Frederick Monologue from Lovers' Vows

From Lovers' Vows by August von Kotzebue

male · anguished · 53 sec

After five years’ absence from my mother, I returned this very day, and found her dying in the streets for want—Not even a hut to shelter her, or a pallet of straw—But my father, he feels not that! He lives in a palace, sleeps on the softest down, enjoys all the luxuries of the great; and when he dies, a funeral sermon will praise his great benevolence, his Christian charities. (BARON:. What is your father’s name?) —He took advantage of an innocent young woman, gained her affection by flattery and false promises; gave life to an unfortunate being, who was on the point of murdering his father. (BARON:. Who is he?) Baron Wildenhaim. (The Baron’s emotion expresses the sense of amazement, guilt, shame, and horror.)

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