Schwarz Monologue from The Robbers

From The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller

male · dramatic · 1:06 min

Have patience, man, have patience. Just tell me--say--come, let's hear--how did you escape? In the name of wonder how came we to get you back again? My brain is bewildered. From the gallows, you say? ROLLER (swallows a flask of brandy). Ah, that is capital! that warms the inside! Straight from the gallows, I tell you. You stand there amid stare as if that was impossible. I can assure you, I was not more than three paces from that blessed ladder, on which I was to mount to Abraham's bosom--so near, so very near, that I was sold, skin and all, to the dissecting-room! The fee-simple of my life was not worth a pinch of snuff. To the captain I am indebted for breath, and liberty, and life.

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