Clara Monologue from Egmont

From Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

female · romantic · 47 sec

Certainly! Be quiet, Mother; I have provided everything; there is something prepared. Do not betray me, Mother. (Mother: There's little enough.) Never mind! And then I think when he is with me I am never hungry; so he cannot, I should think, have any great appetite when I am with him. (Egmont: Do you think so? What ails you?) How cold you are to-day! You have not yet offered me a kiss. Why do you keep your arms enveloped in your mantle, like a new-born babe? It becomes neither a soldier nor a lover to keep his arms muffled up.

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