[Stefan castle. He's standing at the window, looking outside. Hubert is with him, eating]
- Stefan:
- [sighs]
No sign of her yet, Hubert.
- Hubert:
- 'course not.
Good half hour 'till sunset.
[takes a bite]
Ah, excellent bird!
[looks at Stefan]
Oh now, come on, wake up,
battle's over,
girl's as good as here.
- Stefan:
- I'm sorry, Hubert, but after sixteen years of worrying,
never knowing ...
- Hubert:
- The past, all in the past.
[claps his hands. The Lackey
Tonight, we toast to future
with something I've been saving for sixteen years.
[fills two glasses]
Here, to the future!
- Stefan:
- Right, Hubert, to the future!
- Hubert:
- Skumps!
- Stefan:
- Skumps
- Hubert:
- A toast to this knight
- Stefan:
- The outlook is rosy
- Hubert:
- The future is bright
- Both:
- Our children will marry
Our kingdoms unite
Skumps, Skumps, Skumps!
- Hubert:
- Ah, excellent vintage.
And now, to the new home, eh?
- Stefan:
- New home?
- Hubert:
- Children need a nest of their own, what?
Place to raise their little brood, eh?
- Stefan:
- Well, I suppose in time ...
- Hubert:
- Of course.
To the home!
Skumps!
- Stefan:
- Skumps!
- Hubert:
- A toast to the home
- Stefan:
- One grander by far than
a palace in Rome
- Hubert:
- Let me fill up your glass,
That glass was all foam.
- Both:
- Skumps, Skumps, Skumps!
- Hubert:
- [claps his hands]
The plans!
[servant holds a castle's plan in front of Stefan face]
Well, what do you think?
Nothing elaborate, of course.
Forty bedrooms,
Dining hall,
Honeymoon cottage,
really.
- Stefan:
- You mean, you're building it already?
- Hubert:
- Built man!
Finished.
The love-birds can move in tomorrow.
- Stefan:
- Tomorrow?
But Hubert, they're not even married yet.
- Hubert:
- Take care of that tonight.
To the wedding!
- Stefan:
- Now hold on, Hubert.
I haven't even seen my daughter yet,
and you're taking her away from me.
- Hubert:
- Getting my Phillip aren't you?
- Stefan:
- Yes, but ...
- Hubert:
- Want to see our grandchildren, don't we?
- Stefan:
- Of course, but ...
- Hubert:
- There's no time to lose!
Getting on in years.
To the wedding!
- Stefan:
- Now be reasonable, Hubert.
After all, Aurora knows nothing about this.
- Hubert:
- Well?
- Stefan:
- Well, it may come as quite a shock ...
- Hubert:
- Shock? My Phillip a shock?
[angry]
What's wrong with my Phillip?
- Stefan:
- Nothing, Hubert.
I only meant ...
- Hubert:
- Why, doesn't your daughter like my son
- Stefan:
- Now, now ...
I'm not so sure my son likes your daughter!
- Stefan:
- Now, see here ...
- Hubert:
- I'm not so sure my grandchildren want
You for a grandfather
- Stefan:
- Why, you unreasonable, pompous, blustering, old windbag!
- Hubert:
- Unreasonable, pompous ...
[grabs a fish and holds it like a sword]
En garde, sir!
- Stefan:
- I warn you, Hubert, this means war.
[uses a plate as a shield]
[they start to fight, fish against plate. then abruptly break into laughter]
- Hubert:
- What's this all about anyway?
- Stefan:
- Nothing Hubert, absolutely nothing.
- Hubert:
- The children are bound to fall in love with each other.
- Stefan:
- Precisely.
And as for grandchildren,
I'll have the royal woodcarvers
start work on the cradle tomorrow.
- Hubert:
- Splendid!
King size, of course.
- Stefan:
- Certainly.
To the woodcarver's guild!
[we hear an announcement outside]
- Announcer:
- His royal highness,
Prince Phillip
- Hubert:
- Phillip?
[runs downward to meet him]
[Before the castle. Phillip arrives on his horse]
- Hubert:
- Phillip! Phillip! Phillip, hold, Phillip!
[Phillip holds, Hubert runs to him]
Hurry, boy, hurry,
and change in something suitable.
Can't meet your future bride
looking like that.
- Phillip:
- Well, I have met her, father.
- Hubert:
- You have? where?
- Phillip:
- Once upon a dream.
[starts to sing, lifts his father and starts to dance with him]
- Hubert:
- Oh Phillip, stop it, stop that, why, Phillip,
Put me down!
[Phillip puts him down]
Now, what's all this dream nonsense?
- Phillip:
- It wasn't a dream, father.
I really did meet her!
- Hubert:
- Princess Aurora?
Good heavens,
we must tell Stefan!
Why this is the most ...
- Phillip:
- I didn't say it was Aurora.
- Hubert:
- You most certainly did, you said ...
- Phillip:
- I said I met the girl I was going to marry.
I don't know who she was,
a peasant girl I suppose.
- Hubert:
- A peasant g-g-girl?
You're going to marry a ...
Why Phillip, you're joking!
[to Samson] isn't he? [Samson shakes his head]
You can't do this to me!
Give up the throne, the kingdom,
for some, some nobody?
By Harry, I won't have it.
You're a prince,
and you're going to marry a princess!
- Phillip:
- Now father, you're living in the past.
This is the fourteenth century.
Nowadays ...
- Hubert:
- Nowadays I'm still the king,
and I command you to come to your senses.
- Phillip:
- ... and marry the girl I love.
- Hubert:
- Exactly!
- Phillip:
- Goodbye, father!
[rides off]
- Hubert:
- Goodbye, father!
Marry the girl you ...
No, no, Phillip, stop, come back, hold Phillip!
Phillip!
Oh, how will I ever tell Stefan?
[In the woods. The fairies and Aurora, with her head down, walk cautiously towards the castle. They get inside unnoticed into some room]
- Flora:
- All right, in here, dear.
- Merryweather:
- [closes the door and sighs]
- Flora:
- Lock the door, Merryweather!
Fauna, pull the drapes!
And now, dear,
if you'll just sit here.
This one last gift,
dear child for thee,
the symbol of thy royalty.
A crown to wear in grace and beauty,
as is thy right, and royal duty.
[The fairies set the crown on her head. Aurora again breaks into tears]
- Fauna:
- Now, dear.
- Flora:
- Come, let her have a few moments alone.
[they leave the room]
- Merryweather:
- It's that boy she met.
- Fauna:
- Whatever are we going to do?
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