[Later, in the Mother Superior's office; Sara is "whipping" Edmund, but actually just tapping the crop against his bottom]
And that, sweet lady, is the whole story.
Let us go over the facts again. Having been appointed Archbishop, you found that all your interests lay in the beauty of your vestments?
Ahh, the fine embroidery...
Unable to resist the slide into depravity, you began to dress up in the habit of a nun.
I could not resist the texture of the Hessian underthings.
[sarcastically] Ooh, I can understand that. Then, you forced the Bishop of Ramsgate and one Brother Baldrick to do so also.
Oh, may I be cursed for it!
And finally, you got two knights drunk and invited them to come and wrestle with you inside the nunnery in an orgy of heathen perversity?
That's it, Your Grace.
It bears the ring of truth, and I must therefore tell you that this morning I have written urgently to all three popes recommending your immediate excommunication. Nevermore may you be Archbishop of Canterbury!
[mock disappointment] Oh dear! [grins to himself]
That's enough, Sister Sara; I think he's learned his lesson. [Sister Sara stops tapping]
Sorry? [then realizes, and feigns pain] Oh, ow, ow, ow.
[standing up] Go, sinner, and meet thy doom!
[Edmund exits into the corridor, and opens the door, with a light at the end of the hallway; he walks slowly toward the light, cleans out his ear and scratches himself a bit as he goes. He emerges into the hallway and find Percy and Baldrick, who are holding Edmund's clothes]
Quick! The nunnery's on fire!
[He, Percy, and Baldrick run off as the end credits starts]
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