Stray Dogs

The Borgias 2×4

& Cesare: You have bad news?
    Micheletto: Is there any other kind, Your Eminence?

& Cesare: She has released my heart... of all emotions but one.... Vengeance.
    Micheletto: Vengeance is sweet.

& Rodrigo Borgia: If the two armies batter each other to death, as the lawyers often say, cui bono?
    Cesare: Who benefits?
    Rodrigo Borgia: Mm. A weakened Milan, a weakened Venice, a weakened Mantua— has to be worth a weekend in Tuscany, surely?

& Rodrigo Borgia: We know little of war, but much of vengeance. And the one salient point is this: vengeance is patient. It can wait a lifetime if necessary. Because it never dies.

& Rodrigo Borgia: Our distrust of the vice chancellor is bottomless. As of the entire curia. Which is why we thought we would leave them in the safe hands of that one blessed person in whom we can utterly, utterly place our trust...
    Lucrezia: ...Show me your hands, Cesare.

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& Lucrezia: You may sit, cardinals.
    Cesare: May I sit too, Sister?
    Lucrezia: Indeed, Cardinal Borgia.

& Della Rovere: Have you heard? He’s left his daughter in the chair of St. Peter’s.

& Rodrigo Borgia: Do you pledge your arms to the service of God, and his vicar on earth?
    Francesco Gonzaga: I do, Your Holiness.
    Rodrigo Borgia: And do you promise to fight in His name and His name alone?
    Francesco Gonzaga: I do, Your Holiness.
    Rodrigo Borgia: And do you pledge the spoils of battle in its entirety to His Holy Mother Church?
    Francesco Gonzaga: ......
    Rodrigo Borgia: God’s blessing comes with a price...
    Francesco Gonzaga: ...I-do, Your Holiness.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Then you have our blessing.

& — Your salts of mercury, your Highness.

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