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Each a different dismal one. Their language smothers. | Each a different dismal one. Their language smothers. | ||
{{Script|Nuncle}}: We understand them not. Nor they each other. | {{Script|Nuncle}}: We understand them not. Nor they each other. | ||
{{script|Complicatio}}: Yet, this is our strife: this | {{script|Complicatio}}: Yet, this is our strife: this bewild’ring ’scape | ||
Of contraptions yoked and tethered as a | Of contraptions yoked and tethered as a measur’d beast — | ||
Upon whose | Upon whose back our common fiscal fate depends. | ||
And, O! Dilemma! The very men who work these chainèd cranks — | And, O! Dilemma! The very men who work these chainèd cranks — | ||
{{Script|Queen}}: Men? Just men? | {{Script|Queen}}: Men? Just men? | ||
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Their majesty doth get the point. | Their majesty doth get the point. | ||
{{script|Queen}}: It is a pretty speech so far. But has it any meat? | {{script|Queen}}: It is a pretty speech so far. But has it any meat? | ||
{{script|Complicatio}}: I — we — they — are and | {{script|Complicatio}}: I — we — they — am and are and are obliged. | ||
They whose allied cadence powers our truck — | They whose allied cadence powers our truck — | ||
{{Script|Queen}}: The dismal ones? | {{Script|Queen}}: The dismal ones? | ||
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{{Script|Nuncle}}: “Weighty anchors”? None call the Reverend Spooner! | {{Script|Nuncle}}: “Weighty anchors”? None call the Reverend Spooner! | ||
{{Script|Queen}}: There are ''eighty'' of these dismal scientists? | {{Script|Queen}}: There are ''eighty'' of these dismal scientists? | ||
{{script|Complicatio}}: | {{Script|Nuncle}}: More like eight hundred — | ||
{{script|Complicatio}}: Eager but, yegads, inconstant. Oafish! Fickle! Slow! | |||
I wouldst speed their outputs up, only worser comes with sooner. | I wouldst speed their outputs up, only worser comes with sooner. | ||
And so, my liege, my battle plan: set these [[Morlocks]] free. | And so, my liege, my battle plan: we set these [[Morlocks]] free. | ||
{{Script|Queen}}: To do what? | {{Script|Queen}}: To do what? | ||
{{Script|Nuncle}}: To live a carefree life set free of all this drudgery. | |||
{{Script|Complicatio}}: Should we set the crankshafts free from work-to-rule | {{Script|Complicatio}}: Should we set the crankshafts free from work-to-rule | ||
To run through night and day without cease | To run through night and day without cease |