Francis Monologue from The Robbers

From The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller

male · anguished · 1:04 min

Yes, balsam of life on sugar! The minister will not be here just yet. My voice is weak and faltering. Give me of the balsam of life on sugar! (DANIEL: Let me have the keys, I will go down to the closet and get it.) No! no! no! Stay!--or I will go with you. You see I must not be left alone! How easily I might, you see--faint--if I should be left alone. Never mind, never mind! It will pass off--you must not leave me. (DANIEL: Indeed, Sir, you are ill, very ill.) Yes, just so, just so, nothing more. And illness, you know, bewilders the brain, and breeds strange and maddening dreams. What signify dreams? Dreams come from the stomach and cannot signify anything. Is it not so, Daniel? I had a very comical dream just now. (He sinks down fainting.)

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