Egmont Monologue

From Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

male · defiant · 51 sec

Who are ye that thus rudely banish slumber from my eyes? What mean these vague and insolent glances? Why this fearful procession? With what dream of horror come ye to delude my half awakened soul? (Silva: The duke sends us to announce your sentence.) Do ye also bring the headsman who is to execute it? (Silva: Listen, and you will know the doom that awaits you.) It is in keeping with the rest of your infamous proceedings. Hatched in night and in night achieved, so would this audacious act of injustice shroud itself from observation!--Step boldly forth, thou who dost bear the sword concealed beneath thy mantle; here is my head, the freest ever severed by tyranny from the trunk.

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