Francis Monologue from The Robbers

From The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller

male · dramatic · 1:00 min

Sleep? And who gave thee leave to sleep? Go, get lights! (Exit DANIEL. Enter another servant.) No one shall sleep at this hour. Do you hear? All shall be awake--in arms--let the guns be loaded! Did you not see them rushing through yon vaulted passages? (SERVANT: See whom, my lord?) Whom? you dolt, slave! And do you, with a cold and vacant stare, ask me whom? Have they not beset me almost to madness? Whom? blockhead! whom? Ghosts and demons! How far is the night advanced? (SERVANT: The watch has just called two.) What? will this eternal night last till doomsday? Did you hear no tumult near? no shout of victory? no trampling of horses? Where is Char--the Count, I would say?

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