Monologue

Ruysum Monologue from Egmont

From Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

male · contemplative · 1:05 min

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Who? (Soest: Philip the Second, King of Spain.) Our most gracious king and master! Long life to him. (Soest: Did you not like his father, Charles the Fifth, better?) God bless him! He was a king indeed! His hand reached over the whole earth, and he was all in all. Yet, when he met you, he'd greet you just as one neighbour greets another,--and if you were frightened, he knew so well how to put you at your ease--ay, you understand me--he walked out, rode out, just as it came into his head, with very few followers. We all wept when he resigned the government here to his son. You understand me--he is another sort of man, he's more majestic.

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40s · melancholy · power · identity · legacy · loss

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