Quotes
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Alfonso V de Portugal : What do you mean, we are not married?
Duque de Braganza : The Pope revoked the bull. With that, the rights that legitimized our war with Castile have disappeared. Everyone is turning their back on us, Your Highness, because they already see Castile victorious. We must negotiate the peace immediately, before we are weaker.
Alfonso V de Portugal : Never! Never will I negotiate from humiliation! Portugal and its Queen don't deserve this!
Juan II de Portugal : You are right father. We walk to victory, or win an advantage that lets us impose peace terms.
Alfonso V de Portugal : What do you propose?
Juan II de Portugal : Pacheco's daughter asked us for help securing her lordships in Mérida and Medellín. Let's show the Castilians that we can invade their kingdom when we wish. The Bishop of Évora is ready for combat.
Alfonso V de Portugal : Everything shall be disposed today.
[leaves]
Duque de Braganza : You are mad! You send your father to war, and with nothing less but that inept, the Bishop of Évora! They go to sure disaster!
Juan II de Portugal : I hope so.
Beatriz de Braganza y Portugal : You want the King to be defeated.
Juan II de Portugal : The war is lost. But the King doesn't come to senses. He must see for himself. While the King makes his war, we must prepare the peace. Maybe you should write a letter to your niece Isabel.
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Alfonso V de Portugal : How can God allow, that in the end of his life, only treason surrounds his most devout king? When we returned the people insulted and spitted us. They were the only ones to abandon us yet and they just did.