La Hire Monologue from The Maid of Orleans: A Tragedy

From The Maid of Orleans: A Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

male · defiant · 47 sec

Before him on the ground I flung thy glove, And said: "Thou wouldst forget thy majesty, And like a knight do battle for thy realm." He scornfully rejoined "He needed not To fight for that which he possessed already, But if thou wert so eager for the fray, Before the walls of Orleans thou wouldst find him, Whither he purposed going on the morrow;" Thereon he laughing turned his back upon me. (CHARLES: Say, did not justice raise her sacred voice, Within the precincts of my parliament?) The rage of party, sire, hath silenced her. An edict of the parliament declares Thee and thy race excluded from the throne.

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