Legend of the Seeker 2x13

Princess

Season 2, Episode 13

* Zedd: How about some rosemary?
   Richard: Ooh, good.
   Cara: What would your mothers say?
   Zedd: About our ability to create ambrosial delights from roots and herbs scavenged from the wilderness?
   Cara: No, about two strong men fussing over the fire while a woman chops wood for them.
   Zedd: On a good team, each member performs in accordance with their abilities, and judging by your recent attempts to produce something approximating corn cake, it might be best for you to stick to chopping.


* Zedd: All we'd need is a princess.
   Cara: Hm. Oh, no.
   Zedd: Mm-mm. Cara, it could work.
   Cara: I'm no princess.
   Zedd: No, you're not. Especially not this princess, who is renowned for her delicacy, her charm, and most especially her virtue. But the impossibility of the task must not prevent us from undertaking it.

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* Zedd: Most challenging of all, when in the Margrave's presence, a lady must always, without exception, speak in rhyming dactylic tetrameter.
   Cara: In what?
   Zedd: A poetic meter, in which each line consists of four groups of three-syllable phrases with the accent on the first syllable, and the first syllable of the fourth phrase. Of each line must rhyme with the corresponding syllable on the line before it. I shall demonstrate by example. If the Margrave were to ask you "Hasn't the weather been nice lately?", you might answer:
    "The night was a tumult
      of thunder and storm,
      but ever since then
      it's been lovely and warm."
Care to try?


* Cara: When my servants drop things, or grumble, or whine, it's never too long before they're back in line.
   Margrave: Tell me how you manage it, princess.
   Cara:
      Once, long ago,
      I was training a slave,
      who endeavored
      most stubbornly
      not to behave.
      So I cut off a finger
      or two with a knife,
      and threatened to slaughter
      his child and his wife.
      Then I stripped him down naked,
      and strapped to a horse,
      I dragged him through miles
      of bramble and gorse,
      poured salt in the wounds
      and rolled him in rubble,
      and that was the last time
      he gave any trouble.
   Margrave: Impressive! I'll have to give it a try.


* Cara: I've minced and curtsied and rhymed, and we still don't have the key. I'll get it my way.
   Zedd: Without your Agiels?
   Cara: I don't need magic to make a man beg for mercy.


* Cara: Where I come from, the raw liver of a Shadrin is considered a powerful aphrodisiac. Would you like some?
   Margrave: Do you know how many Laws of Right and Good you have just broken?
   Cara: It's your choice, Margrave. An eternity of right and good, or an eternity of me.


* Cara: Tell me where the key is, or there's going to be a royal decapitation.


* Kahlan: Your life is in your hands, Arla. Only yours.


* Margrave: ... Then bring the queen from the dungeon. Tell her all has been forgiven. It's better to have an old reliable mare than no horse at all, wouldn't you say?
   Unfortunately, the queen has escaped. But don't despair, Your Majesty. You will always have me.



--- Словарик:
scavenge — чистить, очищать
wilderness — дикая местность; девственная природа
fussing — чрезмерно заботиться, носиться
virtue — добродетель, нравственность
tumult — шум, грохот
endeavor — стремиться, добиваться
stubbornly — упрямо; упорно
bramble — куманика, ежевика
gorse — утёсник обыкновенный
rubble — булыжник, рваный камень
minced — рубленый
curtsy — делать реверанс, приседать
mare — кобыла

На Imdb

! Лучший эпизод.
+ Кара — принцесса, во всей своей красе.
+ Никки вернулась, да еще и как!
. Среди всех персонажей только Кара (может быть, к ней добавится возрожденная Никки) способна удивлять. Второй сезон только на Каре и держится.
? Это правда был Крокодил Данди?! 8-О