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(BIRDS TWEET)

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(CELLO PLAYS)

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(WORDLESS SINGING)

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(CHILDREN ARGUE)

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-(MOTHER)

-Get down!

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You'll have no supper if you keep that up.

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Hello, Joy.

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Hello.

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Is all well?

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Very good, thank you.

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-Hello.

-Hello.

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-Good morning, Joy.

-Hello.

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-Sorry!

-Welcome!

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Where is Mr Keats?

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I am afraid he is not joining us.

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He is in Mr Brown's half of the house.

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Ah, the very well-stitched Little Miss Brawne,

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in all her detail.

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Good morning.

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What is this? What have I done? How have I offended?

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I don't shake hands with the enemy.

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An enemy?

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What have I done to you?

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You do nothing to me.

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Or for me and that's how I'd prefer to keep it.

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What?

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Your offence is to my fashion, Mr Brown.

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To which I am so helplessly slavish.

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I have been ill quoted.

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"Her obsession with flounce and cross-stitch."

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Cross-stitch, Miss Brawne, I don't know what that means.

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Baiting, baiting.

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I feel the same about your poems, Mr Brown.

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I know nothing of what they mean.

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They puff smoke, dissolve,

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leaving nothing but irritation.

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Fanny, take this tea to Mr Keats.

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He is in very poor spirits.

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Mr Keats is composing and does not want disturbing.

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It is my finding, in the business of disturbing,

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you are the expert.

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Fanny, why not speak to one of us you hold in higher favour?

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-I'm praising him!

-Fanny...

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Please, Fanny, I'm wanting to know what you shall say about Mr Keats.

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I've been waiting two weeks that I may enjoy your opinion.

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I cannot look upon him without smiling.

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And he is quick with his thoughts, though, now they are mostly sad.

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His brother Tom's not at all better.

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< Very diminished.

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< Mr Keats nurses him alone.

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< It is difficult work.

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-< Is there no other family member?

-< No, the parents are both dead.

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< There is only a much younger sister,

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and a brother who lives in America.

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Come in!

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(LAUGHS)

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You like jokes, Mr Keats.

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I like jokes.

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Mr Brown, I warn you, does not like my jokes.

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Complains I care for nothing but fashion.

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Would you like biscuits?

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You've come to spy.

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Spy?

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How will you describe me?

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My character?

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I'm not the least interested in your character.

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My jacket, then.

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My pantaloons.

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You need a new jacket.

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-That's what I would say.

-Is that all?

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It should be a velvet.

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Blue velvet.

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Tell me, Miss Brawne, how can you be so sure?

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Well, all I wear I have sewn and designed myself.

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I am often told I am clever to exception about design.

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I originated the pleats on my dress.

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(APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS) It's a charming and -

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(DOOR OPENS)

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Has she annoyed you sufficiently?

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She's done brilliant well with me.

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Men's room. Out.

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Poet's got to do a bit of writing.

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My stitching has more merit and admirers than your

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two scribblings put together.

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Goodbye, Minxtress.

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And I can make money from it.

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Yes?

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Have you got John Keats's poem book?

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In.. In..?

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-Endymion?

-Endymion, yes.

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I've not heard much good about it. I've not sold one.

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I took 20.

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My sister has met the author.

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She wants to read it for herself to see if he's an idiot or not.

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< (CHILDREN'S VOICES OUTSIDE)

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< (FRONT DOOR CLOSES)

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(APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS) >

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Unwrap it.

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Read it.

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"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever,

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"Its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness

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"But still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep

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"Full of sweet dreams, and health and quiet breathing."

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Stop.

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"..yes. In spite of all,

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"some shape of beauty moves away the pall

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"from our dark spirits."

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(STRINGS)

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(APPLAUSE)

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You're welcome.

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I'd love to speak with Mr Keats.

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"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever,

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"Its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness."

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You've read Endymion?

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I wanted to adore it.

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But you hated it?

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I can't say.

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Are you frightened to speak truthfully?

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Never.

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Well, tell me then.

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No.

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I am not clever with poetry.

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Neither, it seems, am I.

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Still, I have some hope for myself.

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I think hope useful.

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But?

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Hope and results are different.

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One doesn't necessarily create the other.

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Would practise help?

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It might.

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I wasn't always able to stitch so well.

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This is the first frock in all of Woolwich or Hampstead

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to have a triple pleated mushroom collar.

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Isn't that an identical one behind you?

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My card's completely full.

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But you don't dance, Mr Keats.

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I love to dance.

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I don't feel like dancing.

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Is your brother still ill?

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He is no better.

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My father was ill for as long as I can remember.

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He died when I was still very young.

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Excuse me.

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May I?

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Mama!

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Fanny has cut my ribbon and she never asked. >

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What are you doing, Fanny?

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Trying to bring some comfort to a dying man.

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What dying man? Where are you taking them?

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I cannot offer poor Mr Keats's brother anything that's not perfect.

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It's me, Miss Brawne.

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I have something to deliver to Mr Keats.

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Leave it at the door!

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Is he not there?

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We're working, Mrs Brawne!

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I have something for your brother, Mr Keats.

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Invite her in.

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Brown.

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-You disgusting ape.

-(LAUGHS)

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Be careful as you enter the apes' cage.

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(MAKES MONKEY NOISE)

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Sit next to me, Miss Brawne.

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My prospects in the world feel very faint.

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(MONKEY NOISE)

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This room is so poorly cared for.

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(SHRIEKS)

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Please try one.

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I'm anxious they will cause him to choke.

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No! Try another and I swear I shall bite you.

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Take care,

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she has sharp teeth.

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She sunk her fangs

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into my poor poem and shook it apart.

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I'm very sorry I couldn't love your Endymion completely, Mr Keats.

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Perhaps I did not say, but I thought the beginning of your poem

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something very perfect.

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Oh, don't leave us.

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You can see for yourself, nothing is happening.

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All we do is lie about the room all day, begging for inspiration.

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Please, tell me what I should do.

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Miss Brawne.

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We monkeys just want a little company.

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(DOOR CLOSES)

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Well. I gave him the biscuits.

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Mr Brown kept -

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If we have finished tiffing, come and say hello to Tom.

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It might cheer him.

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We'll have to ask Mama.

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No, we don't, Toots.

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Yes, we do, isn't that so, Samuel?

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We have to stick together.

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I'm going.

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You will have to come with me.

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Would you like to go by the pond or through the words?

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I have explored all these paths.

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Which are more in number than your eyelashes.

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My eyelashes?

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You know...

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..it amazes me you can sit opposite Mr Brown all day.

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I've never heard him say one thing of wit.

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Not one.

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You favour wit?

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I rate it the highest.

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You like the fashionables?

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Yes. I do.

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Men who say things that make you start without making you feel.

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Things that are amusing.

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I know these dandies.

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They have a mannerism in their very eating and drinking.

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Their handling of a decanter.

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You are making an attack on me?

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No, I am defending Mr Brown's generous, good heart.

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By attacking myself?

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Forgive me.

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I've been too long at my brother's sickbed.

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Can we not still appreciate clever humour?

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Oh, thank God. >

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He's been calling out for you.

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-(COUGHING) >

-Come in.

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-John!

-Tom.

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Get back into bed.

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I know.

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I was having this dream.

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It's all right, I'm here now.

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-Where have you been, John? I just...

-Calm, now. Calm.

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-I was worried.

-It's all right.

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I was so hot in this bed.

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I was so scared for a while.

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I just panicked.

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-I want to go, I want to leave. It smells.

-Shh.

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Or I'll cut your hair in the night.

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-Good evening, John.

-Good evening.

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Keats, I hope you've not forgotten your bassoon.

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Of course not, it's in my waistcoat pocket.

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-Hello, Mr Keats.

-Hello, Minx.

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How's Tom?

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Gentlemen of the orchestra, just through here, >

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ladies, straight ahead, please. Thank you.

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Is he showing any signs of improvement?

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Don't ask me of Tom, Minx.

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The only good I can do is say how I love him.

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< Hurry on, gentlemen.

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(LAUGHTER)

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Someone submitted anonymously to the examiner an exquisite sonnet.

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-Mm-hmm?

-Composed on the subject of

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whether love itself could be the tenth Muse Of Heaven.

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-Come on.

-En guarde!

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That's my sword, brute!

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Love the tenth Muse?

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It is full of the most perfect allusions

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and really beautifully realised.

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I thought at first it might be one of yours.

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We were just telling Mrs Brawne of Keats' review in Blackwood's.

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Was it so very bad?

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-"No man could have..."

-"Profaned...

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(BOTH)"..and vulgarised every association in the manner

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"in which has been adopted by this solemn promise."

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Did they not admire the opening?

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It was perfect. Even I could know that.

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Do you like poetry, Miss Brawne?

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No. Poems are a strain to work out.

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John, we are talking,

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or about to talk, of your defence of Mr Keats's poem, Endymion.

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Yes.

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"..I have clung to nothing, lov'd a nothing, nothing seen

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"Or felt but a great dream. O, I have been

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"Presumptuous against love, against the sky,

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"against all elements, against the tie

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"Of mortals each to each."

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The rhythm is beautiful and unique.

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There are rhymes, but not on the beat. They are quiet but binding,

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the repetitions set you up to fly.

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"..I have clung to nothing,

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"Lov'd a nothing, nothing seen,

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- and here you come out - "Or felt but a great dream."

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-It's beautiful.

-There are immaturities,

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but also immensities. That is what they didn't say.

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It was said. You said it, brother.

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Very bravely.

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Ladies, the Hampstead Heathens are about to begin. Reynolds?

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I thought I'd been expelled?

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Oh no, I think not, you are very much needed.

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(MALE VOICE CHOIR SINGS)

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(INSTRUCTS IN FRENCH)

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(SOBS) Mr Keats is... >

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(INSTRUCTS IN FRENCH)

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Mr Keats is dead.

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(CRIES) So young.

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Is it Tom?

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(SPEAKS IN FRENCH)

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(SPEAKS IN FRENCH)

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-(MR BROWN)

-I woke with the strange sensation

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of someone holding my hand.

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I opened my eyes and there was John.

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I knew immediately what had happened and then he said,

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"Tom died. At 8 o'clock,

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"quietly and without pain."

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Of course, he can't go on living there,

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so I have invited Mr Keats to come and stay with me.

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Well, we do have a long schedule of visits.

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I don't want to interfere with your plans...

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Minx.

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Are you unwell? I've never seen you so quiet.

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She sewed it all night long.

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It's a pillow slip.

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Then I will rest Tom's head upon it.

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Keats.

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The Reynolds are expecting us.

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I'll catch you up. Thank you.

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Invite me again.

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Alone.

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Come for Christmas.

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Mama?

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(SPEAKS FRENCH)

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Oh, yes, please do join us, Mr Keats.

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Please.

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Marianne Reynolds invited us for Christmas, remember?

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You were there when she said it. They're having musicians.

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-I'm sorry to spoil things.

-Not at all.

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Wherever Mr Keats is happy,

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-we're happy for him.

-Why can't he be happy with us?

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Perhaps Mr Brown wants Mr Keats all to himself.

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I'm merely remembering to Mr Keats a previous engagement.

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Miss Brawne, I thought we were conversing.

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(BELL RINGS)

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"Dear Mrs Brawne, may I yet join you for Christmas?

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"I have not the health nor the heart

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"to be anywhere but with a family such as your own."

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"John Keats."

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(CHURCH BELL CHIMES)

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Thank you.

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(CAT PURRS)

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I was wondering this morning if you are sleeping in my bed?

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Pardon?

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You see, I believe you are. We rented Mr Brown's half of the house

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this summer while you were journeying in Scotland.

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Which room do you sleep in?

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The one overlooking the back garden.

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That was my bed!

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For proof, pull it from the wall and by the pillow,

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you will find a figure I drew with pin holes.

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Is the figure you?

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It's a fairy princess.

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Should I be feeding her?

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She refuses to eat.

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Would you teach me poetry?

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I'd... like to understand it.

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I don't know how to begin.

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And it is three to the right..

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..two, three.

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Three to the left. Two, three.

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(ALL BLOW THREE TIMES)

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(ALL SLURP)

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And down.

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And keep it going.

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So, that is the English drawing room.

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And this is something that I saw in Scotland.

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They kick.

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And they...

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..jump.

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And they twirl it.

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And they sweat it

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and they tattoo the floor with mud!

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What about a poem?

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Yes, please, Mr Keats.

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A short one.

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(ALL LAUGH)

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"When I have fears that I may cease to be

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"Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain

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"Before high piled books in charactry,

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"I would like rich garners to fall ripen'd grain,

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"When I behold, upon the night starr'd face,

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"Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance..."

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I do apologise, I've gone blank.

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You are tired. Should you like some sweet?

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Shall we have coffee and sweet?

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I've come for my poetry class.

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Your poetry class?

0:28:050:28:09

Poetry classes?

0:28:090:28:10

Keats, are we...

0:28:100:28:11

Are we teaching poetry today?

0:28:110:28:15

I hope I don't disturb.

0:28:180:28:20

Take a seat.

0:28:200:28:21

Have a look at that.

0:28:230:28:25

A poet is not at all poetical.

0:28:270:28:31

He is the most un-poetical thing in existence.

0:28:310:28:36

He has no identity.

0:28:360:28:39

He is continually filling some other body.

0:28:390:28:41

The sun, the moon -

0:28:410:28:44

I cannot restrain my credibility longer.

0:28:440:28:47

Miss Brawne.

0:28:470:28:48

Is this really you or are you acting?

0:28:480:28:52

It's really me.

0:28:520:28:53

Is it?

0:28:530:28:55

Charles.

0:28:550:28:56

I have a pupil.

0:28:560:28:58

Desist or depart.

0:28:580:28:59

Apologies.

0:28:590:29:02

My modest hope is that the cost of the lesson will not be the poet.

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The cost of the lesson is that Mr Keats

0:29:180:29:21

will discuss poetry with me.

0:29:210:29:23

-You don't mean to read the poems?

-Until I know all the poets

0:29:230:29:26

and poems in the world, since I have nothing to do,

0:29:260:29:29

-as you so many times have noted.

-I bow to your ambition.

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(DOOR CLOSES)

0:29:390:29:40

Now he has gone, I shall find it easier to talk.

0:29:400:29:43

Can you say something of the craft of poetry?

0:29:560:29:59

Poetic craft is a carcass.

0:29:590:30:02

A sham.

0:30:020:30:05

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree,

0:30:070:30:10

then it had better not come at all.

0:30:100:30:12

I'm mistaken.

0:30:180:30:21

I'm not sure I can teach you.

0:30:230:30:24

Was I too rude? I can apologise.

0:30:240:30:28

I'm not sure I have...

0:30:280:30:30

..the right feelings towards women.

0:30:300:30:34

I am suspicious of my feelings.

0:30:360:30:38

Do you not like me?

0:30:400:30:42

I am attracted to you without knowing why.

0:30:430:30:46

All women confuse me, even my mother.

0:30:510:30:54

I yearn to be ruined by shrews and saved by angels,

0:30:580:31:01

and in reality, I've only ever really loved my sister.

0:31:010:31:04

I am annoyed by my sister as often as I love her.

0:31:070:31:10

I still don't know how to work out a poem.

0:31:130:31:15

A poem needs understanding through the senses.

0:31:150:31:18

The point of diving in a lake...

0:31:210:31:24

..is not immediately to swim to the shore,

0:31:260:31:28

but to be in the lake,

0:31:280:31:30

to luxuriate in the sensation of water.

0:31:300:31:36

You do not work the lake out.

0:31:360:31:39

It is an experience beyond thought.

0:31:390:31:42

Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

0:31:430:31:49

I love mystery.

0:31:490:31:51

I found your fairy princess on the wall in my room.

0:31:540:31:58

You could make her out?

0:31:580:31:59

She wears a butterfly frock.

0:31:590:32:01

Shall we continue?

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(CAT PURRS)

0:32:100:32:13

Mr Keats is very brilliant.

0:32:200:32:22

I'm not sure he really likes me.

0:32:250:32:29

He prefers Toots and Samuel.

0:32:290:32:33

Even our cat,

0:32:330:32:34

who he's always petting to death.

0:32:340:32:38

Mr Keats knows he cannot like you.

0:32:380:32:40

He has no living and no income.

0:32:420:32:45

Mr Keats isn't here.

0:33:030:33:06

He said to tell you he had a sore throat

0:33:060:33:08

and thought it best to stay on in Chichester.

0:33:080:33:13

You don't believe me? Come in.

0:33:130:33:16

Come in.

0:33:160:33:17

There, no Keats.

0:33:200:33:23

Tell us, what Chaucer did you read?

0:33:270:33:29

All of it.

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Also Mr Spencer, Mr Milton and The Odyssey.

0:33:310:33:36

That's a lot to read in one week.

0:33:370:33:40

What did you think of The Odyssey?

0:33:400:33:43

I am yet part way through it.

0:33:450:33:47

But I've read all Mr Keats has written.

0:33:470:33:50

Have you?

0:33:500:33:52

"Out went the taper as she hurried in,

0:33:580:34:03

"Its little smoke, in pallid moonshine, died,

0:34:030:34:07

"She closed the door,

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"she panted, all akin

0:34:100:34:11

"To spirits of the air and visions wide."

0:34:110:34:15

And what, Miss Brawne, did you make of Paradise Lost?

0:34:150:34:18

Oh, I... I liked it.

0:34:180:34:22

Did you?

0:34:220:34:23

You didn't find Milton's rhymes a little pouncing?

0:34:250:34:28

No.

0:34:280:34:31

Did you not?

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Not very.

0:34:320:34:34

Is it the material of her dress that makes Miss Brawne's eyes

0:34:420:34:45

so amber-like?

0:34:450:34:46

Oh, yes, they are golden.

0:34:480:34:51

Amber, almost.

0:34:510:34:52

Yes. Yes, what colours are yours, Mr Brown?

0:34:520:34:54

Mine?

0:34:540:34:57

Suitcase brown.

0:35:040:35:05

Fanny.

0:35:050:35:07

Did you see Mr Brown?

0:35:110:35:14

He was amazed.

0:35:140:35:16

Well, all those authors in just one week is incredible.

0:35:160:35:19

I know.

0:35:190:35:21

But he sees that I am serious and I will read them.

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(KNOCKS ON GLASS)

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Fanny, it's a letter.

0:35:370:35:40

I think it is a Valentine.

0:35:400:35:43

"Darling Valentine,

0:36:050:36:06

"I am not sure if you should have a kiss for your amber enchantress eyes,

0:36:060:36:12

"or a whipping."

0:36:120:36:15

"Yours, A Suitcase."

0:36:170:36:20

(THUNDER)

0:36:250:36:27

(HEAVY RAIN FALLS)

0:36:270:36:29

Fanny!

0:36:400:36:41

Mr Keats is behaving very oddly.

0:36:430:36:45

Should I invite him inside?

0:36:480:36:50

Mr Brown sent you a Valentine.

0:37:020:37:05

I think it was a joke.

0:37:050:37:08

< Keats!

0:37:080:37:10

Keats! John, wait.

0:37:100:37:12

-John.

-I was away for ten days, Brown,

0:37:230:37:25

with you encouraging me to stay on and get well.

0:37:250:37:27

-John, easy.

-You write Miss Brawne

0:37:270:37:29

a Valentine's card. Are you lovers?

0:37:290:37:31

-John.

-That the truth?

0:37:310:37:32

Easy.

0:37:320:37:33

You sent a card, Charles.

0:37:330:37:35

You have the income to marry. I have not. Did you accept it?

0:37:350:37:37

John, I sent that Valentine...

0:37:370:37:40

..it was only a jest.

0:37:420:37:43

For whom? I'm not laughing, Miss Brawne is not laughing.

0:37:430:37:46

I wrote the Valentine to amuse Fanny

0:37:460:37:49

who makes a religion of flirting.

0:37:490:37:51

John, she's what? A poetry scholar one week,

0:37:510:37:53

and a military expert the next?

0:37:530:37:56

It is a game.

0:37:560:37:57

It is a game to her. She collects -

0:37:570:38:00

There is a holiness to the heart's affections.

0:38:000:38:02

Know you nothing of that?

0:38:020:38:06

Believe me, it's not pride.

0:38:160:38:18

Are you in love with Mr Brown?

0:38:340:38:35

Why don't you speak?

0:38:470:38:50

She can't speak because

0:38:510:38:53

she only knows how to flirt and sew.

0:38:530:38:57

Isn't that right?

0:38:580:39:00

Yes, and read all Milton,

0:39:020:39:05

whose rhymes do not pounce, Miss Brawne,

0:39:050:39:09

because there are none!

0:39:090:39:12

John, there are one or two of her kind

0:39:120:39:14

in every fashionable drawing room of this city,

0:39:140:39:17

gasping over skirt lengths!

0:39:170:39:20

-I'm sorry. You can have a poetry lesson tomorrow.

-No!

0:39:240:39:26

I want to dance and flirt, talk of flounces and ribbons

0:39:260:39:30

till I find my old happiness and humour.

0:39:300:39:33

(THUNDER)

0:39:380:39:40

-(KEATS)

-What if the dwarf were to die in Act Two?

0:39:460:39:50

And then we could introduce the princess sooner.

0:39:500:39:53

Perhaps Act Three could begin with a tempest.

0:39:550:39:58

What else do you think?

0:40:000:40:03

We're going to live next door!

0:40:220:40:23

The Dilkes are moving to Westminster

0:40:230:40:27

and we get six months' half rent

0:40:270:40:28

so we will be in the same house. We can all play football.

0:40:280:40:32

It's a great economy for Mama.

0:40:320:40:34

But only if you like.

0:40:370:40:39

Have we broken for the day, Keats?

0:40:390:40:42

Keats?

0:40:440:40:45

But, if the Princess has already abandoned the dwarf,

0:41:000:41:04

cannot we keep his love speech?

0:41:040:41:06

I will have to change it, find another place for it.

0:41:060:41:10

-We could give the love speech to...

-Look out!

0:41:100:41:13

Oh, sorry, right in the face!

0:41:160:41:19

(KEATS & TOOTS LAUGH)

0:41:190:41:22

Brown.

0:41:220:41:24

Brown!

0:41:240:41:25

-(TOOTS SHRIEKS)

-Oh, no!

0:41:250:41:29

What was that, Toots?

0:41:290:41:31

(LAUGHTER)

0:41:330:41:36

(SIGHS)

0:41:360:41:39

If Mr Keats and myself are strolling in the meadow,

0:41:420:41:46

lounging on a sofa, or staring into a wall,

0:41:460:41:48

do not presume we are not working.

0:41:480:41:51

Doing nothing is...

0:41:510:41:53

..the musing of the poet.

0:41:530:41:56

Are these musings what we common people know as thoughts?

0:41:560:42:00

Thoughts?

0:42:000:42:01

Yes, but of a weightier nature.

0:42:010:42:04

Sinking thoughts?

0:42:040:42:06

Not really, Miss Brawne.

0:42:060:42:08

Musing, making one's mind available to inspiration.

0:42:080:42:12

Mr Brown?

0:42:120:42:14

As in amusing?

0:42:140:42:15

Mr Brown.

0:42:170:42:18

Our thoughts are all very simple,

0:42:180:42:20

so you never need worry about interrupting us.

0:42:200:42:23

And we should be happy if you would join us for dinner on any day.

0:42:230:42:27

< (APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS)

0:42:440:42:47

Can I choose which bed?

0:42:470:42:50

(FOOTSTEPS OUTSIDE)

0:42:510:42:54

Mr Keats?

0:43:220:43:23

They're sniffing all the flowers in the garden

0:44:100:44:12

to try and find the best scent.

0:44:120:44:16

Mr Keats is being a bee.

0:44:160:44:18

Thank you.

0:44:230:44:25

Fanny!

0:44:270:44:28

Come in.

0:44:280:44:31

I need your help.

0:44:310:44:34

Lie to me, tell me you did not dance last night.

0:44:550:45:00

I did not sit down a single tune.

0:45:000:45:02

You can see the truth in my slippers, completely scuffed.

0:45:020:45:07

I don't know how I could have prevented it.

0:45:070:45:09

I don't want to sit under the trees

0:45:090:45:10

while you talk. I want to go and play on the swings.

0:45:100:45:13

All right.

0:45:130:45:15

Go higher, higher! No! A bit lower.

0:45:170:45:21

I had such a dream last night.

0:45:450:45:49

I was floating above the trees,

0:45:490:45:51

with my lips connected to those of a beautiful figure.

0:45:510:45:55

For what seemed like an age.

0:45:550:45:58

Flowery treetops sprang up beneath us,

0:46:000:46:02

and we rested on them with the lightness of a cloud.

0:46:020:46:07

Who was the figure?

0:46:130:46:16

I must have had my eyes closed, because I can't remember.

0:46:280:46:34

And yet you remember the tree tops?

0:46:350:46:38

Not so well as I remember the lips.

0:46:380:46:40

Whose lips?

0:46:440:46:47

Were they my lips?

0:46:470:46:50

Fanny?

0:47:280:47:30

Fanny?

0:47:410:47:43

Fanny?

0:47:480:47:50

< Fanny!

0:47:540:47:56

(SAMUEL) Mr Brown bet I couldn't find a nightingale's nest.

0:48:590:49:02

-(BROWN)

-There is no nest and no bet.

0:49:020:49:06

(MIMICS BIRD CALL)

0:49:080:49:10

That one over there.

0:49:100:49:11

You couldn't have seen it in a tree.

0:49:110:49:12

-They don't nest in trees.

-I know what I saw

0:49:120:49:15

and it was a nightingale.

0:49:150:49:17

"Soon, trembling in her soft and chilly nest,

0:49:350:49:39

"In sort of wakeful swoon, perplex'd she lay..."

0:49:390:49:45

See, here, there are tears.

0:49:450:49:48

You are so far ahead of me and above me.

0:49:510:49:54

Brown, I'm... amazed.

0:49:590:50:01

Your writing...

0:50:040:50:06

is... the finest thing in my life.

0:50:060:50:12

You wrote this, little hand, did you do it?

0:50:180:50:22

As one who truly loves you, I must warn you kindly of the trap

0:50:310:50:35

that you are walking into, John.

0:50:350:50:36

If you're going to speak of Miss Brawne,

0:50:360:50:38

we have never agreed and cannot agree.

0:50:380:50:41

For one or two of your slippery blisses,

0:50:410:50:43

you'll lose your freedom permanently.

0:50:430:50:45

You'll be slaving at medicine 15 hours a day and for what?

0:50:450:50:49

To keep Mrs Keats in French ribbon.

0:50:490:50:52

I cherish your talent, I truly do.

0:50:540:50:57

Then allow me my happiness,

0:50:570:50:58

for I am writing again.

0:50:580:51:01

"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense,

0:51:280:51:33

"As though of hemlock I had drunk,

0:51:330:51:36

"Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains

0:51:360:51:38

"One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk.

0:51:380:51:42

"'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,

0:51:440:51:47

"But being too happy in thine happiness,

0:51:470:51:50

"That thou, light-winged dryad of the trees

0:51:500:51:53

"In some melodious plot of beechen green and shadows numberless,

0:51:530:51:58

"Singest of summer in full-throated ease..."

0:51:580:52:00

"Darkling, I listen,

0:52:130:52:15

"And for many a time

0:52:170:52:19

"I have been half in love with easeful death."

0:52:210:52:26

Called him...

0:52:290:52:31

"Call'd him soft names in many amused rhyme,

0:52:310:52:34

Rhyme...

0:52:340:52:36

"To take into the air my quiet breath...

0:52:360:52:40

(DOOR CLOSES)

0:52:400:52:42

"To cease upon the midnight with no pain,

0:52:450:52:47

"While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad

0:52:500:52:55

"In such an ecstasy."

0:52:550:52:57

What?

0:53:020:53:04

Have you told Miss Brawne our summer holiday or shall I?

0:53:050:53:09

Not as yet.

0:53:130:53:14

Mr Brown is doing his summer rental.

0:53:180:53:21

So we both have to leave.

0:53:210:53:23

We're meeting up on the Isle of Wight

0:53:250:53:27

for some undisturbed writing and carousing.

0:53:270:53:30

(CRIES)

0:53:400:53:43

Mrs Brawne, may I speak to Fanny, please?

0:53:440:53:47

No!

0:53:470:53:48

I will not speak to him.

0:53:480:53:50

Fanny, I was going to tell you.

0:53:500:53:52

Fanny, I have no money.

0:54:000:54:03

In fact, I am in debt.

0:54:040:54:07

I must earn.

0:54:080:54:11

I must write and make a living.

0:54:110:54:14

If I fail, though I hate to think on it,

0:54:140:54:16

then I must make way so another may marry and adore you as I wish to.

0:54:160:54:19

No, I will not be adored. Ever again, by you or by anyone.

0:54:190:54:26

(CRIES) I hate you.

0:54:280:54:32

(DOORBELL RINGS)

0:54:480:54:50

-Anything?

-No, nothing.

0:54:530:54:55

Nothing.

0:55:010:55:02

Fanny, will you check my stitch? It's an open-work seam.

0:55:090:55:12

God, no, Toots, I don't care a damn for stitches.

0:55:120:55:16

(DOOR OPENS)

0:55:300:55:32

No letter?

0:55:380:55:39

Not today.

0:55:390:55:41

Am I in love?

0:55:470:55:50

Is this love?

0:55:520:55:55

I shall never tease about it again.

0:55:590:56:02

So sore, I believe one could die of it.

0:56:060:56:09

(DOORBELL)

0:56:120:56:15

"My Dearest Lady,

0:56:440:56:47

I am now at a very pleasant cottage window,

0:56:470:56:50

looking on to a beautifully hilly country,

0:56:500:56:52

with a view of the sea."

0:56:520:56:55

"The morning is very fine."

0:56:550:56:57

"I do not know how elastic my spirit might be,

0:56:570:57:00

what pleasure I might have in living here

0:57:000:57:03

if the remembrance of you did not weigh so upon me."

0:57:030:57:07

"Ask yourself, my love, whether you are not very cruel

0:57:070:57:10

to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom."

0:57:100:57:15

"For myself I know not how to express my devotion

0:57:150:57:19

to so fair a form."

0:57:190:57:21

"I want a brighter word than bright,

0:57:220:57:25

a fairer word than fair."

0:57:250:57:27

"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days."

0:57:290:57:34

"Three such days with you I could fill with more delight

0:57:350:57:38

than fifty common years could ever contain."

0:57:380:57:41

I love you.

0:57:460:57:48

I love you, Toots.

0:57:490:57:50

"Will you confess this in a letter, you must write immediately,

0:57:540:57:58

and do all you can to console me in it -

0:57:580:58:01

make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me -

0:58:010:58:04

write the softest words and kiss them,

0:58:040:58:08

that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been."

0:58:080:58:13

"My Dear Mr Keats,

0:58:150:58:17

thank you for your letter."

0:58:170:58:19

"Lately, I've felt so nervous and ill that I had to stay five days in bed."

0:58:190:58:24

"Having received your letter,

0:58:240:58:26

I am up again, walking our paths in the heath."

0:58:260:58:29

"I have begun a butterfly farm in my bedroom in honour of us."

0:58:290:58:33

"Sammy and Toots are catching them for me."

0:58:330:58:36

"Samuel has made a science of it and is collecting both caterpillars

0:58:360:58:40

and chrysalises so we may have them fluttering about us a week or more."

0:58:400:58:45

"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks."

0:58:490:58:53

"Your loveliness and the hour of my death."

0:58:530:58:56

"O, that I could have possession of them both in the same minute."

0:58:560:59:01

"I never knew before what such a love as you has made me feel was."

0:59:010:59:05

"I did not believe in it."

0:59:050:59:07

"But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire,

0:59:070:59:10

'twill not be more than we can bear

0:59:100:59:12

when moistened and bedewed with pleasures."

0:59:120:59:16

(Bedewed with pleasures...)

0:59:170:59:21

There's no air.

0:59:440:59:46

No, Mama, they love the heat.

0:59:460:59:47

We're going to lose them.

0:59:470:59:49

Listen, "I love you more

0:59:490:59:51

in that I believe you have liked me for my own sake."

0:59:510:59:54

"I have met with women whom I really think

0:59:550:59:57

would like to be married to a poem, to be given away by a novel."

0:59:571:00:01

Mama, don't be cross.

1:00:031:00:07

When I don't hear from him, it's as if I've died.

1:00:131:00:16

As if the air is sucked out from my lungs.

1:00:161:00:20

And I am left desolate, but when I receive a letter,

1:00:201:00:23

I know our world is real.

1:00:231:00:26

It's the one I care for.

1:00:261:00:29

Watch the butterfly.

1:00:301:00:33

Well, move it.

1:00:331:00:35

Fanny wants a knife.

1:00:491:00:50

What for?

1:00:501:00:53

To kill herself.

1:00:531:00:55

(CRIES) It's all over.

1:00:571:01:00

I have such a short letter after all this time.

1:01:021:01:05

No, Topper.

1:01:051:01:07

(CRIES)

1:01:101:01:13

Saying he was in London.

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In London and couldn't bring himself to visit

1:01:161:01:18

for fear it would burn him up.

1:01:181:01:20

He's made no fortune

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and is ashamed of it.

1:01:221:01:25

If only he knew how little I, even you, care for that now.

1:01:251:01:29

(CRIES)

1:01:291:01:31

You missed that one.

1:01:441:01:47

-Hello.

-Hello.

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(KNOCK ON DOOR)

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Mama asked me to welcome you home.

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And introduce you to Miss O'Donoghue, our new maid,

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who may also do for you.

1:02:061:02:08

Please, sir, call me Abigail,

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or Abby.

1:02:101:02:11

Very well. Be sure you do not enter if the door is closed.

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Yes, sir.

1:02:141:02:17

Mr Keats is not coming back. He's gone to live in London.

1:02:241:02:28

Please tell Mr Keats that we Brawnes have kept safe all his things.

1:02:301:02:34

Mr Brown has said that I could learn to read still.

1:02:461:02:49

I said to him, "Sure, what would I read?"

1:02:491:02:52

He said, "Abigail, even the Bible is not so dull as you might believe."

1:02:521:02:58

"And that in the Songs of Solomon,

1:02:581:03:01

there are some bits so juicy they make even a church man blush."

1:03:011:03:06

And he said that when I get down to the reading myself,

1:03:061:03:10

I'll see he tells not one word of a lie.

1:03:101:03:12

Hello, Toots.

1:03:281:03:31

(LAUGHS)

1:03:361:03:38

Hello, Mr Keats.

1:03:431:03:45

Hello, Miss Brawne.

1:03:471:03:48

Mother, we found it.

1:03:541:03:56

Fanny had the key like I thought.

1:03:561:03:59

What do you need for London?

1:04:141:04:18

Your vest has no lining.

1:04:481:04:50

And your coat...

1:04:551:04:58

..has a small hole.

1:05:051:05:07

I could mend it so you wouldn't see it.

1:05:071:05:10

"My sweet girl, I am living today in yesterday."

1:05:131:05:17

"I was in a complete fascination all day."

1:05:171:05:21

"I feel myself at your mercy."

1:05:211:05:23

"Write me ever so few lines, and tell me you will never forever

1:05:231:05:26

be less kind than to me then yesterday."

1:05:261:05:30

"You dazzled me."

1:05:301:05:31

"There is nothing in the world so bright and delicate."

1:05:311:05:35

"You have absorbed me."

1:05:361:05:39

"I have a sensation at the present moment as if I was dissolving."

1:05:391:05:43

Fanny.

1:05:591:06:01

Mrs Dilke is telling me that, erm...

1:06:011:06:04

..Mr Keats is proposing to move in next door again.

1:06:041:06:07

And she wants to know if I have any objections.

1:06:071:06:10

Of course you don't.

1:06:101:06:13

Mr Brown is Mr Keats' best friend. Why would we object?

1:06:131:06:16

Fanny, Mr Dilke and I are worried that such close connection

1:06:181:06:24

may prove restrictive for you.

1:06:241:06:26

No.

1:06:261:06:27

Mr Keats can't afford to marry.

1:06:271:06:32

His situation is really quite hopeless.

1:06:321:06:35

And if he is next door, how will you meet anyone else?

1:06:351:06:38

How will you go to dances?

1:06:381:06:41

Oh, you are engaged.

1:06:411:06:43

It's his mother's ring, it's not an engagement ring.

1:06:431:06:45

-You are not to wear it.

-I wear it on the finger next door.

1:06:451:06:49

Do not even discuss it.

1:06:491:06:51

You taught me love. You never said, "Only the rich."

1:06:511:06:54

"Only a thimbleful."

1:06:541:06:56

Attachment is such a difficult thing to undo.

1:06:561:07:00

"Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,

1:08:421:08:46

To feel forever its soft swell and fall,

1:08:471:08:51

Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,

1:08:531:08:56

Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath..."

1:08:571:09:02

It's new.

1:09:081:09:09

From which poem?

1:09:121:09:14

Yours.

1:09:161:09:17

Bright Star.

1:09:271:09:30

"Would I were steadfast as thou art,

1:09:311:09:34

Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night..."

1:09:361:09:40

Why do you say "not"?

1:09:451:09:49

"Not in lone splendour."

1:09:491:09:52

You fear I am not steadfast because I oblige Mama by going to a dance?

1:09:521:09:58

Don't tease, Fanny.

1:10:011:10:03

Why are you laughing?

1:10:051:10:07

I shall tell her I am unwell.

1:10:091:10:12

No, go.

1:10:141:10:15

Go.

1:10:171:10:20

Go.

1:10:211:10:23

Good Irish Abigail,

1:10:251:10:26

who never did fail to make a scone

1:10:261:10:29

as good as a swan.

1:10:291:10:31

Would you like some jam with that, sir?

1:10:381:10:40

Please.

1:10:401:10:42

> Delicious.

1:10:471:10:49

< Fanny?

1:10:551:10:57

Come in, it's turned cold.

1:10:571:10:59

Mr Keats has gone to London with no coat.

1:10:591:11:03

John, have you had wine?

1:11:361:11:38

I was...severely chilled.

1:11:391:11:43

I was on the outside of the coach.

1:11:441:11:48

But now I don't feel it.

1:11:501:11:52

-(LOUD KNOCKING)

-< Abigail!

1:11:521:11:56

< Abigail, get up, dress yourself, we need a doctor.

1:11:561:12:00

Abigail! Bring the water.

1:12:031:12:06

I need a basin, a towel.

1:12:061:12:09

And glasses. I need glasses.

1:12:091:12:11

-Let me help, I can -

-Stand back, stand back.

1:12:111:12:13

Keats has already asked

1:12:401:12:43

to see Miss Brawne, but I have managed him

1:12:431:12:46

and said she had gone into town.

1:12:461:12:47

But I have not.

1:12:471:12:49

I'm speaking of keeping Mr Keats calm.

1:12:491:12:52

This is a deception I will not join.

1:12:521:12:54

No, no, no. It is not a deception.

1:12:541:12:58

I am simply determined to preserve the life of my friend.

1:12:581:13:03

You would have it that I kill Mr Keats with affection.

1:13:031:13:06

-Fanny.

-Perhaps you will.

1:13:061:13:08

Apparently there's nothing I can do

1:13:081:13:09

to persuade you of the gravity of the situation. Keats is in my care.

1:13:091:13:14

All visits will follow my regime or they will not happen.

1:13:141:13:17

Please, we Brawnes will do whatever we can

1:13:171:13:19

to restore Mr Keats to health.

1:13:191:13:22

Hmm?

1:13:221:13:24

I was wondering where you were.

1:13:371:13:40

I've been waiting to be with you.

1:13:401:13:42

The whole day.

1:13:421:13:45

Last night, there was a...

1:13:461:13:47

(COUGHS)

1:13:471:13:50

There was a great rush of blood.

1:13:541:13:56

Such that I thought that I would...

1:13:581:14:00

..suffocate.

1:14:001:14:02

And I said to Mr Brown,

1:14:041:14:06

"This is unfortunate."

1:14:071:14:10

-My thoughts were of you.

-(KNOCK ON DOOR)

1:14:111:14:14

"My sweet creature."

1:14:411:14:43

"When I send this round, I shall be in the front parlour,

1:14:431:14:47

watching to see you show yourself for a minute in the garden."

1:14:471:14:51

"When I look back upon the ecstasies

1:14:541:14:56

in which I have passed some days, and the miseries in their turn,

1:14:561:15:00

I wonder the more at the beauty which has kept up the spell

1:15:001:15:03

so fervently."

1:15:031:15:04

"How horrid was the chance

1:15:041:15:06

of slipping into the ground instead of into your arms."

1:15:061:15:09

"The difference is amazing, love."

1:15:111:15:14

-Go on. Go on, now.

-Brown, Brown, Brown.

1:15:191:15:23

I get anxious if I don't see her.

1:15:231:15:25

Why not bed her?

1:15:311:15:33

She'd do whatever you wished.

1:15:331:15:36

It might relieve your condition.

1:15:361:15:39

"Do not take the trouble of writing much."

1:15:501:15:52

"Merely send me my goodnight to put under my pillow."

1:15:521:15:55

-(KNOCK ON DOOR)

-"John Keats."

1:15:551:15:58

"Let me no longer detain you from going to town."

1:16:411:16:43

"There may be no end to this imprisoning of you."

1:16:431:16:46

"Perhaps you had better not come before tomorrow evening."

1:16:491:16:52

"You know our situation."

1:16:521:16:54

"I am recommended not even to read poetry,

1:16:541:16:56

much less write it."

1:16:561:16:59

"I wish I had even a little hope."

1:16:591:17:02

"I cannot say, "Forget me",

1:17:021:17:05

but I would mention that there are impossibilities in the world."

1:17:051:17:09

John.

1:17:511:17:52

Why do you say, "impossibilities"?

1:17:551:17:58

I have coughed blood again.

1:17:581:18:02

I fear the... disease has the upper hand.

1:18:061:18:11

And I will not recover.

1:18:121:18:15

I can't leave you.

1:18:151:18:16

I have such clear hope for your new book of poems.

1:18:191:18:23

John, they are more beautiful than any I've read of Mr Coleridge,

1:18:231:18:27

Mr Wordsworth, even Lord Byron.

1:18:271:18:31

"O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,

1:18:341:18:39

Alone and palely loitering?

1:18:391:18:41

The sedge has wither'd from the lake,

1:18:441:18:47

And no birds sing."

1:18:471:18:50

"I met a lady in the meads.

1:18:521:18:55

Full beautiful - a faery's child,

1:18:581:19:01

Her hair was long, her foot was light,

1:19:011:19:07

And her eyes were wild.

1:19:071:19:10

I set her on my pacing steed,

1:19:111:19:15

And nothing else saw all day long,

1:19:151:19:18

For sidelong would she bend, and sing

1:19:201:19:24

A faery's song."

1:19:241:19:26

"She found me roots of relish sweet

1:19:261:19:30

And honey wild

1:19:301:19:32

And manna dew

1:19:321:19:35

And sure in language strange she said,

1:19:351:19:39

'I love thee true.'"

1:19:391:19:41

"She took me to her elfin grot"

1:19:411:19:43

"And there she wept and sigh'd full sore"

1:19:431:19:48

"And there I shut her wild wild eyes with kisses four

1:19:481:19:54

And there she lulled me asleep,

1:19:551:19:59

And there I dream'd - ah! woe betide! -

1:19:591:20:03

The latest dream I ever dream'd

1:20:031:20:06

On the cold hill's side."

1:20:091:20:12

(PANS CLATTER)

1:20:151:20:18

Abigail?

1:20:181:20:20

Here it is.

1:20:261:20:27

Mr Brown said to give it to you tomorrow,

1:20:271:20:29

but I'll not wait.

1:20:291:20:32

He is the most cruel, dead-hearted man in this entire world.

1:20:331:20:41

Oh, my God.

1:20:411:20:43

Oh, my God.

1:20:441:20:46

I wish I were dead!

1:20:461:20:49

I'm boiling with fury.

1:20:501:20:52

You must not convulse again.

1:20:521:20:54

Abigail is with child.

1:20:551:20:57

To whom, out of fear or shame, she would not say.

1:20:571:21:02

We, Brown, must find out who it is.

1:21:021:21:05

And when we have his name, then butcher or baker,

1:21:051:21:08

he shall face up to his indecency.

1:21:081:21:11

Will you call her?

1:21:111:21:13

It's not necessary.

1:21:131:21:15

She has me believe I'm the father.

1:21:181:21:22

My God, I had no...

1:21:221:21:25

..no notion of a love affair.

1:21:251:21:27

There was none.

1:21:301:21:32

Or I must have slept through it.

1:21:321:21:35

With what ease you help yourself...

1:21:351:21:38

I have agreed to pay for the child.

1:21:381:21:41

And the worst thing is, I can't keep this place.

1:21:421:21:48

I've to start my summer rental early

1:21:481:21:52

and I feel wretched, turning you out while you're so unwell.

1:21:521:21:58

But, John, I can't do anything else. I'm overloaded with debt.

1:21:581:22:02

Don't concern yourself.

1:22:021:22:04

I shall manage.

1:22:041:22:07

Stupid, stupid.

1:22:071:22:08

In what stumbling ways a new soul is begun.

1:22:181:22:22

I would very much value your opinion, Mr Keats,

1:22:221:22:24

on a new painting of mine, "The Cave of Despair".

1:22:241:22:27

> If you suggest he won't survive another winter in England,

1:22:271:22:31

then we must do something.

1:22:311:22:32

Gentlemen, I think we should hear Dr Bree on the issue of climate

1:22:321:22:35

for Keats's health.

1:22:351:22:37

Well, a move to a gentler climate is essential.

1:22:371:22:39

I would recommend Italy.

1:22:391:22:40

-Rome?

-Rome is good.

1:22:401:22:43

-Does he want to go to Rome?

-Well, he has to go.

1:22:431:22:47

He won't live through another winter in England.

1:22:471:22:50

How do you feel about Italy, John?

1:22:531:22:55

> I do think there is an issue of finance.

1:22:551:22:58

(COUGHS)

1:22:581:23:01

Could we not, between us, start a fund or a collection?

1:23:011:23:05

< It seems possible.

1:23:051:23:07

Of course, he'll need a travelling companion. Brown, you'll go.

1:23:101:23:14

Absolutely. Absolutely. Someone must go.

1:23:141:23:17

-I'm not sure I shall be able.

-Is that a no?

1:23:171:23:21

Miss? Miss?

1:23:211:23:23

I can help find a room for the summer, John, if you want?

1:23:321:23:36

Sam?

1:23:381:23:40

Walk behind.

1:23:401:23:41

I want to go to Italy with you.

1:23:451:23:47

-We can marry and I'll go with you.

-My friends talk of going to Italy,

1:23:471:23:51

but I have so little money...

1:23:511:23:53

< Spare a penny, sir?

1:23:531:23:55

I can barely afford these Kentish Town rooms.

1:23:551:23:58

-Farewell me here.

-Why?

1:23:581:24:01

We don't do linen.

1:24:031:24:05

(BABY CRIES)

1:24:101:24:12

All right! I'm coming!

1:24:121:24:15

(DRIPPING WATER)

1:24:151:24:18

(KEATS COUGHS)

1:24:191:24:21

Mr Hunt can't have meant this room.

1:24:321:24:34

I told you not to come.

1:24:401:24:42

Go now.

1:24:441:24:46

Go.

1:24:491:24:51

Oh, please start.

1:24:551:24:57

-Please start.

-Where's Fanny?

1:24:591:25:03

She's not eating.

1:25:031:25:05

Are you all right?

1:25:181:25:22

How long has Mr Keats been away?

1:25:241:25:27

Five weeks.

1:25:271:25:29

Perhaps it is for the best.

1:25:291:25:32

Whose best?

1:25:321:25:34

I thought it might be a relief to be separated,

1:25:341:25:38

when the circumstances are so difficult.

1:25:381:25:42

You all wish I would give up.

1:25:421:25:44

But I can't.

1:25:441:25:47

Even if I wanted to, I cannot.

1:25:471:25:50

John?

1:26:321:26:34

Keep away from me. You do not love me.

1:26:341:26:37

If you have not a crystal conscience this past month.

1:26:371:26:41

Oh, my love.

1:26:411:26:42

(COUGHS)

1:26:421:26:45

I thought my heart was breaking.

1:26:491:26:51

Mama!

1:26:541:26:55

MAMA!

1:26:551:26:58

Mr Keats? Toots, the door.

1:26:591:27:03

Take care.

1:27:091:27:11

(COUGHS)

1:27:111:27:14

Thank you.

1:27:221:27:23

Was there any blood?

1:27:261:27:27

No.

1:27:271:27:28

Is he staying here?

1:27:301:27:33

Yes, yes.

1:27:331:27:34

Tonight.

1:27:341:27:37

Well, I need to examine the patient.

1:27:381:27:41

May he stay tomorrow? Until he leaves for Italy?

1:27:511:27:55

You're not even officially engaged.

1:27:551:27:57

Can't we be?

1:27:571:28:00

There is no end to this.

1:28:021:28:04

Next you'll want to marry

1:28:041:28:06

then travel to Rome.

1:28:061:28:07

Oh, I should never have moved into this house.

1:28:071:28:10

I've let this happen.

1:28:101:28:11

Just until Italy.

1:28:111:28:13

You are already the source of so much gossip.

1:28:151:28:19

Well, then let us be engaged.

1:28:191:28:22

> (COUGHING)

1:28:361:28:38

Toots.

1:29:001:29:02

Have you been eating rosebuds again?

1:29:111:29:13

So do where your cheeks get their blush?

1:29:171:29:20

I confirmed your ship.

1:29:251:29:27

The Maria Crowther,

1:29:271:29:28

-sailing for Naples.

-When does she leave?

1:29:281:29:31

-In ten days.

-So soon?

-Autumn is coming.

1:29:311:29:33

I'm afraid if you delay,

1:29:331:29:34

there will be less and less reason to hope.

1:29:341:29:37

Then there's no putting it off.

1:29:371:29:41

I must march against the battery.

1:29:411:29:43

< Allow me to pour you another, Mr Severn.

1:29:431:29:45

Really? Perhaps I might just...

1:29:451:29:47

Is his passage fully paid for?

1:29:471:29:48

(Yes, yes, everything is taken care of.)

1:29:481:29:51

What if something should happen to Mr Keats, or...

1:29:531:29:57

..or even to you?

1:29:571:30:00

In a foreign country?

1:30:001:30:02

How would you survive?

1:30:021:30:04

It shouldn't be Severn.

1:30:041:30:07

He barely knows him.

1:30:071:30:09

Where is that fool Mr Brown when he's needed?

1:30:091:30:11

Why hasn't he written?

1:30:111:30:14

I found a goose.

1:30:141:30:16

For Mr Keats' last dinner.

1:30:161:30:18

Don't say last.

1:30:201:30:22

(CLAPPING)

1:30:271:30:29

One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three...

1:30:291:30:32

And one, two, three, one, two, three...

1:30:321:30:35

(CLAPS AND COUNTS FASTER AND FASTER)

1:30:351:30:39

Toots.

1:30:451:30:46

Mr Keats?

1:30:501:30:51

(WHISPERS) One, two, three, one, two, three...

1:30:511:30:54

-Oh! And she's gone.

-What happened there?

1:30:561:30:58

One, two, three, one, two, three...

1:31:071:31:11

Very good.

1:31:111:31:13

And don't come back.

1:31:181:31:19

There's no autumn around here.

1:31:191:31:21

-> (COUGHS)

-Careful.

1:31:211:31:24

Are you all right?

1:31:241:31:27

Shall we sit down?

1:31:301:31:33

Mrs Brawne, that's for you.

1:32:271:32:30

Oh, oh, that's beautiful.

1:32:301:32:35

Oh, my dear, mad boy.

1:32:351:32:38

Is it successful?

1:32:381:32:39

There were two very positive reviews by friends.

1:32:391:32:43

And... six mainly positive.

1:32:431:32:47

And four hostile.

1:32:471:32:49

I don't know, is that successful?

1:32:501:32:52

Yes. Extremely so.

1:32:521:32:56

So, they are selling well?

1:32:561:32:57

Come back,

1:33:031:33:04

live with us, marry our Fanny.

1:33:041:33:09

I love you.

1:33:241:33:26

We should say our goodbyes now.

1:33:321:33:35

(FANNY CRIES)

1:33:451:33:47

Shall we awake...

1:33:511:33:53

..and find all this is a dream?

1:33:581:34:01

(SOBS)

1:34:011:34:04

There must be another life,

1:34:041:34:06

you can't be created for this kind of suffering.

1:34:061:34:10

I doubt that we will see each other again on this earth.

1:34:201:34:26

Then why are you leaving?

1:34:301:34:34

Why must you go?

1:34:341:34:37

Because my friends have paid my way.

1:34:371:34:41

It is a hopeless hope, but how can I refuse them?

1:34:411:34:43

Say you're too ill.

1:34:431:34:45

We have woven a web,

1:34:471:34:48

you and I.

1:34:481:34:50

Attached to this world,

1:34:511:34:54

but a separate world of our own invention.

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We must cut the threads, Fanny.

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No.

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No!

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I can't.

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I never will.

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You know I would do anything.

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I have a conscience.

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Let's pretend I will return in spring.

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You will return.

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We will live in the country.

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Close to Mama.

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And our bedroom will look out on to a little apple orchard.

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And beyond that, a mountain in a mist.

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We can make a garden where every sort of wild flower grows.

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And we will go to bed while the sun is still high.

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And when it becomes dark, the moon will shine through the shutters.

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And I will hold you close.

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And kiss your breasts.

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Your arms.

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Your waist.

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Everywhere.

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Touch has a memory.

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I know it.

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< (CHURCH BELL TOLLS)

1:37:371:37:39

Not a word.

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(CARRIAGE DOOR CLOSES)

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Mama!

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Mr Brown's baby has red hair.

1:38:301:38:32

Hello!

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You beautiful boy!

1:38:351:38:38

Hello, oh, well done, well done.

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Hello. It is so nice to meet you.

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You've seen the baby?

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Looks like Abigail.

1:38:531:38:56

John's reached Naples.

1:39:011:39:03

They quarantined his ship.

1:39:041:39:07

He wrote that he made

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more puns out of desperation in two weeks

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than he had in any year of his life.

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< (BABY CRIES)

1:39:151:39:17

Should have liked to have been there

1:39:181:39:20

-to have heard them.

-You could have...

1:39:201:39:24

..had you gone.

1:39:241:39:26

(BABY SCREAMS)

1:39:261:39:30

It's not that simple,

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with the baby,

1:39:351:39:38

and my funds reduced.

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And then, there is this issue of the snow and the Alps.

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And the lack of will.

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Shall I say it aloud?

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Will that satisfy you?

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Shall I say it?

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I have failed John Keats.

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I've failed John Keats.

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I failed John Keats!

1:40:121:40:16

I failed him, I failed him. (STAMPS HIS FEET)

1:40:161:40:19

I did not know until now

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how tightly he had wound himself around my heart.

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< (BABY SCREAMS)

1:40:271:40:30

It's for you, Mama.

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It's from Italy.

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It's from Mr Keats.

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He says, "It looks like a dream."

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> (CHILDREN LAUGH)

1:41:081:41:11

Start again.

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< (DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)

1:42:411:42:44

It's cold out.

1:42:531:42:56

How are you all?

1:42:571:42:59

We are all quite well enough, but how is Mr Keats?

1:42:591:43:03

Mrs Brawne, it is...

1:43:031:43:05

..as unbearable to me as I know it is to you.

1:43:051:43:11

Mr Keats has died.

1:43:131:43:15

I received an account from Severn.

1:43:171:43:22

And I have copied it for you, Miss Brawne.

1:43:221:43:26

Shall I just read it?

1:43:261:43:28

"Friday."

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"23rd February."

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"At four in the afternoon, Keats called me, 'Severn, Severn,'

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'lift me up for I am dying. I shall die easy.'"

1:43:511:43:57

"'Don't be frightened.'"

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"'Thank God it has come.'"

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"At one point, a cold heavy sweat broke out over his whole body

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and he whispered, 'Don't breathe on me,

1:44:061:44:10

it comes like ice.'"

1:44:101:44:13

"Keats died imperceptibly."

1:44:131:44:15

No more.

1:44:151:44:18

(WHIMPERS)

1:44:271:44:30

Oh, God.

1:44:411:44:44

< Oh, God.

1:44:461:44:48

< John.

1:44:481:44:50

< (CRYING)

1:44:501:44:54

< Mama!

1:44:541:44:55

Mama!

1:45:021:45:05

I-I can't breathe.

1:45:051:45:09

Mama!

1:45:101:45:12

Oh, Mama.

1:45:241:45:28

(SOBS)

1:45:281:45:30

Sammy?

1:46:301:46:32

Samuel?

1:46:321:46:33

> (FOOTSTEPS)

1:46:421:46:45

"Bright star,

1:46:571:47:01

would I were steadfast as thou art,

1:47:011:47:05

Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night

1:47:071:47:13

And watching,

1:47:131:47:16

With eternal lids apart,

1:47:161:47:20

Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,

1:47:201:47:26

The moving waters at their priestlike task

1:47:271:47:31

Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,

1:47:311:47:35

Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask

1:47:351:47:39

Of snow upon the mountains and the moors,

1:47:391:47:42

No, yet still steadfast,

1:47:441:47:49

Still unchangeable,

1:47:491:47:52

Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,

1:47:541:48:00

To feel for ever

1:48:001:48:04

Its soft swell and fall,

1:48:041:48:08

Awake for ever

1:48:101:48:12

In a sweet unrest,

1:48:151:48:19

Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,

1:48:221:48:25

And so live ever,

1:48:281:48:31

Or else swoon to death."

1:48:311:48:35

"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense,

1:49:041:49:10

As though of hemlock I had drunk,

1:49:101:49:13

Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains

1:49:131:49:15

One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk,

1:49:151:49:20

'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,

1:49:201:49:23

But being too happy in thy happiness,

1:49:231:49:26

That thou, light-winged dryad of the trees,

1:49:261:49:29

In some melodious plot

1:49:291:49:30

Of beechen green and shadows numberless,

1:49:301:49:33

Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

1:49:331:49:38

O for a draught of vintage that hath been

1:49:381:49:41

Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,

1:49:411:49:44

Tasting of Flora and the country-green,

1:49:441:49:47

Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!

1:49:471:49:51

O for a beaker full of the warm South!

1:49:511:49:54

Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,

1:49:541:49:57

With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,

1:49:571:50:00

And purple-stained mouth..."

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