Schweitzer Monologue from The Robbers

From The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller

male · defiant · 1:03 min

So much the better! And though there were fifty against my great toe-nail--fellows who have waited till we lit the straw under their very seats. Brother, brother, there is nothing to fear. They sell their lives for tenpence; and are we not fighting for our necks? We will pour into them like a deluge, and fire volleys upon their heads like crashes of thunder. But where the devil is the captain. (SPIEGEL: He forsakes us in this extremity. Is there no hope of escape?) Escape? (SPIEGEL: Oh, that I had tarried in Jerusalem!) I wish you were choked in a cesspool, you paltry coward! With defenceless nuns you are a mighty man; but at sight of a pair of fists a confirmed sneak! Now show your courage or you shall be sewn up alive in an ass's hide and baited to death with dogs.

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