Count Lerma Monologue from Don Carlos: A Play

From Don Carlos: A Play by Friedrich Schiller

male · dramatic · 1:13 min

Save yourself, prince! The king's enraged against you. Your liberty, if not your life's in danger! Ask me no further--I have stolen away To give you warning--fly this very instant! (CARLOS: Heaven will protect me!) As the queen observed To me, this moment, you must leave Madrid This very day, and fly to Brussels, prince. Postpone it not, I pray you. The commotion Favors your flight. The queen, with this design, Has raised it. No one will presume so far As to lay hand on you. Swift steeds await you At the Carthusian convent, and behold, Here are your weapons, should you be attacked. [LERMA gives him a dagger and pistols. (CARLOS: Thanks, thanks, Count Lerma!) This day's sad event Has moved my inmost soul! No faithful friend Will ever love like him. No patriot breathes But weeps for you. More now I dare not say.

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