🎭 Spotless reputation - Learn English vocabulary & idioms with Shakespeare Speaks

35,269 views ・ 2016-03-31

BBC Learning English


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It was a spring morning in 1601. William Shakespeare is visiting
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Queen Elizabeth I of England. She's not very happy today...
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I will not allow my enemies to live. Tomorrow that ill-faced, murderous coward the Earl
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of Essex will die, and the people will know that I commanded it.
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Very good, your Majesty.
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Your players will perform Richard II for me tomorrow.
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A great honour, your Majesty.
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Even though they performed that same play for the filthy, crooked Earl of Essex
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while he was planning to kill me!
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Your Majesty -
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I really ought to punish you and your players for that, Shakespeare -
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I should cut off all your heads, or at least imprison you in the Tower!
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Your Majesty -
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Lucky for you that I am a merciful Queen - but I am not weak.
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I will not allow anyone to speak badly of my character or my actions.
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I am Queen of England and my reputation is everything.
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My enemies must fear and respect me and the people must love me.
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Gossips must be silenced and traitors must be punished. Do you not agree?
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Your Majesty is the wisest of queens. A good reputation is everything. Indeed, in my play,
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Richard II, Thomas Mowbray says: "My dear dear lord, The purest treasure...
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My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford
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Is spotless reputation:
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Well said, Shakespeare - a spotless reputation
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is truly the most important and precious thing in any life. You may go.
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Your Majesty-
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We'll leave them there for now.
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Analysts have also asked whether the revelations
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will cause irreversible damage to Volkswagen's previously spotless reputation.
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Another athlete caught taking drugs? I'm surprised at this one though -
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she always had a spotless reputation.
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Robert, Thomas, give me some ale - we're doing Richard II, tomorrow.
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And it'd better be good, or it could be the Tower.
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Oh dear. Oh no. To the tower, or not to the tower: that is the question.
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