WILLIAM: Yet her smell, it doth linger, painting pictures in my mind. Her eyes, balls of honey. Angel's harps her laugh. Oh, lark. Grant a sign if crook'd be Cupid's shaft. Hark, the lark, her name it hath spake. "Cecily" it discharges from twixt its wee beak.

MOTHER: (proud) Oh, William....

WILLIAM: It's just...scribbling.

MOTHER: Nonsense. It's magnificent. I wonder, though. This Cecily of whom you write so often...

WILLIAM: (uncomfortable) Oh.

MOTHER: Would that be the Underwood's eldest girl?

WILLIAM: Uh, no, uh, no. I do not presume.

MOTHER: She's lovely. You shouldn't be alone. You need a woman in your life.

WILLIAM: I have a woman in my life.

MOTHER: But you ne? (giggles) Oh... (giggles)

WILLIAM: Well, do not mistake me. I still have hopes that one day there will be an addition to this household, but I will always look after you, mother. This, I promise.

(his mother starts coughing up blood)

WILLIAM: Should I send the coach for Doctor Gull?

MOTHER: I'll be all right. It's passed. Just sit with me a while, will you?

WILLIAM: Of course.

MOTHER: (singing) Early one morning, just as the sun was shining, I heard a maid sing in the valley below. "Oh, don't deceive me. Oh, never leave me. How could you use a poor maiden so?"

• historical flash backs

written by: David Fury and Drew Goddard; originally transcribed by: CariCranberry. edited by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/139_tran.php