“Fifty pounds! A very worthy sum on a very worthy question. Can a play...” – Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare in Love ... Movie Quotes Database

Fifty pounds! A very worthy sum on a very worthy question. Can a play show us the very truth and nature of love? I bear witness to the wager, and will be the judge of it as occasion arises. I have not seen anything to settle it yet.

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