Favorite lines
Merivel: Gifts? ... Yes, my gifts. My first patient was a frog. I cured him of jumping. Now I can cure people of breathing. My gifts, father, bring me to dark despair...
...Our King is restored to us, the theatres are open, wigmakers are happy as whores, and rich men go to heaven again!
Father: Take the hand of your friend Pearce, Robert. He is the example to follow. He may dress like a crow, but he once infected himself with Scarlet Fever, the better to study the disease.
Merivel: Oh, in my own small way I do the same with the clap.