The Court Jester

Keep your jests for the King. 668 00:35:52,761 --> 00:35:54,162 Don't stand there gaping. 669 00:35:54,230 --> 00:35:56,403 You, Fergus, and the others, get the Jester's bags. 670 00:35:57,433 --> 00:35:59,367 You arrived not a moment too soon. 671 00:35:59,435 --> 00:36:00,873 - When do we start? - Tonight. 672 00:36:00,876 --> 00:36:02,637 Good. I'd like to get in, get on with it, 673 00:36:02,704 --> 00:36:04,071 get it over with, and get out. Get it? 674 00:36:04,140 --> 00:36:05,387 - Got it. - Good. 675 00:36:06,275 --> 00:36:08,309 That was an interesting song you were singing. 676 00:36:08,377 --> 00:36:09,777 Thank you. I'm glad you liked it, old man. 677 00:36:09,845 --> 00:36:10,999 Did it go like this? 678 00:36:11,002 --> 00:36:12,093 ♫ ♪ 679 00:36:12,348 --> 00:36:14,549 Hostler, about your business! 680 00:36:14,617 --> 00:36:17,552 What is the first step? 681 00:36:17,620 --> 00:36:19,420 Get me to the King's chambers. 682 00:36:19,488 --> 00:36:20,913 - King's chambers? - Yes. 683 00:36:20,916 --> 00:36:22,224 Very well. If you say so. 684 00:36:22,227 --> 00:36:24,423 That may be the key to the whole plan. Get it? 685 00:36:24,426 --> 00:36:25,338 - Got it. - Good. 686 00:36:25,341 --> 00:36:27,263 Yes, yes, I'll see Griswold's emissaries, 687 00:36:27,443 --> 00:36:28,896 but for the moment, there are other matters. 688 00:36:28,964 --> 00:36:30,398 I understand the wenches have arrived. 689 00:36:30,466 --> 00:36:33,201 Where are they? What have we here? 690 00:36:33,269 --> 00:36:35,570 Sire, may I present the incomparable Giacomo? 691 00:36:35,638 --> 00:36:37,929 King of Jesters and Jester of kings. 692 00:36:37,932 --> 00:36:40,800 Oh, yes. From Italy. I haven't been there for years. 693 00:36:40,803 --> 00:36:42,712 Tell me, how go things at the Italian court? 694 00:36:42,811 --> 00:36:43,878 Very well indeed, Sire. 695 00:36:43,945 --> 00:36:44,945 Splendid, splendid. 696 00:36:45,013 --> 00:36:47,382 What about all those stories we've heard? 697 00:36:47,449 --> 00:36:49,517 Wasn't it awful about the Duchess of Erba? 698 00:36:49,585 --> 00:36:51,586 Oh, just, just awful, Sire. 699 00:36:51,654 --> 00:36:53,788 I ask you, how could a thing like that happen? 700 00:36:53,855 --> 00:36:56,324 Well, Sire, you know the Italian court. 701 00:36:56,392 --> 00:36:58,359 What better place to court Italians? 702 00:36:58,427 --> 00:37:00,611 Italian court. Court Italians. 703 00:37:00,614 --> 00:37:02,463 Ha ha ho ho! 704 00:37:02,531 --> 00:37:04,268 Oh, Ravenhurst, the fellow has wit. 705 00:37:04,271 --> 00:37:07,130 I must say, I was shocked to hear about the duchess. 706 00:37:07,133 --> 00:37:08,466 What did the Duke do? 707 00:37:09,972 --> 00:37:10,833 Pardon? 708 00:37:10,836 --> 00:37:12,596 The Duke. What did the Duke do? 709 00:37:12,599 --> 00:37:13,641 Uh, the Duke do? 710 00:37:13,709 --> 00:37:15,510 Yes. And what about the Doge? 711 00:37:15,578 --> 00:37:17,278 Oh, the Doge. 712 00:37:17,346 --> 00:37:19,113 Well, what did the Doge do? 713 00:37:19,181 --> 00:37:20,114 The Doge do? 714 00:37:20,182 --> 00:37:21,216 Yes, the Doge do? 715 00:37:21,283 --> 00:37:24,219 Well, uh, the Doge did what a Doge does, 716 00:37:24,286 --> 00:37:26,454 when the Doge does his duty to a Duke, that is. 717 00:37:26,522 --> 00:37:27,455 What? What's that? 718 00:37:27,523 --> 00:37:28,723 Oh, it's very simple, Sire. 719 00:37:28,790 --> 00:37:30,658 When the Doge did his duty and the Duke didn't, 720 00:37:30,726 --> 00:37:33,160 that's when the duchess did the dirt to the Duke with the Doge. 721 00:37:33,229 --> 00:37:34,195 Who did what to what? 722 00:37:34,263 --> 00:37:36,464 Oh, they all did, Sire. There they were in the dark, 723 00:37:36,532 --> 00:37:39,233 the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the duchess with her dirk. 724 00:37:39,235 --> 00:37:40,053 Duchess with her dirk? 725 00:37:40,056 --> 00:37:43,471 Yes. The duchess dug at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. 726 00:37:43,539 --> 00:37:44,905 Now, the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, 727 00:37:44,973 --> 00:37:47,007 and the duchess didn't, so the Duke got the duchess, 728 00:37:47,075 --> 00:37:49,344 the duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke. 729 00:37:49,695 --> 00:37:53,419 Curious. I, I, I, I, 730 00:37:53,422 --> 00:37:55,483 all I heard was that the duchess had a siege of rheumatism. 731 00:37:55,551 --> 00:37:56,984 She's 83, you know. 732 00:37:57,052 --> 00:37:58,018 Oh, come next summer, Sire. 733 00:37:58,086 --> 00:37:59,120 So is the Duke? 734 00:37:59,187 --> 00:38:01,556 So is the Duke. Remarkable, those Italians. 735 00:38:06,061 --> 00:38:08,496 Made the whole thing up, didn't you? 736 00:38:09,074 --> 00:38:11,766 Very witty, very clever. Ju...