A Wager's made/下了一個賭注

摘自電影 "Shakespeare In Love"

女皇準備派 Wessex 勳爵去開發佛吉尼亞，Viola De Lesseps 是他的皇配妻子。那日，女皇召見 Viola， 問其所好，答"詩詞／話劇", 便有了與女皇的爭執。

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為了"話劇能否向人們展示愛情的真實特點"一事，
伊麗莎白女皇: 寫話劇的人不能教會我們任何有關愛情的事情，他們隻是讓它很美麗，或很喜劇，或很放蕩，但他們無法讓其真實。
Viola （De Lesseps )： 但他們可以做到！
(Queen Elizabeth: Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty, they make it comical, or they make it lust, but they cannot make it true.
Viola De Lesseps: Oh, but they can!)
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為了討好女皇，Wesses 勳爵與莎士比亞打了一個賭：50英鎊。
女皇說: 50英鎊，是一大筆賭注，與賭的事情相配：一部話劇能否向人們展示愛情真實特點？ 我是這個賭注的見證人和揭曉時判官。到目前為止，我還沒看到任何結論。
(Queen Elizabeth: Fifty pounds! A very worthy sum on a very worthy question. Can a play show us the very truth and nature of love? I bear witness to the wager, and will be the judge of it as occasion arises. I have not seen anything to settle it yet.)

視頻中對話最後，女皇告訴 Wessex 勳爵，"... but you are a lordly fool, she has been plucked since I saw her last -- and not by you. It takes a woman to know it."

待續.