Monologue

Clara Monologue from Egmont

From Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

female · romantic · 45 sec

Oh, thou mightest let the whole world sit in judgment over thee. The velvet is too splendid! and the braiding! and the embroidery! One knows not where to begin. (Egmont: There, look thy fill.) And the Golden Fleece! You told me its history, and said it is the symbol of everything great and precious, of everything that can be merited and won by diligence and toil. It is very precious--I may liken it to thy love;--even so I wear it next my heart;--and then-- (Egmont: What wilt thou say?) And then again it is not like.

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