A Field in England (2013)

Richard Glover: Friend

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• Friend : When you get to the alehouse, see a way to get a message to my wife.

  Jacob : Anything, Friend. Anything.

  Friend : Tell her... tell her I hate her. Tell her I did burn her father's barn. 'Twas payment for forcing our marriage. Tell her I loved her sister. Who I had. Many times. From behind. Like a beautiful prize sow.

  Jacob : If I'd have known that, I would have paid you more respect, brother.

• Friend : I think I have worked out what God is punishing us for. Everything.

• Friend : It does not surprise me that the Devil is an Irishman, though I thought perhaps a little taller.

• Friend : You think about a thing before you touch it, am I right?

  Whitehead : Is that not usual?

  Friend : Not in Essex.

• Whitehead : Have you ever looked up?

  Friend : Sounds badly paid.

• Jacob : I'm going to have a shit.

  [Grunting and Panting] 

  Friend : Sounds like hard work. Is it a boy or a girl?

  Jacob : Fuck off! Ah, fucking nettles.

  Friend : Yeah. You all right? You've got shit on you as well.

  Jacob : Help me up. You never seen a man have a shit before? Go on, fuck off.