Arnold Of Melchthal Monologue from Wilhelm Tell

From Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller

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Across the Brunig. 'Twas not my fault he bore his sight away; He who had robb'd my father of his eyes! He fled--I followed--overtook him soon, And dragg'd him to my father's feet. The sword Already quiver'd o'er the caitiff's head, When from the pity of the blind old man, He wrung the life which, craven-like, he begged. He swore URPHEDE, (*) never to return: He'll keep his oath, for he has felt our arm. (*) The Urphede was an oath of peculiar force. When a man, who was at feud with another, invaded his lands and was worsted, he often made terms with his enemy by swearing the Urphede, by which he bound himself to depart, and never to return with a hostile intention.

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