you.
00:42:57Pompey's sending him about his business.
00:42:59Such a person has never been known in this household.
00:43:02Come now.
00:43:03They must know that to be an untruth.
00:43:05Mistress Bowen had tea with milord only yesterday.
00:43:08Your young lady was the one who was telling tales.
00:43:10There's been no woman in this household but Mr. Sten since I can remember.
00:43:15So they tell me.
00:43:16Well, never mind.
00:43:18Where's the Quaker?
00:43:30He's been and gone.
00:43:32He must have just left.
00:43:33That's likely.
00:43:38Apples, apples, apples, a penny apple.
00:43:42Master Henny, Master Henny.
00:43:44I'll tell you where she is, Master Henny.
00:43:46I'll tell you where she is.
00:43:47They put her in Bedlam.
00:43:48In Bedlam?
00:43:49Ah, yesterday they summoned her.
00:43:51She's there now.
00:43:52Well, friend, thee must come with me.
00:43:53We shall go to Bedlam.
00:43:54No, no, I can't go with you.
00:43:56I'm employed by milord.
00:43:58You see, Master Stonemason, I have to live.
00:44:01And you yourself said I didn't have enough muscle for honest work.
00:44:05It's enough that thee is an honest man, Barney.
00:44:07That thee ran all this way to tell me where she is.
00:44:17Is that your name they call?
00:44:33How do they know I'm here?
00:44:35They don't know.
00:44:36Some of our poor companions spend their days looking out the window.
00:44:40If they hear a new cry, they repeat it.
00:44:41Then others take it up, and so it goes.
00:44:45But my name, how do they know it?
00:44:48Someone must have shouted in the street.
00:44:50Perhaps someone trying to reach you.
00:45:24You can't come in.
00:45:39By George Simms' order, I suppose.
00:45:41Even so.
00:45:42May I see Simms?
00:45:43And quickly, too.
00:45:45I have been refused admittance.
00:45:47This unfortunate.
00:45:48A new ruling.
00:45:49You understand.
00:45:50I understand only that I am a free man.
00:45:52That I have money in my hand.
00:45:54He has no legal right to deny me entry to a place where others have been admitted.
00:45:57Quite true.
00:45:58Quite true.
00:45:59Well?
00:46:00The warder will take your tuppence.
00:46:03And now if you leave your arms at the arms rack?
00:46:05But I have no arms.
00:46:06I'm at the Society of Friends.
00:46:08And I'm afraid we must return your tuppence.
00:46:10But why?
00:46:11Did you not quote the law to me?
00:46:13Let me then quote the law to you.
00:46:15It is a rule of our institute that all who enter the main hall must hang their arms upon that rack.
00:46:21But I have no arms.
00:46:23Since you have none, I cannot let you enter.
00:46:25They cannot deny me entry for such cause.
00:46:27I must.
00:46:28I must.
00:46:30Save yourself a walk, Quaker.
00:46:32It's locked.
00:46:33It's a rule, Master Quaker, and I break no rules.
00:46:44Blast me!
00:46:47Brother Hannay, saundering as if it were a holiday.
00:46:50On my own business, friend Smith, and without profanity.
00:46:53And without this good job of work that we have, Hannay.
00:46:56I bid on it.
00:46:56And found Master Sim's way of doing business a little strange, huh?
00:47:00Weave the work, weave the will.
00:47:01Let's at it, boys.
00:47:04But he hasn't the knack of it.
00:47:06Huh, thanks, Hannay.
00:47:13Maybe you'd give us a hand.
00:47:14There are but three of us.
00:47:16I'd just as leave.
00:47:17You call.
00:47:19One, two, heave over.
00:47:30Call.
00:47:31One, then two, down we go.
00:47:36Thanks, Hannay.
00:47:40He is welcome.
00:47:41Now you're here, Hannay.
00:47:42You can see all Bedlam without paying your tuppence.
00:47:45Can he, lads?
00:47:46That he can.
00:47:46All the wonders of Bedlam and for nothing.
00:47:49That I would like to see.
00:47:50This corridor leads to the main room.
00:47:52It's a little dark, maybe, but if you get to the end of it, you'll get an eyeful.
00:47:56If they don't mind, I'll go and look.
00:48:06I'll go and look.
00:48:36I'll go and look.
00:49:06Now, now, now, now, now.
00:49:15Nell Bowen.
00:49:20Nell Bowen.
00:49:24Nell Bowen.
00:49:25Nell Bowen.
00:49:25Nell Bowen.
00:49:27Over here, Nell.
00:49:29Come, Nell.
00:49:36Nell!
00:49:40You've come to take me away?
00:49:42No.
00:49:43There is no way.
00:49:44Fine Wilkes.
00:49:45Wilkes will get me out of here.
00:49:46I'd thought of that.
00:49:48I'll seek him out.
00:49:49But until he can free thee,
00:49:50thee must be patient.
00:49:51Patient?
00:49:52How can I be patient?
00:49:54I'm terrified.
00:49:55These people are like beasts.
00:49:57So thee has that same thought.
00:49:59The same thought as Sims.
00:50:01No.
00:50:01But they frighten me.
00:50:04They're dirty.
00:50:05Savage.
00:50:07Mindless.
00:50:08Disgusting.
00:50:09They wanted to help them.
00:50:11That's why they put thee here.
00:50:12For trying to aid them.
00:50:14I still want to aid them.
00:50:16But I cannot here.
00:50:18Not here where they're all about me.
00:50:21All I want is release.
00:50:23Or a weapon to defend myself.
00:50:24Thee has thy kindness and thy courage.
00:50:27They can be sword and butler to thee in this place.
00:50:29I want better weapons.
00:50:31I want something more than my naked hands to help me if there should be trouble.
00:50:35Give me a weapon.
00:50:36Thee knows I carry no sword.
00:50:38Anything.
00:50:39I carry nothing that would harm my fellow creatures.
00:50:42The troll.
00:50:44That is to build with.
00:50:46It has a point.
00:50:47It has a handle.
00:50:50Would you have me maimed, scratched, scarred?
00:50:54With my face.
00:50:55The Lord will not let it happen.
00:50:58Give me the troll and I'll not let it happen.
00:51:05Look at my face again.
00:51:08Look close.
00:51:08Shall it be scarred?
00:51:17God forgive me for what I do.
00:51:19Forgiven or not, at least I can defend myself.
00:51:22Now get to Master Wilkes.
00:51:24Wilkes will have me out of here like that.
00:51:26I haven't seen Wilkes in the last week.
00:51:40He's never at home.
00:51:41He's electioneering.
00:51:42Where?
00:51:43Anywhere in the kingdom.
00:51:44But it's a matter of import.
00:51:46Grave import.
00:51:47A woman's reason hangs on it.
00:51:48I must see him.
00:51:49He's ordered pamphlets and posters from me.
00:51:51He must come here and when he does, I'll tell him.
00:51:53I'll come back tomorrow.
00:52:16We might ask her, Master Tull.
00:52:18She seems quite ladylike.
00:52:20Quite sane.
00:52:20Or, as I might express myself before the bar,
00:52:24compass mentis in licks.
00:52:28Then I shall ask her.
00:52:30We can have Dan, and the four of us can play piroli.
00:52:40Madam, would you care to join us?
00:52:43We're going to play piroli.
00:52:44That's kind of you, but I have no money.
00:52:46Money?
00:52:47We play on our word.
00:52:48I have a wealth of words.
00:52:51I don't cheat, but I warn you, I'm not above amending the mistakes of fortune.
00:53:01This, Mistress Bourne, is Oliver Tull.
00:53:04He won't speak to you, not to me, but there's no harm in him, and he writes and reasons well.
00:53:09And this is Dan.
00:53:10Sometimes he fancies himself a dog, but he has no malice in him, and he remembers how to play cards.
00:53:16I am Long, Sidney Long, the crown solicitor, whose enemies will not let him practice at the bar.
00:53:24I, the most skilled of them all.
00:53:26I have many enemies.
00:53:28Many, many enemies.
00:53:30I understand.
00:53:34I shouldn't have told you that.
00:53:37Oh, but believe me, we who are near this pillar are the safe ones, the good ones, the wisest.
00:53:43That's why they let us have the candle.
00:53:46But the rest, you must be careful of the rest.
00:53:49I am careful.
00:53:51Well, let's begin the play.
00:53:53Now, I will hold the bank.
00:53:59Twenty thousand pounds.
00:54:02Five pounds for a card.
00:54:04Five pounds.
00:54:11Five whippets, ten bassets, one gaze hound.
00:54:14Anyone wish another card?
00:54:23Five pounds.
00:54:25Anyone else?
00:54:27Oh, a bank-o.
00:54:29Paroli.
00:54:30Ah, fortune smiles at your first play.
00:54:32What card?
00:54:33Neighbor of Spades.
00:54:35You win.
00:54:36Eight bulldogs.
00:54:49What's that?
00:54:50Oh, a poor wretch.
00:54:51Sims gave him a dose of iron this morning.
00:54:54The chains are scruffing his flesh.
00:54:56Well, the war does not help him.
00:54:58They've heard too many groans to bother.
00:55:00But what about you?
00:55:01Don't you ever help the others?
00:55:03Why should we help?
00:55:04We are the people of the pillar.
00:55:07A card?
00:55:09Wait.
00:55:10I can't play with that going on.
00:55:12May I have the candle?
00:55:14Be careful of the straw.
00:55:15Oh.
00:55:34I can't play with that.
00:55:45I can't play with that.
00:55:46I can't play with that.
00:55:47I can't play with that.
00:55:48I can't play with that.
00:55:48I can't play with that.
00:55:49I can't play with that.
00:55:50I can't play with that.
00:55:51I can't play with that.
00:55:52I can't play with that.
00:55:53I can't play with that.
00:55:54I can't play with that.
00:55:55I can't play with that.
00:55:56I can't play with that.
00:55:57I can't play with that.
00:55:58I can't play with that.
00:55:59I can't play with that.
00:56:00I can't play with that.
00:56:01I can't play with that.
00:56:02Do your chains hurt you?
00:56:25Where does it hurt?
00:56:28Here?
00:56:29Would it help if I put a bit of cloth there to ease your arm?
00:56:59Peter?
00:57:10He's quiet now.
00:57:35That was kind of you.
00:57:36It's just that I don't care for sad music with my game of Paroli.
00:57:40A card?
00:57:42Five pounds.
00:57:45Ten whippets.
00:57:48Any others?
00:57:49Fifteen pounds.
00:57:52Anyone else?
00:57:54Banco.
00:57:56A very pleasant group you make, dear people.
00:57:59It's so nice to find you here amongst the upper classes, Mistress Bowen,
00:58:02but that's exactly where I expected you to be.
00:58:04It's a law of physics.
00:58:06The lighter elements, like scum, rise to the top.
00:58:09Thank you, Master Simms.
00:58:10A delicate compliment.
00:58:11I see you've joined what little we have of society.
00:58:14The group around the pillar.
00:58:16Is this the brotherhood your Quaker friend preaches?
00:58:19But perhaps you're afraid amongst the others.
00:58:21I'm not afraid.
00:58:22Then you are forgotten.
00:58:23Forgotten what?
00:58:23Forgotten that you were going to reform Bedlam.
00:58:25Cleanliness, soft beds for the delight of the patients.
00:58:29Good treatment.
00:58:30Well, you've been here a week, Mistress Bowen,
00:58:32and your only friends are these, our nobility.
00:58:36The brotherhood of man.
00:58:38Give me clean straw, I'll make beds for them.
00:58:40Bandages, I'll bind their wounds.
00:58:42Water and soap.
00:58:43That I would delight to see.
00:58:44You shall have water, you shall have soap, you shall have straw enough.
00:58:48I hope you make good use of them.
00:58:49I will, never fear.
00:58:50I leave you to dream of these Ogean labors.
00:58:53And may your dreams be sweet and cleanly.
00:59:08But where is it?
00:59:10You promised a chapter for today.
00:59:12I appeal to you, Master Long.
00:59:14Is it fair?
00:59:16I support his family.
00:59:17Feed his children.
00:59:18Even pay my tuppence to come in and get my script,
00:59:21and it is not ready.
00:59:22We've been busy.
00:59:23We've been helping Mistress Bowen.
00:59:25Mistress Bowen?
00:59:25Who is she?
00:59:35Oh, a new female warder.
00:59:37Now, about the next chapter.
00:59:38No, not a warder, Master Gray.
00:59:41An inmate like ourselves,
00:59:42who does all she can to help her fellow sufferers.
00:59:45But what can she do?
00:59:46Look, I'll show you.
00:59:48What can she do, you ask?
00:59:50She can feed those who haven't wit enough to feed themselves.
00:59:53She can wash the helpless, cheer the despondent.
00:59:55She can be.
00:59:57She is an angel in this darkness.
00:59:59Very interesting.
01:00:01But this book you have, those drawings.
01:00:03Oh, the pictures.
01:00:05You don't know half their wonder, Master Gray.
01:00:07If I could only get a light behind these pages,
01:00:10I could throw them large as life upon the wall.
01:00:13Aye, that's not a bad notion.
01:00:15One could charge admission.
01:00:16You could even tell the story Todd's writing that way.
01:00:19Oh, but you forget.
01:00:21It's because of these pictures that I'm here.
01:00:24That, and because I'm the best lawyer in England,
01:00:26I am the most skilled of them all.
01:00:29Yes, of course.
01:00:30And you, Oliver.
01:00:34You'd best finish that chapter by tomorrow,
01:00:36or I shall withdraw my support from your family.
01:00:38Understand?
01:00:43Dan, did you chance to see a trowel?
01:00:46Trowel?
01:00:46I'll build you a wall.
01:00:49A wall that high.
01:00:53Master Long.
01:00:54Have you seen a trowel?
01:00:56A trowel?
01:00:56I beg your pardon?
01:00:57A trowel?
01:00:58A mason's instrument.
01:01:00I mislaid it some days ago.
01:01:02I'd like it back.
01:01:03Uh, oh yes, yes.
01:01:04A trowel.
01:01:05I'm not mad, Master Long.
01:01:07I had a trowel.
01:01:08Oh, certainly, Mr. Sporn.
01:01:10We'll help you find it.
01:01:11You think I'm mad?
01:01:14Sometimes I think I've gone mad myself.
01:01:17Scrubbing and making beds
01:01:18and all for people who don't even know I'm trying to help them.
01:01:22They know.
01:01:23Good morning, Mistress Burne.
01:01:42What a happy place this has become.
01:01:44Everything is so much cleaner.
01:01:46The idiots even have their faces washed.
01:01:48Such a little time with this wonderful change in Bedlam.
01:01:51What wonders will you not accomplish in a lifetime?
01:01:55Madam, you ought to be congratulated.
01:01:57What do you want?
01:01:58I want only to reward you.
01:02:01Did you not ask for a separate sleeping apartment?
01:02:03I'd like to sleep in peace.
01:02:05The main room is noisy at night.
01:02:07And I have a room for you.
01:02:09A pretty chamber, if you will come with me.
01:02:14Unfortunately, you will have to share this comfortable apartment with one other.
01:02:19But I'm sure you won't mind that.
01:02:21Better one than a hundred.
01:02:23This is your new chamber, my dear lady.
01:02:26Won't you enter?
01:02:51You've not driven me mad yet, Sims.
01:02:53I would not go in there.
01:02:55I wanted so much to please you.
01:02:58Wait.
01:02:59This was to show you that all those mawkish theories you learned from the Quaker are lies.
01:03:04Men are not brothers.
01:03:05Men are not born good and kind.
01:03:07Even the mindless ones are savage and must be ruled with force.
01:03:10I know your thoughts on the matter, Sims.
01:03:13They do not interest me.
01:03:15The others, yes, you can prove the little value of gentleness.
01:03:18But look at this man.
01:03:19Look at him and tell me that kind words and tender deeds can rule him.
01:03:24Look.
01:03:24I am looking.
01:03:26Proves nothing.
01:03:27But you don't dare enter the cage with him.
01:03:29That proves much.
01:03:30That proves the falsity of all that you've come to believe.
01:03:33It does not.
01:03:34Then enter the cage.
01:03:36Gentle him with a word.
01:03:38Conquer him with kindness.
01:03:40Or admit that your Quaker lies.
01:03:42That you would enter.
01:04:12My friend, you do not wish to hurt me, nor are you.
01:04:30I, I...
01:04:31Perhaps you'd like to talk.
01:04:34I will listen to you.
01:04:35I, I...
01:04:36I know.
01:04:38You're trying to remember.
01:04:42Some day you will.
01:04:48You will remember.
01:04:51You will remember.
01:04:53Some day you will remember.
01:04:55I, I...
01:05:07And the bailiff came and she went with him to bedlam.
01:05:10Apparently, Sims fears an investigation.
01:05:14Men have rid themselves of unwanted wives for that sweet expedient.
01:05:19But it takes Sims to forestall criticism with imprisonment.
01:05:22I shall not believe such ill, even of him.
01:05:24But she is there.
01:05:25I've spoken with her.
01:05:26She's as sane as thee or me.
01:05:29Mistress Nell, with that bright, quick mind of hers, saner than either a politician or a Quaker.
01:05:33This is still England, Hannie.
01:05:36And we have laws here.
01:05:37Laws of right and justice.
01:05:39And I shall see that Sims feels their full weight.
01:05:42We'll have Nell out a bedlam in a twinkle.
01:05:44Never fear.
01:05:44Let Hull, house of Hull, rejoice with Supus, a bird called a sprite which breaks the eagle's egg.
01:05:52That's not right.
01:05:53Let Scroop, house of Scroop, rejoice with fig wine, palmer primarium vinum.
01:05:57That's not so.
01:05:58Palmer primum is the word.
01:06:00That's not right.
01:06:00Let Hollingstead, house of Hollingstead, rejoice with Sister Terraria's herb of good fellowship.
01:06:04Praise the name of the Lord, September 1762.
01:06:07That's not the word of truth.
01:06:08The word of truth is peace.
01:06:11Wallace, Betty, stop.
01:06:13We were fighting over truth.
01:06:15Wiser people than you have fought over it, Betty.
01:06:27Oh, Mistress Bowen, a word with you.
01:06:30I have good news.
01:06:32You ought to have a new hearing before the commission.
01:06:34When?
01:06:35When it pleases the commission.
01:06:37It will please them to hold your hearing tomorrow afternoon.
01:06:40I'm delighted for your sake.
01:06:41Indeed, I am so pleased.
01:06:44I want to do everything possible to make sure that your hearing is a success, that you will be released.
01:06:50In fact, I've ordered my most beneficent remedy for you.
01:06:54A remedy, Master Simms?
01:06:59Have they not told you?
01:07:05It's my own invention.
01:07:07A cure.
01:07:08A specific for the lax and wandering mind.
01:07:11Look at him.
01:07:12When he came here, he had but one concern, to remember something he had forgotten.
01:07:16I tried to help him with my remedy, but perhaps I was not drastic enough.
01:07:22I need no cure.
01:07:24Just to be sure, Mistress Bowen.
01:07:25No.
01:07:26I've given you an invitation.
01:07:28Now I must speak as your physician.
01:07:29Come with me.
01:07:31I'll take my chances with the commissioners.
01:07:32I need no cure.
01:07:34The apothecary general of Bedlam, I order you.
01:07:36No.
01:07:36If you insist upon it, I must force you.
01:07:39Force me?
01:07:40Here?
01:07:41Look around you.
01:07:42Do you think your friends will help you?
01:07:44I've helped them.
01:07:45You expect them to band together and overwhelm me?
01:07:47If they could reason so, they would not be here.
01:07:50I warn you, Sims.
01:07:52They know me.
01:07:54They know I've helped them.
01:07:55Been kindly.
01:07:55And so they love you and will aid you.
01:07:57Again, that Quaker nonsense.
01:08:00Let go of me.
01:08:02Hold him.
01:08:02Warners, help.
01:08:03Warners.
01:08:04Shut away, Master Sims.
01:08:06Your men are used to Bedlam and its noises.
01:08:08They've heard too many cries to pay attention to one.
01:08:11As for me, I'll just borrow your keys, Master Sims.
01:08:22No, Mistress Bowen, not that way.
01:08:24There's a warder in the hall and another at the front door.
01:08:26But you heard him threaten me with a treatment.
01:08:28I cannot stay here.
01:08:30There's a little window that is left unbarred.
01:08:32I think I know that window, Master Todd.
01:08:33You must be mad if you think I'd climb through that window as Master Colby did and others
01:08:37before him, I dare say.
01:08:38I'm not mad, Mistress Bowen.
01:08:39I'm not like the others here.
01:08:41I've been placed here by my family to keep me from drink so that I may write and support
01:08:45them.
01:08:45I know that little window is dangerous, designed for a death trap, but those who tried before
01:08:51were men of small strength.
01:08:52I know Hercules.
01:08:53Tom could lift you through that window.
01:08:56No, you have more reason than the rest.
01:08:57I expect more of you.
01:08:59You know what I can do, don't you?
01:09:00Then go to the door.
01:09:04Call the warders for me.
01:09:06Do as I say.
01:09:08But the rest, what will they do to me?
01:09:10Don't be afraid of their vengeance.
01:09:12They can't think far enough ahead for that.
01:09:14They're lunatics.
01:09:15They've been tried and found incompetent by fair trial.
01:09:18Trial?
01:09:19Trial?
01:09:20Quo warranto corpus delecticum granos salus.
01:09:23Ah, yes.
01:09:24I'd forgotten.
01:09:25You were a lawyer.
01:09:26A lawyer, sir.
01:09:27I am a judge.
01:09:30I am a judge.
01:09:31I am the most skilled of them all.
01:09:34And you shall be judged.
01:09:36Judged, I say.
01:09:38Venus, hold this man.
01:09:40You can go through that door.
01:09:43Try him.
01:09:44Try him.
01:09:44A fair trial for Master Sims.
01:09:46A fair trial.
01:09:46Mistress Mone, speak to the police.
01:09:48Speak to them.
01:09:49I beseech you.
01:09:50Give Master Sims a fair trial.
01:09:57Tom, you must get up on the roof.
01:10:11You ought to go first.
01:10:13And then you ought to pull me up.
01:10:14Up.
01:10:15You understand?
01:10:16You understand?
01:10:16Tom.
01:10:34Tom.
01:10:40Tom.
01:10:42Tom.
01:10:44Tom.
01:10:44Tom.
01:10:44Tom.
01:10:47Tom.
01:10:49Tom.
01:10:51Tom.
01:11:12Tom.
01:11:12I'm Solomon the Wise.
01:11:14Split him in two.
01:11:16Split him in two.
01:11:17And so we have brought this man before you to answer for these crimes.
01:11:21These crimes which I shall number for you.
01:11:23Neglect.
01:11:25Cruelty.
01:11:27Whippings, beatings, dirty straw to lie upon.
01:11:30Chains.
01:11:32Starvation.
01:11:33Stealing our food.
01:11:34For all these crimes, my lord and gentlemen of the jury, I ask justice.
01:11:39Kill him!
01:11:39Kill him!
01:11:40Kill him!
01:11:40Kill him!
01:11:41Kill him!
01:11:41Kill him!
01:11:42Kill him!
01:11:42Let me speak!
01:11:43Let me speak!
01:11:44Let me speak!
01:11:45Let me speak!
01:11:46My friends, I beg of you, let me speak!
01:11:49Let me speak!
01:11:50William!
01:11:51Hush!
01:11:52This is God's house.
01:11:54I broke free from Bedlam.
01:11:56They should not have run from there.
01:11:58They were to have a new hearing tomorrow.
01:12:00If I'd lived until then, he had some treatment he was to give me.
01:12:03A treatment that made even the maddest of them shudder to hear.
01:12:06I ran, and they have him now.
01:12:08Who has him?
01:12:09The loonies.
01:12:10They have seized him and are trying him in mockery.
01:12:13They will kill him.
01:12:14It is what he deserves.
01:12:16Shh!
01:12:17They should not speak that way of any man.
01:12:18They will.
01:12:19They will kill him.
01:12:20Then they must go to him.
01:12:21They must speak to the poor afflicted ones and save him.
01:12:25Save him?
01:12:25Can one know what is in his mind?
01:12:28Can one know what sickness lies in it?
01:12:30As they were kind to those in Bedlam, so they must be kind to those whose sickness forces them to hurt their fellow man.
01:12:36But Sims...
01:12:37Has not Sims a madness that they can pity?
01:12:43Come.
01:12:44We'll get Wilkes.
01:12:45He'll help us.
01:12:51But why, Sims?
01:12:52Why?
01:12:53I did not want to hurt you.
01:12:54I did not want to put chains on you, to steal from you, to starve you.
01:12:58But you did.
01:12:59And now it's our turn.
01:13:01You will not dare harm me.
01:13:02They'll load you with chains, scourge you with the cat.
01:13:05Then you shall really know what cruelty can be.
01:13:08I warn you.
01:13:09Your vengeance isn't our present concern.
01:13:11What you've done concerns us.
01:13:13Why you did it?
01:13:14I've told you because I had to.
01:13:16Even as you do things because you have to do them.
01:13:19Even as you drink.
01:13:20But why?
01:13:21Why?
01:13:22I was frightened.
01:13:23Did you beat us out of fright, Sims?
01:13:25Did you starve us out of fear?
01:13:27Split him in two.
01:13:28Is that why you still threaten us if harm comes to you?
01:13:31The rods, the chains, I warn you.
01:13:34You spoke of your fear.
01:13:35Fear of what?
01:13:36Speak quickly.
01:13:37Of the great world.
01:13:38The great world of this age that gave me my place.
01:13:41The comforts and the authority.
01:13:43What little I have of riches.
01:13:45What that world thinks, I must think.
01:13:47What they do, I must do.
01:13:49But you know better.
01:13:50You're a scholar.
01:13:51A man of letters.
01:13:51What I know means nothing.
01:13:54I've had to fawn and toady and make a mock of myself till all I could hear was the world laughing at me.
01:14:00But once I had what I wanted.
01:14:03This, my place here.
01:14:06You were afraid to lose it.
01:14:07I could not.
01:14:09I had to please those to whose favor I owed everything.
01:14:13I was afraid.
01:14:15You had to strike us.
01:14:16Yes, yes.
01:14:17Can't you understand?
01:14:19I understand.
01:14:20And our punishment?
01:14:21Let me go and there will be no punishment.
01:14:25He is sane.
01:14:26There is a fear within him.
01:14:27A fear that strikes out.
01:14:29That claws and tears at the world like a singed cat.
01:14:32He is sane.
01:14:33He will not punish us.
01:14:35He is sane.
01:14:36The man is sane.
01:14:38Spirman, too.
01:14:38No, no, wait.
01:14:40Wait, I say.
01:14:41This man has been Judge Sane.
01:14:43He has no place here.
01:14:44He must leave.
01:14:45You cannot harm him.
01:14:46No.
01:14:47It is the order of the court that he is sane and that he shall be free.
01:14:53Bailiffs, release the prisoner.
01:14:55Bailiffs, release the prisoner.
01:14:55Bailiffs, release the prisoner.
01:14:57Bailiffs, release the prisoner.
01:15:08They will punish us for this.
01:15:16All of us.
01:15:18The apothecary general is dead.
01:15:20We must hide him somewhere.
01:15:22We must hide him so that they will never know.
01:15:25Bailiffs, release the prisoner.
01:15:41Bailiffs, release the prisoner.
01:15:45Come on.
01:16:15Come on.
01:16:45Come on.
01:16:48And when we got here, Master Wilkes, he'd gone.
01:16:51Long said he'd just left, disappeared.
01:16:54Yes, that's all I could get out of Long.
01:16:56But I know they must have killed him.
01:16:58It's so preposterous, Master Wilkes.
01:17:01A man like Sims doesn't just disappear.
01:17:03And that's precisely why he disappeared.
01:17:08They tried him, found him guilty of sanity, then let him go.
01:17:13Can you imagine what was in his mind?
01:17:15The mind of this man who had sworn by all that was holy to aid and protect these people.
01:17:20Can you imagine his feeling of guilt?
01:17:22I think that's what drove him to run away.
01:17:24No, they killed him.
01:17:26Killed him and hid his body somewhere.
01:17:28You can't prove that without finding his body.
01:17:30We shall find it.
01:17:31And we shall punish them.
01:17:32Yes, I know.
01:17:33The chains, the beatings.
01:17:36I tell you, it's no good.
01:17:37What you need here is a better man to fill the post that Sims has fled from.
01:17:42And after him, a better man.
01:17:44And so on, until things here are as they should be.
01:17:47All kindness and care for these poor single people.
01:17:52You're not going to tell them.
01:17:53You must know what it will mean to those people in there.
01:17:57Is it not worth a little silence to save them suffering?
01:18:00I must tell the truth.
01:18:01But no one has asked you.
01:18:03I have heard there was much rejoicing in heaven for the lost lamb that returned to the fold.
01:18:11Silence can win you a lost lamb, Master Hanny.
01:18:14That's a fundamentalist theory.
01:18:16I do not care what it is.
01:18:17I'm only asking you not to add to the burden of those poor people.
01:18:21You who profess to love them.
01:18:23Do they think that I would tell?
01:18:25These people are not guilty under the law.
01:18:27Not answerable for what they do.
01:18:29Why should I add to their burdens?
01:18:30I should never have thought that of thee.
01:18:34I should have known that thy hand would not add to the weight that they must bear.
01:18:39Thee has too much heart for that.
01:18:42Are we lovers that you thee and thou me?
01:18:44Thee has too much heart for that.
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