Conrad Baumgarten Monologue from Wilhelm Tell

From Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller

male · defiant · 1:04 min

Is then your husband's fate not hard enough, That you embitter it by such reproaches? Have you no feeling for his sufferings? HEDWIG (turning to him and gazing full upon him). Hast thou tears only for thy friend's distress? Say, where were you when he--my noble Tell, Was bound in chains? Where was your friendship, then? The shameful wrong was done before your eyes; Patient you stood, and let your friend be dragged, Ay, from your very hands. Did ever Tell Act thus to you? Did he stand whining by When on your heels the viceroy's horsemen pressed, And full before you roared the storm-tossed lake? Oh, not with idle tears he showed his pity; Into the boat he sprung, forgot his home, His wife, his children, and delivered thee!

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