Regent Monologue from Egmont

From Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

male · defiant · 50 sec

In my service? Speak out, Machiavel. (Machiavel: I would not anticipate you.) And I would I could dissimulate. It wounds me--wounds me to the quick. I had rather my brother would speak his mind than attach his signature to formal epistles drawn up by a Secretary of state. (Machiavel: Can they not comprehend?--) I know them both within and without. They would fain make a clean sweep; and since they cannot set about it themselves, they give their confidence to any one who comes with a besom in his hand. Oh, it seems to me as if I saw the king and his council worked upon this tapestry.

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