Duke Of Alva Monologue from Don Carlos: A Play

From Don Carlos: A Play by Friedrich Schiller

male · philosophical · 57 sec

Prince, we both Miscalculate--but still in opposite ways. You, for example, overrate your age By twenty years, whilst on the other hand, I, by as many, underrate it---- (CARLOS: Well) And this suggests the thought, how many nights Beside this lovely Lusitanian bride-- Your mother--would the king right gladly give To buy an arm like this, to aid his crown. Full well he knows, far easier is the task To make a monarch than a monarchy; Far easier too, to stock the world with kings Than frame an empire for a king to rule. (CARLOS: Most true, Duke Alva, yet----) And how much blood, Your subjects' dearest blood, must flow in streams Before two drops could make a king of you.

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