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Richard/Phillip, post a specific scene in The Lion in Winter:
Sodomy, you called it. You denounced it, our love, pretended it was all trickery. All a weapon to yield over my head or my father's. And I believed you, Philip. I wanted to scream at the heavens. Instead I screamed at my father, at the contempt on his face. At your cruel, vicious eyes.
Now you talk sweetly again. Promise me love, declare time and again that you have only said those words to attack Henry, to have a foothold. It was all strategy, you say, and I believe your soft lying lips again, believe words from a boy's mouth.
Sodomy, you called it. You denounced it, our love, pretended it was all trickery. All a weapon to yield over my head or my father's. And I believed you, Philip. I wanted to scream at the heavens. Instead I screamed at my father, at the contempt on his face. At your cruel, vicious eyes.
Now you talk sweetly again. Promise me love, declare time and again that you have only said those words to attack Henry, to have a foothold. It was all strategy, you say, and I believe your soft lying lips again, believe words from a boy's mouth.