Buyck Monologue from Egmont

From Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

male · defiant · 47 sec

Compared with him I am only a bungler. He aims with the rifle as no one else does. Not only when he's lucky or in the vein; no! he levels, and the bull's-eye is pierced. I have learned from him. He were indeed a blockhead, who could serve under him and learn nothing!--But, sirs, let us not forget! A king maintains his followers; and so, wine here, at the king's charge! (Jetter: We have agreed among ourselves that each--) I am a foreigner, and a king, and care not a jot for your laws and customs.

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