Berth Monologue from Wilhelm Tell

From Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller

female · anguished · 52 sec

All my estates lie in the Forest Cantons; And I am free, when Switzerland is free. (RUD: Oh! what a prospect, Bertha, hast thou shown me!) Hope not to win my hand by Austria's grace; Fain would they lay their grasp on my estates, To swell the vast domains which now they hold. The selfsame lust of conquest, that would rob You of your liberty, endangers mine. Oh, friend, I'm mark'd for sacrifice;--to be The guerdon of some parasite, perchance! They'll drag me hence to the Imperial court, That hateful haunt of falsehood and intrigue, And marriage bonds I loathe await me there. Love, love alone--your love can rescue me.

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