Shannyn Sossamon credited as playing...
Jocelyn
- Jocelyn: Sir Ulrick. What are you wearing to the ball tonight?
- William: Er... nothing...
- Jocelyn: Well, we shall cause a sensation, for I'll dress to match.
- William: [annoyed] Don't you ever get tired of putting on clothes?
- Chaucer: [whispers] I believe she was talking about taking them off, sir.
- Jocelyn: A flower is only as good as its petals. Don't you think?
- William: A flower is good for nothing. You can't eat a flower, a flower can't keep you warm...
- Jocelyn: And a rose never knocked a man off a horse either, did it?
- William: You're just a silly girl aren't you.
- Jocelyn: Better a silly girl with a flower, than a silly boy with a horse and a stick...
- [she walks away]
- Wat: It's called a lance. Heellooo?
- Old Bishop: [after William rides into the cathedral on a horse to woo Jocelyn] Ladies! Does this not shock you?
- Jocelyn: [feigning sadness] I only laugh to keep from weeping.
- Old Bishop: I know, child. Pray that the years come quickly for you, taking your beauty so that you may better serve Him.
- Jocelyn: I do, every day.
- [raises hands to face]
- Jocelyn: God, why did you curse me with this face?
- Old Bishop: God has a plan we know not.
- [offers hand to Jocelyn to kiss]
- Jocelyn: [goes to kiss hand, but instead admires a costly ring on his finger] Oh, that is lovely...
- William: What do you think? Now that you know what I am?
- Jocelyn: To know what you are, William, would take a lifetime. One I am most willing to give. But right now you've got to run. There's nothing else to do. Run and I will run with you.
- William: Jocelyn, I cannot run. I'm a knight. And I will put myself to the hazard!
- Roland: A knight in your heart but not on paper. And paper's all that matters to them!
- Jocelyn: William, I love you. I love you. You... and I'm sorry but I won't see you led away, bound for the stocks.
- William: Oh, but you will see me run? No!
- Jocelyn: Damn your pride, William! It is you and only you that will not see you run!
- William: My pride is the only thing they can't take away from me!
- Jocelyn: But they can take it from you! They can and they will. Oh, they will. But love they cannot take.
- William: And... and where will we live? In... in my hovel? With the pigs inside in the winter so they won't freeze?
- Jocelyn: [crying] Yes, William, with the pigs... with the pigs. The poor can marry for love.
- William: [angry] Oh, Jocelyn, you speak of what you do not know!
- Jocelyn: William, I beg you! Please... run. Do it for love.
- William: [William turns around, looking desperately for support] Roland, you would see me run?
- [Roland nods and looks down]
- William: And you, Geoff?
- Chaucer: Yes, I wish you to with all the pieces of my heart.
- William: Wat, you and I, we aren't runners.
- Wat: [Wat smiles, but is holding back tears] Yes... William, today we are.
- Kate: Run, William.
- William: NO!
- [Jocelyn closes her eyes, tears leaking down her cheeks]
- William: I will not run! I am a knight!