Elizabeth Monologue from Mary Stuart: A Tragedy

From Mary Stuart: A Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

female · defiant · 1:14 min

Speak, my lord; did you From me receive the warrant? (BURLEIGH: No, my queen; From Davison.) And did he in my name Deliver it? (BURLEIGH: No, that I cannot say.) And dared you then to execute the writ Thus hastily, nor wait to know my pleasure? Just was the sentence--we are free from blame Before the world; yet it behooved thee not To intercept our natural clemency. For this, my lord, I banish you my presence; And as this forward will was yours alone Bear you alone the curse of the misdeed! [To DAVISON. For you, sir; who have traitorously o'erstepped The bounds of your commission, and betrayed A sacred pledge intrusted to your care, A more severe tribunal is prepared: Let him be straight conducted to the Tower, And capital arraignments filed against him. My honest Talbot, you alone have proved, 'Mongst all my counsellors, an upright man: You shall henceforward be my guide--my friend.

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