Young Bess (1953)

Guy Rolfe: Ned Seymour

Quotes 

• Prince Edward : [muttering to Tom about Uncle Ned, who rules while Edward is King as a minor]  I wish he'd die.

  Thomas Seymour : What? What was that?

  Prince Edward : I said, I wish he'd die. D-Y-E.

  Thomas Seymour : It's the wrong spelling.

  Prince Edward : [nonchalant]  Oh, is it?

  Ned Seymour : What is Your Majesty talking about?

  Prince Edward : Spelling. Nobody knows for certain how to spell the King's English.

  Ned Seymour : The spelling is not important, so long as the word carries the right meaning.

  Thomas Seymour : The word His Majesty had *exactly* the right meaning.

• King Henry VIII : Pray for my soul to release it from purgatory.

  Ned Seymour : You have abolished purgatory.

  King Henry VIII : Don't argue, Ned.