The Royal Bed

Cue-sheet for Llywelyn

(Siwan) The music's over now.
 
(Siwan) Llywelyn and soldiers rush in.
(1, 0) 464 Take him. Tie his hands and arms.
(Gwilym) You won't need to do that.
 
(Gwilym) I've no dagger or sword.
(1, 0) 467 Tie him up I said. Stand him here.
(1, 0) 468 Gwilym Brewys. I caught you once before,
(1, 0) 469 In battle. As a prisoner of war
(1, 0) 470 You were free to walk this castle's halls,
(1, 0) 471 Your wounds were nursed …
(1, 0) 472 This is how you repay me!
(1, 0) 473 Making Gwynedd's queen a harlot
(1, 0) 474 And myself a cuckold, to be ridiculed
(1, 0) 475 In the courts of France and England.
(Gwilym) Now there spits the rhetoric of wounded pride.
 
(Gwilym) Of my wealth – take anything you want.
(1, 0) 488 This indiscretion? Make you pay!
(1, 0) 489 You French lords are lousy jesters.
(1, 0) 490 When I beat you in battle that cost you
(1, 0) 491 A third of all you owned. The whole
(1, 0) 492 Of your possessions wouldn't come close
(1, 0) 493 To paying for this infamy tonight.
(1, 0) 494 Oh yes, I'll take your castle in Builth.
(1, 0) 495 I'll also take your life.
(Gwilym) That's more than you would dare.
 
(Gwilym) Could ruin Gwynedd.
(1, 0) 502 If the Pope himself and the whole
(1, 0) 503 Of Christendom vowed to rise against me –
(1, 0) 504 I'd still take your life.
(Gwilym) Oh! This isn't righteous anger
 
(Gwilym) In the whole of Europe has a husband who …
(1, 0) 509 Shut him up men. Gag his insolence.
(Siwan) My Lord. May I ask a question?
 
(Siwan) My Lord. May I ask a question?
(1, 0) 512 You?
(Siwan) Yesterday you bade farewell to my brother
 
(Siwan) The king before he set forth for France.
(1, 0) 515 What of that?
(Siwan) Was it then Hubert de Burgh who told you of this?
 
(Siwan) Was it then Hubert de Burgh who told you of this?
(1, 0) 517 And if it was, would that
(1, 0) 518 Make your whoring any less heinous?
(Siwan) He owns strategic shires to the south of our kingdom.
 
(Siwan) His power's expanding, his wealth growing.
(1, 0) 521 This is no time to discuss Hubert's estates.
(Siwan) Hubert is close to taking the rest of Glamorgan
 
(Siwan) To match the size and strength of Gwynedd here.
(1, 0) 525 Ma dame – I don't hear your counselling.
(1, 0) 526 I see only this treachery
(1, 0) 527 This desecration of my bed, my wife …
(Siwan) Gwilym Brewys has no male heir.
 
(Siwan) And the security of our princedom, Dafydd's future throne …
(1, 0) 532 Aye, no one but he.
(1, 0) 533 Yet you'll not persuade me.
(1, 0) 534 You'll not have your way.
(Siwan) If you kill Gwilym, his territories will fragment
 
(Siwan) That you rushed home tonight?
(1, 0) 539 Ma dame your concern for me is touching.
(Siwan) It's not easy to set aside
 
(Siwan) A quarter of a century's politicking.
(1, 0) 542 Easy though to cast aside your clothes
(1, 0) 543 To toss your purity to the swine.
(Siwan) I've wronged you. Of course I have. But now
 
(Siwan) Our son's inheritance Llywelyn.
(1, 0) 547 Are you claiming that such thoughts
(1, 0) 548 Were in your mind as you took
(1, 0) 549 This scoundrel to the royal bed?
(Siwan) I'm asking you to pause, to think.
 
(Siwan) Isn't a reason for letting your teeth be drawn.
(1, 0) 553 Not even adultery's enough for you.
(1, 0) 554 Your shameless mocking
(1, 0) 555 Is insult upon injury Siwan.
(Siwan) I'm a Frenchwoman. And a King's daughter.
 
(Siwan) Aren't part of my upbringing Llywelyn.
(1, 0) 559 A Frenchwoman best served by a Frenchman eh?
(Siwan) I'm trying to protect your life's achievements
 
(Siwan) This kingdom's southern borders.
(1, 0) 564 Gwilym Brewys's life is what you're desperately trying to save.
(Siwan) Yes … Yes.
 
(Siwan) Yes … Yes.
(1, 0) 566 So, then – he will die.
(Siwan) And your kingdom, the future
 
(Siwan) We've been building for Dafydd?
(1, 0) 569 To hell with the kingdom and with you.
(1, 0) 570 I've lost my wife tonight.
(1, 0) 571 Now you can lose your lover.
(Siwan) You daren't kill him.
 
(Siwan) You daren't kill him.
(1, 0) 573 Take him to the dungeons.
(Siwan) My brother – he'll come back from France …
 
(Siwan) The King of England, Llywelyn …
(1, 0) 576 This vermin will hang. Like a common brigand.
(Siwan) Gwilym!
 
(Siwan) Gwilym!
(1, 0) 578 Yes. He'll hang.
(Siwan) Gwilym!
 
(Siwan) Gwilym!
(1, 0) 581 No – stay away from him.
 
(1, 0) 583 I never thought I'd hit you …
(1, 0) 584 Take him from here.
(1, 0) 585 Take her to the tower loft.
(1, 0) 586 And lock her up.
(Alis) Have you woken ma dame?
 
(Alis) Ma dame!
(2, 0) 919 Take that chain and fetter from her leg.
(2, 0) 920 Her degradation's done. Over.
 
(2, 0) 922 I wouldn't dare, would I? I wouldn't dare?
(Siwan) From the depth of this hell in my heart, I curse you
 
(Alis) She'll be here with you shortly.
(3, 0) 931 I sent my son to escort her here.
(3, 0) 932 Is he with her?
(Alis) Yes, Sir. This is the first time my mistress
 
(Alis) Has seen him since his wedding.
(3, 0) 935 A whole year, yes … Is she well?
(Alis) As well as can be expected, after
 
(Alis) A year's imprisonment.
(3, 0) 938 Confinement, not imprisonment. She had everything
(3, 0) 939 She asked for, apart from her freedom. Two maids
(3, 0) 940 Waiting on her every whim, a courtyard for fresh air …
(Alis) Yes. Everything except her freedom.
 
(Alis) Yes. Everything except her freedom.
(3, 0) 942 And by that, you're implying – what?
(3, 0) 943 Tell me girl.
(Alis) A command, Sir?
 
(Alis) A command, Sir?
(3, 0) 945 A command, yes.
(Alis) Your son, Prince Dafydd, got married.
 
(Alis) She was left on her own with her thoughts.
(3, 0) 950 My son married Gwilym Brewys's daughter,
(3, 0) 951 As arranged. How could we have allowed
(3, 0) 952 Your mistress to have danced
(3, 0) 953 In the hall of Brewys's widow?
(Alis) The wedding dance is only a ceremony.
 
(Alis) The wedding dance is only a ceremony.
(3, 0) 955 For a royal family life itself
(3, 0) 956 Is often only a ceremony.
(Alis) She's changed, my Lord.
 
(Alis) She's changed, my Lord.
(3, 0) 958 Everybody changes. Even our memories change.
(3, 0) 959 Anger changes. Vengeance changes.
(3, 0) 960 How has your mistress changed?
(3, 0) 961 Tell me what your observed.
(Alis) This whole year gone, she's not struck me once.
 
(Alis) This whole year gone, she's not struck me once.
(3, 0) 963 Have you deserved to be struck?
(Alis) {Laughs.}
 
(Alis) Striking servants is done from habit, not desserts.
(3, 0) 967 And she's let that habit slip?
(Alis) My Lord, before her confinement
 
(Alis) She was young at heart.
(3, 0) 970 That's not what was on your mind, girl.
(3, 0) 971 Tell me what was.
(Alis) I've said all I dare, Sir.
 
(Alis) I've said all I dare, Sir.
(3, 0) 973 The hanging of Gwilym Brewys devastated her.
(3, 0) 974 Her love of life went with Gwilym into that noose.
(3, 0) 975 That's what you're telling me.
(Alis) That's my worry, Sir. And you did ask me.
 
(Alis) That's my worry, Sir. And you did ask me.
(3, 0) 977 I have to ask someone. A year
(3, 0) 978 Without a beating has made you impudent.
(Alis) I'm not a serf or a peasant's daughter.
 
(Alis) My father was a freeman.
(3, 0) 981 You're also married aren't you?
(Alis) A widow these last three years my Lord.
 
(Alis) A widow these last three years my Lord.
(3, 0) 983 Forgive me. Yes. One of my retinue.
(3, 0) 984 He was killed in battle at Castell Baldwyn.
(3, 0) 985 A brave lad.
(Alis) I'd only seen him once before being betrothed to him
 
(Alis) It all seems like some young girl's daydream.
(3, 0) 990 But a daydream, not a nightmare?
(3, 0) 991 He was killed as we tried to scale the castle walls.
(3, 0) 992 I remember it. D'you remember bidding him goodbye?
(Alis) In the small hours.
 
(Alis) We were just starting to get to know each other.
(3, 0) 1000 Every husband and wife
(3, 0) 1001 Are just starting to get to know each other,
(3, 0) 1002 Whether it's two weeks or twenty years.
(3, 0) 1003 You're a brave one too.
(Alis) Me, Sir?
 
(Alis) Me, Sir?
(3, 0) 1005 You got on with living your life.
(Alis) Did I have a choice?
 
(Alis) Did I have a choice?
(3, 0) 1007 There isn't one brave and thinking soul
(3, 0) 1008 Who hasn't at some point contemplated
(3, 0) 1009 Not carrying on with life.
(3, 0) 1010 To us all, life is a gruelling gift.
(Alis) Even for a prince?
 
(Alis) Even for a prince?
(3, 0) 1012 A prince is a man isn't he?
(Alis) Are you going to say that to the Princess, Sir?
 
(Alis) Are you going to say that to the Princess, Sir?
(3, 0) 1014 Doesn't she already know?
(Alis) It would help her to hear you say it.
 
(Alis) The woman too loses part of her love.
(3, 0) 1024 Showing a weak side is to show one's humanity –
(3, 0) 1025 Is that it?
(Alis) Gwilym Brewys was a child, Sir. A young child.
 
(Alis) Gwilym Brewys was a child, Sir. A young child.
(3, 0) 1027 And it's little children who enter the kingdom of love?
(3, 0) 1028 I'll mull over your lessons Alis.
(Alis) My Lord, I'm only a maid. You asked me to speak.
 
(Alis) All of us have already felt.
(3, 0) 1037 The Pope's excommunication will yet come,
(3, 0) 1038 If that's of any consequence now …
(Alis) So the stories are true?
 
(Alis) So the stories are true?
(3, 0) 1040 What rumours have you heard around the court?
(Alis) That you're going to war
 
(Alis) Against the King of England.
(3, 0) 1043 That issue is to be settled today,
(3, 0) 1044 By your mistress. The choice is hers.
(3, 0) 1045 A war, or the end of Gwynedd. That's why
(3, 0) 1046 I called her up from the confinement of her rooms.
(3, 0) 1047 The fate of Wales lies in her hands.
(Alis) Sir – here she is.
 
(Alis) Sir – here she is.
(3, 0) 1049 Stay nearby, in the maidservants' room. I may
(3, 0) 1050 Need to call you back in a while. I hope so.
(Siwan) You called for me, my Lord. Here I am.
 
(Siwan) You called for me, my Lord. Here I am.
(3, 0) 1054 Siwan!
(Siwan) My Lord?
 
(Siwan) My Lord?
(3, 0) 1056 Siwan!
 
(3, 0) 1058 Siwan – it's me, Llywelyn … Siwan!
(Siwan) Llywelyn?
 
(Siwan) Llywelyn?
(3, 0) 1060 I need you Siwan … Me, Llywelyn.
 
(3, 0) 1062 I need you Siwan.
(Siwan) You need me?
 
(Siwan) How can that be?
(3, 0) 1065 Why shouldn't that be?
(Siwan) I've been a prisoner for months now my Lord.
 
(Siwan) I've been a prisoner for months now my Lord.
(3, 0) 1067 A year to this morning.
(3, 0) 1068 Oh yes – I've been counting the days too.
(Siwan) Is today May Day eve? I've lost count.
 
(Siwan) Is today May Day eve? I've lost count.
(3, 0) 1070 It is May Day eve.
(Siwan) Do you have to be so unfeeling towards your prisoner?
 
(Siwan) Do you have to be so unfeeling towards your prisoner?
(3, 0) 1072 Unfeeling? What do you mean?
(3, 0) 1073 I don't understand.
(Siwan) Today of all days – ordering me here
 
(Siwan) Straight from my prison. Why did you call me?
(3, 0) 1076 To continue that talk between us. The talk
(3, 0) 1077 That started and ended a year ago.
(Siwan) No, no, no. Not ever again.
 
(Siwan) Let me get back to my cell.
(3, 0) 1081 I need you, Siwan. I'm begging, not commanding
(3, 0) 1082 And I didn't choose this morning to wound you.
(3, 0) 1083 Last night a messenger came to me from South Wales.
(3, 0) 1084 That's why I've summoned you now. God rest Gwilym's soul.
(3, 0) 1085 Hubert de Burgh is the thorn in my flesh now.
(3, 0) 1086 Here – that night – you foresaw this.
(3, 0) 1087 You foretold it, like some Cassandra.
(3, 0) 1088 All your words have come to pass, and I
(3, 0) 1089 Must once more go to war against your brother.
(Siwan) Once more to war? Is that the Council's advice?
 
(Siwan) Once more to war? Is that the Council's advice?
(3, 0) 1091 The Council hasn't yet been convened.
(3, 0) 1092 I'm seeking your advice first.
(3, 0) 1093 Then I'll consult my councillors.
(Siwan) Why my advice?
 
(Siwan) Why my advice?
(3, 0) 1095 I've a right to your advice. Adultery
(3, 0) 1096 And confinement don't lessen my rights.
(Siwan) Yes, you have a right. I gave you that right.
 
(Siwan) But why do you exercise your right today?
(3, 0) 1100 The prerogative of Gwynedd's crown
(3, 0) 1101 Is what I'm exercising. And that crown
(3, 0) 1102 Is now what's at stake.
(Siwan) And you're ordering me to co-operate?
 
(Siwan) And you're ordering me to co-operate?
(3, 0) 1104 If that's how you wish to see it.
(Siwan) Why d'you need to go to war again?
 
(Siwan) You're almost sixty. What d'you have to prove?
(3, 0) 1107 I was informed last night
(3, 0) 1108 Of William Marshall's death.
(Siwan) I've been a whole year without news,
 
(Siwan) Take us to the brink of war?
(3, 0) 1113 Last year Gwilym Brewys's lands
(3, 0) 1114 Were placed in Marshall's charge.
(Siwan) And now?
 
(Siwan) And now?
(3, 0) 1116 Those lands now pass on to Hubert de Burgh.
(Siwan) Fortune comes to those who seek it.
 
(Siwan) I seem to recall telling you so.
(3, 0) 1120 And the Earl of Gloucester recently died.
(Siwan) And his successor is his little son?
 
(Siwan) And his successor is his little son?
(3, 0) 1122 Yes. The child's guardian
(3, 0) 1123 Also happens to be Hubert de Burgh.
(Siwan) {Laughs.}
 
(Siwan) In Gloucester and Glamorgan?
(3, 0) 1127 Hubert has charge of those too.
(Siwan) Your friend Hubert grows ever more corpulent
 
(Siwan) Or a diet of very wily design.
(3, 0) 1131 Everything you prophesied is coming true, Siwan.
(Siwan) That won't undo a death or unknot a noose.
 
(Siwan) God rest Gwilym's soul. Hubert is a viper.
(3, 0) 1136 His lands are now stretched from Hereford to Cardigan,
(3, 0) 1137 Spanning all Dyfed, Gower, Brecon and Glamorgan.
(3, 0) 1138 Gwilym Brewys and Marshall and the Earl of Gloucester
(3, 0) 1139 Have all served to feed Hubert's voracious aspirations.
(Siwan) And he's Chancellor to the English crown.
 
(3, 0) 1144 It's madness I know. But how can I sit back
(3, 0) 1145 Without forcing fortune? There are still lands
(3, 0) 1146 To the South split among the grandsons of Lord Rhys
(3, 0) 1147 Which cling to their independence, and to my
(3, 0) 1148 Protection. I must show that I still have
(3, 0) 1149 The strength to deserve their allegiance.
(Siwan) If you do nothing – will Hubert
 
(Siwan) Court those weaker lords?
(3, 0) 1152 Yes. And then his lands.
(3, 0) 1153 Would be greater than Gwynedd.
(3, 0) 1154 He would be two thirds of Wales.
(3, 0) 1155 His jaws a pincer closing round my northern kingdom.
(Siwan) We can't have two great Princes
 
(Siwan) Astride this nation's land.
(3, 0) 1158 That's my quandary.
(3, 0) 1159 That's why I need to act soon.
(Siwan) And where's my brother now?
 
(Siwan) And where's my brother now?
(3, 0) 1161 The King's in the English Court.
(3, 0) 1162 I must rally my lands to attack him
(3, 0) 1163 And use that call to arms to widen the war
(3, 0) 1164 Against Hubert and the Marcher lords
(3, 0) 1165 For they're all arrayed against me.
(3, 0) 1166 I'm now the common foe.
(Siwan) All against you? Then you dare not go to war
 
(Siwan) That we would hand on to Dafydd our son.
(3, 0) 1173 But never before have Glamorgan and the South
(3, 0) 1174 United under one Prince, threatening us.
(3, 0) 1175 War is now inevitable.
(Siwan) War is inevitable. Yes. But when we
 
(Siwan) Dafydd's inheritance is at stake.
(3, 0) 1180 Everything you and I have striven for
(3, 0) 1181 Is at stake. My crown, our bloodline,
(3, 0) 1182 Wales's proud standing and secure future.
(Siwan) A year ago today you should have
 
(Siwan) Given thought to these great matters.
(3, 0) 1185 A year ago today I did consider these matters fully.
(Siwan) Did you?
 
(Siwan) Did you?
(3, 0) 1187 Here – in this room – you prophesied
(3, 0) 1188 The consequences of executing Gwilym Brewys.
(3, 0) 1189 Then in the Council, at the Court, I repeated
(3, 0) 1190 Your warnings. I spared no details.
(3, 0) 1191 They were debated. Ednyfed Fychan agreed with you.
(3, 0) 1192 The Bishop of Bangor agreed. I too believed you.
(3, 0) 1193 I knew that the Kingdom of Gwynedd and my crown
(3, 0) 1194 Were being risked, when I hanged Gwilym Brewys.
(Siwan) May I ask you then, why you did?
 
(Siwan) May I ask you then, why you did?
(3, 0) 1196 It's right that I tell you why,
(3, 0) 1197 And I will tell you shortly. But first my Lady,
(3, 0) 1198 Matters of policy. Back to the old discipline.
(Siwan) What of England and the Marcher lands?
 
(Siwan) Are there any weaknesses there now?
(3, 0) 1201 There lies our hope. The earls and bishops
(3, 0) 1202 Who went on the crusades are returning.
(Siwan) Including Hubert's fiercest enemy, the Bishop Peter?
 
(Siwan) Including Hubert's fiercest enemy, the Bishop Peter?
(3, 0) 1204 Yes. He'll be back in England
(3, 0) 1205 Before the summer's end.
(Siwan) England's court and the Marches
 
(Siwan) Can you delay war until then?
(3, 0) 1209 No. I can not – not if I hope to keep
(3, 0) 1210 The southern lords' allegiance. If they see me
(3, 0) 1211 Stalling now, they'll scuttle like mice
(3, 0) 1212 To Hubert's house. I must attack before summer.
(Siwan) Would early in June be soon enough?
 
(Siwan) Would early in June be soon enough?
(3, 0) 1214 Perhaps. Why?
(Siwan) Let loose the southern lords now – to take
 
(Siwan) Does become a reality.
(3, 0) 1231 Your advice seems sound. And your advice
(3, 0) 1232 Is in the best traditions
(3, 0) 1233 Of Gwynedd's measured policy making.
(3, 0) 1234 Retaking those newly garnered lands
(3, 0) 1235 In Hubert's kingdom would buckle again
(3, 0) 1236 The belt of my grip on Wales.
(3, 0) 1237 I'll follow your advice, Siwan – on one condition.
(Siwan) Does the condition have to do with me?
 
(Siwan) Does the condition have to do with me?
(3, 0) 1239 I'll follow your advice
(3, 0) 1240 If you return today to my table and my bed.
(Siwan) Does that imply forgiveness?
 
(Siwan) Does that imply forgiveness?
(3, 0) 1242 Would you accept that?
(Siwan) Forgiving is a form of overcoming.
 
(Siwan) I haven't forgiven you.
(3, 0) 1245 For killing Gwilym Brewys?
(Siwan) I knew that his life was destined to be short.
 
(Siwan) Before the crowds of your subjects.
(3, 0) 1256 He died with dignified disdain – it was
(3, 0) 1257 A death worthy of your love.
(Siwan) Your councillors were ashamed.
 
(Siwan) Ashamed of your obsessive hate.
(3, 0) 1261 Didn't it cross your mind Siwan
(3, 0) 1262 That I could love you as much as Gwilym Brewys did?
(Siwan) You – you, love me? No …
 
(Siwan) You – you, love me? No …
(3, 0) 1264 Is the chasm between us that great?
(Siwan) My Lord – I was given to you, a bride,
 
(Siwan) You strung him up like some crow on a garden pole.
(3, 0) 1283 That's true. I regret that to this day.
(3, 0) 1284 He had to die.
(3, 0) 1285 But I didn't have to hang him.
(Siwan) Why then? Why? I can't live with you,
 
(Siwan) Without being told why.
(3, 0) 1289 You can't understand why. For you, I don't exist.
(Siwan) You exist as a nightmare does. Since that day.
 
(Siwan) You exist as a nightmare does. Since that day.
(3, 0) 1291 I know. Your Gwilym was closer to me in one way
(3, 0) 1292 Than you were. He saw me as a person.
(3, 0) 1293 I had to gag his mouth, to stop him
(3, 0) 1294 Betraying my truth before you.
(Siwan) Tell me what Gwilym saw then.
 
(Siwan) I've a right to know.
(3, 0) 1298 Telling you would be like baring my breast
(3, 0) 1299 To your venom's barbs.
(Siwan) A year's imprisonment has blunted those barbs.
 
(Siwan) A year's imprisonment has blunted those barbs.
(3, 0) 1301 Our marriage was a political union.
(3, 0) 1302 Between us – a divide of twenty five years.
(3, 0) 1303 That's the common practice. That's how
(3, 0) 1304 Political pacts are made. The fate
(3, 0) 1305 Of countries and crowns hang on such things.
(3, 0) 1306 But four years after that wedding, when you
(3, 0) 1307 Came to Arfon, a vision of virginal beauty,
(3, 0) 1308 My heart stopped, I was breathless, as if I'd seen the Grail.
(3, 0) 1309 There was a light where your feet had walked
(3, 0) 1310 And when I felt you trembling.
(3, 0) 1311 Pressed against me, girdled by my arms,
(3, 0) 1312 I said, I showed … nothing. I didn't want
(3, 0) 1313 To give you any cause for further fright.
(3, 0) 1314 I didn't even discomfort you with a kiss.
(3, 0) 1315 No cloying embraces. Nothing to make you
(3, 0) 1316 Recoil from me. I held back. I was courteous,
(3, 0) 1317 Even formal, in my advances. You relaxed.
(3, 0) 1318 Into the familiarity of these rooms, into my company
(3, 0) 1319 And I became part, a vital part perhaps
(3, 0) 1320 Of your days' routine.
(3, 0) 1321 I worshipped you from a discreet distance,
(3, 0) 1322 From afar and without voicing my thoughts.
(3, 0) 1323 And, wanting to involve myself with you more,
(3, 0) 1324 I began engaging you in the affairs of my state.
(3, 0) 1325 I saw your wisdom, your acumen, burgeoning.
(3, 0) 1326 You impressed me so. I remember that afternoon
(3, 0) 1327 You returned from England, from your father's court.
(3, 0) 1328 There was the threat of invasion then.
(3, 0) 1329 You were only fifteen, and Dafydd our son
(3, 0) 1330 Hardly two months old. You had saved
(3, 0) 1331 My kingdom, had staved off war.
(3, 0) 1332 That night it was you who embraced me.
(3, 0) 1333 I had no language to express my bliss,
(3, 0) 1334 I had to stop my own body from trembling …
(3, 0) 1335 After that night I became ruthless
(3, 0) 1336 Towards this kingdom's enemies. I resolved to build
(3, 0) 1337 A mighty inheritance for our son. If I could,
(3, 0) 1338 I wanted to give him the whole of Wales.
(3, 0) 1339 I persuaded the Pope and the English crown
(3, 0) 1340 To acknowledge me as the Prince of Wales.
(3, 0) 1341 I constructed a great kingdom,
(3, 0) 1342 As a shrine to you, a monument of my love for you.
(Siwan) Llywelyn, I didn't know. I didn't know.
 
(Siwan) Llywelyn, I didn't know. I didn't know.
(3, 0) 1344 What good would it have done you to know.
(3, 0) 1345 There was a mountain range of years
(3, 0) 1346 Between us. I understand that too,
(3, 0) 1347 I'm a statesman. I don't ask the impossible.
(3, 0) 1348 For me, your fidelity sufficed.
(Siwan) In twenty years of living together
 
(Siwan) You never said that.
(3, 0) 1351 In twenty years of living together
(3, 0) 1352 You never saw that.
(Siwan) Because of that jealousy – you hanged him?
 
(Siwan) Because of that jealousy – you hanged him?
(3, 0) 1354 Jealousy, yes, perhaps.
(3, 0) 1355 But you gave him the gallows.
(Siwan) Me? … Me?
 
(Siwan) Me? … Me?
(3, 0) 1357 You thought it wise, in your contempt for me,
(3, 0) 1358 To try to sway my mind with political persuasion.
(3, 0) 1359 You thought I'd trade my desecrated bed
(3, 0) 1360 For a castle gained, that I'd accept
(3, 0) 1361 That my wife had been soiled, just to keep a pact
(3, 0) 1362 And secure borders.
(3, 0) 1363 I answered contempt with contempt.
(3, 0) 1364 I hanged him to make your threats become real,
(3, 0) 1365 To show the wife who sullied me
(3, 0) 1366 That there was one thing for which
(3, 0) 1367 I'd throw away my crown and kingdom.
(Siwan) Llywelyn – Llywelyn!
 
(Siwan) Isn't a matter of chancing and daring on a whim.
(3, 0) 1373 Your contempt for me that night
(3, 0) 1374 Undid half a century's careful strategy.
(Siwan) That was the opposite of my intention.
 
(Siwan) That was the opposite of my intention.
(3, 0) 1376 The unintentional is the key to how history happens.
(3, 0) 1377 That night your clenched mind opened and handed me
(3, 0) 1378 A key to unlock mayhem.
(Siwan) You credit me with too much significance Llywelyn.
 
(Siwan) They'll never share a common sphere.
(3, 0) 1390 That's what marriage is. Having the ties
(3, 0) 1391 Without the common knowing.
(3, 0) 1392 Drifting into it, uninformed, untutored –
(3, 0) 1393 A grown man and a child are in the same trap.
(3, 0) 1394 Each a victim of what's forced upon him, by chance.
(3, 0) 1395 Lost in intricate games
(3, 0) 1396 Where he had no say in drawing up the rules.
(Siwan) But war? That's by design, not chance.
 
(Siwan) But war? That's by design, not chance.
(3, 0) 1398 And that depends on you.
(3, 0) 1399 Will you come back to my table and my bed?
(Siwan) What does that have to do with war?
 
(Siwan) What does that have to do with war?
(3, 0) 1401 The war's inevitable now.
(3, 0) 1402 You may still choose what you do with me.
(Siwan) I'm a prisoner. Your sentence separated us.
 
(Siwan) Why not command me to come back to you.
(3, 0) 1405 You must come back of your own accord.
(Siwan) If I refuse?
 
(Siwan) If I refuse?
(3, 0) 1407 Then – I'll go to war. And lead the fighting myself.
(Siwan) And not return? That threat's unworthy.
 
(Siwan) And not return? That threat's unworthy.
(3, 0) 1409 You, a princess and a king's daughter,
(3, 0) 1410 You're well versed in threats and ultimata.
(3, 0) 1411 They're part of our lives daily.
(Siwan) I can't come back to your bed
 
(Siwan) Without your forgiveness.
(3, 0) 1414 You know that's been offered.
(Siwan) On your conditions. I won't grovel for
 
(Siwan) To the Man Who Was God?
(3, 0) 1434 I'm not worthy of you Siwan.
(Siwan) Every married woman is told that
 
(Siwan) Are at their most dangerous.
(3, 0) 1438 Can you forgive me Siwan?
(Siwan) Llywelyn the Great asking forgiveness from a harlot?
 
(Siwan) Llywelyn the Great asking forgiveness from a harlot?
(3, 0) 1440 That night, that twelvemonth back,
(3, 0) 1441 My love flamed into hate. Malice.
(3, 0) 1442 That night, I'll tell you, –
(Siwan) No. Don't tell me the truth.
 
(Siwan) I'm a defeated woman who wants to win one more skirmish.
(3, 0) 1447 Will you forgive me Siwan?
(Siwan) For what? Calling me a whore?
 
(Siwan) The name sat on me easily enough.
(3, 0) 1450 The hanging. That fit of fury.
(3, 0) 1451 For relishing your anguish.
(Siwan) The residue of all this is your pitiful state.
 
(Siwan) Put up with that? Can you not hate me?
(3, 0) 1467 Will you come back to me Siwan?
(Siwan) Between us in that bed
 
(Siwan) Will be the stench of your trust's defiling.
(3, 0) 1470 If you return, between us in that bed
(3, 0) 1471 Will be your lover's corpse swinging from a rope.
(Siwan) What shall we do with them Llywelyn?
 
(Siwan) What shall we do with them Llywelyn?
(3, 0) 1473 Reach out our arms over them, and touch.
(3, 0) 1474 Take them to us, between us, in penance.
(3, 0) 1475 Purgatory's fires can mould a marriage's redemption.
(3, 0) 1476 I'm the fire that blistered you, almost killed you,
(3, 0) 1477 Tried to burn you to a cinder, you and the memory
(3, 0) 1478 Of that boy who leapt to his death
(3, 0) 1479 Still proclaiming his love for you.
(3, 0) 1480 We've scorched each other. But not quite destroyed.
(3, 0) 1481 Come back to me Siwan.
(Siwan) The habits of a quarter of a century bid me back.
 
(Siwan) The habits of a quarter of a century bid me back.
(3, 0) 1483 Your son's whole future bids you back.
(Siwan) The daft ploys of an old man bent on a new war
 
(Siwan) Bid me back.
(3, 0) 1486 Despite my age I might win that war
(3, 0) 1487 And win you back.
(Siwan) Llywelyn, I wish you success,
 
(Siwan) I wish you wellbeing …
(3, 0) 1490 That's enough. You're as good as back already.
(Siwan) Will you take me back like that,
 
(Siwan) With nothing but my goodwill?
(3, 0) 1493 Goodwill is love. Siwan, my wife,
(3, 0) 1494 I'll come out of my chambers, ready for battle,
(3, 0) 1495 I'll be eager and lusty. I'll smile a goodbye
(3, 0) 1496 For you. I'll be fighting this war for you.
(Siwan) One word Llywelyn.
 
(Siwan) But after that, my days won't be many.
(3, 0) 1502 You'll live a long time after me.
(Siwan) No. I won't. Life still surges strongly in you.
 
(Siwan) I've lost that. Grant me one wish.
(3, 0) 1506 What's that?
(Siwan) My last testament. From the window of my prison loft
 
(Siwan) To the Franciscan brothers to build a church.
(3, 0) 1518 The grey friars. Why Franciscans?
(Siwan) I owe a debt to the saint of the rope.
 
(Siwan) He liked to chance his luck. To dice with death.
(3, 0) 1521 Your wish conceals some coded meaning.
(3, 0) 1522 I thought you'd be buried with me in Aberconwy.
(Siwan) You referred to the marriage vows.
 
(Siwan) With no one else beside me.
(3, 0) 1528 Alright, my heart. I'll do everything
(3, 0) 1529 In accordance with your wishes Siwan.
 
(3, 0) 1531 Are you there Alis?
(Alis) My lord?
 
(Alis) My lord?
(3, 0) 1534 Where's the royal crown of Princess of Gwynedd?
(Alis) Here in ma dame's chest.
 
(Alis) Here in ma dame's chest.
(3, 0) 1537 Bring it to me.
(3, 0) 1538 This maid complains about you Siwan.
(Alis) Ma dame, I do not. I never complain.
 
(Alis) Ma dame, I do not. I never complain.
(3, 0) 1540 You haven't struck her for a year, she says.
(3, 0) 1541 She seems to miss the sting of your palm.
(Alis) Sir, my Lord, for shame on you.
 
(Alis) Sir, my Lord, for shame on you.
(3, 0) 1543 And so, I'll take it upon myself to discipline her.
(3, 0) 1544 If I return from the war victorious
(3, 0) 1545 I'll give you away as a wife to the bravest lad
(3, 0) 1546 In my retinue. And you'll thank me for that.
(3, 0) 1547 The crown. My Princess, I crown you anew
(3, 0) 1548 And give you half of Gwynedd's lands.
(3, 0) 1549 I give you my right hand. I kiss your hand.
(3, 0) 1550 We'll go to the great hall. We'll banquet.
(3, 0) 1551 This afternoon I'll summon the councillors to Court
(3, 0) 1552 And lay before them Gwynedd's new strategy for war.