Frederick Monologue from Lovers' Vows

From Lovers' Vows by August von Kotzebue

male · anguished · 1:01 min

The tears of my mother are all that I inherit from my father. Never has he protected or supported me—never protected her. (BARON: Why don’t you apply to his relations?) They disown me, too—I am, they say, related to no one—All the world disclaim me, except my mother—and there again, I have to thank my father. (BARON: How so?) Because I am an illegitimate son.—My seduced mother has brought me up in patient misery. Industry enabled her to give me an education; but the days of my youth commenced with hardship, sorrow, and danger.—My companions lived happy around me, and had a pleasing prospect in their view, while bread and water only were my food, and no hopes joined to sweeten it. But my father felt not that!

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