The Borgias, Season Two

Children:
Vanities! Your gold, your silver-

Niccolo Machiavelli:
Wait- before you speak! (the boys silence) I would have you cease marking chalk crosses on my door. (nods to the lead boy) You may continue.

1st Child-Acolyte:
Vanities! Your gold, your silver, your trinkets, your books. Give up your vanities!

Niccolo Machiavelli:
(coldly) I have no vanities. I have only my intellect, which I am reluctant to relinquish- and, as you can see, with these looks, I have no vanity.

1st Child-Acolyte:
(obviously parrotting Savanarola) An Eternity in Heaven or an Eternity in Hell! What will it be?!

Niccolo Machiavelli:
(unimpressed) Hell.. is here, in this city! (gestures around them, steps forward, forcing the boy back) Heaven has, of late, been removed to another place!

2nd Child-Acolyte:
Are you a sinner?

1st Child-Acolyte:
The Son of Man will return in his Glory! And he will judge both the quick- and the dead! Give up your vanities, or face the Wroth of God!

Children:
Give up your vanities! Give 'em up- give up your vanities!

2nd Child-Acolyte:
Would you have us break your windows?

Niccolo Machiavelli:
(contemptuously) So... God is now reduced to breaking windows. Wait- one moment. (closes the door. After a moment, he re-opens it, and- much to the bewilderment of the boys, offers them a glass case containing a stuffed eagle-owl) Here! (the lead boy takes it)

1st Child-Acolyte:
Come to the square- (Machiavelli shuts the door in his face)