Elizabeth Monologue from Mary Stuart: A Tragedy

From Mary Stuart: A Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

female · defiant · 48 sec

Wretch! Is it thus you have obeyed my orders? Did I not lay my strict injunction on you To keep it carefully? (DAVISON: No such injunction Was laid on me, my liege.) Give me the lie? Opprobrious wretch! When did I order you To give the paper into Burleigh's hands? (DAVISON: Never expressly in so many words.) And, paltering villain I dare you then presume To construe, as you list, my words--and lay Your bloody meaning on them? Wo betide you, If evil come of this officious deed! Your life shall answer the event to me. Earl Shrewsbury, you see how my good name Has been abused!

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