Robert Downey Jr. credited as playing...
Merivel
- Robert Merivel: I have done the one thing forbidden by the king. I have fallen in love with my wife.
- Katharine: You know, in Ireland a man with a horse, a cart and a book he knows how to read is the catch of the county.
- Robert Merivel: Well, perhaps when we have made fire of the cart and eaten the horse and wiped our asses with the book, you'll become better acquainted with what you have caught.
- Merivel: A most lavish affair! Who is to be married?
- King: Celia Clemence.
- Merivel: I understood she was your mistress!
- King: Then you understood right, Merivel... Miss Clemence is to be married and seemingly dispatched out of London with her husband, while in fact, I secrete her near the river in Kew - the better to sport with her unobserved... For her husband, I need a man who is far too enamored of women in general to make the mistake of loving one in particular...
- Robert Merivel: My first patient was a frog, I cured him of jumping. Now I can cure people of breathing.
- Robert Merivel: We need money.
- Katharine: There is money inside my skirt!
- Robert Merivel: [to roadside hack] She is simple. We are doctor and patient.
- [clarifying]
- Robert Merivel: I am the doctor.
- [last lines]
- Robert Merivel: [voiceover] The fire in its fury has consumed the great plague. Misfortune may leave behind unlooked-for blessings... none dearer than you, my little Margaret. I will return to the city, to my work as a doctor, and the rebuilding of the King's Hospital. The stars that once confused me seem now to light a path that is clear, that I have in truth been traveling for all these days. Where I met what came, and left behind my sorrows. And I am traveling still.