Mildred Natwick en el papel de...
Griselda
- Hawkins: I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?
- Griselda: Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!
- Hawkins: They *broke* the chalice from the palace?
- Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.
- Hawkins: A flagon...?
- Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.
- Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.
- Griselda: Right.
- Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
- Griselda: No! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
- Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
- Griselda: Just remember that.
- Griselda: Listen. I have put a pellet of poison in one of the vessels.
- Hawkins: Which one?
- Griselda: The one with the figure of a pestle.
- Hawkins: The vessel with the pestle?
- Griselda: Yes. But you don't want the vessel with the pestle, you want the chalice from the palace!
- Hawkins: I don't want the vessel with the pestle, I want the chalice from... the what?
- Jean: The chalice from the palace!
- Hawkins: Hmmm?
- Griselda: It's a little crystal chalice with a figure of a palace.
- Hawkins: The chalice from the palace has the pellet with the poison?
- Griselda: No, the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.
- Hawkins: Oh, oh, the pestle with the vessel.
- Jean: The vessel with the pestle.
- Hawkins: What about the palace from the chalice?
- Griselda: Not the palace from the chalice! The chalice from the palace!
- Hawkins: Where's the pellet with the poison?
- Griselda: In the vessel with the pestle.
- Griselda: The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
- Jean: Don't you see? The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.
- Griselda: The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!
- Jean: It's so easy, I can say it.
- Hawkins: Well then you fight him!
- Griselda: Listen carefully. The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
- Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
- Jean: Good man!
- Griselda: I bring you a message from the princess.
- Hubert Hawkins: The royal princess?
- Griselda: Yes, she finds you most attractive and would like to meet you.
- Hubert Hawkins: Me?
- Griselda: She finds you passing fair, passing gracefully.
- Hubert Hawkins: Tell her, "Thank you very much, but I'm just passing through."
- Fergus: I'm Fergus, the Ostler.
- Hawkins: Who-whogus the Whatsler?
- Fergus: Fergus, the Ostler. It is I, not Ravenhurst, who is your friend.
- Hawkins: [ushering Fergus back to the window] Look, my good man, you pick your friends, and I shall pick mine. At the moment, I have a very important mission with the king. After all, I am the incomparable Giacomo, king of jesters and jester of kings.
- [Griselda enters unnoticed]
- Hawkins: I have entertained in all the courts of Europe and speak a ready wit in their every tongue.
- [turns and runs into Griselda]
- Hawkins: [without missing a beat] Now, who are you?
- Griselda: I am Griselda.
- Hawkins: Gri-who-lda?
- Griselda: Tails of lizards, ears of swine, chicken gizzards soaked in brine, now thine eyes and mine entwine, thy will is mine, thou art mine! Repeat after me: I am craven, and thou art my master.
- Hawkins: [monotone] I am craven, and thou art my master.
- Griselda: Stand there, fool.
- Hawkins: Stand there, fool.
- Griselda: Silence!
- Hawkins: Silence!
- Griselda: You are in my power and will obey my every command.
- Hawkins: Every command.
- Griselda: And remember, any time I choose, a mere snap of the fingers can bring you out of the spell like this.
- Hawkins: [snapping her fingers, the spell is broken] Ooh!
- Griselda: [snapping again] And back like that. Do you understand, fool?
- Hawkins: Yes, master. You can snap me in and snap me out.