Louisa Monologue from Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy

From Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

female · defiant · 1:13 min

How I will outwit him, father! How I shall cheat the tyrant! Love is more crafty than malice, and bolder--he knew not that, the man of the unlucky star! Oh! they are cunning so long as they have but to do with the head; but when they have to grapple with the heart the villains are at fault. He thought to seal his treachery with an oath! Oaths, father, may bind the living, but death dissolves even the iron bonds of the sacrament! Ferdinand will learn to know his Louisa. Father, will you deliver this letter for me? Will you do me the kindness? (MILLER: To whom, my child?) Strange question! Infinitude and my heart together had not space enough for a single thought but of him. To whom else should I write? MILLER (anxiously). Hear me, Louisa! I must read this letter!

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