Pant Monologue from Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx

From Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx by Friedrich Schiller

male · dramatic · 1:03 min

((aside.).) He really is a most pig-headed sot! ((aloud.)) Young man, you cannot know the risk you run. Th' alternative's in earnest--not in fun. Dame Turandot will spin you a tough riddle, That's not to be "got thro' like any fiddle." Not such as this, which any child might guess-- (Though the Emperor could not, I must confess;) " What gives a cold, cures a cold, and pays the doctor's bill? " Not short enigmas lightly disentangled; Hard nuts you'll have to crack, fresh made, new-fangled; And if you cannot guess them all instanter, Your head will be struck off--I do not banter. You'll have to answer rightly in a twink; Your head once off, you'll have no time to think. (KAL: Your warning's vain: "Or death or Turandot.") ((aside.).) For all my sermon he don't care one jot.

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