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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|Inclusivia}}: Or | {{script|Inclusivia}}: Or leguminous alternatives. | ||
{{script|Complicatio}}: I — we — they — am and are and are obliged. | {{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 — | ||
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{{Script|Nuncle}}: More like eight hundred — | {{Script|Nuncle}}: More like eight hundred — | ||
{{script|Complicatio}}: Eager but, yegads, inconstant. Oafish! Fickle! Slow! | {{script|Complicatio}}: Eager but, yegads, inconstant. Oafish! Fickle! Slow! | ||
I wouldst speed | I wouldst speed rate of stroke, only worser comes with sooner. | ||
And so, my liege, my battle plan: we 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|Inclusivia}}: To see out their best and carefree lives, unchained of drudgery. | {{Script|Inclusivia}}: To see out their best and carefree lives, unchained of drudgery. | ||
Uninjured by | Uninjured by liv’d experience: happy, unstress’d — full, fair and abundant. | ||
{{Script|Nuncle}}: In other words, less gently put, | {{Script|Nuncle}}: In other words, less gently put, they’ll make the lot redundant. | ||
{{Script|Complicatio}}: Thus | {{Script|Complicatio}}: Thus, unbound by work-to-rule, we’ll drive the train | ||
Around the clock, without relent | |||
Night; day; rain; hail or shine — e’en upon the Sabbath. | |||
{{Script|Queen}}: | {{Script|Queen}}: But crankshafts doth pedal not themselves, [[Complicatio]]. | ||
Who | You’ve said you’d let your [[experts]] go, so | ||
{{Script|Complicatio}}: You can hire them by the score in Bucharest. | Who shall turn thy grimy wheels, without fault or favour, food or rest? | ||
{{Script|Complicatio}}: You can hire them by the score in [[Proverbial school-leaver from Bucharest|Bucharest]]. | |||
They are legion: all thifty, keen and swift. | |||
{{Script|Queen}}: But unpossessed of all the knowhow that, by rank and yank, you sent away? | |||
{{Script|Complicatio}}: There are merchants, Ma’am whose special skill | |||
Collating squads of fruity youths, fresh harvested from school. | |||
They bone them up on our materials — | |||
Service catalogues, hymn-sheets, taxonomies | |||
They train them well to stay on message. | |||
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