Regent Monologue from Egmont

From Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

male · dramatic · 59 sec

You soon will.--For after this preamble he is of opinion that without soldiers, without a small army indeed,---I shall always cut a sorry figure here! We did wrong, he says, to withdraw our troops from the provinces at the remonstrance of the inhabitants; a garrison, he thinks, which shall press upon the neck of the burgher, will prevent him, by its weight, from making any lofty spring. (Machiavel: It would irritate the public mind to the last degree.) The king thinks, however, do you hear?--he thinks that a clever general, one who never listens to reason, will be able to deal promptly with all parties;--people and nobles, citizens and peasants; he therefore sends, with a powerful army, the Duke of Alva. (Machiavel: Alva?) You are surprised.

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