“Forgive me, my lords, it is my fault for mixing politics with wine. More tench, perhaps? Dormouse?”
I just turned on BBC2’s big-budget swank history drama ROME: this wz the first sentence I heard.
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(ps it is v.instructive watching it while flickin over periodically to attack of the clones as they are TOTALLY the SAME)